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Unlock your artistic potential with this comprehensive portrait drawing guide, with 50 step-by-step models to improve facial placement and expressions and refine your skills from sketching to shading. Creating a...

The twelve essays in this book employ a wide range of visual material from varying periods in history to explore different attitudes to and representations of the human body. Each...

Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women, even absent mothers - haunt 19th- and 20th-century Western painting. This text brings together Linda Nochlin's most important and pioneering writings on...

This study combines close readings with theoretical concerns, in an examination of the many froms taken by the mythic of phantasmic mother in literary, psychoanalytical and artistic representations. It explores...

Though images of women were ubiquitous in the Roman world, these were seldom intended to be taken simply at face value. The importance of marriage, motherhood and political stability was...

Thirty-five contemporary artists create their own version of Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe . Edouard Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. The entry...

The book titled Digital Beauties by the author Julius Wiedemann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Through a series of carefully constructed themes, ranging from the boy as passive love object to soldier boys, from the boy under the female gaze to "what is a boy?",...

This volume, a comprehensive study of how the myth and mystique of the Camelot years coincided with the rise of pop art, reveals the pervasive influence that the Kennedy presidency...

This illustrated volume examines the different methods artists and anatomists used to reveal the inner workings of the human body and evoke wonder in its form. For centuries, anatomy was...

Freeze Frame: Second Cut is the highly anticipated, expanded edition of the bestselling collection, featuring additional photographs and new accompanying text. Shot by legendary on-set photographer Douglas Kirkland and spanning...

Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces Meet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history. Who was Picasso's 'Weeping Woman'? Why was Grace Jones covered in graffiti?...

Featuring exquisite reproductions of some of the most evocative paintings in the world, the Celebrations in Art series celebrates universal themes and subjects that have inspired artists throughout the ages.

'I'm glad this book was written because it felt like the scales were falling from my eyes as I read it. Women will continue to be objectified in art and...

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When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous essays are not great ideas in themselves but commentaries on great...