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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Human figures depicted in art

Maternal Bodies in the Visual Arts (Paperback): Rosemary Betterton Maternal Bodies in the Visual Arts (Paperback)
Rosemary Betterton
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Maternal bodies in the visual arts brings images of the maternal and pregnant body into the centre of art-historical enquiry. By exploring religious, secular and scientific traditions as well as contemporary art practices, it shows the power of visual imagery in framing our understanding of maternal bodies and affirming or contesting prevailing maternal ideals. The book reassesses historical models and, in drawing on original case studies, shows how visual practices by artists may offer the means of reconfiguring the maternal. It will appeal to students, academics and researchers in art history, gender studies and cultural studies, as well as to general readers interested in the maternal and visual culture. -- .

Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II - Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image (Hardcover): Elizabeth Rodini Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II - Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Rodini
R2,865 Discovery Miles 28 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1479, the Venetian painter Gentile Bellini arrived at the Ottoman court in Istanbul, where he produced his celebrated portrait of Sultan Mehmed II. An important moment of cultural diplomacy, this was the first of many intriguing episodes in the picture's history. Elizabeth Rodini traces Gentile's portrait from Mehmed's court to the Venetian lagoon, from the railway stations of war-torn Europe to the walls of London's National Gallery, exploring its life as a painting and its afterlife as a famous, often puzzling image. Rediscovered by the archaeologist Austen Henry Layard at the height of Orientalist outlooks in Britain, the picture was also the subject of a lawsuit over what defines a "portrait"; it was claimed by Italians seeking to hold onto national patrimony around 1900; and it starred in a solo exhibition in Istanbul in 1999. Rodini's focused inquiry also ranges broadly, considering the nature of historical evidence, the shifting status of authenticity and verisimilitude, and the contemporary political resonance of Old Master paintings. Told as an object biography and imagined as an exploration of art historical methodologies, this book situates Gentile's portrait in evolving dialogues between East and West, uncovering the many and varied ways that objects construct meaning.

Erotic Art in the Renaissance (Hardcover): Cassidy Hughes Erotic Art in the Renaissance (Hardcover)
Cassidy Hughes
R1,157 Discovery Miles 11 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Fleshing out Surfaces - Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850 (Hardcover): Mechthild Fend Fleshing out Surfaces - Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850 (Hardcover)
Mechthild Fend
R2,659 Discovery Miles 26 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same. Initially understood in terms of the body's substance, of flesh tones and body colour, it became increasingly a matter of skin, skin colour and surfaces. Each chapter is dedicated to a different notion of skin and its colour, from flesh tones via a membrane imbued with nervous energy to hermetic borderline. Looking in particular at works by Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoist and Ingres, the focus is on portraits, as facial skin is a special arena for testing painterly skills and a site where the body and the image become equally expressive. -- .

Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art (Paperback, New): Christa Grossinger Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art (Paperback, New)
Christa Grossinger
R615 Discovery Miles 6 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the period and proposes two basic categories - the Virgin and Eve, good and evil. Within these, however, we discover attitudes to sinful, foolish, married and unmarried women and the style and use of these images exposes the full extent of the misogyny entrenched in medieval society. Interesting too is the variety of 'good' women and how they were used to confirm the social position of women throughout different classes. We also learn how women fought back: starting in the margins of manuscripts and them emerging in misericords, we find images of women making fools of men; love triangles; and unequal couples, where the women 'wear the trousers'. With the advent of printing, a whole genre of satirical prints about women snowballed, and the views they express became available for mass consumption. This fascinating and rich study charts this process in a lively and readable way.

I Daydream - Grayscale Coloring Book - Beautiful Fantasy portraits and Flowers (Hardcover): Takeuchiart I Daydream - Grayscale Coloring Book - Beautiful Fantasy portraits and Flowers (Hardcover)
Takeuchiart
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines - Risque Shop Windows (Hardcover): Alix Agret Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines - Risque Shop Windows (Hardcover)
Alix Agret
R3,014 Discovery Miles 30 140 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Drawing on a panorama of materials from 1930s France, Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines takes a new approach to studying a certain type of image from a certain time. Previously untapped by historians, magazines such as Paris Magazine, Paris Sex Appeal, Pages Folles, Pour lire a deux, and Scandale are inscribed in the context of the interwar years. They reflect that context through a bawdy style, an audacious and multifaceted aesthetic - from kitsch to modern - and permeability to reproducibility. With a focus on the photographs as components of the magazines' layout, Alix Agret critically examines their interrelations with texts and graphics without neglecting the history surrounding them, which forms a backdrop to the analyses of this previously unstudied source material. The first study of its kind, this is a timely scholarly contribution to the field of the history of photographs. This book will be of interest to scholars in the field of history of photography, French history, and twentieth-century art history.

Big Penis Book (Hardcover, Multilingual Ed): Dian Hanson Big Penis Book (Hardcover, Multilingual Ed)
Dian Hanson
R1,979 R1,614 Discovery Miles 16 140 Save R365 (18%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Undressed to impress. When it comes to pleasure, size doesn't matter, as we all know it's quality, not quantity, that counts. But let's admit it: a big penis is undeniably compelling. Big shoulders, big lapels, and big hair may come and go, but the big penis never goes out of fashion. With those possessing more than 8 inches (20 cm) making up less than 2 per cent of the world's population, this rare accessory will always fascinate (a word, coincidentally, derived from the Latin fascinum, meaning both phallus and magical spirit).In this companion volume to "The Big Book of Breasts", we explore the centuries-old fascination with the large phallus, a fascination common to men and women alike. This hefty book is profusely illustrated with over 400 historic photos of spectacular male endowments, including rare photos of the legendary John Holmes. The majority of the photographs are from the 1970s, when the sexual revolution first freed photographers to depict the male entirely nude. Photographers include Bob Mizer of Athletic Model Guild, David Hurles of Old Reliable, Colt, Falcon, Sierra Domino, Third World, and Champion Studios, with each of these iconic photographers interviewed or profiled, along with information about each of their models. And if this isn't enough, the book closes with a special surprise comparable to the Guinness Book of Records' - Norma Stitz featured in "The Big Book of Breasts"!

Draw It With Me - The Dynamic Female Figure - Anatomical, Gestural, Comic & Fine Art Studies of the Female Form in Dramatic... Draw It With Me - The Dynamic Female Figure - Anatomical, Gestural, Comic & Fine Art Studies of the Female Form in Dramatic Poses (Hardcover)
Brian C Hailes; Edited by Patrick K Hill
R919 Discovery Miles 9 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I Paint What I Want to See (Paperback): Philip Guston I Paint What I Want to See (Paperback)
Philip Guston
R275 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light' How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment. Touching on work from across his career as well as that of his fellow artists and Renaissance heroes, this selection of his writings, talks and interviews draws together some of his most incisive reflections on iconography and abstraction, metaphysics and mysticism, and, above all, the nature of painting and drawing. 'Among the most important, powerful and influential American painters of the last 100 years ... he's an art world hero' Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine 'Guston's paintings make us think hard' Aindrea Emelife, Guardian

Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies - Confrontations and Contradictions (Paperback): Albert Alhadeff Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies - Confrontations and Contradictions (Paperback)
Albert Alhadeff
R1,405 Discovery Miles 14 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines Theodore Gericault's images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Gericault's depiction of black people, his approach towards slavery, and the voices that advanced or denigrated them. By turning to documents, essays and critiques, both before and after Waterloo (1815), and, most importantly, Gericault's own oeuvre, this study explores the fetters of slavery that Gericault challenged-alongside a growing number of abolitionists-overtly or covertly. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, race and ethnic studies and students of modernism.

Portraits and Philosophy (Paperback): Hans Maes Portraits and Philosophy (Paperback)
Hans Maes
R1,406 Discovery Miles 14 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Portraits are everywhere. One finds them not only in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of people and in the boardrooms of companies, on stamps and coins, on millions of cell phones and computers. Despite its huge popularity, however, portraiture hasn't received much philosophical attention. While there are countless art historical studies of portraiture, contemporary philosophy has largely remained silent on the subject. This book aims to address that lacuna. It brings together philosophers (and philosophically minded historians) with different areas of expertise to discuss this enduring and continuously fascinating genre. The chapters in this collection are ranged under five broad themes. Part I examines the general nature of portraiture and what makes it distinctive as a genre. Part II looks at some of the subgenres of portraiture, such as double portraiture, and at some special cases, such as sport card portraits and portraits of people not present. How emotions are expressed and evoked by portraits is the central focus of Part III, while Part IV explores the relation between portraiture, fiction, and depiction more generally. Finally, in Part V, some of the ethical issues surrounding portraiture are addressed. The book closes with an epilogue about portraits of philosophers. Portraits and Philosophy tangles with deep questions about the nature and effects of portraiture in ways that will substantially advance the scholarly discussion of the genre. It will be of interest to scholars and students working in philosophy of art, history of art, and the visual arts.

Pissing Figures (Paperback): Pissing Figures (Paperback)
R359 R311 Discovery Miles 3 110 Save R48 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Faces from the Interior - The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer (Hardcover): Toby Jurovics, Scott Manning Stevens, Lisa... Faces from the Interior - The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer (Hardcover)
Toby Jurovics, Scott Manning Stevens, Lisa Strong, Kristine K. Ronan, Annika K Johnson
R1,289 R1,124 Discovery Miles 11 240 Save R165 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pencils and Process - Thoughts on Returning to Art, Portraits, and Colored Pencil Painting (Hardcover): Jon Amdall Pencils and Process - Thoughts on Returning to Art, Portraits, and Colored Pencil Painting (Hardcover)
Jon Amdall
R883 R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Save R116 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sanjulian - Master Visionary (Paperback): Sanjulian Sanjulian - Master Visionary (Paperback)
Sanjulian
R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Best known in the States for his work on the Warren icon, Vampirella, Sanjulian has been rightly called 'an artist's artist' for his brilliant sense of composition and use of colour - it's the kind of thing civilians just enjoy, while fellow illustrators make furious mental notes for future reference. Now, for the first time, we get to see the planning, the research, and the magic that goes into Sanjulian's flawless creations. It also features a full colour gallery of Sanjulian's favourite paintings, as well as an introduction by the equally legendary Jim Warren.

The Little Book of Tom. Cops & Robbers (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Dian Hanson The Little Book of Tom. Cops & Robbers (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Dian Hanson; Artworks by Tom Of Finland
R463 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R40 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Tom's taste for police officers and felons-and for sexual tension between the two-developed late in his career. "I've never been to prison," he told a class at the California Institute of the Arts in 1985, "but I hear it's a closed world where there are different roles and people behave different from when they walk free. It fascinates me. It is another subject I come back to again and again." By which he meant fantasized about again and again, since only those subjects that aroused him sexually made it into his art. The uniforms of the California Highway Patrol motorcyclists were his favorite: tan and tight, with high boots and soft black leather gauntlet gloves. He created his own uniform variants as well, a cross between military and civilian police gear, and invented suitably butch criminals for his cops to apprehend, though once apprehended the power struggle could go either way. Tom was determined to show top and bottom as equally masculine roles, and his cops were as likely to end up happily speared by criminal cock as delivering corrective coitus. Though criticized by some for what appeared to be a glorification of power, Tom was always quick to remind that the world he created was a fantasy world, where anything was possible, and everything was consensual-even in prison. The Little Book of Tom: Cops & Robbers explores Tom's fascination with criminal justice through a mixture of multi-panel comics and single-panel drawings and paintings, all in a compact and affordable 192 pages. Historic film stills and posters, personal photos of Tom, sketches, and Tom's own reference photos make this far more than another Tom's Comics re-tread.

Tom of Finland - An Imaginary Sketchbook (Paperback): Juerg Judin, Pay Matthis Karstens Tom of Finland - An Imaginary Sketchbook (Paperback)
Juerg Judin, Pay Matthis Karstens; Alice Delage
R809 R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Save R58 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Self-Portrait (Paperback): Natalie Rudd The Self-Portrait (Paperback)
Natalie Rudd
R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Self-portraiture shows no sign of losing its ability to capture the public imagination. Given our current proclivity to snap and share 'selfies' in seconds, it is unsurprising to find a renewed interest in the genre among general audiences and students. Self-portraits have the power to illuminate a range of universal concerns, from identity, purpose and authenticity, to frailty, futility and mortality. In this volume, curator Natalie Rudd expertly casts fresh light on the self-portrait and its international appeal, exploring the historical contexts within which self-portraits have proliferated and considering the meanings they hold today. With commentaries on works by artists ranging from Jan van Eyck and Artemisia Gentileschi to Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Jenny Saville, the book explores the emotive and expressive potential of self-portraiture, and its capacities to distance or to demystify. Can self-portraits offer windows into artistic process? Is there ever a singular identity to be captured? Is it necessary for a self-portrait to depict the human form? In her vibrant and timely discussion, Rudd dissects these and other important questions, revealing the shifting faces of individuality and selfhood in an age where we are interrogating notions of personal identity more than ever before. With 97 illustrations in colour

The Little Big Penis Book (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Dian Hanson The Little Big Penis Book (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Dian Hanson 1
R589 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R194 (33%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Sirs" begins the missive from our imaginary correspondent. "It's not that I don't love your original Big Penis Book, but that, perhaps, I love it too much. I now become anxious leaving the house without it, and long business trips are simply torture. Couldn't you make a smaller, less obtrusive edition, still packed with men whose generative members measure over 8 inches, that doesn't form a suspiciously large bulge in my carry-on luggage? And while you're at it, could you make it highly affordable, since my pockets are as shallow as this premise?" Done! The Little Big Penis Book features over 150 massively endowed models from the 1940s through the '90s, including photos by Bob Mizer of AMG, David Hurles of Old Reliable, Rip Colt of Colt Studio, Craig Calvin Anderson of Sierra Domino, Hal Roth of Filmco, Jim Jaeger of Third World Studios, Falcon Studios, Mike Arlen, Fred Bisonnes, Carlos Quiroz, and Charles Hovland in a compact and inexpensive format. Photos come not just from the original overstuffed 384-page edition, but from subsequent Big Penis Calendars, meaning that 30% of the content is unique to this edition. Add a reduced text to make more room for the stunning black-and-white and color photos and how could anyone-big, small, or just right-ask for a better deal?

Transformation (Hardcover): G.Elliott Simpson Transformation (Hardcover)
G.Elliott Simpson
R1,715 R1,413 Discovery Miles 14 130 Save R302 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For the first time, iconic fetish photographer G. Elliott Simpson is showing his works in a monograph. This book features cutting-edge fetish photography showcasing rubber and latex, aesthetically appealing and skillfully made. The Toronto-based photographer manages to approach the topic in a tasteful way, allowing viewers from the outside to explore an unknown world of lust and desire.

Art of Maxx Marshall (Paperback): Maxx Marshall Art of Maxx Marshall (Paperback)
Maxx Marshall
R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work talks about an animator and concept artist for gaming companies featured in hits like "Starcraft", "Diablo" and "World of Warcraft". That's all well and good for a day job, but when the sun goes down, Maxx's mind drifts off to nastier realms, filled with bizarre creatures, foul aliens and oh yes, drop dead gorgeous girls.

The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover, New): Catherine E. Karkov The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover, New)
Catherine E. Karkov
R3,165 Discovery Miles 31 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Analysis of a group of images of kingship and queenship from Anglo-Saxon England explores the implications of their focus on books, authorship and learning. Between the reign of Alfred in the late ninth century and the arrival of the Normans in 1066, a unique set of images of kingship and queenship was developed in Anglo-Saxon England, images of leadership that centred on books, authorship and learning rather than thrones, sword and sceptres. Focusing on the cultural and historical contexts in which these images were produced, this book explores the reasons for their development, and their meaning and functionwithin both England and early medieval Europe. It explains how and why they differ from their Byzantine and Continental counterparts, and what they reveal about Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards history and gender, as well as the qualities that were thought to constitute a good ruler. It is argued that this series of portraits, never before studied as a corpus, creates a visual genealogy equivalent to the textual genealogies and regnal lists that are so mucha feature of late Anglo-Saxon culture. As such they are an important part of the way in which the kings and queens of early medieval England created both their history and their kingdom. CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professorof Art History at the University of Leeds.

Portraiture and Critical Reflections on Being (Paperback): Euripides Altintzoglou Portraiture and Critical Reflections on Being (Paperback)
Euripides Altintzoglou
R1,397 Discovery Miles 13 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary modes of portraiture. Dualism - the separation of mind from body - plays a central part in portraiture, given that it supplies the fundamental framework for portraiture's determining problem and justification: the visual construction of the subjectivity of the sitter, which is invariably accounted for as ineffable entity or spirit, that the artist magically captures. Every artist that has engaged with portraiture has had to deal with these issues and, therefore, with the question of being and identity.

Fine Art of Bondage - Beauty of Rope (Hardcover): Rod Meier Fine Art of Bondage - Beauty of Rope (Hardcover)
Rod Meier; Photographs by Rod Meier
R1,817 Discovery Miles 18 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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