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Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's
The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The
Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of
capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays in
Capitalism and the Camera investigate the relationship between
capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask whether
photography might allow us to refuse capitalism's violence-and if
so, how? Drawn together in productive disagreement, the essays in
this collection explore the relationship of photography to resource
extraction and capital accumulation, from 1492 to the postcolonial;
the camera's potential to make visible critical understandings of
capitalist production and society, especially economies of class
and desire; and propose ways that the camera and the image can be
used to build cultural and political counterpublics from which a
democratic struggle against capitalism might emerge. With essays by
Ariella Aisha Azoulay, Siobhan Angus, Kajri Jain, Walter Benn
Michaels, T. J. Clark, John Paul Ricco, Blake Stimson, Chris
Stolarski, Tong Lam, and Jacob Emery.
"Gartel has so superbly captured...the essence of erotic desire. In
an age of sex being turned into merely a forbidden behavior and a
troublesome medical condition, Gartel has rallied and preserved
sexual teasing, seduction, and allure into its rightful pleasurable
position by his commendable artistic photographic journaling. In my
thirty years as a Sexologist, it is nice to see sex education,
preservation, and permission for sexual expression and fun so alive
in his work." -Dr. Gil Eriksen, Director of Research at the
Institute for Reality Studies Renowned digital media artist
Laurence M. Gartel records the world of Fetish in his own
inimitable style. As an artist he brings his own creative input and
adds his twist to the storyline, becoming a participant through the
creative process of working with the imagery. This book is loaded
with Gartel's provocative art, including 103 set pieces plus many
of the posters and other graphic art for which Gartel has received
such acclaim. This work will entertain and confront, as all great
art will do. And in the end the reader will be left to ponder the
creative mind that brought these images into being. An aesthetic
and erotic adventure awaits.
This title was first published in 2000: In their stunning
simplicity, George Romney's portraits of eighteenth-century gentry
and their children are among the most widely recognised creations
of his age. A rival to Reynolds and Gainsborough, Romney was born
in 1734 on the edge of the Lake District, the landscape of which
never ceased to influence his eye for composition and colour. He
moved in 1762 to London where there was an insatiable market for
portraits of the landed gentry to fill the elegant picture
galleries of their country houses. Romney's sitters included
William Beckford and Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton. An influential
figure, one of the founding fathers of neo-classicism and a
harbinger of romanticism, Romney yearned to develop his talents as
a history painter. Countless drawings bear witness to ambitious
projects on elemental themes which were rarely executed on canvas.
Richly illustrated, this is the first biography of Romney to
explore the full diversity of his oeuvre.
Vivienne Maricevic's desire to reveal, challenge, and transform the
imbalance between the frequent representation of the naked female
form and the rarity of male nudity is led to more than three
decades spent devoted to the unadorned male form. While capturing
scores of male subjects, she discovered that the majority had never
been photographed by a female; the men all welcomed the
role-reversal and the opportunity to confront the disparity it
suggested. Included in this compendium are more than 150 images
from three of Maricevic's most distinct periods: 1975-2005's "Naked
Men," all taken in the subjects' homes; 1994-2002's "Me & Men,"
with Maricevic cleverly engaging her subjects by inserting a piece
of herself into the frame; and 2001-2005's "Strip-to-Strip," an
homage to Eadweard Muybridge's iconic "Horse in Motion." Her bold,
creative synergy solidified a career built on intimate photographs
of men au naturel. They are, at times, playful, erotic, or
controversial - but always beautiful.
Representations of Renaissance monarchy analyses the portraits and
personal imagery of Francis I, one of the most frequently portrayed
rulers of sixteenth-century Europe. The distinctive likeness of the
Valois king was widely disseminated and perceived by his French
subjects, and Tudor and Habsburg rivals abroad. Complementing
studies on the representation of Henry VIII, this book makes a
dynamic contribution to scholarship on the enterprise of royal
image-making in early-modern Europe. The discussion not only
highlights the inventiveness of the visual arts in Renaissance
France but also alludes to the enduring politics of physical
appearance and seductive power of the face and body in modern
visual culture. Coinciding with the five hundredth anniversary of
Francis I's accession, this book will appeal to scholars and
students of medieval and Renaissance art, the history of
portraiture or anyone interested in images of monarchy and the
history of France. -- .
Girl With Two Fingers is an edited day to day account of life as a
subject of eight portraits by Lucian Freud. '...diaries and letters
are a form of time travel. They transport the future reader back to
the moment the words were written.' In 1999, a young woman writer
returns to London from living in Paris, having been hit by a bus.
The accident is a wake-up call: what should she do with her life,
how to continue writing? Having known Lucian Freud over a decade,
and having previously declined to have a portrait painted by him,
she writes asking if he still needs someone to work from Something
to do while thinking what to do next. Writer and painter meet for
dinner and an after hours visit to the National Gallery, and agree
to start painting the following week. The studio in Holland Park is
unchanged, except everyone's ten years older. The puppy, Pluto, is
an old girl now. The writer has travelled, written, grown up.'Now I
look for the adult in me, instead of the child.' She keeps a diary,
as she always has, until it becomes too much of a chore. After a
few weeks, she begins to write to an imaginary confidante instead.
'Every thing, be it glamorous or mundane, has a particularity of
its own. Seeing and recording that particularity is what a writer
does. And it's a form of protest. Because it's the loudest voice
that tells you how to see, and the smallest voice that sees and
hears the most.' As an act of independence she rejects the offered
chair and stands for her picture, standing up to the artist. She
records, 'For now, my place on the planet is in this studio, my
small space the shapes of my feet carved into the floor.' The
writer's under no illusion that the picture will be flattering.
'I'm simply a body for him to paint, one of many bodies. And a
face. Another one of many.' She won't connect to the finished
image.'I'm not going to recognise myself, or connect with this
image. It'll just be a work of art.' But writer and painter do
connect. This becomes a painting relationship, one picture leads to
seven more. Leading to night time phone calls and the painter
saying 'I'm beginning to depend on you.' 'It feels a bit like
Shakespeare's The Tempest up here. The studio our island. Lucian as
Prospero, with 'art to enchant'. The shopper as Ariel, and me as a
stand-in Miranda.' But not everybody's happy with this painting
relationship. And it's proving too much for the subject herself.
Despite being committed to the painter's work, she's keen to regain
her freedom. 'I think he knows I'm starting to want to break free.
That's a kind of magnetic energy for him.' Face to face: writer and
painter, woman and man, the seer and the seen. And the unseen.
Because that's the joy of writing: it's seeing what can't be
depicted in paint. On a trip to New York May 2000, standing
unnoticed in a gallery between two of the portraits of herself, the
writer looks in to the pictures she's - depicted as - looking out
from, and asks if the images are more about the painter than the
painted: '...his view, his space, his paint, his colours, his
brushes, his language, his desire to control and portray. His
feelings. His life events. And the distortions, the freuding, are
his signature. They are autobiographical naked portraits of Lucian.
Hiding in plain sight.' 'The stories that bring a fixed portrait
into being are much more fun than the finished thing itself.'
'What's lovely about (a friend),' says Lucian 'and you do it too,
is you describe people by what they say.' 'What do you mean?' 'Well
you repeat what it was they said.' Beautifully written, poignant
and evocative, testament to the world of the studio, witness to the
act of portraiture. 'Historically, men make images of women. Men
tell us how to see and understand those images. They narrate them.
And then they market what they have made. So the images of women
are about men.' Girl With Two Fingers is the female gaze, a
detailed subject's account of the making of eight works of art.
Erotic encounters have been celebrated by artists from the
beginning of time. This irresistible volume presents 120 of the
most engagingly erotic paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings
from diverse eras and cultures, coupled with revealing commentaries
about their sexual and aesthetic content. Organised unlike any
other collection of erotic images, The Art of Arousal traces the
course of a sensual relationship. It begins by examining the
elements of eroticism, and then progresses from flirtation and
seduction through kisses and other foreplay before ultimately
arriving at consummation and blissful exhaustion. The irrepressible
Dr. Ruth explores every element of sexuality in these provocative
works of art, including the pleasures of looking, creative
fantasising, and the effects on male and female pleasure of the
various positions depicted. All the works in this book have been
chosen to meet two essential criteria: everyone portrayed must be
having a good time, and each image must satisfy the high aesthetic
standards of Dr. Ruth and an art historian friend, who writes with
witty scholarship about the artistic and biographical aspects of
these remarkable images. Now available in a revised edition that
includes stimulating new works by contemporary creators, The Art of
Arousal is the perfect gift for your lover who loves art.
From Renaissance fresco painters to contemporary graphic novel
artists, the ability to draw clothed figures from one's imagination
has always been crucial to artists - and exceptionally difficult to
attain. With over 220 illustrations, The Art of Drawing Folds: An
Illustrator's Guide to Drawing the Clothed Figure reveals the logic
and patterns in folds, enabling the reader to more easily predict
the behavior of cloth when creating folds in their own drawings and
paintings. Addressing folds in clothing systematically, the author
provides a clear, concise approach to the analysis, classification
and visualization of convincingly naturalistic folds. Starting with
the nature of fabric and its geometry, this book methodically
explores the reasons for fold behavior based on the construction of
clothing and the shapes and actions of the human figure. An
essential guide and reference for animators, illustrators,
storyboard artists, comic-book artists, 3D modelers, sculptors,
fashion designers and students, The Art of Drawing Folds simplifies
one of the most complex and important aspects of drawing the
clothed figure.
Focusing on images of or produced by well-to-do nineteenth-century
European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as
resistant to easy codification vis-A -vis the public. Attending to
various iterations of the public as space, sphere and discourse,
sixteen essays challenge the false binary construct that has held
the public as the sole preserve of prosperous men. By contrast, the
essays collected in Women, Femininity and Public Space in European
Visual Culture, 1789-1914 demonstrate that definitions of both
femininity and the public were mutually defining and constantly
shifting. In examining the relationship between affluent women,
femininity and the public, the essays gathered here consider works
by an array of artists that includes canonical ones such as Mary
Cassatt and FranAois Gerard as well as understudied women artists
including Louise Abbema and Broncia Koller. The essays also
consider works in a range of media from fashion prints and
paintings to private journals and architectural designs,
facilitating an analysis of femininity in public across the
cultural production of the period. Various European centers,
including Madrid, Florence, Paris, Brittany, Berlin and London,
emerge as crucial sites of production for genteel femininity,
providing a long-overdue rethinking of modern femininity in the
public sphere.
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Digital artist Zheng Wei Gu (AKA Guweiz) shares his anime-inspired
world in this beautifully produced and insightful book, leading you
through his fantasy world with a portfolio packed with gritty
detail and a surreal vibe. Guweiz began drawing when he was 17,
inspired by an anime art tutorial on YouTube. Discovering a natural
talent, he carried on drawing and quickly amassed a fan-base for
his edgy illustration style. Throughout this book, readers will
discover his artistic journey from the very beginning, with
behind-the-scenes details about how some of his most popular pieces
were created. He reveals his secrets for turning influences into
truly original digital art, including that all-important narrative
that takes drawing and painting beyond the purely visual.
Step-by-step tutorials share techniques and tips to help you create
these sorts of effects in your art, resulting in images with the
depth of detail and intrigue that Guweiz has made his trademark.
The artist's unique urban take on the popular manga/anime style is
gripping right from the first page, from the surreal take on
Japanese lifestyle to the urban fantasy he creates.
This book reveals how art and sex promoted the desire for the
genetically perfect body. Its eight chapters demonstrate that
before eugenics was stigmatized by the Holocaust and Western
histories were sanitized of its prevalence, a vast array of Western
politicians, physicians, eugenic societies, family leagues, health
associations, laboratories and museums advocated, through verbal
and visual cultures, the breeding of 'the master race'. Each
chapter illustrates the uncanny resemblances between models of
sexual management and the perfect eugenic body in America, Britain,
France, Communist Russia and Nazi Germany both before and after the
Second World War. Traced back to the eighteenth-century anatomy
lesson, the perfect eugenic body is revealed as athletic, hygienic,
'pure-blooded' and sexually potent. This paradigm is shown to have
persisted as much during the Bolshevik sexual revolution, as in
democratic nations and fascist regimes. Consistently posed naked,
these images were unashamedly exhibitionist and voyeuristic.
Despite stringent legislation against obscenity, not only were
these images commended for soliciting the spectator's gaze but also
for motivating the spectator to act out their desire. An
examination of the counter-archives of Maori and African Americans
also exposes how biologically racist eugenics could be equally
challenged by art. Ultimately this book establishes that art
inculcated procreative sex with the Corpus Delecti - the delectable
body, healthy, wholesome and sanctioned by eugenicists for
improving the Western race.
Drawing and Painting People - A Fresh Approach is about confident
and defiant art. Written by a practising artist and tutor, it
contains inspiring examples, thought-provoking insights and
practical advice about how to become more expressive and
adventurous with your work. It is a book for people who are serious
about painting and want to develop work that is personal and
exceptional in quality. An unpretentious, non-academic approach to
painting and drawing Avoiding 'painting by numbers' Strategies for
independent working, building confidence and taking risks Examples
from notable artists The body as an inspiring muse
With just under a thousand portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, the
National Portrait Gallery boasts some of the most treasured and
famous official portraits of the Queen captured at key historic
moments, as well as day-to-day images of the monarch at home and
with family, following her journey from childhood, to princess and
Queen, mother and grandmother. This publication highlights the most
important portraits of Elizabeth II from the Gallery's Collection.
Paintings and photographs from the birth of Elizabeth II to the
present will take readers on a visual journey through the life of
Britain's foremost icon. The book will reflect on the Queen's life,
presenting family photographs alongside important formal portraits
to explore how, as her reign became record-breaking, she became an
iconic figure in modern British culture and history. The
publication features works by key artists depicting the Queen from
1926 to the present day, including Baron, Cecil Beaton, Dorothy
Wilding, Patrick Lichfield, Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz and David
Bailey. This book features an introductory essay by Alexandra
Shulman, exploring how the collected portraits depict the Queen
throughout her life and reign, and a timeline of key historical
events and moments from Elizabeth II's life.
In 2011, adhering to his mentor Henri Cartier-Bresson's mantra to
'photograph the truth', animation filmmaker Ishu Patel embarks on a
photographic journey in southeast Asia. Abandoning moving images to
secure a series of still images that capture a uniquely human
gesture or powerful thought-provoking story, he prowls both urban
and rural areas armed only with a Leica M9 with 35 and 50mm fast
lenses. The result is a collection of elusive still images -
photographs, mainly in black and white, that tell a story, seize a
moment in life or are a witness to joy, struggle or human dignity.
Never political or judgmental, the collection comprises Patel's
homage to the unsung lives of ordinary Asians, many of whom are
increasingly overlooked in today's fast- changing world. Patel also
contributes thoughtful essays on the various countries and peoples
he has so powerfully photographed.
Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic
Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of
the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both
psychoanalytic theory and art criticism. It addresses critics,
readers, and spectators interested in the keys of interpretation
that psychoanalysis can offer, and analysts who are curious to know
if artists can help them refine the tools they use every day. It
asks whether artists have something to say about the concepts of
reverie and negative reverie or about change as aesthetic
transformation, and about aesthetic experience as a paradigm of
what is most true and most profound in analysis. Why write about
beheading? Many art galleries feature paintings of heroines
performing this cruel act: Delilah, Salome, Judith, Yael, and
others. At the antithesis to this, there is another theme to be
found in painting that consistently garners attention: namely, the
so-called "Sacred Conversation," in which the Madonna holds a small
child in her lap and their gazes cross. The first scene depicts how
a mind is destroyed, the second how it is born. Losing Your Head
analyzes well-known artwork from classical literature, cinema, and
contemporary art to enhance psychoanalytic understanding.
Portraits of Queen Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768) were highly
visible in eighteenth-century France. Appearing in royal chateaux
and, after 1737, in the Parisian Salons, the queen's image was
central to the visual construction of the monarchy. Her earliest
portraits negotiated aspects of her ethnic difference, French
gender norms, and royal rank to craft an image of an appropriate
consort to the king. Later portraits by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour,
Carle Van Loo, and Jean-Marc Nattier contributed to changing
notions of queenship over the course of her 43 year tenure. Whether
as royal wife, devout consort, or devoted mother, Marie
Leszczinska's image mattered. While she has often been seen as a
weak consort, this study argues that queenly images were powerful
and even necessary for Louis XV's projection of authority. This is
the first study dedicated to analyzing the queen's portraits. It
engages feminist theory while setting the queen's image in the
context of portraiture in France, courtly factional conflict, and
the history of the French monarchy. While this investigation is
historically specific, it raises the larger problem of the power of
women's images versus the empowerment of women, a challenge that
continues to plague the representation of political women today.
Learn how to confidently draw the human form from head to toe with
this comprehensive, richly illustrated guide. Expert drawing
instructor and storyboard artist Tom Fox knows exactly how to
capture the figure in poses that are both dynamic and true to human
anatomy. The book details the central figure-drawing elements and
techniques that are essential to every artist of every skill level.
From understanding the XYZ axis and basic skeleton, to thinking in
3D space and creating mannequins of all levels of detail, the book
deals with everything the reader needs to know before moving on to
the figure itself. Tom presents in step-by-step details exactly how
to add the muscles and depict truly believable poses. Every part of
the body is presented in detail, with easy-to-follow breakdowns of
the torso, arms, and legs, and the often-tricky head, hands, and
feet. The author also shares insightful, game-changing anatomy
tips, many learned from years of working for major clients in the
entertainment industry and teaching others to draw the human
figure, both in person and online. This combination of experiences
and skills make Tom an outstanding author of this must-have book
for artists in all areas of figure drawing.
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