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"The Nude" explores some of the principal ways that paintings of
the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society
in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth
centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality that
emerge around differences of class, gender, age, and race. Author
Richard Leppert relates the visual history of how the naked body
intersects with the foundational characteristics of what it is to
be human, measured against a range of basic emotions (happiness,
delight, and desire; fear, anxiety, and abjection) and read in the
context of changing social and cultural realities. The bodies
comprising the Western nude are variously pleasured or tormented,
ecstatic or bored, pleased or horrified. In short, as this volume
amply demonstrates, the nude in Western art is a terrain on whose
surface is written a summation of Western history: its glory but
also its degradation.
The first commercial camera was introduced in 1839. By 1865
technology enabled ordinary men to create photographic negatives,
and they immediately began taking and distributing photos of naked
women. The French led the way, and it was the French who produced
the first nude magazines in 1880, as souvenirs for patrons of
Parisian music halls. Newsstand magazines followed, and the elegant
La Vie Parisienne (Paris Life), full of sexy fiction and
illustrations, debuted in 1914. It might all have stayed in Paris
if not for WWI, when German and American troops carried the
magazines home. American Wilford Fawcett launched Capt. Billy's
Whiz Bang (named after a WWI bomb) in 1919, helping launch the
first sexual revolution of the 1920s, leading to SEX magazine from
birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger. Decadent Weimar Berlin
produced cabaret, fetish and free love magazines, countered by
nudist titles pushing fascist politics, culminating in the 1933
Berlin book burning. The 1930s economic depression boosted demand
for cheap escape, and men's magazines delivered. There were film
magazines of sexy starlets; "model study" art magazines; hardcore
comics called Tijuana Bibles; "spicy" fiction digests with sexy
painted covers; and detective titles of bad dames. When another
world war erupted it required pinup magazines for fighting men, and
after the war new men's magazines rose from the ashes. Volume 1 of
this series features over 700 covers and photos from France,
Germany, the U.S., England, Turkey, Austria, Spain, Argentina and
more, plus informative text.
An essential guide for all artists with more than 600 images to
show readers how to draw realistic characters with examples of
movement, faces, and hands. Anatomy charts and rules of proportion
will also allow users to accurately represent any human subject.
Including instructions for a variety of drawing techniques
(graphite pencils, colored pencils, felt tip pens, etc.) and a
diverse array of models, this is the ultimate guide to mastering
drawing the human form.
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Drawing Figures! To draw an
anatomical figure, you don't need a stack of weighty anatomy books.
Just take it step by step! In How to Draw People, author Jeff
Mellem teaches beginning artists how to draw the human figure, from
stick figure to anatomically accurate person, in clear,
easy-to-follow lessons. More than just a reference, this book
provides the step-by-step instruction to teach you to draw the
human figure and the anatomical knowledge to draw it realistically.
In each chapter, called "levels," you'll learn core concepts for
drawing the human figure. Each new chapter builds on the previous
one to give you the skills you need to add complexity to your
drawing. By the end of each chapter, you will be able to draw the
figure with greater detail. By the end of Level 5, you will be able
to draw an expressive figure with defined muscle groups in a
variety of poses both real and imagined. Clear goals to progress
from stick figure to anatomically correct Exercises and assignments
to practice new skills Level-Up Checklists in each chapter to
assess your skills before moving on With clear step-by-step
demonstrations and check-ins along the way, How to Draw People is
the beginner's guide to drawing realistic figures.
With the first centerfold image of the radiant Marilyn Monroe, Hugh
M. Hefner masterminded a cultural icon: Playboy 's Playmate of the
Month. This voluptuous new edition celebrates every nude centerfold
from every issue of Playboy, from 1953 to February 2016. Initially
published a decade ago, and now comprehensively updated, this
must-have edition boasts 734 nude centerfolds and decade openers
from literary luminaries, including an all-new essay by Elizabeth
Wurtzel on the last decade of centerfolds, and a redesigned package
that perfectly captures the complete cultural and aesthetic arc of
the Playboy centerfold. With contributions by: - Robert Coover -
Paul Theroux - Robert Stone - Jay McInerney - Daphne Merkin -
Maureen Gibbon - Elizabeth Wurtzel
A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the
reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals
was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style
transformed ideas and expectations about what portraiture can do
and what a painting should look like. Hals was a member of the
great trifecta of Dutch Baroque painters alongside Rembrandt and
Vermeer, and he was the portraitist of choice for entrepreneurs,
merchants, professionals, theologians, intellectuals, militiamen,
and even his fellow artists in the Dutch Golden Age. His works,
with their visible brush strokes and bold execution, lacked the
fine detail and smooth finish common among his peers, and some
dismissed his works as sloppy and unfinished. But for others, they
were fresh and exciting, filled with a sense of the sitter's
animated presence captured with energy and immediacy. Steven Nadler
gives us the first full-length biography of Hals in many years and
offers a view into seventeenth-century Haarlem and this culturally
rich era of the Dutch Republic. He tells the story not only of
Hals's life, but also of the artistic, social, political, and
religious worlds in which he lived and worked.
John F. Kennedy, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Merce Cunningham,
and Fairfield Porter were just some of the figures who sat for
portraits by Elaine de Kooning. Famous for her marriage to the
Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, Elaine was herself a
groundbreaking artist and writer who challenged many conventions
during her career. Although she portrayed women, she was most
engaged with portraits of men, sometimes painting multiple
portraits of her subjects, in order to explore and capture their
most compelling likeness. She focused intently on her subjects - as
she wrote in 1965, "Like falling in love painting a portrait is a
concentration on one particular person and no one else will do."
This insightful book explores de Kooning's portraits as well as her
artistic process and her position in the rise of Postmodernism.
Illustrated throughout with full-colour reproductions of paintings,
drawings and archival photos, this book is an important
contribution to the literature on Abstract Expressionism, women
artists and feminism during a transformative period and will also
appeal to lovers of painting of all kinds. Published in association
with the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC.
Summer in Paris. British art student Adam King undertakes an
internship at a contemporary art museum. An encounter with an
unusual collective of young people looking to change the world,
along with a strange revelation in front of The Mona Lisa, sees him
facing much more than his own coming-of-age. Against a backdrop of
late capitalism, media and surveillance, 'The Eleven Associates of
Alma-Marceau' not only asks questions about how people's images,
words and lives are given a platform, used and manipulated in the
digital era, but also invites readers to question the very nature
of what they perceive. Within this modern-day story about painting,
visual communication and how creative ideas are responded to by
society, Leonardo, of course, is still ahead of the game, more than
five hundred years after his death... ********** The Old School
Writers Circle is a group of friends who periodically meet up to
discuss art, writing and books. The current members studied at the
same school in Birmingham, UK, in the late 1980s and early 1990s,
and now live in various locations around England. Famous literary
alumni of the school include, somewhat eclectically, J.R.R.
Tolkien, Lee Child and Jonathan Coe, all of whom are on the
circle's ever-growing list of influences. Projects can be serious
as well as playful, confronting unusual and challenging themes
through stories that do not necessarily fit squarely within
conventional genres. For their debut publication, 'The Eleven
Associates of Alma-Marceau', the starting point was a shared love
of Paris and The Louvre - inspired in part by numerous trips across
the Channel by members of the circle over the past twenty-five
years. The other driving force was the long-standing interest of
circle member Matt Price in esoterica and unusual optical phenomena
in the history of painting - ideas explored and brought together by
the circle in the form of this curious, engaging and
thought-provoking novel. 'The smart move here is to pursue meaning
in painting through the medium of fiction' --Nicholas Alfrey, Art
Historian
Noted sculptor Ian Norbury gives woodcarvers a thorough, how-to
guide to bringing out the beauty of a female face from a block of
wood. Using hundreds of photographs and drawings, the author
provides in-depth instruction on carving two different adult faces
- one European and one Afro-Caribbean - and one child's face. Both
beginning and advanced woodcarvers and sculptors will find expert
guidance on tackling the unique challenges of carving a female
face. Included are sections on the anatomy of the female face,
taking photographs and producing patterns, step-by-step
instructions, and a photographic gallery of finished carvings to
provide inspiration.
The first extended study of Frank Auerbach's remarkable portrait
drawings reveals their complexity and ambition as works of graphic
art This book offers an original approach to one of Britain's
leading artists: Frank Auerbach (b. 1931). It looks in detail at
his portrait drawings, which Auerbach has been making since the
1950s, and which he has always considered important, freestanding
works of art. By turns eerie, shocking, enigmatic, and hauntingly
tender, they demand fresh interpretation and investigation.
Reproducing more than 130 examples of these portraits, some for the
first time, and featuring new essays by curators, scholars, and
critics, this book provides an unprecedented opportunity to explore
and reassess these striking and sometimes unsettling works of
graphic art. Frank Auerbach: Drawings of People includes texts by
both the editors and the artist himself, and new essays by Kate
Aspinall, James Finch, Alex Massouras, David Mellor, and Barnaby
Wright. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art
This book reveals the wealth of British and European miniatures
preserved in Scottish private collections, most of which are not
normally on show to the public. Some of these intimate and private
works are new discoveries, published here for the first time. These
works are drawn from some of the notable private collections in
Scotland, led by the most famous of all, that of the Duke of
Buccleuch & Queensberry. The protagonists of the Stuart cause
are well represented in portraits of Prince James and his sons
Prince Charles Edward and Prince Henry Benedict, taken from the
collection of one of the most significant Jacobite families, that
of the Dukes of Perth. The book illustrates some of the most
personal portraits of the leading figures among the great families
of Scotland from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth
century. Twenty of the key works are illustrated in colour, with
extended captions, and a complete catalogue of the collection is
also included.
A classic of simplicity! "Portrait Drawing" has guided and inspired
a generation of artists to create beautiful, realistic portraits.
In just eighty pages, author Wendon Blake covers all the basics,
from papers and pencils to drawing eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and
head from every angle. Drawings by artist John Lawn illustrate each
point clearly, making it easy to master the basics and move on to
conveying expression and emotion. Ten "demonstrations" show exactly
how to put everything together for portraits that are more than the
sum of their parts. Easy to understand, easy to use, this 25th
Anniversary edition of "Portrait Drawing," newly updated for
today's artists, shows the quick, rewarding way to master the
fundamentals of a favorite genre.
At last, the third and final phase of this sumptuous feast of
female passions is ready for its up close and very personal
premiere The stunning artwork of Stefano Mazzotti has made this
series the stand-out in sapphic desire and stunning detail With a
running commentary by Silvio Andrei, this third book sets girl on
girl on GIRL Whoa That's a 33% increase in girlage
Concepts of identity are complex and changing, and in this book
Katherine Hoffman examines images of individuals and families from
ancient Egypt to the present--more than two thirds of the book
covers the twentieth century. Through a comprehensive study of
paintings, sculpture, photography, film, television, and other
media, Hoffman provides eye-opening insights on the identity of
family and self through time and explores what these images say
about the attitudes and values of a particular culture.Concepts of
identity and self as individuals and families are complex and
changing, but images from the artist, the photographer, the
filmmaker, and TV producer can help us discover where we came from,
who we are and why, and where we are in the maze of postmodern
life. Katherine Hoffman explores portraits and images from ancient
Egypt to the present--more than two-thirds of the book covers the
twentieth century, including images from art, photography, film,
TV, and other media. The 75 illustrations are integrated with the
text.
The cat's out of the bag. 'The body part' series wraps up with the
origin of us all. First, "The Big Book of Breasts", then "The Big
Penis Book", "The Big Book of Legs", and the weighty "Big Butt
Book". What could follow but an in-depth exploration of the female
pudendum, that coveted orifice man spends nine months trying to
escape, and a lifetime attempting to reenter? "The Big Book of
Pussy", not to be confused with a book of big pussy, closes out
this popular series with an offering sure to be as controversial as
it is popular. As in previous volumes, editor Dian Hanson delves
into the historical significance of this humble os, to show how the
yoni has been coveted, feared, reviled, and worshipped by
civilizations worldwide, from New Guinea to old Ireland. The text
is supported by playful photographs of women exposing their vulvas,
from 1900 to the present day. Because depiction of this body part
has long been wrapped in unwarranted shame, "The Big Book of Pussy"
reframes the subject, featuring models who expose their most
private part enthusiastically, happily, with smiles spread wide
as...well, you get the picture. And with 400+ photos the point is
made emphatically, in images both naturally furry and stylishly
groomed. Included are interviews with the auteur known as Pussyman,
the ex-cop who turned masturbation into millions with a toy called
the Fleshlight, Vanessa del Rio, squirter Flower Tucci, vaginal
performance artist Mouse, and the singular Buck Angel. Contemporary
photographers Terry Richardson, Richard Kern, Ralph Gibson, Jan
Saudek, Guido Argentini, Ed Fox and others share their favorite
pussy photos, so that by page 372 even the shiest reader will be
calling, "Here, kitty, kitty!"
Adorable, sexy, and sure -- a wee bit naughty! This would fairly
sum up a style of illustration that Elias Chatzoudis has been able
to develop, earning him a world-wide following for his perky pin-up
girls! In this second volume devoted to his voluptuous vixens,
Elias is in top form with his sense of humour and eye for the
ladies in top form! All new art!
An exciting new illustrator with a passion for design and detail,
James Hottinger is quickly becoming a fan-favourite in fantasy art.
His sense of style and humour is matched by his immaculate
technique and precision. His girls are pretty amazing as well! This
full colour gallery of his works also includes an informative
step-by-step tutorial. An outstanding discovery!
You can discover Japanese art like no other. Originally created by
the artists of the ukiyo-e school of the floating world to
advertise brothels in 17th-century Yoshiwara, these popular spring
pictures (shunga) transcended class and gender in Japan for almost
300 years. These tender, humorous and brightly coloured pieces
celebrate sexual pleasure in all its forms, culminating in the
beautiful, yet graphic, work of iconic artists Utamaro, Hokusai and
Kunisada. This catalogue of a major international exhibition aims
to answer some key questions about what shunga is and why was it
produced. Erotic Japanese art was heavily suppressed in Japan from
the 1870s onwards as part of a process of cultural modernisation
that imported many contemporary western moral values. Only in the
last twenty years or so has it been possible to publish
unexpurgated examples in Japan and this ground-breaking publication
presents this fascinating art in its historical and cultural
context for the first time. Within Japan, shunga has continued to
influence modern forms of art, including manga, anime and Japanese
tattoo art. Drawing on the latest scholarship and featuring over
400 images of works from major public and private collections, this
landmark book sheds new light on this unique art form within
Japanese social and cultural history. Shunga: sex and pleasure in
Japanese art is published to accompany an exhibition at the British
Museum from October 2013 to January 2014.
Matters of Life and Death is a limited-edition publication
documenting the remarkable new and recent paintings of celebrated
Dallas-based British artist Richard Patterson (b.1963). An engaging
introduction by Paul Moorhouse, Senior Curator at the National
Portrait Gallery, London, discusses the dynamic and complex
relationship between figuration and abstraction in Patterson's
oeuvre. Moorhouse observes: 'Visual ambiguity defines Patterson's
art, and its most conspicuous feature is the interaction between
figurative painting, abstraction and photography that his recent
work continues. From the outset he moved between these disparate
visual languages, combining them in ways that seemed deliberately
oppositional and subversive.' Patterson's latest works are as
provocative as ever, and as he enters mid-career, have become
increasingly accomplished, cryptic and, at times, haunting. In his
illuminating essay, art historian James Cahill explores the
subjects of portraiture and personae within the artist's works,
asserting that 'his strategy of distancing his figures - whether
through a broken veil (or enclosing frame) of abstract paint, or
the gauze-like intercession of a photographic source - throws into
relief the idea that selfhood is ultimately a succession of masks.'
Curator and critic Jane Neal deftly navigates ideas of gender and
sexuality in Patterson's practice, taking us into the realms of
fetish and the male gaze, proposing that his painting overtly
'points towards the patriarchal and often misogynistic attitude to
women's bodies still prevalent in magazines, films and social
media, even in the twenty-first century. Patterson sets us up to
confront the darkness that often underlies the male gaze, even
affording it physical form.' Featuring a selection of works
executed between 2013 and 2016, many of which are published here
for the first time, the cloth-covered book is presented in a
specially printed hard slipcase and has been published in an
edition of just 500 copies. Born in the UK in 1963, Patterson
graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1986. He was included in
Damien Hirst's renowned Freeze, Surrey Docks, London (1988); as
well as Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi
Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK; Hamburger Bahnhof -
Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New
York, USA (1997-00). Other notable exhibitions include The Rowan
Collection: Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2002); Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg, Germany (2003); Nexus Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, Texas, USA (2007) and Attention to Detail, curated by
Chuck Close, the FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA. Patterson has
had solo exhibitions at Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London (1997);
James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA (1999 and 2002); Dallas Museum
of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA (2000), Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
(2005, 2008 and 2013); the Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, USA
(2009); and the FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2014). In February
2017 he will present new and recent works at Timothy Taylor 16x34,
New York.
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