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The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary
portraits and perpetuated and developed in more recent media, such
as film and television, make her one of the most familiar and
popular of all British monarchs.This collection of essays examines
the diversity of the queen's extensive iconographical repertoire,
focusing on both visual and textual representations of Elizabeth,
not only in portraiture and literature, but also in contemporary
sermons, speeches and alchemical treatises. The collection broadens
current critical thinking about Elizabeth, as each of the essays
contributes to the debate about the ways in which the queen's
developing iconicity was not simply a celebratory mode, but also
encoded criticism of her. Each of these essays explains the ways in
which the varied representations of Elizabeth reflect the political
and cultural anxieties of her subjects.
In the last decade of his life, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
undertook a printmaking project that changed the conventions of
portraiture. In a series later named the Iconography, he portrayed
artists alongside kings, courtiers, and diplomats-a radical
departure from preexisting conventions. He also depicted his
subjects in novel ways, focusing on their facial features often to
the exclusion of symbolic costumes or props. In addition to
illustrating approximately 60 works by Van Dyck and other artists
from his era-particularly Rembrandt-this catalogue traces the
artist's influence over hundreds of years. Showcasing both 17th
century portraits in a variety of media and portrait prints by a
wide range of artists spanning the 16th through the 20th
centuries-including Albrecht Durer, Hendrick Goltzius, Francisco de
Goya, Edgar Degas, and Jim Dine-the book demonstrates the indelible
mark that Van Dyck left on the genre. Distributed for the Art
Institute of Chicago Exhibition Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago
(03/05/16-08/07/16)
A fun how-to sketchbook for drawing portraits and selfies! Sketch
Your Best Self is a quirky guide to drawing all kinds of faces -
starting with your own! The book is split into four sections,
covering the basics, how to draw faces, building bodies and selfie
style. This comprises how to draw features, how to create different
expressions, drawing bodies and limbs and lots of fun stuff
including how to create a selfie in pop art style, full colour,
monochrome and retro classics style. So pucker up for creating
lips, decide if today is a good or bad hair day, practise some
photobooth-style expressions, build your friends limb by limb, add
some attitude, then try out the fun and whimsical drawing
challenges with super fun pages based around Snapchat style
filters. Don't be left out - this beautiful book is fully inclusive
and can be enjoyed by everyone!
The rounded cheek. The quivering flesh. The anticipation of the
sharp and welcome smack! That delightful palm-on-buttock noise! Ah,
the wonders of a private school education! In the history of the
"Gallery Girls" books, no one topic has gained more notoriety (and
sales, thank you very much!) as the "Spanking Tails" series. Here
we are at our third outing, and the line of young ladies poised and
positioned for tough love has grown ever longer! And not
suprisingly, the list of artists lined up to dispense said tough
love, including Mitch Byrd, Brian LeBlanc, Pablo Kousovitis, Anibal
Maraschi, Perla Pilucki, to name but a feverish few! To celebrate
this third 'much too cheeky' selection of spanktastic excellence,
outstanding airbrush artist Edward Reed has created an eye-popping
front cover that will leave you breathless and scrambling for your
finest paddle! Putting the OUCH in YeeeeOuch.
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Although mastery of the representation of the human figure was
central to art making as early as the fifteenth century in Europe,
in the nineteenth-century French imagination the artist's model
became identified as a distinct social type and cultural trope.
This study of the artist's model in Paris between 1830 and 1870
incorporates three histories: a social history of professional
models, a cultural history of models as social types, and an art
history of representations of the model in elite and popular visual
culture. It takes as its starting point the artist-model
transaction: demonstrating that stereotypes of 'the model' that
figured in the public imagination were framed both by gender and
ethnicity, the book develops a nuanced typology of different types
of models. Interwoven with the analysis of the constructed
identities of models are accounts of the lives of particular models
and the histories of the urban population groups from which they
emerged. The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris,
1830-1870 is an adept exploration of a major issue in
nineteenth-century art which will be of interest not only to art
historians, but also to social and French cultural historians.
Dedicated to the topics of eroticism and sexuality in the visual
production of the medieval and early modern Muslim world, this
volume sheds light on the diverse socio-cultural milieus of erotic
images, on the range of motivations that determined their
production, and on the responses generated by their circulation.
The articles revise what has been accepted as a truism in existing
literature-that erotic motifs in the Islamic visual arts should be
read metaphorically-offering, as an alternative, rigorous
contextual and cultural analyses. Among the subjects discussed are
male and female figures as sexualized objects; the spiritual
dimensions of eroticism; licit versus illicit sexual practices; and
the exotic and erotic 'others' as a source of sensual delight. As
the first systematic study on these themes in the field of Islamic
art history, this volume fills a considerable gap and contributes
to the lively debates on the nature and function of erotic and
sexual images that have featured prominently in broader
art-historical discussions in recent decades.
Anatomy for Artists is an extensive compendium of high quality,
detailed photography and drawings, showing the human figure in a
variety of shapes, sizes and poses that can be used as a solid
foundation for all character art.This thorough and detailed library
of visual resources will consist of stunning photography and
comprehensive drawings showing the muscular structure of figures of
varying body types. These male and female references will act as an
invaluable starting point for artists trying to create art based on
the human figure. Whether you're a traditional sculptor, oil
painter or 3D digital artist, the resources within this book will
prove to be useful and informative and will help you improve the
quality and accuracy of your own art.
We have grown accustomed to the ubiquity of corporate influence in
retail outlets, restaurants, and even higher education-but what
happens when corporations take over desire? The Naked Result: How
Exotic Dance Became Big Business explores the changing world of
striptease, tracing its path from the unruly underground to
brightly lit, branded "gentlemen's clubs." Drawing on her own
experience as an exotic dancer, Jessica Berson examines the ways
that striptease embodies conflicting notions of race, class, and
female sexuality, and how the exotic dance industry deploys these
differences to codify and commodify our erotic imagination. Chain
clubs, fitness programs, and music videos are moving exotic dance
into the mainstream, and stripping its historical potential to
embody and express subversive desires-erotic and otherwise-and
generate resistant modes of female erotic subjectivity. Through
case studies including Boston's Combat Zone in the 1970s-80s, the
development of lap dancing in London in the 1990s, and the triumph
of corporate striptease in post-Giuliani New York City in the last
decade, The Naked Result reveals an industry that increasingly
eradicates individuality and agency in order to increase profits.
Ultimately, The Naked Result argues that corporatization has
cheerfully smothered the diversity of sexual desire and expression
for both dancers and customers, repackaging the most mysterious
human emotions into easily branded experiences no more personal or
powerful than those to be found in any themed restaurant or coffee
mega-chain.
The new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to
Elizabethan portraiture Written for the general reader, Roy
Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture
synthesizes scholarship and research on this subject into a concise
introduction to the Elizabethan aesthetic. Strong surveysthe
entirety of Elizabeth I's reign from the Procession Picture to the
Rainbow Portrait (1600-1602). A range of social aspects of
Elizabethan portraiture are explored, such as patronage, symbolic
self-fashioning, Elizabethan pageantry and melancholic humor.
Strong reveals the Elizabethan approach to portraiture, while
demonstrating a new way to look at these paintings. From celebrated
portraits of the Queen and paintings of knights and courtiers, to
works depicting an aspiring 'middle class', Strong presents a
detailed and authoritative examination of one of the most
fascinating periods of British art.
From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after
the French Revolution, the Academie Royale de Peinture et de
Sculpture was the centre of the Parisian art world. Taking the
reader behind the scenes of this elite bastion of French art
theory, education, and practice, this engaging study uncovers the
fascinating histories - official and unofficial - of that artistic
community. Through an innovative approach to portraits - their
values, functions, and lives as objects - this book explores two
faces of the Academie. Official portraits grant us insider access
to institutional hierarchies, ideologies, rituals, customs, and
everyday experiences in the Academie's Louvre apartments.
Unofficial portraits in turn reveal hidden histories of artists'
personal relationships: family networks, intimate friendships, and
bitter rivalries. Drawing on both art-historical and
anthropological frames of analysis, this book offers insightful
interpretations of portraits read through and against documentary
evidence from the archives to create a rich story of people,
places, and objects. Theoretically informed, rigorously researched,
and historically grounded, this book sheds new light on the inner
workings of the Academie. Its discoveries and compelling narrative
make an invaluable and accessible contribution to our understanding
of this pre-eminent European institution and the social lives of
artists in early modern Paris.
Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: from
paintings to prints to small sculptures, the art of the late Middle
Ages and early modern period gave rise to disturbing scenes of
violence. Many of these torture scenes recall Christ's Passion and
its aftermath, but the martyrdoms of saints, stories of justice
visited on the wicked, and broadsheet reports of the atrocities of
war provided fertile ground for scenes of the body's desecration.
Contributors to this volume interpret pain, suffering, and the
desecration of the human form not simply as the passing fancies of
a cadre of proto-sadists, but also as serving larger social
functions within European society. Taking advantage of the
frameworks established by scholars such as Samuel Edgerton,
Mitchell Merback, and Elaine Scarry (to name but a few), Death,
Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300-1650 provides an
intriguing set of lenses through which to view such imagery and
locate it within its wider social, political, and devotional
contexts. Though the art works discussed are centuries old, the
topics of the essays resonate today as twenty-first-century Western
society is still absorbed in thorny debates about the ethics and
consequences of the use of force, coercion (including torture), and
execution, and about whether it is ever fully acceptable to write
social norms on the bodies of those who will not conform.
Barbarian babes brandishing blades Always a fun topic of
discussion, but in the talented hands of painter Jose del Nido,
that topic transcends mere eye candy and inspires actual shock and
awe These are truly stunning portraits that celebrate the
terrifying beauty of fighting females Sharpened steel never looked
this good
At the close of the eighteenth century, women began to discover a
new sense of freedom, adventure, and self-determination, simply by
walking in public unaccompanied. Previously, solitary walks by
women were considered unseemly. An unaccompanied hike in the
country was beyond imagination; to promenade by oneself on city
boulevards was unthinkable. This book features evocative paintings
of women doing just that, by a range of artists, from the late
eighteenth to the early twentieth century, among them British
portraitist Thomas Gainsborough, the scandalous Gustave Courbet,
Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte, American masters Winslow Homer
and John Singer Sargent, and Nabi artist Felix Vallotton. With
paintings act her guide, Karin Sagner takes us on a visual journey
through this vital yet oft-overlooked aspect of women's
emancipation, from the promenades of the nobility to everyday walks
in the city, on gentle strolls in the country or hikes up mountain
summits. Quotes by luminaries like the Marquise de Sevigne, Jane
Austen, and Simone de Beauvoir gracefully support her points. A
thoughtful gift for graduates, teachers, or Mother's Day, this
subtle but profound book is not only an illuminating history but a
beautiful art historical survey and an inspirational guide.
Sportive gentlemen, lascivious ladies: Since the earliest days of
photography, people have been getting up to all manner of
rannygazoo in front of the lens. This collection presents the
finest highlights from the collection of New Yorker Mark Rotenberg,
who began collecting antique smut after finding a stash of vintage
erotic pictures in a Brooklyn dumpster and now owns a 95,000 strong
collection of archive pornography dating from between 1860 and
1960. Flick through these pages and witness the fitness of our
forebears as they romp, cavort, and frolic with unabashed energy
and glee. From early monochromes of daringly dropped drawers and
seductively waxed handlebar mustaches, to Kodachromes of cheery,
twin-peaked pin-up beauties in the 1950s, this fine collection
spans the sublimely sensual and the ridiculous. About the series
Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating
the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a
cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance One of
the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving
depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by
British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread
commercial practice for what it really was-shocking, immoral,
barbaric, unimaginable. Printed as handbills and broadsides, the
image Cheryl Finley has termed the "slave ship icon" was easily
reproduced, and by the end of the eighteenth century it was
circulating by the tens of thousands around the Atlantic rim.
Committed to Memory provides the first in-depth look at how this
artifact of the fight against slavery became an enduring symbol of
Black resistance, identity, and remembrance. Finley traces how the
slave ship icon became a powerful tool in the hands of British and
American abolitionists, and how its radical potential was
rediscovered in the twentieth century by Black artists, activists,
writers, filmmakers, and curators. Finley offers provocative new
insights into the works of Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, Betye
Saar, and many others. She demonstrates how the icon was
transformed into poetry, literature, visual art, sculpture,
performance, and film-and became a medium through which diasporic
Africans have reasserted their common identity and memorialized
their ancestors. Beautifully illustrated, Committed to Memory
features works from around the world, taking readers from the
United States and England to West Africa and the Caribbean. It
shows how contemporary Black artists and their allies have used
this iconic eighteenth-century engraving to reflect on the trauma
of slavery and come to terms with its legacy.
Figure Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark Count is not a
typical drawing instruction book; it explains the two-step process
behind juggernauts like DreamWorks, WB and Disney. Though there are
many books on drawing the human figure, none teach how to draw a
figure from the first few marks of the quick sketch to the last
virtuosic stroke of the finished masterpiece, let alone through a
convincing, easy-to-understand method. That changes now! In Figure
Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark Count, award-winning fine
artist Steve Huston shows beginners and pros alike the two
foundational concepts behind the greatest masterpieces in art and
how to use them as the basis for their own success. Embark on a
drawing journey and discover how these twin pillars of support are
behind everything from the Venus De Milo, to Michelangelo's Sibyl,
to George Bellow's Stag at Sharkey's, and how they're the
fundamental tools for animation studios around the world. Not to
mention how the best comic book artists since the beginnings of the
art form use them whether they know it or not. Figure Drawing for
Artists: Making Every Mark Count sketches out the same two-step
method taught to the artists of DreamWorks, Warner Brothers, and
Disney Animation, so pick up a pencil and get drawing. The For
Artists series expertly guides and instructs artists at all skill
levels who want to develop their classical drawing and painting
skills and create realistic and representational art.
A regiment of women warriors strides across the battlefield of
German culture - on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, and
in paintings and prints. These warriors are re-imaginings by men of
figures such as the Amazons, the Valkyries, and the biblical killer
Judith. They are transgressive and therefore frightening figures
who leave their proper female sphere and have to be made safe by
being killed, deflowered, or both. This has produced some
compelling works of Western culture - Cranach's and Klimt's
paintings of Judith, Schiller's Joan of Arc, Hebbel's Judith,
Wagner's Brunnhilde, Fritz Lang's Brunhild. Nowadays,
representations of the woman warrior are used as a way of thinking
about the woman terrorist. Women writers only engage with these
imaginings at the end of the 19th century, but from the late 18th
century on they begin to imagine fictional cross-dressers going to
war in a realistic setting and thus think the unthinkable. What are
the roots of these imaginings? And how are they related to Freud's
ideas about women's sexuality?
Our conventional understanding of English portraiture from the
age of Holbein and Henry VIII on to Reubens, VanDyck and Charles I
clings to the mainstream images of royalty and aristocracy and to
the succession of known practitioners of 'Renaissance'
portraiture.In almost every respect, the 'civic' portraits examined
here stand in sharp contrast to these traditional narratives.
Depicting mayors and aldermen, livery company masters, school and
college heads, they were meant to be read as statements about the
civic leaders and civic institutions rather than about the sitters
in their own right. Displayed in civic premises rather than country
homes, exemplifying civic rather than personal virtues, and usually
commissioned by institutions rather than their sitters, they have
yet to be considered as a type of their own, or in their
appropriate social and political context.This fascinating work will
appeal to both art historians and historians of early modern
Britain.
This repackaged edition of this best-selling guide to anatomy in
art that will help artists of all levels to improve their
life-drawing skills. Unlock your inner artist and discover how to
draw the human body in this beautifully-illustrated art book by
celebrated artist and teacher, Sarah Simblet. Whether you're
looking to develop a new skill this New Year, or develop your
drawing skills even further, this visually-striking guide offers a
fresh approach to drawing the human body. Dive straight in to
discover: -Over 250 specially-commissioned photographs and drawings
-Covers each part of the human body from head to toe -10
masterclasses demonstrate how famous artists have depicted the
human body -Practical advice and top-tips on life drawing Combining
stunning photographs of models with historical and contemporary
works of art and her own dynamic life drawing, Sarah will take you
on a journey inside the human body to map its skeleton, muscle
groups and body systems. Bring your artwork to life in the most
dynamic way possible, with detailed line drawings superimposed over
photographs to reveal the links between the body's appearance and
it's construction. Featuring inspirational master classes on
world-famous artworks, from Michelangelo to Hans Holbein, Ingres to
Degas and more, discover how artists have depicted the human body
over centuries. Each master class features a photograph of a model
holding the same pose as in the painting, to highlight key details
of anatomy and show how the artist has interpreted them.
Understanding anatomy is the foundation to understanding the human
body successfully. As well as being the perfect reference, Anatomy
for the Artist will inspire you to find a model, reach for your
pencil and start drawing! Let DK plant the seed of curiosity and
watch as it develops into a life-long love of art, anatomy and
more. A must-have volume for artists of all levels who wish to
tackle life drawing, or those interested in human anatomy, whether
as a gift or self-purchase.
In 2007 TASCHEN released The New Erotic Photography, followed in
2012 by The New Erotic Photography 2. Each book featured hundreds
of fresh and provocative images from the world's most intriguing
erotic talents. Now the best of both books is available in The New
Erotic Photography, featuring 62 photographers from 10 countries,
exploring the global variations of erotic photography, as well as
the evolution of photographic media over the last decade. We see
film give way to digital, while those who persist with film are as
likely to use Polaroids and primitive cameras like the Lomo and
Holga as traditional SLRs. The featured photographers include new
names Gregory Bojorquez, Jo Schwab, Tomohide Ikeya, Frederic
Fontenoy, Andrew Pashis, and Jan Hronsky, as well as established
artists Guido Argentini, Bruno Bisang, Eric Kroll, and the late Bob
Carlos Clarke. Several outstanding women are also featured in this
edition, including erotic film star Kimberly Kane, digital pioneer
Natacha Merritt, heavy metal skateboarder Magdalena Wosinska,
self-portraitist Jody Frost, and cover artist April-lea Hutchinson.
It all adds up to an awful lot of nudes for a tantalizingly low
price. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural
companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
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