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His first volume of voluptuous vixens snugly bound and trussed up
created more than a few raised eyebrows (and trips to the local
rope store!) Vincent Stephens has been hard at work creating an
all-new collection of wickedly wild and winsome ladies, cuffed,
shackled, and generally all tied up wearing nothing but a knowing
smile! This second volume - subtitled "Tighter and Harder" gives
bondage art fans a freshly built stage on which to enjoy all new
fantasies! And you thought all that nylon cord was just for tying
down canvas covers in the winter - silly boy! You can do a HELL of
a lot more interesting things, and Mr. Stephens shows you the way!
Yo ho, indeed! Here's a magnificent gallery of exquisite lady
pirate portraits by one of the great erotic pin-up artists working
today -- Stefano Mazzotti. His photo-realism blends seamlessly with
the fantasy of beautiful brigands (brigandettes?) fully prepared to
attack your mast and swarm your deck in search of treasure,
pleasure, and yes -- BOOTY! From his works in the "Velvet Love"
series, as well as "Tatz: Sin on Skin", Mazzotti is turning into
one of the hottest, most requested talents in the SQP mega-pool of
illustrators! We're delighted to present this latest collection of
brand new works. Eye-patch and peg-leg not required to thoroughly
enjoy this book, although you will let out with the occasional
"ARRRRRRR"!
There are innovators who blaze trails to show the way forward, and
creative genius Bob Larkin is certainly one of them. His magazine
and paperback covers are both legendary and iconic. From "Conan" to
"Star Wars", "Doc Savage" to "The Hulk", there are few pop culture
touchstones that artist Bob Larkin hasn't brought his unique and
powerful style of illustration to. This full colour retrospective
of over 100 paintings also includes an introduction by Joe Jusko
and an afterword by Alex Ross.
The trip to Hell is paved with so many delightful distractions!
Namely - the smokey-eyed seductresses that lead the way to eternal
damnation. Ahh...being bad was never this much fun! Our second
descent to the lower circles feature the illustrative talents of
Perez, DeSimone, Marachi, Sosa, Pelaez, Arantza, and other lost
souls. Sinful cover painting by Arantza.
This book offers a renewed look at Emma Hamilton, the
eighteenth-century celebrity who was depicted by many major
artists, including Angelica Kauffman, George Romney, and Elisabeth
Vigee-Le Brun. Adopting an art historical and feminist lens, Ersy
Contogouris analyzes works of art in which Hamilton appears, her
performances, and writings by her contemporaries to establish her
impact on this pivotal moment in European history and art. This
pioneering volume shows that Hamilton did not attempt to present a
coherent or polished identity, and argues instead that she was a
kaleidoscope of different selves through which she both expressed
herself and presented to others what they wanted to see. She was
resilient, effectively asserted her agency, and was a powerful
inspiration for generations of artists and women in their own
search for expression and self-actualization.
Tiny creatures who live in the deepest parts of the forest, their
magic is not meant to be seen by the eyes of mere mortals, but
fairies are a playful lot, and occasionally they let themselves be
seen, wearing little more than gossamer wings and a winsome smile!
In this second collection of nymphs and elvettes, we get more
folklore fairies with artwork by Pelaez, Aldo Perez, Diego Florio,
Brian LeBlanc, and many other myth merchants! Outstanding cover
painting by Pelaez.
Stefano Mazzotti and Vincenzo Silvestroni, that wild duo that put
massive heat in the "Velvet Love" series, is back again with a new
collection of blistering images and concepts! Tattoos are the
subject - ink on girls to be more specific! A showcase of young
ladies are illustrated, and then illustrated upon, each relating
their own unique story as to the whys and where's (like which part
of their most personal real estate is about to get a forever
makeover!). Let's face it - tattoos are hot, and cute girls who
want them are even hotter! The "Velvet Love" team is certainly up
to the challenge of making all this happen - the resulting book is
jaw-dropping perfection!
Three young and seemingly wholesome teachers do what they can to
take care of their pupils, but school budgets being what they are,
sometimes these ladies have to do much more for the student body!
Artist/writer Enrique Villagran merrily trots back to school to
learn a few more lessons concerning hands-on biology and
hot-and-sticky 101! Third in the series, this professor of popular
culture also tells the tale of two female students in search of
forbidden romance, and a vacation to the tropics that turns out to
be much steamier than was described by the travel agent! Mr.
Villagran has a sly and rude sense of humor, and an eye for erotic
detail second to none! The first two volumes of this series are
constant best-sellers for SQP, so the third time is definitely the
charm!
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.
Cabinet cards were America's main format for photographic
portraiture throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Standardized at 61/2 x 41/4 inches, they were just large enough to
reveal extensive detail, leading to the incorporation of elaborate
poses, backdrops, and props. Inexpensive and sold by the dozen,
they transformed getting one's portrait made from a formal event
taken up once or twice in a lifetime into a commonplace practice
shared with friends. The cards reinforced middle-class Americans'
sense of family. They allowed people to show off their material
achievements and comforts, and the best cards projected an informal
immediacy that encouraged viewers to feel emotionally connected
with those portrayed. The experience even led sitters to act out
before the camera. By making photographs an easygoing fact of life,
the cards forecast the snapshot and today's ubiquitous photo
sharing. Organized by senior curator John Rohrbach, Acting Out is
the first ever in-depth examination of the cabinet card phenomena.
Full-color plates include over 100 cards at full size, providing a
highly entertaining collection of these early versions of the
selfie and ultimately demonstrating how cabinet cards made
photography modern. Published in association with the Amon Carter
Museum of American Art. Exhibition dates: Amon Carter Museum of
American Art: August 15-November 1, 2020 Los Angeles County Museum
of Art (LACMA): August 8-November 7, 2021
The follow-up title to the hit title, Drawing Cutting Edge Comics
which has been translated into 7 languages, this drawing tutorial
shows artists how to draw the exaggerated musculature of
super-sized figures in action poses. The guesswork is taken out of
figuring out which muscles show through to the surface and how
muscles appear through clothing. This instructional manual even
gives both the Latin and the common term for particular body parts
such as scapula/shoulder blade. Hart covers all aspects of extreme
anatomy. The book opens by providing detailed diagrams of all of
the various muscle groups, including chest, back, shoulder, arm,
and leg muscles. Then he covers many of the various extreme comic
book types including good guy, bad guy, insane guy, punk, genius,
and brute for men; and the heroine, bad gal, trashy gal,
seductress, fighter babe, and cyber chick for women. As an added
bonus, this book closes with two invaluable sections to all
aspiring comic book artists. One provides a roadmap of all the
steps an artist must take if he or she is going to get started in
the comic book business, and advice on how the comic book business
works. The second section features interviews with people from two
of the most significant companies in the world of comics, Marvel
Comics and Dark Horse!
This comprehensive book brings to light the portraits, private
collections and public patronage of the princesse de Lamballe, a
pivotal member of Marie-Antoinette's inner circle. Drawing
extensively on unpublished archival sources, Sarah Grant examines
the princess's many portrait commissions and the rich character of
her private collections, which included works by some of the
period's leading artists and artisans. The book sheds new light on
the agency, sorority and taste of Marie-Antoinette and her friends,
a group of female patrons and model of courtly collecting that
would be extinguished by the coming revolution.
With this, his fourth book, American photographer Richard Murrian
smashes through the boundries of fantasy, and together with a new
band of celestial beauties, takes us on an electrifyingly erotic
visual journey into passion and desire.
Design creative characters inspired by real people. Let Mike
Mattesi show you how to use life drawing to discover the poses,
features and personalities which form the basis of character and
then build, develop and 'PUSH' your drawings to new heights of
dramatic and visual impact for believable characters audiences can
relate to. Packed with color illustrations and photographs of the
models who inspired them. With step-by-step explanation of how the
characters were developed and exercises for you to sharpen your
skills this is everything you need to bring your characters to
life.
How to Make the Body: Difference, Identity, and Embodiment brings
together contemporary and historical readings of the body,
exploring the insights and limits of established and emerging
theories of difference, identity, and embodiment in a variety of
German contexts. The engaging contributions to this volume utilize
and challenge cutting-edge approaches to scholarship on the body by
putting these approaches in direct conversation with canonical
texts and objects, as well as with lesser-known yet provocative
emerging forms. To these ends, the chapter authors investigate "the
body" through detailed studies across a wide variety of disciplines
and modes of expression: from advertising, aesthetics, and
pornography, to social media, scientific experimentation, and
transnational cultural forms. Thus, this volume showcases the ways
in which the body as such cannot be taken for granted and surmises
that the body continues to undergo constant--and potentially
disruptive--diversification and transformation.
The spry and devilishly creative pin-up elder-statesman Archie
Dickens is back with a new compendium of cuties to delight an
appreciative public. A contemporary of such artistic greats as
Elvgren and Vargas, Mr. Dickens is still kicking, still making
naughty portraits of young ladies in various states of undress -
all with a sly smile and an innocent demeanor. Each illustration
features a delightful damsel doing something perfectly ordinary,
but in such an extraordinary way! Whether on the phone, on the
beach, or on the prowl, Dickens makes these girls shine!
Rob Wareing has built a formidable international reputation as a
portrait artist. This is his first book, and here he draws on over
40 years' experience to provide a complete guide to painting
portraits in oils. In Rob's view, the most effective way to capture
character is by working from life rather than photographs, and to
follow the alla prima method to create a painting in one sitting.
Starting with a fascinating overview of the subject, Rob then
guides the reader through the materials he uses, explains how to
pose and light the sitter, and how to prepare the work area before
starting to paint. This is followed by detailed coverage of design
and composition, the importance of proportions, and the painting
process itself - from colour mixing through to finishing a painting
without over-working. With clear, step-by-step demonstrations and
numerous examples of the author's work throughout, this book
provides both an expert guide to portrait painting and a unique
insight into the working methods of one of the world's leading
portrait painters.
Man Ray, surrealist master and exponent of the Dada movement,
managed to reinvent not only the photographic language, but also
the representation of the body and face, as well as the genres of
the nude and the portrait themselves. This book brings together
around 200 photographs produced from the 1920s right up to his
death in 1976, all featuring female subjects.Through rayographs,
solarisations and double exposures, the female body undergoes a
continual metamorphosis of forms and meanings, becoming an abstract
form, an object of seduction, classical memory or realistic
portrait, in endless playful and refined variations. Among the
protagonists of his shots are Lee Miller, Berenice Abbott, Dora
Maar and Juliet, a lifelong companion, to whom is dedicated the
amazing The Fifty Faces of Juliet portfolio (1943-1944). But these
women were, in turn, great artists: as evidence is presented here a
corpus of works dating back to the time - between the 1930s and
'40s - of their most direct association with Man Ray and with the
environment of the Dada avant-garde and Parisian surrealism. This
volume offers a wide survey of one of the most exuberant periods of
the 20th century, with authentic masterpieces of photographic art
such as the Electricite portfolios (1931) and the very rare Les
mannequins. Resurrection des mannequins (1938). Text in English and
Italian.
The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth
century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old
masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to
this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle
of the twentieth century displaced these venerable skills,
especially in academic art circles. Fortunately for aspiring
artists today who wish to learn the methods that allowed the Old
Masters to achieve the luminous color and subtle tonalities so
characteristic of their work, this knowledge has been preserved in
hundreds of small traditional painting ateliers that persevered in
the old ways in this country and throughout the world.
Coming out of this dedicated movement, "Portrait Painting Atelier"
is an essential resource for an art community still recovering from
a time when solid instruction in art technique was unavailable in
our schools. Of particular value here is a demonstration of the Old
Masters' technique of layering paint over a toned-ground surface, a
process that builds from the transparent dark areas to the more
densely painted lights. This method unifies the entire painting,
creating a beautiful glow that illuminates skin tones and softly
blends all the color tones. Readers will also find valuable
instruction in paint mediums from classic oil-based to alkyd-based,
the interactive principles of composition and photograph-based
composition, and the anatomy of the human face and the key
relationships among its features.
Richly illustrated with the work of preeminent masters such as
Millet, Gericault, and van Gogh, as well as some of today's leading
portrait artists--and featuring seven detailed step-by-step
portrait demonstrations--"Portrait Painting Atelier" is the first
book in many years to so comprehensively cover the concepts and
techniques of traditional portraiture.
Contents: 1. Naked truths about classical art: An introduction 2. 'Ways of seeing' women in antiquity: An introduction to feminism in classical archaeology and ancient art history 3. Female beauty and male violence in early Italian society 4. divesting the female breast of clothes in classical sculpture 5. When painters execute a murderess: the representation of clytemnestra on attic vases 6. Sappho in attic vase painting 7. Gender and sexuality in the Parthenon frieze 8. Naked and limbless: Learning about the feminine body in ancient Athens 9. Nursing mothers in classical art 10. Making a world of difference: Gender, Asymmetry, and the Greek nude 11. The only happy couple: Hermaphrodites and gender 12. Violent stages in two Pompeian houses: Imperial taste, aristocratic response and messages of male control 13. Epilogue: gender and desire
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