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Is it the constant craving for the crimson essence that drives
them? The tragic splendour of an eternal youth spent in endless
night? Or is it the blood sport of raw power that makes these women
so beautifully dangerous? Who can truly know? To observe these
deadly beauties from a safe distance, a new gallery of full colour
paintings has been assembled. Red ripe artists from across the
globe give tribute, including Arantza, Steve Fastner and Rich
Larson, James Hottinger, David Dunstan, Inaki, Maraschi, Sosa, Greg
Lopez, Ossio, and Pelaez. Twilight was never so inviting!
Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of society in
Renaissance Italy - artisans, merchants, and professionals such as
bankers and lawyers - this book focuses on new social subjects, new
documents and unusual objects. Using innovative methods of inquiry
and interdisciplinary analytical tools, contributors explore a
little-known but pervasive erotic culture in which sexually
explicit artefacts, games and gestures were considered essential to
a number of rituals and social occasions. At the same time, they
demonstrate how a burgeoning market for erotica, along with a
cultural tradition of allusion and innuendo, played an increasingly
important role in the Italian peninsula between the fifteenth and
early seventeenth centuries. This volume fills some pervasive
lacunae in both Renaissance studies and the history of sexuality
through a series of critical engagements with material culture and
social custom. It reflects recent scholarly interest in
interdisciplinary areas such as the material Renaissance, visual
communications, urban sociability in the domestic context, and
court records regarding marital disputes.
A vibrant survey of visual culture in Golden Age Denmark
(1801-1864) Following the disastrous outcome of the Napoleonic Wars
and national bankruptcy, Denmark affected a remarkable cultural
renaissance, spawning such major talents as Hans Christian
Andersen, Soren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Orsted. The Golden
Age, roughly spanning the first half of the nineteenth century,
produced defining images of a peaceful and ordered society as the
emerging Copenhagen bourgeoisie asserted a taste for portraits,
urban scenes and landscapes that embraced their lifestyles. Artists
such as Christen Kobke and C. W. Eckersberg turned their attentions
to the people, traditions and customs of their land, encapsulating
the quintessence of this celebrated period of cultural richness.
Danish Golden Age Painting examines the vital role played by the
visual arts within the wider context of the era's social,
political, intellectual, scientific, artistic and cultural
achievements. Drawing on the best of established and contemporary
Danish scholarship, it presents an innovative survey of Danish
Golden Age art.
This title presents the essence of life courses through warm flesh,
heating the midnight meal to a delicious 98.7 degrees of exquisite
delight! Fiercesome fangs extend from ruby lips, and it's a hungry
mouth that clamps upon the main artery of a willing neck. A new
member has been selected, and another undead diva is born! And as
for after-dinner treats - the night holds many more surprises! It's
the eternal vampire lure, as seen through a decidedly girl-on-girl
perspective! Playing with your food never had this much going for
it, as female vamps go in search of girlfriends they can lunch with
- forever! This newest series of "Gallery Girls" books invites a
roster of new illustrators to use their imaginations to come up
with a fresh collection of bisexual biting! Artists include Diego
Candia, Marco Baldi, Anibal Maraschi, Flores, Diego Florio, Perla
Pilucki, Percy Ochoa, and Dario Hartmann, and sports a red-hot
cover painting by Bruce Colero.
Kimberly Rhodes's interdisciplinary book is the first to explore
fully the complicated representational history of Shakespeare's
Ophelia during the Victorian period. In nineteenth-century Britain,
the shape, function and representation of women's bodies were
typically regulated and interpreted by public and private
institutions, while emblematic fictional female figures like
Ophelia functioned as idealized templates of Victorian womanhood.
Rhodes examines the widely disseminated representations of Ophelia,
from works by visual artists and writers, to interpretations of her
character in contemporary productions of Hamlet, revealing her as a
nexus of the struggle for the female body's subjugation. By
considering a broad range of materials, including works by Anna Lea
Merritt, Elizabeth Siddal, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett
Millais, and paying special attention to images women produced,
Rhodes illuminates Ophelia as a figure whose importance crossed
class and national boundaries. Her analysis yields fascinating
insights into 'high' and mass culture and enables transnational
comparisons that reveal the compelling associations among Ophelia,
gender roles, body image and national identity.
Heaven's missing more than just one angel! We're counting over
sixty that have gone AWOL, just to end up in this array! Angel Lust
2 flies into the sky and brings an all-new collection of heavenly
guardians down to Earth for we merest of mortals to enjoy! These
are the best sort of angels - the kind with a little devil in them,
as seen by artists like Candia, Buci, Danilo, Flores, LeBlanc,
Marachi, Sosa, and more. Say your prayers and have some breath
mints ready!
This book examines the new institution of divinization that emerged
as a political phenomenon at the end of the Roman Republic with the
deification of Julius Caesar. Michael Koortbojian addresses the
myriad problems related to Caesar's, and subsequently Augustus',
divinization, in a sequence of studies devoted to the complex
character of the new imperial system. These investigations focus on
the broad spectrum of forms - monumental, epigraphic, numismatic,
and those of social ritual - used to represent the most novel
imperial institutions: divinization, a monarchial princeps, and a
hereditary dynasty. Throughout, political and religious iconography
is enlisted to serve in the study of these new Roman institutions,
from their slow emergence to their gradual evolution and finally
their eventual conventionalization.
Jon Hul is one of the most remarkable 'photo-realistic' painters of
pin-up and erotic artwork working today. His paintings fetch huge
gallery prices, but contrary to popular belief, those paintings
don't just 'happen'! Jon draws constantly, both to keep his eye
sharp for detail and expression, and to work out any concepts he
has for a final full-colour illustration. In other words - the boy
goes through a lot of pencils! The magic Hul can perform with the
lowly combination of graphite and paper is showcased for the first
time in "The Jon Hul Sketchbook". An eye-opening presentation of
delightful eye-candy, with many of Jon's favourite models in all
forms of grey-toned delight!
Shows how Charles V used music and ritual to reinforce his image
and status as the most important and powerful sovereign in Europe.
The presentation of Charles V as universal monarch, defender of the
faith, magnanimous peacemaker, and reborn Roman Emperor became the
mission of artists, poets, and chroniclers, who shaped contemporary
perceptions of him and engaged in his political promotion. Music
was equally essential to the making of his image, as this book
shows. It reconstructs musical life at his court, by examining the
compositions which emanated from it, the ordinances prescribing its
rituals and ceremonies, and his prestigious chapel, which reflected
his power and influence. A major contribution, offering new
documentary material and bringing together the widely dispersed
information on the music composed to mark the major events of
Charles's life. It offers.a very useful insight into music as one
of many elements that served to convey the notion of the
emperor-monarch in the Renaissance. TESS KNIGHTON Mary Ferer is
Associate Professor at the College of Creative Arts, West Virginia
University.
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Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was interested in the telling of truths.
Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the
esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen
and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the
blotches, bruises, and swellings of the living body, but also,
beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of
what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence, the
bloom, and the inevitable, unstoppable decay. Despite rejecting
parallels between him and his renowned grandfather, the correlation
between Lucian Freud's sitting process for portraiture and Sigmund
Freud's psychotherapy sessions is a fascinating element to this
figurative oeuvre. Despite the thickness of the impasto surfaces,
Freud's portraits of subjects as varied as the Queen, Kate Moss,
and an obese job center supervisor penetrate the physicality of the
body with a direct and often disarming insight. The result is as
much a psychological interrogation as it is an uneasy examination
of the relationship between artist and model. This book brings
together some of Freud's most outstanding and unapologetic
portraits, to introduce an artist widely considered one of the
finest masters of the human form. About the series Born back in
1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art
book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art
series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and
oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical
importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with
explanatory captions
Ifa Brand never felt satisfied as a model. The dissatisfaction
stemmed from not being able to represent her true identity: 'I fell
"between styles": alternative but not alternative enough; fetish
but not in a typical sense. I also disliked photographers telling
me how I should look, pose, behave; telling me no to red lips, no
to precious lingerie and all the things I loved.' In 2017, she
decided to go her own way. She saw photography as an opportunity to
be her own creative director, to follow her own storylines, and to
explore her own vision of sensuality, eroticism and fetish. Hers is
a quest for personal empowerment through the art of
self-portraiture: 'I find it very important to present a strong,
independent woman. There needs to be an element of being
untouchable. The message to the viewer is: yes you can look but
solely on my terms.'
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.
'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks' In
this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John
Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and
society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and
moving sense of how we make art and how art makes us. One of twenty
new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new
selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped
shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to
prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
A delightful journey through Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Explore
the tourist-magnet town of Intercourse, PA, in full color This
souvenir book will prove a nostaligic tour for all who have been
there, and a motivational force to anyone else. Comes in two
versions, this one with a cover that displays the area, the other
with a novelty cover.
The representation of children in modern European visual culture
has often been marginalized by Art History as sentimental and
trivial. For this reason the subject of childhood in relation to
art and its production has largely been ignored. Confronting this
dismissal, this unique collection of essays raises new and
unexpected issues about the formation of childhood identity in the
nineteenth century and makes a significant contribution to the
development of inter-disciplinary studies within this area. Through
a range of stimulating and insightful case studies, the book charts
the development of the Romantic ideal of childhood, starting with
Rousseau's Emile, and attends to its visual, social and
psychological transformations during the historical period from
which Freud's psychoanalytic theories eventually emerged. Foremost
scholars such as Anne Higonnet, Carol Mavor, Susan Casteras and
Linda A. Pollock uncover the means by which children became an
important conduit for prevailing social anxieties and demonstrate
that the apparently 'timeless' images of them that proliferated at
the time should be understood as complex cultural documents. Over
50 illustrations enhance this rich and fascinating volume.
Commemorating twenty years of manga, FEMME FATALE showcases of all
of the full color artwork from New York Time's Best Selling artist
Shuzo Oshimi. Featuring cover art, posters, promotional materials
and never before translated comics, this is a definitive
compilation of character art from one of the best known manga
artists in the 21st Century. Concept art and promotional
illustrations from FLOWERS OF EVIL, INSIDE MARI, DRIFTING NET CAFE
and BLOOD ON THE RAILS are also included giving readers a deeper
look into Oshimi's processes and artistic mind. This collection
also includes dozens of never before published in English comic
pages that are a must have for Oshimi completionists.
The "Dictionary of Artists' Models" aims to be an extensive
reference work to identify and contextualize the lives and art
history of individual artist's models. Another aim is to provide a
much-needed body of research that can serve both as a reference
tool and also as a springboard for further investigation of this
frequently neglected subject. This dictionary provides information
on over 200 artists' models, from the Renaissance to the present
day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a short biography,
a selected list of further reading, and a signed interpretive
essay. Each essay includes information about the model's life, the
artists that they sat for, and discusses their specific
contribution to the artist's work. These essays, on models as
diverse as Costanza della Sommaia Doni, Cadamour, and Elizabeth
Hollander, and written by experts in their field, should give the
reader a richer understanding of the model's relevance to art
historical study.
This compelling book is the result of a project intended to
visually communicate the hardships endured by Iraqi communities.
Utilizing art materials donated to camps by the Ruya Foundation for
Contemporary Culture in Iraq, these 350 drawings were created by
some of the country's 1.8 million refugees, providing a necessary
outlet for their immense suffering and struggles associated with
being temporarily displaced from their vocations as lawyers,
teachers, farmers, and mothers. Originally presented as an
exhibition at the 2015 Venice Biennale, this publication features a
large group of these drawings exclusively selected by the artist
and activist Ai Weiwei. Harnessing the power of visual art as a
means for both personal expression and socio-political awareness,
this innovative book represents the humanistic effort to provide a
voice for the underrepresented and their unimaginable strife.
Mercatorfonds is donating all profits from the sale of this book to
the refugee camps in Iraq. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
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!
Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine
bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from
professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts
worldwide. Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating
diverse characters, enabling you to explore the processes and
decision making that go into creating amazing characters. Learn new
ways to develop your own ideas, and discover from the artists what
it is like to work for prolific animation studios such as Disney,
Warner Bros., and DreamWorks.
Bruce Colero is an illustrator with an exquisite eye for the
ladies. Especially the sort of sirens who like to indulge in their
darker sides. Colero ups his game for this latest collection
(fourth in the series!), showing just how nasty his nubile nation
can get! CAUTION: blisters ahead!
This book seeks to put the bodies back into modern art. In a series of thematic historical studies, Mirzoeff argues that the perfect body of modern art theory can only exist in visual form. Studies include the work of Picasso, Manet and Madonna.
Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist
approaches to women's art and female representations, this book
challenges the widespread belief that Marxism has nothing valuable
to contribute to women's studies. The author argues that, from the
French Revolution through to the present, gender and class have
shaped visual imagery. She shows how Marxist theory can function to
question some of the premises of feminist art histories and to
provide a more accurate understanding of the meaning(s) of visual
imagery.
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