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Bourgery. Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Jean-Marie Le Minor,... Bourgery. Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Jean-Marie Le Minor, Henri Sick
R2,704 R2,249 Discovery Miles 22 490 Save R455 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published. Bourgery began work on his magnificent atlas in 1830 in cooperation with illustrator Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782-1871), a student of the French painter Jacques Louis David. The first volumes were published the following year, but completion of the treatise required nearly two decades of dedication; Bourgery lived just long enough to finish his labor of love, but the last of the treatise's eight volumes was not published in its entirety until five years after his death. The eight volumes of Bourgery's treatise cover descriptive anatomy, surgical anatomy and techniques (exploring in detail nearly all the major operations that were performed during the first half of the 19th century), general anatomy and embryology, and microscopic anatomy. Jacob's spectacular hand-colored lithographs are remarkable for their clarity, color, and aesthetic appeal, reflecting a combination of direct laboratory observation and illustrative research. Unsurpassed to this day, the images offer exceptional anatomical insight, not only for those in the medical field but also for artists, students, and anyone interested in the workings and wonder of the human body.

Art Studio: Faces & Features - More than 50 projects and techniques for drawing and painting heads, faces, and features in... Art Studio: Faces & Features - More than 50 projects and techniques for drawing and painting heads, faces, and features in pencil, acrylic, watercolor, and more! (Paperback)
Walter Foster Creative Team 1
R424 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Save R99 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Vincent's Portraits - Paintings and Drawings by Van Gogh (Hardcover): Ralph Skea Vincent's Portraits - Paintings and Drawings by Van Gogh (Hardcover)
Ralph Skea
R412 R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Save R39 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite his posthumous fame as a painter of flowers, still-lifes, gardens, landscapes and city scenes, during his lifetime Vincent van Gogh believed that his portraits constituted his most important works. Although as an artist he was `touched by so many different things', he was nevertheless committed to the art of portraiture - a quality that distinguished him from his contemporaries. Van Gogh was passionate in his avoidance of bland, photographic resemblances, in the hope of capturing the essential character of his models by means of expressive colour and brushwork. Showcasing a dramatic set of portraits created during Van Gogh's ten-year career, this book reflects the strong visual impact with which the artist captured the diversity of contemporary life. In his many portraits, we can discern the artist's desire to record expressively a number of themes, from the plight of the agricultural workers in his native Brabant and the destitution of prostitutes and their children in urban Europe, to the lives of his cosmopolitan acquaintances in Paris, including cafe owners and art dealers. It was here that he began his remarkable sequence of self-portraits. With reference to Van Gogh's extensive correspondence, Skea elaborates how the artist perceived his chosen subjects as would a writer, and how he felt that his portraits should somehow evoke what he considered to be the spiritual underpinning of human existence

Couples and Girls Love Sex (German, French, Hardcover): Joaquin Castello Gilbert Couples and Girls Love Sex (German, French, Hardcover)
Joaquin Castello Gilbert
R2,098 R1,677 Discovery Miles 16 770 Save R421 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Wet & Wild! (Paperback): Sal Quartuccio, Mitch Byrd, Brian Leblanc Wet & Wild! (Paperback)
Sal Quartuccio, Mitch Byrd, Brian Leblanc
R249 R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Moist fun. Sudsy joy. Slippery when amused. You put any combination of H2O and females frolicking, and you are going to have a good time! In the latest Gallery Girl collection, we assembled a swim team of artists who know their way around the hot tub, the pool, the beach, the riverbank, the bath -- well, you get the idea! Girls galore -- just add water! Illustrations by Mitch Byrd, Maraschi, Cirulli, Perez, Guida, Brian LeBlanc, and many more! This will be a VERY Adult Swim! Don't forget your snorkel!

Godefridus Schalcken - A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune (Hardcover): Wayne Franits Godefridus Schalcken - A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune (Hardcover)
Wayne Franits
R1,724 Discovery Miles 17 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune is the first book in English dedicated to the entire artistic output of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Godefridus Schalcken (1643-1706). It examines the artist's paintings and career trajectory against the background of his ceaseless pursuit of fame and fortune. Combining a comprehensive analysis of Schalcken's artistic development and style with our increasing biographical knowledge, it provides an authoritative overview of Schalcken's ample production as an artist. It also integrates his art into the circumstances of his life in relation to his ambitious career aspirations, exploring how economic conditions, a concomitantly oversaturated art market, talent and ambition, demographics, and even sheer luck all played a role in Schalcken's great professional success. Since Schalcken's art, like that of all Dutch painters, provides a plethora of information about seventeenth-century culture-its predilections, its prejudices, indeed, its very mind-set-the book inevitably links his work to the broader socio-cultural contexts in which it was created.

God-or Gorilla - Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age (Paperback): Constance A. Clark God-or Gorilla - Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age (Paperback)
Constance A. Clark
R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As scholars debate the most appropriate way to teach evolutionary theory, Constance Areson Clark provides an intriguing reflection on similar debates in the not-too-distant past. Set against the backdrop of the Jazz Age, God-or Gorilla explores the efforts of biologists to explain evolution to a confused and conflicted public during the 1920s. Focusing on the use of images and popularization, Clark shows how scientists and anti-evolutionists deployed schematics, cartoons, photographs, sculptures, and paintings to win the battle for public acceptance. She uses representative illustrations and popular media accounts of the struggle to reveal how concepts of evolutionary theory changed as they were presented to, and absorbed into, popular culture. Engagingly written and deftly argued, God-or Gorilla offers original insights into the role of images in communicating-and miscommunicating-scientific ideas to the lay public.

Painting Portraits in Acrylics - A Practical Guide to Contemporary Portraiture (Paperback): Hashim Akib Painting Portraits in Acrylics - A Practical Guide to Contemporary Portraiture (Paperback)
Hashim Akib 2
R480 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Save R82 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Award-winning artist Hashim Akib's striking portraits are at the heart of this inspirational book. The subject of portraiture is seen by many as the zenith of art, and Hash's easygoing, unpretentious style puts fantastic results within the reach of hobby artists and aspiring professionals alike. Assuming nothing and starting from the basics - making it suitable even for the enthusiastic beginner - this book includes six step-by-step projects to follow; along with friendly but in-depth advice on colour palettes; skintone; composition; working from photographs and models; markmaking; lighting; atmosphere and much more. The book covers many types of portraiture - from the self-portrait to full-length portraits - all presented in Hash's striking, free and contemporary style.

Politics as Painting (Hardcover): Katharina Van Cauteren Politics as Painting (Hardcover)
Katharina Van Cauteren
R3,393 R2,479 Discovery Miles 24 790 Save R914 (27%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Apart from a handful of art historians no one has ever heard of the Brussels painter Hendrick De Clerck (1560-1630). Nevertheless, De Clerck was a contemporary of Peter Paul Rubens, the latter having gone down in history as an artistic trailblazer and painting powerhouse, while Hendrick De Clerck has quietly faded into oblivion. Yet the subtly coded, vibrantly coloured pictures that De Clerck painted for Archduke Albert of Austria and his wife Isabella are political propaganda of the highest order. In creating a mode of archducal representation that could help to gain an empire, the sky is quite literally the limit. De Clerck represents Isabella as wise Minerva, chaste Diana, the Virgin Mary. And that's nothing compared to her husband, for in De Clerck's paintings Albert is transformed into the sun god Apollo or even into Jesus Christ himself. Hendrick De Clerck's mastery of ingenious pictorial strategy made him a leading player in one of the most ambitious projects history has ever seen. For those who know how to read them, his paintings tell a story of power, political promises, and grandiose ambition. Most of all, they are supreme examples of image-building; for as the Archdukes were well aware, even as a monarch you're only as important as you make yourself.

Bathers, Bodies, Beauty - The Visceral Eye (Hardcover): Linda Nochlin Bathers, Bodies, Beauty - The Visceral Eye (Hardcover)
Linda Nochlin
R881 R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Save R95 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

To the eye of some viewers, Renoir's "Great Bathers" are the very picture of female sensuality and beauty. To others, they embody a whole tradition of masculine mastery and feminine display. Yet others find in the bathers a feminine fantasy of bodily liberation. The points of view are many, various, occasionally startling--and through them, Linda Nochlin explores the contradictions and dissonances that mark experience as well as art. Her book--about art, the body, beauty, and ways of viewing--confronts the issues posed in representations particularly of the female body in the art of impressionists, modern masters, and contemporary realists and post-modernists.

Nochlin begins by focusing on the painterly preoccupation with bathing, whether at the beach, in lakes and rivers, in public swimming pools, or in bathtubs. In discussions of Renoir, Manet, Cezanne, Bonnard, and Picasso, of late-twentieth-century and contemporary artists such as Philip Pearlstein, Alice Neel, and Jenny Saville, of grotesque imagery, the concept of beauty, and the body in realism, she develops an interpretive collage incorporating the readings of differing, strong-willed, female viewpoints. Among these is, of course, Nochlin's own, a vantage point subtly charted here through a longtime engagement with art, art history, and artists.

In many ways a personal book, "Bathers, Bodies, Beauty" brings to bear a lifetime of looking at, teaching, talking about, wrestling with, loving, and hating art to reveal and complicate the lived and felt--the visceral--experience of art.

Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body (Hardcover): Phaidon Editors Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body (Hardcover)
Phaidon Editors; Introduction by Thomas Schnalke; Contributions by Dame Sue Black 1
R1,532 R1,087 Discovery Miles 10 870 Save R445 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A stunning tribute to our eternal fascination with the human body – and the latest in the bestselling 'Explorer' Collection

Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body is a visually compelling survey of more than 5,000 years of image-making. Through 300 remarkable works, selected and curated by an international panel of anatomists, curators, academics, and specialists, the book chronicles the intriguing visual history of human anatomy, showcasing its amazing complexity and our ongoing fascination with the systems and functions of our bodies. Exploring individual parts of the human body from head to toe, and revealing the intricate functions of body systems, such as the nerves, muscles, organs, digestive system, brain, and senses, this authoritative book presents iconic examples alongside rarely seen, breathtaking works. The 300 entries are arranged with juxtapositions of contrasting and complementary illustrations to allow for thought-provoking, lively, and stimulating reading.

The Athenian Woman - An Iconographic Handbook (Paperback, New): Sian Lewis The Athenian Woman - An Iconographic Handbook (Paperback, New)
Sian Lewis
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Ceramics are an unparalleled resource for women's lives in ancient Greece, since they show a huge number of female types and activities. Yet it can be difficult to interpret the meanings of these images, especially when they seem to conflict with literary sources. This much-needed study shows that it is vital to see the vases as archaeology as well as art, since context is the key to understanding which images can stand as evidence for the real lives of women, and which should be reassessed.
Sian Lewis considers the full range of female existence in classical Greece - childhood and old age, unfree and foreign status, and the ageless woman characteristic of Athenian red-figure painting.

Empowered Embroidery, Volume 3 - Transform sketches into embroidery patterns and stitch strong, iconic women from the past and... Empowered Embroidery, Volume 3 - Transform sketches into embroidery patterns and stitch strong, iconic women from the past and present (Paperback)
Amy L. Frazer
R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Peter Hujar Curated by Elton John (Hardcover): Peter Hujar Peter Hujar Curated by Elton John (Hardcover)
Peter Hujar; Introduction by Elton John
R1,711 R1,353 Discovery Miles 13 530 Save R358 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fundamentals of Character Design - How to Create Engaging Characters for Illustration, Animation & Visual Development... Fundamentals of Character Design - How to Create Engaging Characters for Illustration, Animation & Visual Development (Paperback)
Publishing 3DTotal
R1,017 R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Save R156 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is it about the characters we see in our favorite books, animated films, and games that make us laugh, cry, and respond to them? How do character designers develop ideas that are unique, memorable, and captivate us as an audience? This book answers these questions and more, taking a comprehensive, visual, and analytical approach to discover just what it is that makes a character appealing. Understand key principles like shape language, proportion, and exaggeration, and learn from talented professionals who share industry secrets for getting the most out of anatomy, gesture, expression, and costume. Uncover ways to convey relationships and interaction between multiple characters, and how narrative fuels authentic and engaging characterization. With hundreds of lively illustrations to inspire and study, and tricks of the trade from celebrated artists, this thorough and insightful volume is an essential library addition for anyone interested in character design.

Henry James Framed - Material Representations of the Master (Hardcover): Michael Anesko Henry James Framed - Material Representations of the Master (Hardcover)
Michael Anesko
R1,429 Discovery Miles 14 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Henry James Framed is a cultural history of Henry James as a work of art. Throughout his life, James demonstrated an abiding interest in-some would say an obsession with-the visual arts. In his most influential testaments about the art of fiction, James frequently invoked a deeply felt analogy between imaginative writing and painting. At a time when having a photographic carte de visite was an expected social commonplace, James detested the necessity of replenishing his supply or of distributing his autographed image to well-wishing friends and imploring readers. Yet for a man who set the highest premium on personal privacy, James seems to have had few reservations about serving as a model for artists in other media and sat for his portrait a remarkable number of twenty-four times. Surprisingly few James scholars have brought into primary focus those occasions when the author was not writing about art but instead became art himself, through the creative expression of another's talent. To better understand the twenty-four occasions he sat for others to represent him, Michael Anesko reconstructs the specific contexts for these works' coming into being, assesses James's relationships with his artists and patrons, documents his judgments concerning the objects produced, and, insofar as possible, traces the later provenance of each of them. James's long-established intimacy with the studio world deepened his understanding of the complex relationship between the artist and his sitter. James insisted above all that a portrait was a revelation of two realities: the man whom it was the artist's conscious effort to reveal and the artist, or interpreter, expressed in the very quality and temper of that effort. The product offered a double vision-the strongest dose of life that art could give, and the strongest dose of art that life could give.

Helmut Newton: Portraits (Hardcover): Helmut Newton, Klaus Honnef, Carol Squiers Helmut Newton: Portraits (Hardcover)
Helmut Newton, Klaus Honnef, Carol Squiers
R1,468 R1,304 Discovery Miles 13 040 Save R164 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Newton's collection of portraits from the worlds of film, fashion, politics, and culture can be considered a pantheon of VIPs. But his work is a lot more besides. From his portraits, one can see that he would have most liked to be a Roman paparazzo--as he once admitted. Anyone who had a portrait made by him knew what the result would by, and by the 1980s there were absolutely no 'beautiful people' in this world who did not want to be photographed by him! In front of his camera, both men and women peeled off their covers--literally as well as figuratively. His brilliant staged creations celebrate the attractiveness and prominence of his models as well as their vanity and imperfections. Newton's top-quality work for major fashion journals and elitist art magazines is likewise first-class erotic art. This collection was first published by us in 1985.

Sci-Fi Fashion Art School - How to draw science fiction action looks, styles and scenes (Paperback): Irene Flores, Ashly Raiti Sci-Fi Fashion Art School - How to draw science fiction action looks, styles and scenes (Paperback)
Irene Flores, Ashly Raiti
R587 R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Save R137 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From post-apocalyptic Earth to extraterrestrial civilizations, get ready to explore the farthest reaches of your imagination and evoke your own original sci-fi worlds. With Sci-Fi Fashion Art School you will learn to draw everything from scavenger-wear and exosuits to alien garb and space explorer uniforms. Starting with simple guidelines, you'll discover how to create distinct characters just by varying facial features, body mass and hair. Beyond the mechanics of drawing, you'll learn to make strategic creative choices by asking questions like: What drives your characters? Do they dress for survival or social status? What materials are at their disposal? The answers help you develop fashions, weapons and accessories uniquely suited to the environmental and cultural conditions of your particular world. The Sci-Fi genre has no limits. With the instruction and inspiration inside, neither will you.

Modern Urban Girls (German, Paperback): Stefan Soell Modern Urban Girls (German, Paperback)
Stefan Soell
R556 Discovery Miles 5 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Naked Girls Club - English Edition (Hardcover): Mikhail Paramonov Naked Girls Club - English Edition (Hardcover)
Mikhail Paramonov
R1,361 R1,065 Discovery Miles 10 650 Save R296 (22%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Sex and the Floating World - Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Timon Screech Sex and the Floating World - Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Timon Screech
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of Timon Screech's definitive "Sex and the Floating World" offers a real assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints today known as shunga. Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many shunga picture-books have since appeared. There has, however, been very little attempt to situate the imagery within the contexts of sexuality, gender or power. Questions of aesthetics, and of whether shunga deserve a place in the official history of Japanese art, have dominated, and the question of the use of these images has been avoided. Timon Screech seeks to re-establish shunga in a proper historical frame of culture and creativity. Shunga prints are not like any other form of picture for the simple fact that they are overtly about sex. And once we begin to examine them first and foremost as sexual apparatus, then we must be prepared for some surprises. The author opens up for us the strange world of sexual fantasy in the Edo culture of eighteenth-century Japan, and investigates the tensions in class and gender of those that made and made use of shunga.

Golden Shower Girl 2 - She loves to piss for fun (German, French, Hardcover): Luis Durante Golden Shower Girl 2 - She loves to piss for fun (German, French, Hardcover)
Luis Durante
R1,679 Discovery Miles 16 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Anatomy for the Artist - A Complete Guide to Drawing the Human Body (Paperback): Jennifer Crouch Anatomy for the Artist - A Complete Guide to Drawing the Human Body (Paperback)
Jennifer Crouch
R629 R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Save R91 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Kama Sutra (Paperback): Vatsyayana The Kama Sutra (Paperback)
Vatsyayana
R478 R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Save R102 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
An Inventory of Shimmers - Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art (Hardcover): Henriette Huldisch An Inventory of Shimmers - Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
Henriette Huldisch; Contributions by Eugenie Brinkema, Johanna Burton, Emily Watlington
R847 R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Save R215 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Affect is an essentially indefinable, largely non-conscious quality that correlates to the experience of diverse emotional and physiological states. This exciting book examines the idea of affect in art. Drawing from an international cadre of contemporary artists working in a variety of media, this book addresses the question of how bodies are affected by intimate relationships with and through objects. The book investigates the kinds of intimate relationships we form with art; explores how art acts as a vehicle for affective engagement or transactions of desire; what role gender plays in affect; and how we experience this force in works of art.

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