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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Human figures depicted in art

The Athenian Woman - An Iconographic Handbook (Paperback, New): Sian Lewis The Athenian Woman - An Iconographic Handbook (Paperback, New)
Sian Lewis
R1,411 Discovery Miles 14 110 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Representing Women (Paperback): Linda Nochlin Representing Women (Paperback)
Linda Nochlin
R595 R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Save R57 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women,even absent women - haunt 19th- and 20th-century Western painting: their representation is one of its most common subjects. Representing Women brings together Linda Nochlin's most important writings on the subject, as she considers work by Miller, Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, Seurat, Cassatt and Kollwitz, among many others. In her riveting, partly autobiographical, extended introduction, Nochlin documents her own pioneering approach to art history; throughout the seven essays in this book, she argues for the honest virtues of an art history that rejects methodological assumptions, and for art historians who investigate the work before their eyes while focusing on its subject matter, informed by a sensitivity to its feminist spirit.

Lucian Freud - The Copper Paintings (Hardcover): Martin Gayford, David Scherf Lucian Freud - The Copper Paintings (Hardcover)
Martin Gayford, David Scherf
R1,058 R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Save R96 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Brings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud's oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have never been reproduced before In the early 1950s, Lucian Freud produced several works in oil paint on copper, a technique favored by 17th-century artists such as Rembrandt and Frans Hals, but unusual for a 20th-century painter. Originally thought to be only a handful, Freud in fact painted more than a dozen copper works-all small-scale, enamel-smooth and astonishingly intense. Based on a decade of research, this book, for the first time, brings together all of Freud's "coppers," including two works that have never been reproduced before. Among these paintings is Freud's famous portrait of Francis Bacon, labeled by Nicholas Serota as "the most important portrait of the 20th century." The work was stolen in 1988-its whereabouts still unknown-but during research for the book a rare photograph was discovered that shows the work just minutes before the theft, and it is published here for the first time. Distributed for Less Publishing

Naked Truths - Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology (Paperback, Revised): Natalie Kampen Naked Truths - Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology (Paperback, Revised)
Natalie Kampen; Edited by Ann O Koloski-Ostrow, Claire L. Lyons
R1,541 Discovery Miles 15 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


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

Being Nude - The Skin of Images (Paperback): Jean-Luc Nancy, Federico Ferrari Being Nude - The Skin of Images (Paperback)
Jean-Luc Nancy, Federico Ferrari; Translated by Anne O'Byrne, Carlie Anglemire
R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What does it mean to be nude? What does the nude do? In a series of constantly surprising reflections, Jean-Luc Nancy and Federico Ferrari encounter the nude as an opportunity for thinking in a way that is stripped bare of all received meanings and preconceived forms. In the course of engagements with twenty-six separate images, the authors show how the nudes produced by painters and photographers expose this bareness of thought and leave us naked on the verge of a sense that is always nascent, always fleeting, on the surface of the skin, on the surface of the image. While the nude is a symbol of truth in philosophy and art alike, what the nude definitively and uniquely reveals is unclear. In Being Nude: The Skin of Images, the authors argue that the nude is always presented as both vulnerable in its exposure and shy of conceptualization, giving a sense of the ultimate ineffability of the meaning of being. Although the nude represents the revealed nature of truth, nude figures hold a part of themselves back, keeping in reserve the reality of their history, parts of their present selves, and also their future possibilities for change, development, and demise. Skin is itself a type of clothing, and stripping away exterior layers of fabric does not necessarily lead to grasping the truth. In this way, the difference between being clothed and being nude is diminished. The images that inspire the authors to contemplate the nudity of being show many ways in which one can and cannot be nude, and many ways of being in relation to oneself and to others, clothed and unclothed.

The Kama Sutra (Paperback): Vatsyayana The Kama Sutra (Paperback)
Vatsyayana
R478 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R38 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Bombshells! (Paperback): Sal Quartuccio, Dave Dunstan, Pelaez Bombshells! (Paperback)
Sal Quartuccio, Dave Dunstan, Pelaez
R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Putting the "leather" in Leathernecks and the "Gee" in GI's, SQP is delighted to present a new wing in the vast Gallery Girls museum, this time showcasing the women of wartime! From the naughty nose-art girls of WW2 to the hell-bent hellions of modern combat, Bombshells! contains mega-tons of magnificent warrior maidens, with artists like Pelaez, Mitch Byrd, Pedro Cuevas, J.L. Czerniawski, and a mighty battalion of others! Oh, you'll stand at full attention even while seated, this band of sisters are so hot! Tennnnn HUT! Cover art by Dave Dunstan. 64 pages black and white plus color covers.

Gustav Klimt - Erotic Sketchbook (Hardcover): Norbert Wolf Gustav Klimt - Erotic Sketchbook (Hardcover)
Norbert Wolf
R565 R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Save R137 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Throughout his career, Gustav Klimt completed hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings of delicate beauty, many of them featuring the female form. Designed to imitate an artist's sketchbook, this gorgeous volume reproduces Klimt's most beautiful erotic sketches and watercolors. The experience of viewing them will awaken the senses and afford the reader the guilty pleasure of leafing through an artist's most private visions.

Turner - The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner (Paperback): Franny Moyle Turner - The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner (Paperback)
Franny Moyle 1
R464 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R41 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The man behind the paintings: the extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose to lead in the last years of his life. A near mythical figure in his own lifetime, Franny Moyle tells the story of the man who was considered visionary at best and ludicrous at worst. A resolute adventurer, he found new ways of revealing Britain to the British, astounding his audience with his invention and intelligence. Set against the backdrop of the finest homes in Britain, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, this is an astonishing portrait of one of the most important figures in Western art and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.

Portrait Revolution - Inspiration, Tips and Techniques for Creating Portraits from the Artists of Julia Kay's Portrait... Portrait Revolution - Inspiration, Tips and Techniques for Creating Portraits from the Artists of Julia Kay's Portrait Party (Paperback)
Julia L Kay 1
R599 R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Julia Kay's Portrait Party is an international collaborative project in which artists all over the world make portraits of each other and share them online. After years of exchanging portraits, tips and techniques within the group, in Portrait Revolution these artists are now sharing their art, their words, and their inspiration with everyone who is interested in or would like to get started with portraiture. Here you can find information on using different media, how to handle difficult portrait issues, and more. Portrait Revolution showcases 450 portraits by 200 artists, in a wide variety of media from oil painting to iPad art, watercolour to ballpoint, linocut to mosaic. There are a range of styles from realistic to abstract and interpretations by multiple artists of the same subject.

Sketching from the Imagination: Characters (Paperback): 3DTotal Publishing Sketching from the Imagination: Characters (Paperback)
3DTotal Publishing
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Sketches and drawings are the foundations of great art, where thoughts and concepts first come to life as an image. In Sketching from the Imagination: Characters, fifty talented artists share their sketches, inspirations, and approaches to creating characters. This book is a visually stunning collection packed with useful tips and creative insights--an invaluable resource that will inspire artists of all abilities.

Politics as Painting (Hardcover): Katharina Van Cauteren Politics as Painting (Hardcover)
Katharina Van Cauteren
R3,393 R2,551 Discovery Miles 25 510 Save R842 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 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.

The Anatomical Venus - Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic (Hardcover): Joanna Ebenstein The Anatomical Venus - Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic (Hardcover)
Joanna Ebenstein
R936 R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Save R111 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sablethorne Tattoo Flash - Adult Coloring Book Modern Tattoo Art (Book 3): Adult Coloring Book Modern Tattoo Art (Paperback):... Sablethorne Tattoo Flash - Adult Coloring Book Modern Tattoo Art (Book 3): Adult Coloring Book Modern Tattoo Art (Paperback)
Sablethorne
R519 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Little Big Book of Legs (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Dian Hanson The Little Big Book of Legs (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Dian Hanson
R448 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R44 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Many loved The Big Book of Legs but some found it just too darn big, weighing in at nearly seven pounds. True, it was packed with shapely legs spanning six decades, from the first shy emergence of the ankle in the 1910s, through the rolled stockings and rouged knees of the 1920s, to the Betty Grable '40s, the stockinged and stilettoed '50s, on into the sexually liberated '60s and '70s, but it could still put a dent in your own thighs if you sat reading for too long. Fortunately here at TASCHEN we listen to your groans of agony as well as your moans of ecstasy; thus, this light and portable new edition, packing over 100 of the choicest photos from the original volume, as well as 38 new photos, into a compact (and frankly adorable) package. From Betty Grable to Bettie Page, the greatest legs of the 20th Century can be found within, shot by Irving Klaw, Bunny Yeager, and the incomparable Elmer Batters, father of leg art. There are silk and nylon stockings, high heels in abundance, curvy calves, taut thighs, playful toes and towering arches-with no bothersome text to get in the way. Could leg love get any sweeter?

Sexy Anime Girls Uncensored Coloring Book 3 (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Nick Snels Sexy Anime Girls Uncensored Coloring Book 3 (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Nick Snels
R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Glamourama - The Pin-Up Art of Carlos Valenzuela (Paperback): Carlos Valenzuela Glamourama - The Pin-Up Art of Carlos Valenzuela (Paperback)
Carlos Valenzuela
R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hollywood honeys and classic movie monsters. Sci-Fi femmes and Hammer horror queens. Lady vampires and creatures that go "rub" in the night It's all part of the imagination and twisted joy Carlos Valenzuela brings to every one of his paintings. Bring your own popcorn

Me Myself I (Paperback): Tessa Jackson Me Myself I (Paperback)
Tessa Jackson
R571 R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Save R57 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 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
R955 Discovery Miles 9 550 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

The Complete Book of Poses for Artists - A comprehensive photographic and illustrated reference book for learning to draw more... The Complete Book of Poses for Artists - A comprehensive photographic and illustrated reference book for learning to draw more than 500 poses (Hardcover)
Ken Goldman, Stephanie Goldman
R596 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R81 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 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
R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Ships in 12 - 19 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

Liquid X-Tasy (Hardcover): Jim Fredlund Liquid X-Tasy (Hardcover)
Jim Fredlund
R765 R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Save R48 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Text in English & German. As a photographer, the challenge is in capturing the very moment that a fluid substance interacts with the body in a way that will take the viewer on a sensual adventure, inviting not only to their visual sense but also invoking sensations of touch, taste, and imagination. When successful, the result is a unique moment frozen in time, never to be repeated. The result is photographic imagery that is sensual, provocative and erotic. Living close to Washington DC, Jim spent many years photographing landscapes, monuments, masonry and still lifes, and his stunning images have adorned the offices of doctors, lawyers and dentists. It was not until his daughter requested Jim capture a few maternity images for her that he turned his sights to portrait photography. With this new found passion, Jim completely immersed himself in the study of lighting, posing, and the business of photography, and soon found himself perfecting what was quickly becoming his specialised genre, the fine art nude. Always striving to aim higher, to always improve, and, yes, to push the envelope even further. When asked to pick his best image, Jim says "the best is yet to come".

A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Wilton House (Hardcover): Francis Russell A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Wilton House (Hardcover)
Francis Russell
R2,592 Discovery Miles 25 920 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The collection of pictures at Wilton has been celebrated since the seventeenth century; and its historic arrangement is uniquely well documented in a series of catalogues of which the first, issued in 1731, was the earliest such publication about any private collection in England. Of successive owners of the house, three made significant contributions: William, 4th Earl of Pembroke, who commissioned van Dyck's monumental portrait of his family that dominates the Double Cube Room he had created; his grandson, Thomas, 8th Earl of Pembroke who assembled what was in some respects a pioneering collection of old master pictures for the house; and his grandson, Henry, 10th Earl of Pembroke, patron of Reynolds and Wilson, among others. Such masterpieces as Lucas van Leyden's Card Players, Cesare da Sesto's Leda - long attributed to Leonardo - and Ribera's Democritus are matched by remarkable portrait drawings by Raphael and Holbein. These are complemented by a substantial deposit of family portraits and other pictures that attest to the tastes and interests of successive generations of the Herbert family.

Ugo Mulas: Creative Intersections (Hardcover): Ugo Mulas Ugo Mulas: Creative Intersections (Hardcover)
Ugo Mulas
R1,755 R1,420 Discovery Miles 14 200 Save R335 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Peep Show - Uncensored & Beautifully S:e:x:y (Hardcover): Goliath Books Peep Show - Uncensored & Beautifully S:e:x:y (Hardcover)
Goliath Books
R1,348 R1,095 Discovery Miles 10 950 Save R253 (19%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
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