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Dave Nestler's Bad Girls Club - Drawn to Misbehave (Paperback): Dave Nestler Dave Nestler's Bad Girls Club - Drawn to Misbehave (Paperback)
Dave Nestler
R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An all-new compendium of cut-throat cuties from the ample imagination of the ever-devilish Dave Nestler! His eye for beauties and iconic approach to illustration make him the go-to guy for modern day pin-up perfection! First rule of Bad Girl Club? Buy the book!

Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914 (Paperback): Temma Balducci Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914 (Paperback)
Temma Balducci
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing on images of or produced by well-to-do nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant to easy codification vis-A -vis the public. Attending to various iterations of the public as space, sphere and discourse, sixteen essays challenge the false binary construct that has held the public as the sole preserve of prosperous men. By contrast, the essays collected in Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914 demonstrate that definitions of both femininity and the public were mutually defining and constantly shifting. In examining the relationship between affluent women, femininity and the public, the essays gathered here consider works by an array of artists that includes canonical ones such as Mary Cassatt and FranAois Gerard as well as understudied women artists including Louise Abbema and Broncia Koller. The essays also consider works in a range of media from fashion prints and paintings to private journals and architectural designs, facilitating an analysis of femininity in public across the cultural production of the period. Various European centers, including Madrid, Florence, Paris, Brittany, Berlin and London, emerge as crucial sites of production for genteel femininity, providing a long-overdue rethinking of modern femininity in the public sphere.

Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art - Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas... Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art - Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas (Paperback)
Erin E. Benay
R1,424 Discovery Miles 14 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. This book reconsiders depictions of the ambiguous encounter of Mary Magdalene and Christ in the garden (John 20:11-19, known as the Noli me tangere) and that of Christ's post-Resurrection appearance to Thomas (John 20:24-29, the Doubting Thomas) as manifestations of complex theological and art theoretical milieus. By focusing on key artistic monuments of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods, the authors demonstrate a relationship between the rise of skeptical philosophy and empirical science, and the efficacy of the senses in the construction of belief. Further, the authors elucidate the differing representational strategies employed by artists to depict touch, and the ways in which these strategies were shaped by gender, social class, and educational level. Indeed, over time St. Thomas became an increasingly public--and therefore masculine--symbol of devotional verification, juridical inquiry, and empirical investigation, while St. Mary Magdalene provided a more private model for pious women, celebrating, mostly behind closed doors, the privileged and active participation of women in the faith. The authors rely on primary source material--paintings, sculptures, religious tracts, hagiography, popular sermons, and new documentary evidence. By reuniting their visual examples with important, often little-known textual sources, the authors reveal a complex relationship between visual imagery, the senses, contemporary attitudes toward gender, and the shaping of belief. Further, they add greater nuance to our understanding of the relationship between popular piety and the visual culture of the period.

Likeness and Presence - A History of the Image before the Era of Art (Paperback, New Ed): Hans Belting Likeness and Presence - A History of the Image before the Era of Art (Paperback, New Ed)
Hans Belting; Translated by Edmund Jephcott
R2,034 Discovery Miles 20 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images - the only independent images then in existence - were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration. The faithful believed that these images, through their likeness to the person represented, became a tangible presence of the Holy and were able to work miracles, deliver oracles, and bring victory on the battlefield. In this magisterial book, one of the world's leading scholars of medieval art traces the long history of the image and its changing role in European culture. Belting's study of the iconic portrait opens in late antiquity, when Christianity reversed its original ban on images, adapted the cult images of the "pagans", and began developing an iconography of its own. The heart of the work focuses on the Middle Ages, both East and West, when images of God and the saints underwent many significant changes either as icons or as statues. The final section of Likeness and Presence surveys the Reformation and Renaissance periods, when new attitudes toward images inaugurated what Belting calls the "era of art" that continues to the present day - an era during which the aesthetic quality has become the dominant aspect of the image. Belting neither "explains" images nor pretends that images explain themselves. Rather, he works from the conviction that images reveal their meaning best by their use. Likeness and Presence deals with the beliefs, superstitions, hopes, and fears that come into play as people handle and respond to sacred images. Recognizing the tensions between image and word inherent in religion, Belting includes in an appendix many important historical documents that relate to the history and use of images. Profuselyillustrated, Likeness and Presence presents a compelling interpretation of the place of the image in Western history.

The Art of Urban Sketching - Drawing On Location Around The World (Paperback): Gabriel Campanario The Art of Urban Sketching - Drawing On Location Around The World (Paperback)
Gabriel Campanario
R591 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R95 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Art of Urban Sketching is both a comprehensive guide and a showcase of location drawings by artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel. Authored by the founder of the nonprofit organization Urban Sketchers (www.urbansketchers.org), this beautiful, 320-page volume explains urban sketching within the context of a long historical tradition and how it is being practiced today. With profiles of leading practitioners and discussions of the benefits of working in this art form, this inspiring book shows how one can participate and experience this creative outlet through modern-day social networks and online activity. You'll find more than 600 beautiful, contemporary illustrations, as well as artists' profiles and extended captions where these urban sketchers share their stories, how they work, sketching tips, and the tools behind each drawing. With sketches and observations from more than 50 cities in more than 30 countries, The Art of Urban Sketching offers a visually arresting, storytelling take on urban life from different cultures and artistic styles, as well as insight into various drawing techniques and mediums.

Anatomy for Artists - A visual guide to the human form (Hardcover): 3DTotal Publishing Anatomy for Artists - A visual guide to the human form (Hardcover)
3DTotal Publishing 1
R994 Discovery Miles 9 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Animals Real and Imagined - The Fantasy of What Is and What Might Be (Hardcover): Terryl Whitlatch, Gilbert Banducci Animals Real and Imagined - The Fantasy of What Is and What Might Be (Hardcover)
Terryl Whitlatch, Gilbert Banducci
R1,370 R1,109 Discovery Miles 11 090 Save R261 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A fantastic visual voyage into the world of animals, both real and imagined. There is no end to the diverse and unique creatures that Terryl Whitlatch creates for us with her solid knowledge of anatomy and boundless imagination. Especially intriguing are the 100s of anatomical notes that are dispersed among her sketches, educating and enlightening us to the foundation of living bodies and their mechanics.

Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North - Climate Change and Nature in Art (Paperback): Gry Hedin, Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North - Climate Change and Nature in Art (Paperback)
Gry Hedin, Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven chapters, which focus on art from 1780 to the present that engages with Nordic landscapes, argue that a number of artists in this period work in the intersection between art, science, and media technologies to examine the human impact on these landscapes and question the blurred boundaries between nature and the human. Canadian artists such as Lawren Harris and Geronimo Inutiq are considered alongside artists from Scandinavia and Iceland such as J.C. Dahl, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Toril Johannessen, and Bjoerk.

Watercolor Painting at Home, Volume 1 - Easy-to-follow painting projects inspired by the comforts of home and the colors of the... Watercolor Painting at Home, Volume 1 - Easy-to-follow painting projects inspired by the comforts of home and the colors of the garden (Paperback)
Bley Hack
R380 R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Save R45 (12%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days
Art, Sex and Eugenics - Corpus Delecti (Paperback): Anthea Callen Art, Sex and Eugenics - Corpus Delecti (Paperback)
Anthea Callen
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book reveals how art and sex promoted the desire for the genetically perfect body. Its eight chapters demonstrate that before eugenics was stigmatized by the Holocaust and Western histories were sanitized of its prevalence, a vast array of Western politicians, physicians, eugenic societies, family leagues, health associations, laboratories and museums advocated, through verbal and visual cultures, the breeding of 'the master race'. Each chapter illustrates the uncanny resemblances between models of sexual management and the perfect eugenic body in America, Britain, France, Communist Russia and Nazi Germany both before and after the Second World War. Traced back to the eighteenth-century anatomy lesson, the perfect eugenic body is revealed as athletic, hygienic, 'pure-blooded' and sexually potent. This paradigm is shown to have persisted as much during the Bolshevik sexual revolution, as in democratic nations and fascist regimes. Consistently posed naked, these images were unashamedly exhibitionist and voyeuristic. Despite stringent legislation against obscenity, not only were these images commended for soliciting the spectator's gaze but also for motivating the spectator to act out their desire. An examination of the counter-archives of Maori and African Americans also exposes how biologically racist eugenics could be equally challenged by art. Ultimately this book establishes that art inculcated procreative sex with the Corpus Delecti - the delectable body, healthy, wholesome and sanctioned by eugenicists for improving the Western race.

Present Concerns - Journalistic Essays (Paperback): C. S. Lewis Present Concerns - Journalistic Essays (Paperback)
C. S. Lewis
R327 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R59 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Hare and the Moon - A Book of Paintings (Hardcover): Catherine Hyde The Hare and the Moon - A Book of Paintings (Hardcover)
Catherine Hyde 1
R481 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Save R83 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

An exquisite, full colour country almanac by artist Catherine Hyde, following the phases of the moon and a hare's journey throughout the twelve months of the year in a lyrical tribute to the natural world.

Waking from the winter solstice a hare begins her journey. Through the landscape and its changing seasons, moving in harmony with the moon. Atmospheric and gorgeous paintings show the hare running in January, watching in February, leaping in March, until it comes full circle, sleeping in December.

Twelve double page paintings of the hare's journey are accompanied by full pages of art, showing a tree, a flower and a bird for each month of the year. This rich celebration of flora, fauna and country life includes hawthorn and cowslips, swallows, blackbirds, buzzards and owls, harebells, holly, olive, rowan, poppies and much more. Titbits of text folklore, fairytale, myth and legend complement the art complete this desirable gift book.

Zen Garden Design - Mindful Spaces by Shunmyo Masuno - Japan's Leading Garden Designer (Hardcover): Locher, Masuno Zen Garden Design - Mindful Spaces by Shunmyo Masuno - Japan's Leading Garden Designer (Hardcover)
Locher, Masuno; Foreword by Fujimori
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Zen Buddhist priest Shunmyo Masuno understands that today's busy world leaves little time or space for self-reflection, but that a garden--even in the most urban of spaces--can provide some respite. In his words, "The garden is a special spiritual place where the mind dwells." With this in mind, Masuno has designed scores of spectacular Japanese gardens and landscapes with the aim of helping people achieve a balanced life in the 21st century. This book explores Masuno's design process and ideas, which are integral to his daily Zen training and teachings. It features 15 unique gardens and contemplative landscapes completed in six countries over as many years--all thoughtfully described and documented in full-color photos and drawings. Readers will also find insights on Masuno's philosophy of garden design and a conversation between the designer and famed architect Terunobu Fujimori. Zen Garden Design provides an in-depth examination of Masuno's gardens and landscapes--not just as beautiful spaces, but as places for meditation and contemplation.

The Male Nude (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): David Leddick The Male Nude (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
David Leddick
R674 R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Save R107 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

While the female nude has long played a conspicuous role in western iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such attention, or acceptance. This ode to the male physique celebrates the evolving, at one time illicit, art form from anonymous 19th century erotica through to contemporary work from David Hockney and Duane Michaels. Through the classic, the playful, and the provocative, it explores the compositions, postures, and role-playing of this often under-explored genre. Esteemed masters such as Herbert List, George Platt Lynes or Robert Mapplethorpe are all there, alongside Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, famed for his homoerotic images of nude youths in classical postures in Sicily. Further highlights include illustrations from Physique Pictorial, the leading organ of the mid-50s gay scene and a pioneer in gay publishing. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!

An Intimate Distance - Women, Artists and the Body (Paperback): Rosemary Betterton An Intimate Distance - Women, Artists and the Body (Paperback)
Rosemary Betterton
R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, consumption and sex. A feminist reclamation of these images suggests how the permeable boundaries between the female body and technology, nature and culture are being crossed in the work of women artists.

eBook available with sample pages: HB:041511084X

Tom of Finland XXL (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): John Waters, Camille Paglia, Todd Oldham,... Tom of Finland XXL (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
John Waters, Camille Paglia, Todd Oldham, Armistead Maupin, Edward Lucie-Smith; Edited by …
R2,005 Discovery Miles 20 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, enjoyed an intense cult following in the international gay community but was largely unknown to a broader audience. In 2009, TASCHEN followed up with the ultimate Tom overview: Tom of Finland XXL, a beautiful big collector's edition with over 1,000 images, covering six decades of the artist's career. The work was gathered from collections across the United States and Europe with the help of the Tom of Finland Foundation, featuring many drawings, paintings, and sketches never previously reproduced. Other images had only been seen out of context and were finally presented in the sequential order Tom intended for full artistic appreciation and erotic impact. The elegant oversized volume showed the full range of Tom's talent, from sensitive portraits to frank sexual pleasure to tender expressions of love and haunting tributes to young men struck down by AIDS, and was completed by eight commissioned essays on Tom's social and personal impact by Camille Paglia, John Waters, Armistead Maupin, Todd Oldham, and others, plus a scholarly analysis of individual drawings by art historian Edward Lucie-Smith. The only thing missing from Tom of Finland XXL was a widely affordable price tag-until now. The new Tom of Finland XXL is still big enough to work your biceps, and includes all of the original content, but costs a fraction of the original price. You're welcome.

Early Christians and Animals (Paperback): Robert M. Grant Early Christians and Animals (Paperback)
Robert M. Grant
R1,621 Discovery Miles 16 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Early Christians and Animals presents a lively study of the significance of animals in early Christian thought, tradition, text and art. Robert M. Grant: * examines the diverse and often conflicting sources, from the pagan antecedents Aristotle and Pliny, to Biblical animal references and the Church fathers * provides fresh translations of key texts concerning animals - the Physiologus, Basils homilies and Isidores chapters.

The Beginner's Guide to Photographing Birds - Essential Techniques for Hobbyists and Bird Lovers (Paperback): Rosl Roessner The Beginner's Guide to Photographing Birds - Essential Techniques for Hobbyists and Bird Lovers (Paperback)
Rosl Roessner
R902 R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Save R177 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Whether you're a dedicated and serious birder, a hobbyist bird watcher, or simply a lover of nature, getting great photos of birds is at the top of the list for bird lovers of all kinds. In this book, professional photographer Rosl Rossner teaches you all of her techniques, tips, and tricks for capturing fantastic bird photographs. Starting with the gear you'll need, Rossner discusses cameras, tripods, lenses, and more. She then moves on to finding the birds you want to photograph. While this includes locations out in the wild, she also covers zoos, parks, sanctuaries, and other easily accessible spots-which are especially great for beginning bird photographers. Rossner then thoroughly covers the camera and shooting techniques you need to know, including key lessons on exposure, composition, focus, and sharpness. Regardless of the quality of the light (front light, side light, etc.) or the season you're shooting in (rain, snow, fog), Rossner's got you covered. In the final part of the book, Rossner takes you behind the scenes of 25 unique bird photographs, telling you how the image came about, plus any specific tips and tricks that were used to create the image. Featuring birds from around the world, The Beginner's Guide to Photographing Birds is a beautiful, helpful, and accessible guide for anyone getting started in bird photography.

British Wildlife Photography Awards 8 (Hardcover): Maggie Gowan British Wildlife Photography Awards 8 (Hardcover)
Maggie Gowan
R831 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R246 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This dazzling collection showcases the very best of the British Wildlife Photography Awards, presenting over 150 of the winning, commended and shortlisted images from the 2017 competition. Featuring a range of photography from world-leading professionals as well as inspired amateurs, it is a book that captures the magnificent diversity of the British Isles. British Wildiife Photography Awards is divided into the competition's fifteen categories, from Animal Portraits through to the Young People's Awards. Every photograph is beautifully reproduced in a large format, with detailed technical information alongside the photographer's personal account, to appeal to both photographers and natural historians.

Classic Human Anatomy in Motion (Hardcover): V Winslow Classic Human Anatomy in Motion (Hardcover)
V Winslow
R1,120 R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Save R360 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Written by a long-time expert on drawing and painting human anatomy, Classic Human Anatomy in Motion offers artists everything they need to realistically draw the human figure as it is affected by movement. Written in a friendly style, the book is illustrated with hundreds of life drawing studies (both quick poses and long studies), along with charts and diagrams showing the various anatomical and structural components. This comprehensive manual features five distinct sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the human figure: bones and joint movement, muscle groups, surface form and soft tissue characteristics, structure, and movement. Each chapter builds an artistic understanding of how motion transforms the human figure and can create a sense of expressive vibrancy in one's art.

Experiencing the Last Judgement (Hardcover): Niamh Bhalla Experiencing the Last Judgement (Hardcover)
Niamh Bhalla
R4,088 Discovery Miles 40 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely uniform in its manifestations and to a great extent frightening, coercive and paralysing. It moves beyond a purely didactic understanding of the Byzantine image of the Last Judgement, as a visual eschatological text to be 'read' and learned from, and proposes instead an appreciation of each unique image as a dynamic site to be experienced. Paintings, icons and mosaics from the tenth to the fourteenth century, from inside and outside of the Byzantine Empire, are placed within their specific socio-historical milieus, their immediate decorative programmes and their architectural contexts to demonstrate that each unique image constituted a carefully orchestrated and immersive experience of judgement. Each case study outlines the differences that exist in reality between these images that are often subsumed under one iconographic label, making a case against condensing dynamic, lived images into apparently static pictorial 'types'. Images of the Last Judgement needed the body, mind and memory of the viewer for the creation of meaning, and so the experience of these images was unavoidably spatial, gendered, corporeal, mnemonic, emotional, rhetorical and most often liturgical. Unpacking Byzantine images of judgement in light of these various facets of experience for the first time helps to elucidate the interaction of past individuals with the image, and the ways in which such encounters were intended to benefit the communities that made and lived alongside them.

Picturing Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768) - Representing Queenship in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New Ed): Jennifer G... Picturing Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768) - Representing Queenship in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New Ed)
Jennifer G Germann
R3,927 Discovery Miles 39 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Portraits of Queen Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768) were highly visible in eighteenth-century France. Appearing in royal chateaux and, after 1737, in the Parisian Salons, the queen's image was central to the visual construction of the monarchy. Her earliest portraits negotiated aspects of her ethnic difference, French gender norms, and royal rank to craft an image of an appropriate consort to the king. Later portraits by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Carle Van Loo, and Jean-Marc Nattier contributed to changing notions of queenship over the course of her 43 year tenure. Whether as royal wife, devout consort, or devoted mother, Marie Leszczinska's image mattered. While she has often been seen as a weak consort, this study argues that queenly images were powerful and even necessary for Louis XV's projection of authority. This is the first study dedicated to analyzing the queen's portraits. It engages feminist theory while setting the queen's image in the context of portraiture in France, courtly factional conflict, and the history of the French monarchy. While this investigation is historically specific, it raises the larger problem of the power of women's images versus the empowerment of women, a challenge that continues to plague the representation of political women today.

Furious - Angels vs Devils (Paperback): Sal Quartuccio, James Ryman, Mitch Byrd Furious - Angels vs Devils (Paperback)
Sal Quartuccio, James Ryman, Mitch Byrd
R241 R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Save R21 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The eternal conflict between heaven and hell has never so much fun to look at! See angels and devils in female form, fighting for supremacy (and sometimes getting a little friendlier than they should!) If you like your girl fights in BIBLICAL proportions, this latest entry into the Gallery Girls series will certainly be heavenly hellish!

Memory and Medieval Tomb (Paperback): Elizabeth Valdez del Alamo, Carol Stamatis Pendergast Memory and Medieval Tomb (Paperback)
Elizabeth Valdez del Alamo, Carol Stamatis Pendergast
R1,047 Discovery Miles 10 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the ways in which medieval Christians sought to memorialize the deceased: with tombs, cenotaphs, altars and other furnishings connected to a real or symbolic burial site. Reverent memorial for the dead was the inspiration for the production of a significant category of artworks during the Middle Ages - artworks aimed as much at the laity as at the clergy, and intended to maintain, symbolically, the presence of the dead. Memoria, the term that describes the formal, liturgical memory of the dead, also includes artworks intended to house and honour the deceased. A dozen essays analyze strategies for commemoration from the 4th - 15th century: the means by which human memory could be activated or manipulated through the interaction between monuments, their setting, and the visitor. Building upon from the growing body of literature on memory in the Middle Ages, the collection focuses on the tomb monument and its context as a complex to define what is to be remembered, to fix memory, and to facilitate recollection. The papers were originally presented at the 1994 meetings of the College Art Association, the International Congresses of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, and the University of Leeds, England, in 1995.

Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture (Hardcover): Adam Eaker Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture (Hardcover)
Adam Eaker
R1,098 Discovery Miles 10 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) transformed the professional identities available to English artists. By making his portrait sittings into a form of courtly spectacle, Van Dyck inspired poets and playwrights at the same time that he offended guardians of traditional hierarchies. A self-consciously Van Dyckian lineage of artists, many of them women, extends from his lifetime to the end of the eighteenth century and beyond. Recovering the often surprising responses of both writers and painters to Van Dyck's portraits, this book provides an alternative perspective on English art's historical self-consciousness. Built around a series of close readings of artworks and texts ranging from poems and plays to early biographies and studio gossip, it traces the reception of Van Dyck's art on the part of artists like Mary Beale, William Hogarth, and Richard and Maria Cosway to bestow a historical specificity on the frequent claim that Van Dyck founded an English school of portraiture. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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