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This richly diverse exploration of female artists and
self-portraits is a brilliant and poignant demonstration of
originality in works of haunting variety. The two earliest
self-portraits come from 12th-century illuminated manuscripts in
which nuns gaze at us across eight centuries. In 16th-century
Italy, Sofonisba Anguissola paints one of the longest series of
self-portraits, spanning adolescence to old age. In 17th-century
Holland, Judith Leyster shows herself at the easel as a relaxed,
self-assured professional. In the 18th century, artists from
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun to Angelica Kauffman express both passion
for their craft and the idea of femininity; and in the 19th the
salons and art schools at last open their doors to a host of
talented women artists, including Berthe Morisot, ushering in a new
and resonant self-confidence. The modern period demolishes taboos:
Alice Neel painting herself nude at eighty, Frida Kahlo rendering
physical pain, Cindy Sherman exploring identity, Marlene Dumas
dispensing with all boundaries. The full verve of Frances
Borzello's enthralling text, and the hypnotic intensity of the
accompanying self-portraits, is revealed to the full in this
inspiring book.
A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the
reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals
was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style
transformed ideas and expectations about what portraiture can do
and what a painting should look like. Hals was a member of the
great trifecta of Dutch Baroque painters alongside Rembrandt and
Vermeer, and he was the portraitist of choice for entrepreneurs,
merchants, professionals, theologians, intellectuals, militiamen,
and even his fellow artists in the Dutch Golden Age. His works,
with their visible brush strokes and bold execution, lacked the
fine detail and smooth finish common among his peers, and some
dismissed his works as sloppy and unfinished. But for others, they
were fresh and exciting, filled with a sense of the sitter's
animated presence captured with energy and immediacy. Steven Nadler
gives us the first full-length biography of Hals in many years and
offers a view into seventeenth-century Haarlem and this culturally
rich era of the Dutch Republic. He tells the story not only of
Hals's life, but also of the artistic, social, political, and
religious worlds in which he lived and worked.
A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President
Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their
unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the
portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the most
beloved artworks of our time. Kehinde Wiley's portrait of President
Obama and Amy Sherald's portrait of the former first lady have
inspired unprecedented responses from the public, and attendance at
the museum has more than doubled as visitors travel from near and
far to view these larger-than-life paintings. After witnessing a
woman drop to her knees in prayer before the portrait of Barack
Obama, one guard said, "No other painting gets the same kind of
reactions. Ever." The Obama Portraits is the first book about the
making, meaning, and significance of these remarkable artworks.
Richly illustrated with images of the portraits, exclusive pictures
of the Obamas with the artists during their sittings, and photos of
the historic unveiling ceremony by former White House photographer
Pete Souza, this book offers insight into what these paintings can
tell us about the history of portraiture and American culture. The
volume also features a transcript of the unveiling ceremony, which
includes moving remarks by the Obamas and the artists. A reversible
dust jacket allows readers to choose which portrait to display on
the front cover. An inspiring history of the creation and impact of
the Obama portraits, this fascinating book speaks to the power of
art-especially portraiture-to bring people together and promote
cultural change. Published in association with the Smithsonian's
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
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.
A unique collective portrait of the United Kingdom during the
national lockdown of 2020. Introduction by The Duchess of
Cambridge. Text by Lemn Sissay MBE. Sunday Times Bestseller. 'Every
bookcase should have this book' 'Beautifully heart-warming' and 'a
keepsake for years to come'. Focused on three key themes - Helpers
and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness, this book
presents a unique portrait of the UK during the 2020 lockdown,
through 100 community photographs. The net proceeds from the sale
of the book will be equally split to support the work of the
National Portrait Gallery and Mind, the mental health charity
(registered 219830) Spearheaded by The Duchess of Cambridge, Patron
of the National Portrait Gallery, Hold Still was an ambitious
community project to create a unique collective portrait of the UK
during lockdown. People of all ages were invited to submit a
photographic portrait, taken in a six-week period during May and
June 2020, focussed on three core themes - Helpers and Heroes, Your
New Normal and Acts of Kindness. From these, a panel of judges
selected 100 portraits, assessing the images on the emotions and
experiences they conveyed. Featured here in this publication, the
final 100 images present a unique and highly personal record of
this extraordinary period in our history of people of all ages from
across the nation. From virtual birthday parties, handmade rainbows
and community clapping to brave NHS staff, resilient keyworkers and
people dealing with illness, isolation and loss. The images convey
humour and grief, creativity and kindness, tragedy and hope -
expressing and exploring both our shared and individual
experiences. Presenting a true portrait of our nation in 2020, this
publication includes a foreword by The Duchess of Cambridge, each
image is accompanied by the story behind the picture told through
the words of the entrants, and further works show the nationwide
outdoor exhibition of Hold Still.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF
THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY
TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN,
SPECTATOR THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'Explosively
enjoyable, bursting with life and art ... A central figure as wild
and beguiling as any character in literature' CRAIG BROWN William
Feaver, Lucian Freud's collaborator, curator and close friend, knew
the unknowable artist better than most. Over many years, Freud
narrated to him the story of his life, 'our novel'. Fame follows
Freud at the height of his powers, painting the most iconic works
of his career in a constant pursuit of perfection, just outrunning
his gambling debts and tailor's bills. Whether tattooing swallows
at the base of Kate Moss's back or exacting a strange revenge on
Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger, Freud's adventures were always
perfectly characteristic. An enfant terrible till the end, even as
he was commissioned to paint the Queen, what emerges is an artist
wilfully oblivious to the glitter of the world around - and
focussed instead on painting first and last. 'A dazzling tour de
force' THE TIMES 'A wonderfully vivid chronicle' OBSERVER 'Does
justice to Freud's pitiless genius' DAILY MAIL
David Williamson's text paints a vivid and sensitive portrait of
each monarch, revealing the dramatic events and controversies that
surrounded them. With a rich selection of images, anecdotes,
comprehensive fact boxes and clear family trees, National Portrait
Gallery Kings & Queens will appeal to everyone with an interest
in history or the British monarchy. The book begins by charting
Celtic Britain before the Roman invasion to the Norman Conquest of
1066: the establishment of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the coming of
Christianity and the unification of England. The subsequent
dynastic struggles of the Angevins and Plantagenets heralded the
great age of English kingship under the Tudors and Stuarts, who
united the crowns of Scotland and England, before the Hanoverians
combined personal rule with parliamentary government, ushering in
the modern age and the royalty of today.
This survey exhibition captures the arc and continued ascent of
contemporary artist Beverly McIver. This exhibition catalog
accompanies a survey exhibition of contemporary artist and painter
Beverly McIver. Curated by Kim Boganey, this exhibition represents
the diversity of McIver's thematic approach to painting over her
career. From early self-portraits in clown makeup to more recent
works featuring her father, dolls, Beverly's experiences during
COVID-19 and portraits of others, Full Circle illuminates the arc
of Beverly McIver's artistic career while also touching on her
personal journey. McIver's self-portraits explore expressions of
individuality, stereotypes, and ways of masking identity; portraits
of family provide glimpses into intimate moments, in good times as
well as in illness and death. The show includes McIver's portraits
of other artists and notable figures, recent work resulting from a
year in Rome with American Academy's Rome Prize, and new work in
which McIver explores the juxtaposition of color, patterns, and the
human figure. Full Circle also features works that reflect on
McIver's collaborations with other artists, as well as her impact
on the next generation of artists. The complementary exhibition, In
Good Company, includes artists who have mentored McIver, such as
Faith Ringgold and Richard Mayhew, as well as those who have
studied under her. This catalog includes a conversation with
Beverly McIver by exhibition curator Kim Boganey, as well as two
essays: one by leading Black feminist writer Michele Wallace,
daughter of Beverly's graduate school mentor Faith Ringgold, and
another by distinguished scholar of African American art history
Richard Powell. Published in association with the Scottsdale Museum
of Contemporary Art Exhibition dates: Scottsdale Museum of
Contemporary Art February 12-September 4, 2022 Southeastern Center
for Contemporary Art December 8, 2022-March 26, 2023 The Gibbes
Museum April 28-August 4, 2023
A significant publication of original writing on Lucian Freud,
including interviews with leading contemporary artists, marking the
100th anniversary of his birth Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was one of
the greatest figurative painters of the twentieth century. With an
unflinching eye and an uncompromising commitment to his work, he
created masterpieces that continue to inspire contemporary artists
to the present day. Spanning nearly 70 years, Freud's career has
often been overshadowed by his biography and celebrity. This book
re-examines his paintings through a broad series of original
approaches. Texts by a variety of rising and established
international writers explore topics ranging from the compositional
echoes of old master paintings in Freud's works, to the
contextualization of his practice within the class struggles of
1980s Britain. Throughout the book, leading contemporary painters
such as Tracey Emin and Chantal Joffe give insightful testimony to
the relevance of Freud today. Marking the 100th anniversary of
Freud's birth, this publication accompanies the first major
exhibition of his work in 10 years. Presenting fresh perspectives
on his paintings, it introduces Freud to a new generation of
scholars and enthusiasts - demonstrating his lasting international
importance. Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by
Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery,
London October 1, 2022-January 22, 2023 Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,
Madrid February 14-June 18, 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019
SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY
TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
AND SPECTATOR 'A compendium of high-grade gossip about everyone
from Princess Margaret to the Krays, a snapshot of grimy London and
a narrative of Freud's career and rackety life and loves ... Leaves
the reader itching for more' SUNDAY TIMES, ART BOOK OF THE YEAR
Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for
decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver -
about painting and the art world, but also about his life and
loves. The result is this a unique, electrifying biography. In
Youth, Feaver conjures Freud's early childhood: Sigmund Freud's
grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin,
escaping Nazi Germany in 1934. Following Freud through art school,
his time in the Navy during the war, his post-war adventures in
Paris and Greece, and his return to Soho - consorting with
duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo
and Princess Margaret - Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young
man's coming of age. 'Brilliant ... Freud would have approved'
DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Superlative ... packed with stories' GUARDIAN
'Anyone interested in British art needs it' ANDREW MARR, NEW
STATESMAN
Frank Auerbach: The Sitters provides a comprehensive overview of
the artist's portraiture. It reveals the special connection between
the artist and his 'sitters' - the small group of dedicated models
who have been Auerbach's chief subject over a career spanning seven
decades. A comprehensive list of his sitters has been compiled here
for the first time, providing new biographical information about
his models from E.O.W. to J.Y.M. and beyond. Frank Auerbach: The
Sitters includes a wide range of contributors. An essay by the art
critic William Feaver describes the experience of sitting for
Auerbach, while a conversation from 2001 between the artist and
Martin Gayford describes Auerbach's intentions and process.
Auerbach's close friendship with the art historian Michael Podro is
also explored, with a short memoir by Natasha Podro and a
re-published, little known essay from 1969 by Podro himself. Forty
paintings and drawings from 1956 to 2020 are illustrated in colour,
with thoroughly researched catalogue entries that shed new light on
the artist's relationships and his work. The publication
accompanies Piano Nobile's exhibition Frank Auerbach: The Sitters,
held in autumn 2022.
This book examines Theodore Gericault's images of black men, women
and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819
painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Gericault's
depiction of black people, his approach towards slavery, and the
voices that advanced or denigrated them. By turning to documents,
essays and critiques, both before and after Waterloo (1815), and,
most importantly, Gericault's own oeuvre, this study explores the
fetters of slavery that Gericault challenged-alongside a growing
number of abolitionists-overtly or covertly. This book will be of
interest to scholars in art history, race and ethnic studies and
students of modernism.
Portraits are everywhere. One finds them not only in museums and
galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of
people and in the boardrooms of companies, on stamps and coins, on
millions of cell phones and computers. Despite its huge popularity,
however, portraiture hasn't received much philosophical attention.
While there are countless art historical studies of portraiture,
contemporary philosophy has largely remained silent on the subject.
This book aims to address that lacuna. It brings together
philosophers (and philosophically minded historians) with different
areas of expertise to discuss this enduring and continuously
fascinating genre. The chapters in this collection are ranged under
five broad themes. Part I examines the general nature of
portraiture and what makes it distinctive as a genre. Part II looks
at some of the subgenres of portraiture, such as double
portraiture, and at some special cases, such as sport card
portraits and portraits of people not present. How emotions are
expressed and evoked by portraits is the central focus of Part III,
while Part IV explores the relation between portraiture, fiction,
and depiction more generally. Finally, in Part V, some of the
ethical issues surrounding portraiture are addressed. The book
closes with an epilogue about portraits of philosophers. Portraits
and Philosophy tangles with deep questions about the nature and
effects of portraiture in ways that will substantially advance the
scholarly discussion of the genre. It will be of interest to
scholars and students working in philosophy of art, history of art,
and the visual arts.
TEXTURES synthesises research in history, fashion, art, and visual
culture to reassess the "hair story" of peoples of African descent.
A fraught topic for African-Americans and others in the Diaspora,
artists, barbers, and activists address the topic of Black
hair,both the historical perceptions and its ramifications for self
and society today. TEXTURES explores the breadth of Black artists'
perspectives on hair vis-a-vis beauty, pride, and politics. Barbers
and activists address Black hair, from historical perceptions to
its challenges today. Combs, products, and implements from the
collection of hair pioneer Willie Morrow are paired with
masterworks from artists like David Hammons, Sonya Clark, Lorna
Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, and Alison Saar. The exhibition &
catalogue are inspired by Drs. Ellington and Underwood who research
preferential treatment of straight hair, the social hierarchies of
skin, and the power and politics of display.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF
THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY
TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN,
SPECTATOR THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'A dazzling
tour de force' THE TIMES 'Does justice to Freud's pitiless genius
as an artist' DAILY MAIL 'You can hear Freud's voice on the page'
OBSERVER 'Mesmerising ... the ideal companion to Freud's work'
GUARDIAN William Feaver, Lucian Freud's collaborator, curator and
close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most. Over
many years, Freud narrated to him the story of his life, 'our
novel'. Fame follows Freud at the height of his powers, painting
the most iconic works of his career in a constant and dissatisfied
pursuit of perfection, just outrunning his gambling debts and
tailor's bills. Whether tattooing swallows at the base of Kate
Moss's back or exacting a strange and horrible revenge on Jerry
Hall and Mick Jagger, Freud's adventures were always perfectly
characteristic. An enfant terrible till the end, even as he was
commissioned to paint the Queen and attended his own
retrospectives, what emerges is an artist wilfully oblivious to the
glitter of the world around - and focussed instead on painting
first and last.
This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in
portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through
to contemporary modes of portraiture. Dualism - the separation of
mind from body - plays a central part in portraiture, given that it
supplies the fundamental framework for portraiture's determining
problem and justification: the visual construction of the
subjectivity of the sitter, which is invariably accounted for as
ineffable entity or spirit, that the artist magically captures.
Every artist that has engaged with portraiture has had to deal with
these issues and, therefore, with the question of being and
identity.
Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver – about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves. The result is this a unique, electrifying biography, shot through with Freud's own words.
In Youth, the first of two volumes, Feaver conjures Freud's early childhood: Sigmund Freud's grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934 before being dropped into successive English public schools. Following Freud through art school, his time in the Navy during the war, his post-war adventures in Paris and Greece, and his return to Soho – consorting with duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo and Princess Margaret – Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young man's coming of age.
An account of a century told through one of its most important artists, The Lives of Lucian Freud is a landmark in the story its subject and in the art of biography itself.
A revelatory study of one of the 18th century's greatest artists,
which places him in relation to the darker side of the English
Enlightenment Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), though
conventionally known as a 'painter of light', returned repeatedly
to nocturnal images. His essential preoccupations were dark and
melancholy, and he had an enduring concern with death, ruin, old
age, loss of innocence, isolation and tragedy. In this long-awaited
book, Matthew Craske adopts a fresh approach to Wright, which takes
seriously contemporary reports of his melancholia and nervous
disposition, and goes on to question accepted understandings of the
artist. Long seen as a quintessentially modern and progressive
figure - one of the artistic icons of the English Enlightenment -
Craske overturns this traditional view of the artist. He
demonstrates the extent to which Wright, rather than being a
spokesman for scientific progress, was actually a melancholic and
sceptical outsider, who increasingly retreated into a solitary,
rural world of philosophical and poetic reflection, and whose
artistic vision was correspondingly dark and meditative. Craske
offers a succession of new and powerful interpretations of the
artist's paintings, including some of his most famous masterpieces.
In doing so, he recovers Wright's deep engagement with the
landscape, with the pleasures and sufferings of solitude, and with
the themes of time, history and mortality. In this book, Joseph
Wright of Derby emerges not only as one of Britain's most ambitious
and innovative artists, but also as one of its most profound.
Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth
century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old
masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to
this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle
of the twentieth century displaced these venerable skills,
especially in academic art circles. Fortunately for aspiring
artists today who wish to learn the methods that allowed the Old
Masters to achieve the luminous color and subtle tonalities so
characteristic of their work, this knowledge has been preserved in
hundreds of small traditional painting ateliers that persevered in
the old ways in this country and throughout the world.
Coming out of this dedicated movement, "Portrait Painting Atelier"
is an essential resource for an art community still recovering from
a time when solid instruction in art technique was unavailable in
our schools. Of particular value here is a demonstration of the Old
Masters' technique of layering paint over a toned-ground surface, a
process that builds from the transparent dark areas to the more
densely painted lights. This method unifies the entire painting,
creating a beautiful glow that illuminates skin tones and softly
blends all the color tones. Readers will also find valuable
instruction in paint mediums from classic oil-based to alkyd-based,
the interactive principles of composition and photograph-based
composition, and the anatomy of the human face and the key
relationships among its features.
Richly illustrated with the work of preeminent masters such as
Millet, Gericault, and van Gogh, as well as some of today's leading
portrait artists--and featuring seven detailed step-by-step
portrait demonstrations--"Portrait Painting Atelier" is the first
book in many years to so comprehensively cover the concepts and
techniques of traditional portraiture.
This title was first published in 2000: In their stunning
simplicity, George Romney's portraits of eighteenth-century gentry
and their children are among the most widely recognised creations
of his age. A rival to Reynolds and Gainsborough, Romney was born
in 1734 on the edge of the Lake District, the landscape of which
never ceased to influence his eye for composition and colour. He
moved in 1762 to London where there was an insatiable market for
portraits of the landed gentry to fill the elegant picture
galleries of their country houses. Romney's sitters included
William Beckford and Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton. An influential
figure, one of the founding fathers of neo-classicism and a
harbinger of romanticism, Romney yearned to develop his talents as
a history painter. Countless drawings bear witness to ambitious
projects on elemental themes which were rarely executed on canvas.
Richly illustrated, this is the first biography of Romney to
explore the full diversity of his oeuvre. David A. Cross portays a
complex personality, prone to melancholy, who held himself aloof
from London's Establishment and from the Royal Academy, of which
Sir Joshua Reynolds was President, and chose instead to find his
friends among that city's radical intelligentsia.
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