Human figures depicted in art
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Human figures depicted in art
Paperback. Posters provide an instructive glimpse of an era's prevailing ideals, prejudices, and presumptions. This title suggests how a famous face can enhance the message of the poster and, conversely, how posters have defined and disseminated images of prominent Americans. Num Pages: 160 pages, 68 color illus. BIC Classification: AFC; AGHF; AKLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 4217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295988627
- ISBN
- 9780295988627
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.58
€ 21.99
€ 21.58
Paperback. Tells the story of the founding and growth of one of the world's greatest collections of western European painting, dating from 1250 to 1900. This book brings together stories behind the development of the National Gallery: the generous benefactors; the architectural controversies; the acquisitions; the dedicated staff; and, the visiting public. Series: National Gallery London. Num Pages: 128 pages, 180 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AGC; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 205 x 13. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- National Gallery Company Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857094633
- ISBN
- 9781857094633
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.20
€ 17.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. 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. Series: Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context. Num Pages: 308 pages, 32, 28 black & white line drawings, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AGH; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407760
- ISBN
- 9781421407760
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.30
€ 33.99
€ 28.30
Paperback. What is revealed when we are nude or when we are presented with the image of someone who is nude? Is truth a type of nudity? Is it visible? Is it something that can be apprehended with the senses? What are the conditions under which truth may be revealed? What does the nude do? This book deals with these questions. Translator(s): O'Byrne, Anne E.; Anglemire, Carlie. Series: Critical Studies in Italian America (FUP). Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: AGHN; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256211
- ISBN
- 9780823256211
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.80
€ 29.99
€ 26.80
Hardback. What is revealed when we are nude or when we are presented with the image of someone who is nude? Is truth a type of nudity? Is it visible? Is it something that can be apprehended with the senses? What are the conditions under which truth may be revealed? What does the nude do? This book deals with these questions. Translator(s): O'Byrne, Anne E. Series: Critical Studies in Italian America. Num Pages: 136 pages, 26 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AGHN; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 273.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256204
- ISBN
- 9780823256204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.31
€ 97.31
Hardback. In Painting Women, Phillippy provides a cross-disciplinary study of women as objects and agents of painting. Num Pages: 272 pages, 26, 26 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801882258
- ISBN
- 9780801882258
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Condition: New
€ 57.13€ 52.49
€ 57.13
€ 52.49
Hardback. Editor(s): Silbergeld, Jerome; Ching, Dora C. Y. Series: Publications of the Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. Num Pages: 568 pages, 140 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; AGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 248 x 171 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1418.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691158594
- ISBN
- 9780691158594
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Condition: New
€ 90.94€ 69.04
€ 90.94
€ 69.04
Hardback. Published to accompany a major exhibition originating at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this volume illuminates Picasso's radical reformulation of human physiognomy. Containing eighty-two color illustrations and sixty-eight duotones, this catalogue explores the Fernande portraits and related works as a single oeuvre. Num Pages: 192 pages, 82 color plates. 68 duotones. BIC Classification: ACXD5; AFC; AGB; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 267 x 216 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1285.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691117416
- ISBN
- 9780691117416
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Condition: New
€ 79.28€ 61.01
€ 79.28
€ 61.01
Paperback. Celebrating the flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century, this is an illustrated volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings. It includes the finest portraits of women by Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Verrocchio, and Leonardo da Vinci. Editor(s): Brown, David Alan. Num Pages: 240 pages, 97 color illus., 76 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; ACND; AFC; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 328 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1526.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114569
- ISBN
- 9780691114569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.63€ 47.40
€ 60.63
€ 47.40
Hardback. The Eighteenth Century features a rich collection of images of Africans representing slavery's apogee and the beginnings of abolition. Old visual tropes of a master with adoring black slave gave way to depictions of Africans as victims and individuals, while at the same time the intellectual foundations of scientific racism were established. Editor(s): Bindman, David; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Num Pages: 400 pages, 254 color illustrations, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JF; ACQ; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 286 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2144.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674052635
- ISBN
- 9780674052635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.71€ 97.44
€ 103.71
€ 97.44
Hardback. In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the 24 portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. This title focuses on these paintings as a group and looks at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 color illustrations and 65 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACV; AGB; AGHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 259 x 214 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1252.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition /First Printing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257450
- ISBN
- 9780520257450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.78€ 63.63
€ 82.78
€ 63.63
Paperback. A unique visual encyclopedia for artists and illustrators Like its acclaimed predecessor, the Second Edition of this outstanding photographic reference offers illustrators, fine artists, and animators immediate access to the human form in deep perspective, that is, foreshortened. Num Pages: 336 pages, 650 photographs. BIC Classification: AGH; AJC; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 275 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 950.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471396963
- ISBN
- 9780471396963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.02
€ 60.02
Hardback. Editor(s): Chalabi, Tamara; Van Cauteren, Philippe. Num Pages: 152 pages, 408 color illus. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JM; AFF; AGHF; HBJF1; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 301 x 254 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1056.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300218206
- ISBN
- 9780300218206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.46
€ 23.99
€ 18.46
Hardback. Exploring the relationship with painted portraits, conventions, settings, sitting, making and multiple production, this book argues that the new centrality and aesthetic ambition of the sculptural portrait were informed by Enlightenment notions of perception and selfhood. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 420 pages, 100 color + 300 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; ACQ; AFKB; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 284 x 34. Weight in Grams: 2130.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300204346
- ISBN
- 9780300204346
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Condition: New
€ 58.30€ 49.35
€ 58.30
€ 49.35
Hardback. Argentinian figurative artist Antonio Berni (1905-1981) is known for his aesthetic originality and for art steeped in social commentary. This title documents the lives of two fictional characters, Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel. Series: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Num Pages: 464 pages, 270 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 325 x 252 x 36. Weight in Grams: 2728.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300196481
- ISBN
- 9780300196481
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Condition: New
€ 75.78€ 62.50
€ 75.78
€ 62.50
Hardback. Provides an overview of French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished. Editor(s): Wolff, Martha. Series: Art Institute of Chicago. Num Pages: 208 pages, 190 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; ACND; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 312 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300170252
- ISBN
- 9780300170252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 37.19
€ 51.99
€ 37.19
Hardback. Philip de Lszl (1869-1937) was the pre-eminent portrait artist working in Britain between 1907 and 1937. He painted nearly 3,000 portraits, including those of kings and queens, four American presidents and members of the European nobility. This title gives an account of both his life and his work. Num Pages: 448 pages, 100 black-&-white illustrations + 45 colour images. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 168 x 33. Weight in Grams: 956.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300137163
- ISBN
- 9780300137163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.78€ 58.46
€ 75.78
€ 58.46
Hardback. Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. This book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures, selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum. It includes both American and European miniatures and stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: AGHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 289 x 256 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2172.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300115802
- ISBN
- 9780300115802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.61€ 66.36
€ 81.61
€ 66.36
Hardback. Drawing on letters, children's books, and 19th-century texts on child development, parenting, and education, this title demonstrates how childhood became a crucial theme for its embodiment of adult ideas about childhood, the family, sexuality, work and leisure, national culture, and the formation and reproduction of bourgeois identity. Num Pages: 224 pages, 150 black-&-white illustrations + 25 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACVT; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 263 x 212 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1092.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300112856
- ISBN
- 9780300112856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.61€ 63.12
€ 81.61
€ 63.12
Hardback. The tradition of portraiture in Latin America is astonishingly long and rich. This beautiful book - the first to explore the tradition of portraiture in Latin America from pre-Columbian times to the present day - features some 200 works from 15 countries. Num Pages: 300 pages, 250 illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; AFC; AGHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 304 x 248 x 28. Weight in Grams: 2123.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300106275
- ISBN
- 9780300106275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.78€ 62.50
€ 75.78
€ 62.50
Paperback. Looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late nineteenth-century France - Degas' representation of ballet dancers and the transforming tradition of female portraiture. Series: University of Kansas Franklin D. Murphy Lecture Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACV; AFC; AGHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 253 x 181 x 6. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987934
- ISBN
- 9780295987934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.30
€ 34.99
€ 31.30
Hardcover. Did portraits exist in the medieval era? This title challenges the canonical account of the invention of modern portrait practices, offering a case against the tendency of the scholarship to identify late medieval likenesses of historical personages as 'the first modern portraits'. Num Pages: 400 pages, 96 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; ACK; AGHF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226658797
- ISBN
- 9780226658797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.95€ 58.85
€ 69.95
€ 58.85
paperback. The first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the late sixteenth century to abolition in 1888. Editor(s): Lugo-Ortiz, Agnes I.; Rosenthal, Angela. Num Pages: 159 b/w illus. 11 colour illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: AGHF; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107533752
- ISBN
- 9781107533752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 47.60
€ 49.99
€ 47.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: AGHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 230 x 5. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- S Q Publications,US United States
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780865621756
- ISBN
- 9780865621756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.47
€ 20.99
€ 15.47