From first to last, Picasso’s prime subject was the human figure and portraiture remained a favourite genre. His earliest portraits were done from life and reveal a precocious ability to catch liken
This book provides a unique opportunity to see an inspiring range of portraits from contemporary photographers selected from thousands of submissions. The works included are not only about the sitt
TheBP Portrait Award, now in its thirty-firstyear, is one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. In 2018more than 270,000people visited the exhibitionbased on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The cataloguepresentsaround forty-eight works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques.Including an illustrated introductory essayby a well-known author, the catalogue alsofeatures an illustrated interview with the previous year's Travel Award winner. It also features interviews with the 2020prizewinnersby Richard McClure, which give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.
An intriguing collection of portraits by the internationally acclaimed icon of American music, Face Value accompanies a display of Bob Dylan''s previously unseen and unpublished pastels produced for t
This book, which accompanies the first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings inover 20 years,will explore Hockney as a draughtsman from the 1950s to now, with a focus on himself, his fa
Offers a collection of short biographies of those remarkable men who sought to record and convey the horrors of the Great War in poetry draws on letters, memoirs and portraits in a variety of media.
Tennysons ascendency as Englands foremost poet coincided with one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century: photography. This text captures the spirit of the age through images of
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Bloomsbury Group transformed British culture with their innovative approach to art, design and society. In this book Frances Spalding presents over twent
Includes entertaining, thumbnail biographies of the key figures at the forefront of the theme or movement, or who were closely connected to the personality in questionUpdated from the highly successfu
Born in London in 1834, William Morris was a radical thinker whose democratic vision for society and art has continued to influence designers, artists and writersto this day, long after his death in 1
Presents a broad selection of the personalities that have shaped the last four centuries of British life, from Elizabeth I to David Beckham, from Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney, portrayed by artists as
Explores the history of facial hair, from prehistoric times to the present day. This book investigates how cave men shaved, the Pharaonic beard in ancient Egypt, the work of barbers in classical Greec
From first to last, Picasso’s prime subject was the human figure and portraiture remained a favourite genre. His earliest portraits were done from life and reveal a precocious ability to catch likeness and suggest character and state of mind. By 1900 Picasso was producing portraits of astonishing variety and thereafter they reflected the full range of his innovative styles – symbolist, cubist, neoclassical, surrealist, expressionist. But however extreme his departure from representational conventions, Picasso never wholly abandoned drawing from the sitter or ceased producing portraits of classic beauty and naturalism. For all his radical originality, Picasso remained in constant dialogue with the art of the past and his portraits often alluded to canonical masterpieces, chosen for their appropriateness to the looks and personality of his subject. Treating favourite Old Masters as indecorously as his intimate friends, he enjoyed caricaturing them and indulging in fantasies about their s
