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Author : Robin Simon
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015017043384
Author : Fennings Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Biography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119307028
Author : Fennings Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Biography
ISBN : HARVARD:32044078876984
Contains photographic portraits of prominent Canadians
Author : Fennings Taylor,William Notman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Biography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048687383
Author : William Notman,Fennings Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:61901785
Author : Fennings Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Biography
ISBN : LCCN:62008137
Author : Simon Schama
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190621896
Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs, lithographs, etchings, sketches-found in London's National Portrait Gallery, The Face of Britain weaves together an account of their composition, framed by their particular moment of creation, and in the process unveils a collective portrait of nation and its history. "Portraits," Schama writes, "have always been made with an eye to posterity." Commissioned to paint Winston Churchill in 1954, Graham Sutherland struggled with how to capture the "savior" of Great Britain honestly and humanely. Schama calls the portrait, initially damned, the "most powerful image of a Great Briton ever executed." Annie Leibovitz's photograph of a nude John Lennon kissing Yoko Ono, taken five hours before his murder, bears "a weight of poignancy she could not possibly have anticipated." Hans Holbein's preparatory sketch for a portrait of Henry VIII depicts "an unstoppable engine of dynastic generation." Here are expressions from across the centuries of normalcy and heroism, beauty and disfigurement, aristocracy and deprivation, the familiar and the obscure-the faces of courtesans, warriors, workers, activists, playwrights, the high and mighty as well as pub-crawlers. Linking them is Schama's vibrant exploration of how their connective power emerges from the dynamic between subject and artist, work and viewer, time and place. Schama's compelling analysis and impassioned evocation of these works create an unforgettable verbal mosaic that at once reveals and transforms the images he places before us. Lavishly illustrated and written with the storytelling brio that is Schama's trademark, The Face of Britain invites us to look at a nation's visual legacies and find its reflection.
Author : John Clubbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317215011
First published in 2005. Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and around the world. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. In private hands from 1826 until this day, Thomas Sulley’s Byron has never before been the subject of scholarly study. Beginning with the discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait’s provenance and its relation to other well-known Byron portraits, the author discusses the work within the broad context of British and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Author : James Herring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : United States
ISBN : OXFORD:600043850
Author : Evert A. Duyckinck
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783385218024
Author : Shearer West
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191518034
This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been interpreted? Issues of identity, modernity, and gender are considered within a cultural and historical context. Shearer West uncovers much intriguing detail about a genre that has often been seen as purely representational, featuring examples from African tribes to Renaissance princes, and from 'stars' such as David and Victoria Beckham to ordinary people. In the process, she shows us how to communicate with the past in an exciting new way.
Author : Robert H. Pilpel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0151178801
Author : Evert A. Duyckinck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11157290
Author : Jane Kamensky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393608618
"A stunning biography…[A] truly singular account of the American Revolution." —Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire Through an intimate narrative of the life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning historian Jane Kamensky reveals the world of the American Revolution, rife with divided loyalties and tangled sympathies. Famed today for his portraits of patriot leaders like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, Copley is celebrated as one of America’s founding artists. But, married to the daughter of a tea merchant and seeking artistic approval from abroad, he could not sever his own ties with Great Britain. Rather, ambition took him to London just as the war began. His view from abroad as rich and fascinating as his harrowing experiences of patriotism in Boston, Copley’s refusal to choose sides cost him dearly. Yet to this day, his towering artistic legacy remains shared by America and Britain alike.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Autographs
ISBN : UOM:39015036835844
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
