Portraits in art books

Now available in paperback, the first comprehensive survey of portraits made by Andy Warhol (1928–87), one of the...  Read More >>

Examining portraits of black people over the past two centuries, this title argues that these images should be viewed...  Read More >>

Barack Obama's rise to the presidency of the United States was an awesome journey. For two years I watched him...  Read More >>

Presents portraits of eight contemporary opera stars - all of whom figure in the world renowned Metropolitan Opera's...  Read More >>

Examines the motif of portraiture in Spanish Golden Age theater, drawing from a wide range of drama and imagery...  Read More >>

I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painters pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck ... no dray moves...  Read More >>

Although under-recognized in his lifetime, Wyndham Lewis was one of the most important figures in 20th century British...  Read More >>

No other monumental art form was so widely disseminated throughout the Roman Empire as the portrait statue. By combining...  Read More >>

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Traces the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre...  Read More >>

Examines the portrait via the most beloved and important examples in history.  Read More >>

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Portraiture is one of the earliest painting genres. Capturing a face - a likeness - is beautiful, inspiring and...  Read More >>

Includes a limited hand-signed and numbered photo-print, Lenny Kravitz, Opium Bed, New York, 1998. Matthew Rolston...  Read More >>

The inaugural publication of the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture, this collection...  Read More >>

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Liberated by the advent of photography, artists were able to reimagine the nature of human portrayal, producing...  Read More >>

In addition, by restoring these works to their original context – political, philosophical and aesthetic – the author...  Read More >>

Part of the Medieval Imagination series, this title explores portraiture in the medieval and Renaissance periods....  Read More >>

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"When it first appeared in 1980, Andy Warhol's ""Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century"" was adored by...  Read More >>

Praise for Wisdom: If you could bottle up the been-there, done-that between these pages, you'd have an elixir for...  Read More >>

Just over 40 portraits of famous Scots whose lives have inspired and changed the world.  Read More >>

With modern technology and medicine, the armed forces has a conflict survival rate of over 10-1. this means that...  Read More >>

"Kyungwoo Chun, born in Korea in 1969 and now based in Germany, is known for his poetically blurred long exposure...  Read More >>