The Self-Portrait (Art Essentials)

After six centuries, self-portraiture shows no sign of losing its ability to capture the public imagination. Self-portraits have the power to illum...

Neutral hues, an ill-fitting man's suit and wiggling locks of cut hair supplant Frida Kahlo's (1907-54) usual lively color palette, indigenous Mexi...

A new history of self-portraiture, and the artworks that offer the deepest insights into an artist's personal, psychological and creative world. No...

Reducere. At age eighteen, Yvonne set out to build a home from trees on eighty acres she bought on an Oregon mountainside. In 1975, log by log she creates a ...

Reducere. So you have a few muscles or triggers points that are quite sore and you wish to use a massage gun?This book, accessible to all, is filled with bea...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Celia PaulNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softb...

An intimate memoir through words and images, in which the British painter Celia Paul is set to invite comparison to the literary, artistic and pers...

In November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the t...

Some of the world's greatest works of art exist outside of museums and galleries. They can be found in the open fields of Marfa, Texas, and on tiny...

The first major study of Dalziel Brothers, a Victorian image-making firm that made a phenomenal contribution to mass visual culture. -- .Publisher:...

Reducere. "From that day on the surface was never enough." Environmental collapse. The betrayals and alliances of the animal world. A father who works in a t...

These poems stitch loss to memory, to colours and smells, to tastes of past and present, canvas and ink.Publisher: BiblioasisAuthor(s): Jessica Hie...

A much-needed straightforward introduction to the ever-evolving story of abstract art, as told through the work of 55 pioneering artists.Illustrati...

Reducere. A legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek "is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic-...

Reducere. It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, she turned in this paranoid fantasia of rising f...

Explains the basic rules of portraiture, as well as covering more complex ideas of image making. Set out in chronological order as a photographer w...

A reference guide to fifty of the most frequently occurring symbols in global art historyIllustrations: 100 Illustrations, color

Reducere. DescriptionThis book collects images that New York-based artist Anne Collier (born 1970) originally presented as a slideshow of 80 35mm slides depi...

Contributor(s): Author: Wendon BlakePhotographer: John LawnA classic of simplicityPortrait Drawing has guided and inspired a generation of artists ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A contemporary novel of angst and high farce, "Blue Self-Portrait" unfolds among Berlin's cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mi...

Reducere. "By writing honestly about the difficulties of self-representation, Rader represents himself as a writer who cares deeply about his audience and hi...

Patricia Clark's poems immerse the reader in the living world through the quality of her attention and appreciation. There's hard-won intelligence ...

This debut book in the Pocket Art series is packed with expert technical guidance on drawing realistic portraits in pencil and stunning, inspiratio...

Reducere. "EXSTATICA - Self-Help Essentials. Unleash the Transformative Sparkles of the Renaissance Mantegna Tarot" shows you how to turn your life into a ma...

DescriptionThis richly illustrated gift book showcases 100 portraits of writers, authors and essayists held in the collection of the National Portr...

Reducere. Collection of portraits, selected from public and private holdings by art historian Trevor J. Fairbrother, reveal the technical skill and intuitive...

Reducere. An expression of an extraordinary poet's life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about ...

A book of poems by the world's celebrated poet.Publisher: Carcanet Press LtdAuthor(s): John AshberyNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2007Dimensi...

Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysteriou...

Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, to be published in Arc's flagship translation series 'Visible Poets', combines the poet's unerring instinct for...

Weighing as much as a small car, a rover named Curiosity rolls quietly around Mars. Curiosity's instruments collect data and its cameras take image...

Reducere. DescriptionSpanning thirty years of dazzling work--from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from poli...