Author : Taína Caragol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691203288
Unveiling the unconventional : Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama / Taína Caragol -- "Radical empathy" : Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama / Dorothy Moss -- The Obama portraits, in art history and beyond / Richard J. Powell -- The Obama portraits and the National Portrait Gallery as a site of secular pilgrimage / Kim Sajet -- The presentation of the Obama portraits : a transcript of the unveiling ceremony.
Author : Tanya Bentley
Publisher : National Portrait Gallery
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781855147188
Drawing on the outstanding collection of the National Portrait Gallery, this volume celebrates the variety and complexity of portraiture The National Portrait Gallery holds the world's most extensive collection of portraits: a museum of people, a gallery of stories and ideas, and a home of artistic masterpieces. Icons and Identitiesdraws together icons from Shakespeare to Audrey Hepburn alongside less well-known sitters that provide insight into the representation of identity in portraits. It also includes some intriguing surprises to reflect the diversity of the National Portrait Gallery's collection and to introduce audiences around the world to exceptional portraits of many kinds. Icons and Identitiesshows how artists, working across mediums, have revealed the visually stimulating and intellectually vibrant tradition of portrait making. The book is structured around a series of key themes and each section includes a selection of works from a range of periods. Artists include: Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Andy Warhol, Marlene Dumas and Shirin Neshat.
Author : Norman Reedus
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2020-10-31
Category :
ISBN : 9780989637985
Portraits from the Woods is a pictorial record in multiple takes of a singular journey through Norman Reedus' experience of darkness and light. It will become clear early in this wholly fresh body of work that these photographic images are as likely to propose questions as provide answers. This book is a collection of raw, grainy, offkey photos that Norman has regurgitated for our bemusement and twisted pleasure.Norman Reedus is a master of the unlikely the eccentric, the uncooked. He loves to indulge his eye in all manner of improbable and fractured camera moments. Portraits from the Woods takes the viewer on some very strange trips into a subterranean world where there is no judgment. What you get is raw, unplacated Norman behind his natural and delightful charm. This book can't help to push your envelope.
Author : Frederick Voss
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Portraits, American
ISBN : 9780847837632
The most visited part of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery displays the nation's collection of portraits of presidents of the United States. Created to accompany a countrywide tour, "Portraits of the Presidents" is authoritative and engaging, offering a concise history of each president and telling how each portrait came to be made. 65 illustrations, 61 in color.
Author : National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : National Portrait Gallery
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN :
A compilation of prize-winning portraits from 1990 through 2010.
Author : Carolyn Kinder Carr
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Portraits
ISBN : 9781935623007
This book presents little-known artworks from important Washington-area private collections. These portraits by major artists date from the mid-eighteenth century to the present and speak to the many compelling ways that paintings and sculpture capture human likenesses and personalities.
Author : National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Self-portraits
ISBN : 9783777432236
This richly illustrated book features an introduction by the National Portrait Gallery's chief curator and nearly 150 insightful entries on key self-portraits in the museum's collection. "Eye to I" provides readers with an overview of self-portraiture while revealing the intersections that exist between art, life, and self-representation. Drawing primarily from the museum's collection, "Eye to I" explores how American artists have portrayed themselves since 1900. The book shows that while each individual's approach to self-portraiture arises under unique circumstances, all of their representations raise important questions about self-perception and self-reflection. Sometimes artists choose to reveal intimate details of their inner lives. Other times they use the genre to obfuscate their true selves or invent alter egos. Today, with the proliferation of selfies and the contemporary focus on identity, it is time to reassess the significance of the self-portrait. Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., USA (02.11.2018-18.28.2019).
Author : John Ingamells
Publisher :
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN :
This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.
Author : Malcolm Rogers
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 1990
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Steven Jacobs
Publisher : Aramer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art in motion pictures
ISBN : 9789491775192
" ... The Dark Galleries deals with American (and some British) films of the 1940s and 1950s, in which a painted portrait plays an important part in the plot or the mise-en-scène. Particularly noir crime thrillers, gothic melodramas, and ghost stories feature painted portraits that seem to hold magical power over their beholders. In addition to an extensive introductory essay, this museum guide presents about one hundred entries on the artistic and cinematic aspects of noir and gothic painted portraits."--Page 4 of cover.
