Books of Portraits

  • 道连・葛雷的画像
    By Oscar Wilde

    本书讲述了少年道连·格雷在朋友亨利勋爵的诱导下,个性由单纯变为世故,灵魂由纯洁转为污秽,最后走向毁灭的故事.

  • Picasso et le portrait
    By Museum of Modern Art, William Stanley Rubin, Réunion des musées nationaux

    Explore les enjeux du portrait au XXe siècle à travers les nombreuses solutions proposées par Picasso.

  • A Portrait of America: The Nation and Ohio
    By Barbara Novak, Butler Institute of American Art

    A Portrait of America: The Nation and Ohio

  • Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World
    By Angela Rosenthal, Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz

    Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official ...

  • The Art of Portraits: A Compilation of Works from the Bridgeman Art Library
    By Helen Dore

    This book traces the history of portrait-painting, from relatively unknown sitters such as the Mona Lisa and El Greco’s Woman in a Fur Cape, to such rich and important personages as Elizabeth I, Napoleon, and Louis XV. Portraits of ...

  • Alice Neel: Late Portraits & Still Lifes
    Alice Neel: Late Portraits & Still Lifes
    By Alice Neel, Tim Griffin

    Published on the occasion of a solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, this beautifully designed book presents a selection of portraits and still lifes from the last two decades of the artist's life.

  • Le portrait dans les littératures et les arts d'Espagne et d'Amérique latine
    Le portrait dans les littératures et les arts d'Espagne et d'Amérique latine
    By Jacques Soubeyroux

    Les discours biographiques de Juan Pablo Mártir Rizo ( 1625-1633 ) » , Littérature et Politique en Espagne aux siècles d'or , sous la direction de Jean - Pierre Etienvre , Paris , Klincksieck , pp . 363-376 . Civil , Pierre , « Un livre ...

  • The Great War in Portraits
    The Great War in Portraits
    By Sebastian Faulks, Paul Moorhouse

    In viewing the Great War through the portraits of those involved, Paul Moorhouse looks at the bitter-sweet nature of a conflict in which valour and selfless endeavour were qualified by disaster and suffering, and examines the notion of ...

  • A Brief History of the Smile
    A Brief History of the Smile
    By Angus Trumble

    From the enlightened smile of the Holy Buddha to the lewd leer of the seventeenth century Dutch chicken groper, from the sociological to the scatological, Angus Trumble presents a uniquely readable and erudite insight into the cultural, ...