Self-portrait with Model
Title | Self-portrait with Model PDF eBook |
Author | José Luis Cuevas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Self-Portrait
Title | Self-Portrait PDF eBook |
Author | Celia Paul |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2020-11-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1681374838 |
A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure—the painter Lucian Freud—and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art. One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. Self-Portrait tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son; of the challenges of motherhood, the unresolvable conflict between caring for a child and remaining commited to art; of the "invisible skeins between people," the profound familial connections Paul communicates through her paintings of her mother and sisters; and finally, of the mystical presence in her own solitary vision of the world around her. Self-Portrait is a powerful, liberating evocation of a life and of a life-long dedication to art.
Artist's Self Portaits
Title | Artist's Self Portaits PDF eBook |
Author | Omar Calabrese |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006-05-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0789208946 |
In his fascinating survey, art historian Omar Calabrese reveals that self-portraits through the ages are both a reflection of the artist and of the period in which the artist lived. Organized thematically, the author first presents a basic definition of the genre of the self-portrait, interpreting the picture to be a manifestation of self identity, and including examples from an Egyptian tomb painting and pictures on stained glass during the Middle Ages and continuing to modern times. The next chapter focuses on the turning point for the establishment of the genre during the Renaissance when the status of the painter or sculptor was raised from artisan to artist and, as a result, portraits of the artist were considered worthwhile pictures. At first a self-portrait was hidden in a narrative painting: an artist would paint his image as part of a crowd scene, for example, or as a mythological figure. On the other extreme, once the genre was accepted, it was practiced by some artists—Rembrandt, van Gogh, Munch, and Dali, for instance—as almost an obsession. In contemporary art the self-portrait can become a deconstructed genre with the artist hiding or satirizing himself until he nearly disappears on the canvas. Among the 300 pictures featured here are examples by such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Velazquez, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Ingres, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gainsborough, Matisse, James Ensor, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, Man Ray, Henry Moore, Robert Rauschenberg, Norman Rockwell, and Roy Lichtenstein. This intriguing book is a fresh way to appreciate the history of art and to understand that a self-portrait is far more complex and meaningful than merely a portrait of the artist.
Alias Olympia
Title | Alias Olympia PDF eBook |
Author | Eunice Lipton |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2013-02-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0801468248 |
Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death—or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether? Eunice Lipton's search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective story with the revelatory power of art, peeling off layers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent—and about Lipton herself.
Self-portrait with Model
Title | Self-portrait with Model PDF eBook |
Author | José Luis Cuevas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Drawing, Mexican |
ISBN | 9780847804894 |
José Luis Cuevas, Self-portrait with Model
Title | José Luis Cuevas, Self-portrait with Model PDF eBook |
Author | José Luis Cuevas |
Publisher | New York : Rizzoli |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Artists' writings |
ISBN |
not six
Title | not six PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 2004-12-03 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN | 9784884180140 |
衝撃的な家族のヌード写真から12年、さらに新しい写真世界に走る長島有里枝、01年木村伊兵衛賞受賞後初の待望の写真集。