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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The BP Portrait Award, now in its thirty-sixth year, is one of Britains most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. In 2014 more than 280,000 people visited the exhibition based on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The catalogue features fifty-five works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques. It also includes an essay, an illustrated interview with the previous years Travel Award winner and interviews with the prizewinners by Richard McClure, which give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The BP Portrait Award, now in its thirty-sixth year, is one of Britains most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. In 2014 more than 280,000 people visited the exhibition based on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The catalogue features fifty-five works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques. It also includes an essay, an illustrated interview with the previous years Travel Award winner and interviews with the prizewinners by Richard McClure, which give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. The BP Portrait Award, now in its thirty-sixth year, is one of Britains most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. In 2014 more than 280,000 people visited the exhibition based on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The catalogue features fifty-five works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques. It also includes an essay, an illustrated interview with the previous years Travel Award winner and interviews with the prizewinners by Richard McClure, which give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but also a new form of language. In an age of religious and political warfare, they found expression for what it means to be human. Yet although Shakespeare's life is well researched, the lives of his friends are less well known. In this book, Charles Nicholl explains that Shakespeare belonged to a talented group of writers, poets and dramatists, including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne and Sir Walter Ralegh. Illustrated throughout with portraits, engravings and printed documents, it demonstrates how Elizabethan society valued literary talent as well as how these writers saw themselves.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. In considering the context in which portraits were made, the motivations of the sitters and the artists who made them, the purposes to which they were put, and the physical transformations and interventions they have undergone in the intervening five centuries, the authors present an investigation into the portraiture of the Tudor monarchs.…

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Hardback. Condizione: Good. The National Portrait Gallery's "Character Sketches" series provides biographical sketches of a specific group of historical figures from the Gallery's collection of portraits. Each volume examines the public images and private faces, the characters and relationships that gave each group its identity and importance. Introductions to each volume give a comprehensive account of the lives featured from a critical perspective. Journals, letters, diaries, anecdotes, poems and novels are all used to create portraits in words as well as images. This issue focuses on Dr Johnson, his club and other friends.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 'Look at people and their pets today. Pets tell something about their owners, whether they are bought to make a fashion statement, as child substitutes or as an expression of unconditional love between two sentient beings.' So remarked Robin G ibson, the author of this book , on its first publication in 1998. 'It i s about the various animals that appear in portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, but it is also about the owners of the animals w ho commissioned the portraits. The association of the subject or indeed the artist of a po rtrait with an identifiable pet immediately adds a further dimension to our understanding of the characterisation. ' For example, in a self - portrait by Hogarth there is a pug - probably painted over by the artist and visible only under X - ray - relieving itself on a pile of old master paintings. 'A succinct comment,' Gibson writes , 'on those collectors who preferred second - rate foreign imports to contemporary work s by British artists. ' From the Elizabethan soldier and diplomat Sir Henry Unton to the children of King Charles I; from the little terrier that records Lady Caroline Lamb's first extra - marital affair to Queen Victoria's dogs, photographed with her Ghillie John Brown; from the extraordinary images of ballet dancer Anna Pavlova and her pet swan to the poet and critic Edith Sitwell and her favourite cat, this book charts the British love - affair with the domestic pet. F or this new edition , the naturalist, pho tographer and television presenter Chris Packham has contributed an introductory text that features additional portraits from the Gallery's collections . Amusing and often surprising, this delightful book provides some unusual insight s into the special bond between sitters and their faithful companions.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. This is a guide to the kings and queens of England from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth II, illustrated with portraits of every monarch taken from paintings, coins, engravings, photographs and sculptures. Biographical entries give details of the most important historical events and dates in every reign, with each dynasty explained and illustrated in a family tree.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This is a guide to the kings and queens of England from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth II, illustrated with portraits of every monarch taken from paintings, coins, engravings, photographs and sculptures. Biographical entries give details of the most important historical events and dates in every reign, with each dynasty explained and illustrated in a family tree.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. "Americans" is an introduction to the history of the United States of America through the art of portraiture. Bringing together over 120 famous American figures, this book draws on the vibrant collections of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington to represent a selection of heroes, writers, statesmen, inventors, educators, musicians, artists and scientists. Together, these portraits comprise a unique overview of the contribution that individuals have made to American politics, society and culture. Accompanied by informative biographies, the subjects are engaging and wide-ranging - Sequoyah, Henry Clay, Mary Cassatt, George Washington, George Gershwin, Edith Wharton, Martha Graham, Cary Grant, Michael Jackson and Martin Luther-King. The portraits, which date from the 1720s to the 1990s, have been selected to represent American men and women of achievement yet they also form a narrative about the genre of portraiture and vary in style and technique, from the sophisticated paintings of John Singer Sargent and the stark photographs of Richard Avedon, to work by self-taught artists such as Thomas Badger and William Elwell. Some portraits include details that tell us about the sitter's accomplishments at first glance, whilst others benefit from insights offered in contemporary descriptions. With illuminating essays from leading transatlantic critics, curators, writers and historians, "Americans" aims to provide a popular and critical analysis of American history in an unusual but accessible format. "Americans" accompanies an exhibition of paintings and photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, at the National Portrait Gallery in London from 10 October 2002 to 12 January 2003.…

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