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By: David Williamson
ISBN: 9781855144323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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David Williamsons text paints a vivid and sensitive portrait of each monarch, revealing the dramatic events and controversies that surrounded them. With a rich selection of images, anecdotes, comprehensive fact boxes and clear family trees, National Portrait Gallery Kings & Queens will appeal to everyone with an interest in history or the British monarchy.
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By: Dominique Le Nen
ISBN: 9782370742148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Editions Skira Paris
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(Hardback)
By: Linda Nochlin
ISBN: 9780500027257
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late eighteenth century, fragmented, mutilated, and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world.
(Hardback)
By: Louise Stewart
ISBN: 9781855147034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2020
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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(Hardback)
By: Ann Coxon
ISBN: 9781849768375
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th March 2023
Publisher: Tate Publishing
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A captivating visual exploration of motherhood as seen through the eyes of artists over the last 400 years.
(Paperback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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100 Portraits presents a selection of images of significant individuals who have shaped the last four centuries of British life, from Anne Boleyn to David Beckham, from William Shakespeare to J.K. Rowling, portrayed by artists as diverse as Joshua Reynolds, Andy Warhol and Ida Kar.Each image is accompanied by an extended caption withkey information on the sitter and the artist.
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By: Desmond Morris
ISBN: 9780500022610
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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This copiously illustrated work by the ever-provocative Morris is a pioneering and lively exploration of the importance of body language in how people understand art.
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By: Ekow Eshun
ISBN: 9781855145481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2024
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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"... introduces readers to the field of Black figuration by highlighting key works from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure."--Provided by publisher.
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By: Robert R. Crumb
ISBN: 9783836559065
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
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Robert Crumb has selected his most intimately revealing comic strips and single page drawings to create a 258 page encyclopedic trip through his sexual psyche. All images were created between 1980 and 2006, and all strips are hand-colored for a lush vibrancy never seen in his comic books. In total the book features 14 complete stories.
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By: Frances Borzello
ISBN: 9780500294024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 11th January 2018
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Splendid a tour de force Its lucid prose, evocative illustrations and handsome production make it a joy to read and savour Times Higher Education
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By: Frances Borzello
ISBN: 9780500296677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Rab MacGibbon
ISBN: 9781855145344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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(Paperback)
By: Frances Spalding
ISBN: 9781855144811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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This revealing, highly illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf (18821941) by a leading authority on the Bloomsbury Group accompanies a major exhibition of portraits of the world-renowned British novelist, essayist, biographer and critic and her circle at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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By: Lanka Tattersall
ISBN: 9781633451650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2024
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
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(Hardback)
By: Sophie Gerhard
ISBN: 9781760762742
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Flavia Frigeri
ISBN: 9781855145689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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(Paperback)
By: Kevin Coleman
ISBN: 9781839760808
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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A provocative exploration of photography's relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture.
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By: B Hogarth
ISBN: 9780823015528
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2000
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
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This revised edition covers text on artistic anatomy. It includes 75 never before published drawings from the Burne Hogarth archives and 24 pages of new material. Action studies and practical diagrams show how to render the anatomical details of the figure in motion and at rest.
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By: M Simon
ISBN: 9780823016716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 28th May 2003
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
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All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad...look glad...look mad...madder...no, even madder...okay, hold it. For those artists (and their long-suffering friends), here is the best book ever.
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By: National Portrait Gallery
ISBN: 9781588346940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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"A gorgeous publication that reveals the historical importance of first ladies through portraiture"--
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By: Kristi Nelson
ISBN: 9781098321567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: BookBaby
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An artistic tribute of portraits to the frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic and their stories.
(Hardback)
By: Kristi Nelson
ISBN: 9781098374365
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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A 2nd edition of Masked Heroes which includes artistic tributes of portraits to the frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic and their shared stories.
(Hardback)
By: Andrea Werhun
ISBN: 9780771098413
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
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(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: Richard Walker
ISBN: 9781905400225
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Numbering some 1,500 individual items and housed at over 80 historic properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the collection of portrait miniatures cared for by the National Trust is considered to be one of the most significant in the world.
