"The Belgian artist, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) became a popular society portraitist in the 1880s, using elements that had served him well as an avant-garde Symbolist painter: visual realism and a mood of silence, isolation, and reverie. …
Introduction -- Poe's oval portrait -- The portrait's two faces: James's "The special type" and "The tone of time" -- The portrait painter and his doubles: Hoffmann's "Die Doppeltgänger", Gautier's "La cafetière", and Nerval's "Portrait du diable" -- On portraits, painters, and …
What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balza…
Ottocento painting and the gap in nineteenth-century art historical discourse -- Three portraits/three cities -- Tommaso Minardi and the Roman destiny -- Fancesco Hayez and the rise of history painting during the Risorgimento -- Gioacchino Toma, Neapolitan realism and the afterm…
In this book, Yan Geng examines Mao's image from the perspective of its producers, focusing on four artists, chosen for both the diverse media they worked in and their diverse backgrounds. The book suggests an alternative perspective on the making of propaganda not only as a pol…
Rembrandt: portrait of a man
by Národní galerie v Praze, Brink, Peter van den, Buschhoff, Anne, Dekiert, Marcus, Franits, Wayne E., Haist, Iris, Kazlepka, Zdeněk, Kubíková, Blanka, Lange, Justus, Pokorný, Adam, Saint-George, Caroline von, Seelig, Gero, Seifertová, Hana, Sloten, Leonore van, Thiel-Convery, Laura E., Yeager-Crasselt, Lara, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - Fondation Corboud, Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn, Schaefer, Iris, Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn
This publication will accompany the eponymous exhibition project (in partnership with Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne), whose central theme is the painting "Scholar in his Study", housed in NGP's collections. The representative catalogue focuses on the themes of learning and sc…
Portraits by Ingres: image of an epoch
by Tinterow, Gary, Conisbee, Philip, Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, Maler, Zeichner, Frankreich, Naef, Hans, Kunsthistoriker, Schweiz, Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, Painter, Drawer, France, Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, Peintre, Dessinateur, France, National Gallery (London)
"In Portrayal and the Search for Identity, Marcia Pointon investigates how we view and understand portraiture as a genre and how portraits function as artworks within social and political networks. Likeness is never a straightforward matter, as we rarely have the subject of a po…
Leading philosopher of art Cynthia Freeland investigates some of the fascinating and fundamental questions posed by the art of portraiture. She answers questions such as: what do portraits tell us? What do they mean? What makes a picture into a portrait? And can a picture of an …
For centuries portraits have been one of the most important art forms. But what do they tell us? What do they mean? And what makes a picture into a portrait? --dust jacket.
