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Artist Emanuele Scanziani plays brilliantly with the animate and inanimate beings invoked by the yogic asanas, or poses. He portrays the human form as lions, scorpions, snakes and stone bridges, bringing to life the transformative spirit at the heart of yoga.

'Girls, Gags & Giggles""--this was publisher Robert Harrison's recipe for dishing up the American pin-up to the U.S. male. In the 1950s his girls magazines sold by the millions, before becoming icons of pulp and trash culture. These skillfully illustrated girls with their curvaceous forms and inviting lingerie soon overlook America's national dessert, in terms of popularity, and even developed considerable potential as a cultural export during the 1940s. ""Never show everything,"" was always the...

The first monograph to examine the depiction of reading women in French art of the early Third Republic, Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890 evaluates the pictorial significance of this imagery, its critical reception, and its impact on notions of femininity and social relations. Covering a broad range of paintings, prints, and sculptures, this book shows how the liseuse was subjected to unprecedented levels of pictorial innovation by artists with widely differing aesthetic aims and style...

Painter Katherine Bradford approaches abstraction and figurative painting in a wholly personal and unpredictable way. Her canvases, comprised of multiple thin, semi-transparent layers of acrylic paint, with hints of pentimenti, are built up over months and sometimes years. Drawn to aquatic themes, Bradford likens water to the act of painting both are immersive and wild, yet controllable. The work is populated by a cast of characters from swimmers and bathers to superman and superheroes and, most...

'The Black Figure in the European Imaginary' studies the way in which the visual arts in Europe perceived , or imagined, the black figure during the long 19th century (c1750-1914) prompted by growing contact through colonisation, through the slave trade, and the fascination with all things African an Oriental, images of black people proliferated in all art forms across continental Europe. Such representations had multiple meanings, depending on the context in which they were created. With 40 ma...

Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide. Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating diverse characters enabling you to explore the processes and decision making that go into creating amazing characters. Learn new ways to develop your own ideas, and discover from the artists what it is like to work for top studios such as Di...

Creating Stylized Characters gives readers a valuable insight into the popular art of character design. Professional illustrators, animators and cartoonists, well versed in creating characters for video games, comics and film, guide the reader through accessible tutorial projects packed with images and advice. Any budding artist will soon be able to draw characters of all ages, shapes and sizes! This entertaining, beginner-friendly book is applicable to both digital and traditional media, and de...

In this workshop, you will learn how to create a wide variety of skin tones for realistic, expressive portrait paintings. Using six models in the studio, Chris helps you create color recipes for each skin tone in oil, showing, step by step, how to mix a wide range of colors in both light and shadow, so that you can create successful portraits of your own. * Mix color for blonds, red-heads, brunettes, light, olive and dark skin * Learn about color characteristics such as temperature, intensity, a...

Photographer Alex Geana has captured the spirit of Fire Island over a four-year span, telling the story of The Pines from legendary pool parties to all-night dancing on the beach. A fashion photographer in the commercial world, he brings his unique ability to simutaneously capture elegance and lifestyle with his lens by distilling the essence of The Pines in a glamorous and expansive body of photographic work. His pictures exude the happiness and joy the gay community find in a place where every...

The Human Form in Mosaic is an original and revelatory exploration in the hands of an accomplished artist and author, using the human form as a means to introduce the reader to the technique of mosaic-making. The author guides the reader through the step-by-step process of individually cutting and placing 'tesserae' - the small pieces of marble, gold, glass and ceramic that go to make up mosaics - to articulate the human form, both the body and the face.

George Tscherny, a New York - based designer, has spent the last few decades collecting objects that showcase his fascination with paraphernalia that uniquely questions the limitations of art, the boundaries art and popular culture, and, most importantly, explores what it is to be human. Changing Faces is unquestionably exotic, witty, unusual, and a beautiful collection of objects of various media, including masks, cartoons, toys, advertisements, and traditional art - objects that are strange or...

Masterpieces of Egyptian art from great American collections illuminate the role of women in ancient Egyptian society. Here are stone and wood sculpture; wall painting; statuettes; mummy case and coffin; jewellery and utensils in gold, faience, bronze and glass.

A body s unique character is determined by its anatomic characteristics. For artists, the study of human anatomy is a prerequisite for achieving realistic representations of people. Human Anatomy for Artists will enable you to observe more closely, train your eye to see what is most essential, and advance readers overall understanding of the human form. Boasting more than 1,200 highly detailed drawings by Hungarian professor of arts Andras Szunyoghy, this book offers insights into our physique a...

An exciting appraisal of Schiele's sensual paintings. No other artist in early modern art depicted the body so candidly as Schiele, whose uncompromising truthfulness in allegedly pornographic imagery caused him to be imprisoned briefly in 1912.

Depictions of motherhood are ever present in Western art, yet rarely questioned or challenged. We may shy away from a subject that could be seen as sentimental or overly associated with idealistic constructs of femininity, nurture and care. Whether we are mothers ourselves, or whether we bring or nurture life in a wider sense, we all have some understanding of motherhood. We are all born of a woman’s body. We are formed from the messy, challenging, self-denying and transformative experiences of...

This volume presents the many manifestations of George Washington. Included are fine portraits, ranging from those he actually posed for to postmodern images that deconstruct the icon. Also contained are objects of mass distribution, from glass flasks, tableware and porcelain vases to calendar illustrations, prints and the dollar bill. Spanning more than two centuries, these items tell about the changes in American society as well as about the man portrayed.

This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) known as his "Character Heads." These are busts of human heads, highly unconventional for their time, representing strange, often inexplicable facial expressions. Scholars have struggled to explain these works of art. Some have said that Messerschmidt was insane, while others suggested that he tried to illustrate some sort of intellectual system. Michael Yonan argues that these sculptures...

For centuries, the study of anatomy has played an important role in the education of artists. An understanding of anatomy constitutes the basis for the precise representation of human and animal forms whether at rest or in motion. With more than seven hundred and fifty detailed illustrations by the Hungarian master artist András Szunyoghy, Anatomy Drawing School offers an in-depth view into the anatomy of human beings and selected mammals. This book brings two bestsellers together, combining A...