Glorious full-color reproductions of more than 150 paintings capture the interior spaces of the home in works by more than one hundred renowned artists, including Vermeer, Maes, Sargent, Bonnard, Cass
'Splendid ... a tour de force ... Its lucid prose, evocative illustrations and handsome production make it a joy to read and savour'' Times Higher Education
The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries avictory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless, its great successwas to distance the unclothed body from any uncomfortab
For centuries, women’s self-portraiture was a highly overlooked genre. Beginning with the self-portraits of nuns in medieval illuminated manuscripts, Seeing Ourselves finally gives this richly diverse
Accompanying a year-long display of the ISelf Collection at the Whitechapel Gallery, this publication examines contemporary artists' responses to individual identity, the body and the human condition.
