En dehors de sa célébrité en tant que peintre, David Hockney est également reconnu pour la grande qualité de ses dessins. Ce catalogue accompagne une exposition à la National Portrait Gallery à Londres du 27 février au 28 juin 2020. Il présente les dessins du grand maître anglais des années 50 à aujourd'hui et se concentre sur des autoportraits ainsi que sur quelques-uns des modèles phares de l'artiste : sa muse Celia Birtwell, sa mère Laura Hockney et des amis, notamment le commissaire d'exposition Gregory Evans et le graveur Maurice Payne.
Cet ouvrage édité par la National Portrait Gallrey présente les portraits les plus récents de la superstar de l'art anglais, réalisées au cours de quelques dernières années dans sa maison de Normandie.
The Face Magazine will celebrate The Face's most iconic portraits from 1980-2004. Explore its role in the evolution of style photography and its international and enduring impact on visual culture.
Ground-breaking British youth culture and style magazine The Face established the careers of a generation of photographers, journalists, designers, and models.
Ce catalogue, publié à l'occasion de l'exposition à la National Portrait Gallery en juin 2019, considère l'oeuvre de Cindy Sherman à travers l'outil du portrait. Avec la contribution d'écrivains et de conservateurs tels qu'Erika Balsom et Christopher Riopelle, le livre explore les thèmes et les styles constitutifs de son langage visuel et la façon dont l'identité est construite à partir de l'apparence dans une relation mercurielle entre la surface et la réalité.
The first comprehensive monograph on the forgotten radical innovator of color photography and mythic, surreal portraiture.
The British photographer Yevonde was a businesswoman and tireless creator; as an innovator committed to color photography when it was not considered a serious medium, her work is significant in the history of portrait photography. Yevonde's portraits embody glorified tradition countered with a desire for the new; her most renowned body of work is a series of women dressed as goddesses posed in surreal tableaux from the 1930s. Yevonde championed photography during a time when there were few women photographers working professionally, and this book tells the story of her life, her works and her 60-year career.
Yevonde: Life and Colour brings the photographer's works together for the first time in 20 years. With an abundance of reproductions, and featuring previously unpublished works, the book showcases her experimentation with a range of techniques and genres including color photography, portraiture, still lifes, solarization and the Vivex color process, and repositions her as a key modern artist of the 20th century. It also provides in-depth context for Yevonde's images, considering their aesthetic and mythic references.
Yevonde (1893-1975), also known as Madame Yevonde, was a London-based photographer of portraits and still lifes whose motto was "be original or die."
La National Portrait Gallery expose les portraits de famille du peintre anglais Thomas Gainsborough. Alors que ce dernier souhaitait abandonner la peinture de portrait pour celle de paysage, sa seule exception concernait sa propre famille, fait rare à cette époque. Pendant plus de 40 ans, Gainsborough a peint sa femme, ses filles, ses chiens adorés ainsi que des amis et des proches de la famille. Ses tableaux déroulent l'histoire de ce peintre de province devenu célèbre et riche mais nous indique aussi l'importance du portrait dans la promotion des valeurs familliales.
Ce livre, publié à l'occasion de l'exposition à la National Portrait Gallery et produit en étroite collaboration avec l'artiste, présente 48 oeuvres de Cindy Sherman reproduites sur des cartes postales perforées et détachables.
Oscar Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll et Lady Clementina Hawarden incarnent le meilleur de la photographie à l'époque victorienne. Ces pionniers n'ont cessé d'expérimenter dans la narration et la création de l'image. La National Portrait Gallery consacre une exposition à ces photographes influencés par la peinture et les Pré-raphaélites, formant un lien qui unit l'art du passé à celui du futur.
La National Portrait Gallery consacre une grande rétrospective aux portraits de William Eggleston (21/07/2016-23/10/2016). Avec une centaine de photos des années 1960 à aujourd?hui, de célèbres images couleur mais aussi plusieurs tirages vintage inédits en noir & blanc, ce catalogue couvre toute la carrière d?un monument de la photo.
Ce livre explore l'influence qu'eut le Bloomsbury Group, association d'artistes et de penseurs de l'entre-deux guerres, sur la société anglaise et sur les arts. Il présente les réseaux très importants d'échanges d'oeuvres et de représentations qui furent tissés entre ses membres, retraçant leur histoire à travers 20 biographies illustrées, dont celles de Virginia et Leonard Woolf, Vanessa et Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lady Ottoline Morrell et Roger Fry parmi d'autres.
Charles III: The Making of a King celebrates the new King in the year of his coronation. The beautiful gift book includes a timeline of key events from Charles' life, and explores the future of the monarchy through photographs and paintings of the wider royal family, including Diana, Princess of Wales, Camilla, Queen Consort, William and Catherine, Prince and Princess of Wales, Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and Prince George of Wales.
Presenting family photographs alongside important formal portraits, this book features works by key artists who have depicted the King from 1948 to the present day, such as Nadav Kander, Cecil Beaton, Marcus Adams, Lisa Sheridan, Lord Snowdon, Joan Williams, Patrick Lichfield, Norman Parkinson, Bern Schwartz, Carole Cutner, Bryan Organ, Terence Donovan, Nicola Philipps and Mario Testino.
What were the real life stories and legacies of the six women who married Henry VIII? Discover these extraordinary queens through the court culture that recorded and shaped their often tempestuous lives: their letters, heraldic devices, books, love tokens and, of course, their portraits.
The women who married Henry VIII have come to be encapsulated in a six-word rhyme: ''Divorced, Beheaded, Died / Divorced, Beheaded, Survived''. But what were their real stories and legacies? Six Lives: A Portrait of Six Tudor Queens reveals the extraordinary lives, and afterlives, of Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr. A source of fascination to historians and writers down the centuries, each of the queens, and their relationship with the king, has been the subject extensive research and a source of creative inspiration. This publication focuses on the material traces of the queens and the court culture that shaped their lives, extensively illustrated with their letters, heraldic devices, books, love tokens and, of course, their portraits.
The book begins with an examination of the women as cultural phenomena, looking at the ways in which their lives have inspired storytellers, from Shakespeare''s Henry VIII to the musical Six, and the role that portraiture has played in the performance of the queens'' stories. An overview essay examines the queens'' self-presentation through portraiture before individual chapters consider each of their relationships with the king, their social and familial networks and their patronage. Each chapter is accompanied by a thematic piece written by an expert scholar, taking a closer look at an element of court culture, ranging from music and jewellery, to court pageantry and heraldry.
The publication accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery in Summer 2024.
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When the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (the 'PRB') exhibited their first works in 1849 it heralded a revolution in British art. Styling themselves the 'Young Painters of England', this group of young men aimed to overturn stale Victorian artistic conventions and challenge the previous generation with their startling colours and compositions.
Think of the images created by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others in their circle, however, and it is not men but pale-faced
Ce livre accompagne une grande exposition à la National Portrait Gallery, consacrée au travail d'Elizabeth Peyton. Créé en étroite collaboration avec l'artiste, il présente des oeuvres clé de son travail et examine l'évolution de sa pratique, explorant son esthétique unique et son interrogation sur la perception, l'émotion et les relations humaines.
With just under a thousand portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, the National Portrait Gallery boasts some of the most treasured and famous official portraits of the Queen captured at key historic moments, as well as day-to-day images of the monarch at home and with family, following her journey from childhood, to princess and Queen, mother and grandmother. This publication highlights the most important portraits of Elizabeth II from the Gallery's Collection. Paintings and photographs from the birth of Elizabeth II to the present will take readers on a visual journey through the life of Britain's foremost icon.
The book will reflect on the Queen's life, presenting family photographs alongside important formal portraits to explore how, as her reign became record-breaking, she became an iconic figure in modern British culture and history. The publication features works by key artists depicting the Queen from 1926 to the present day, including Baron, Cecil Beaton, Dorothy Wilding, Patrick Lichfield, Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz and David Bailey.
This book features an introductory essay by Alexandra Schulman, exploring how the collected portraits depict the Queen throughout her life and reign, and a timeline of key historical events and moments from Elizabeth II's life.
Ce livre, publié à l'occasion de l'exposition éponyme à la National Portrait Gallery, met à l'honneur le rôle fondamental des femmes au sein du mouvement préraphaélite. En prévalence masculin, ce chapitre de l'art anglais a portant pu conter sur de nombreuses femmes qui de manière transversale ont habité et soutenu le mouvement en qualité de modèles pour certaines, de partenaires pour d'autres, mais aussi de créatrices de décors ou d'accessoires utilisés en suite pour les scénarios des célèbres peintures.
Qu'est-ce que le portrait dans l'art contemporain ? C'est à cette question que tente de répondre 21st Century Portraits à travers les oeuvres d'une cinquantaine d'artistes parmis lesquels Douglas Gordon, Rineke Dijkstra, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Thomas Struth, Marlene Dumas, Annie Leibovitz, Christian Boltanski, Antony Gormley, Shirin Neshat, Lucian Freud ou Gerhard Richter.
David Bailey est mis à l?honneur dans une grande exposition rétrospective à la National Portrait Gallery (06/02 - 01/06/2014). L?artiste, connu notamment pour son rôle majeur de photographe du British Vogue dans les années 1960, a choisi d'exposer différents sujets et groupes capturés durant ces cinq dernières décennies: acteurs, écrivains, musiciens, politiciens, réalisateurs, mannequins, artistes et personnes rencontrées lors de ses voyages.
Réalisé à l'occasion de l'exposition éponyme à la National Portrait Gallery de Londres, ce catalogue met à l'honneur le genre du portait miniature au Royaume-Uni à la fin du XVI siècle à travers les peintures de deux artistes emblématiques de cette mouvance : Nicholas Hilliard et Isaac Oliver. Avec une iconologie détaillée pour chaque image, l'ouvrage propose une exploration de ces oeuvres et de leur rôle dans la société élisabéthaine et jacobéenne.
National Portrait Gallery: The Collection is published to celebrate the reopening of the Gallery after a three-year redevelopment project. Designed by Daniela Rocha, this engaging and inviting book takes the reader on a chronological journey through Britain's history in portraiture, from the Tudors to Now, featuring the country's most impactful and famous individuals, from Queen Elizabeth I to Mary Seacole, and Virginia Woolf to David Bowie. The book is richly illustrated with beautiful paintings, photographs, sculptures, drawings and digital works.
Readers will enjoy a selection of the most popular and recognisable portraits from the Collection, accompanied by short chapter introductions that introduce key historical periods, their most exciting figures, and their most important historical, political, social and cultural moments. This accessible structure allows the reader to dip into any of the beautiful portraits and their stories, and understand their place in British history.
An Introduction by Director Dr. Nicholas Cullinan will highlight why portraiture has been fundamental to people and society historically, but also to contemporary audiences, by exploring themes of culture, identity and the representation of diversity. This will also introduce readers to the nation's newly-reopened National Portrait Gallery, explaining how it came to be the nation's home of portraits and the world's most significant Collection of people.
A lively and gift-worthy introduction to the biggest names and works in Black figuration.
This visual gift book 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. The selections included in this brief introduction are beautiful, urgent works by 22 contemporary Black figurative artists that present the Black form with nuance and depth. Each artwork illustrated is accompanied by a short biography of the artist and quotes about their own creative proccess. Their quotes about their own creative process are juxtaposed with excerpts from influential Black writers such as Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois.
This publication offers an opportunity for readers to experience some of the most exciting artworks by Black artists depicting the Black form. Within this context, the book takes on a dual role: as the accomplished work of individual artists on the one hand, and as a collective assertion of Black presence on the other.
Artists include: Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Jordan Casteel, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Noah Davis, Godfried Donkor, Kimathi Donkor, Denzil Forrester, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Chris Ofili, Jennifer Packer, Thomas J. Price, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Lorna Simpson, Amy Sherald, Henry Taylor and Barbara Walker.
A luxurious visual guide to the past 500 years of the British monarchy
Public image has been a concern of every monarch since the dawn of visual culture, and depictions of rulers have consistently appeared through art history's various mediums. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the National Portrait Gallery, London's stunning collection of British royal portraiture. Through a continuous chronology spanning 500 years, from Henry VIII to Charles III, discover how kings and queens have positioned themselves to create images infused with strength, domesticity and love. Familiar pop culture subjects like Queen Charlotte and Princess Diana take their places among lesser-known figures of the British crown. Works are accompanied by captions that detail reigns, relationships, biographies and legacies. An introduction by curator Rab MacGibbon explains the history of the British royal family and its role in today's society. The Royals is the newest addition to the National Portrait Gallery's collection of books on British royalty.
