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.
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.
Vivant et travaillant à plus d'un siècle d'intervalle, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) et Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) ont expérimenté des manières très différentes de réaliser et de comprendre la photographie. Ce catalogue accompagne une exposition à la National Portrait Gallery de Londres en mars 2024. Couvrant la carrière des deux artistes, il établit des parallèles entre les deux photographes, présentant de nouvelles recherches, des tirages vintages rares et des oeuvres d'archives inédites. Les oeuvres de l'exposition sont organisées en huit sections thématiques avec des essais de fond, offrant une opportunité accessible et engageante de considérer les deux artistes sous un nouveau jour.
The first volume in over 20 years dedicated to Bacon's unconventional, psychologically trenchant portraits
Featuring works from the 1950s onward, this book explores the genre-defying portraiture of Irish British artist Francis Bacon (1909-92). It is the first publication in over 20 years dedicated to this facet of Bacon's practice. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists to large-scale paintings memorializing lost lovers, these selected works showcase Bacon's life story. In addition to the artist's self-portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and his lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer.
From his renowned triptychs and paintings of ghostly figures to tender and psychologically revealing individual portraits, the figurative works displayed in this publication chart the development of a groundbreaking artist, highlighting the influence of his peers and other artists. Francis Bacon: Human Presence also features illustrated biographies of Bacon and his circle, bringing lesser-told stories to the fore.
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."
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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
The "Bright Young Things" désigne un surnom donné par la presse tabloïd britannique à une génération d'aristocrates hédonistes qui a émergé dans l'entre-deux-guerres. Célébrités, artistes bohèmes et socialites sont alors passés sous l'objectif du jeune Cecil Beaton, déjà célèbre pour ses portraits. La National Portrait Gallery rend hommage au grand photographe avec une exposition au printemps 2020 qui rassemble plus de 200 photos, mais aussi despeintures, des caricatures, des couvertures de livre qui ont été illustrées par son travail à l'époque.
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.
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.
Black figuration and portraiture as realized in the works of Amy Sherald, Jordan Casteel and other contemporary artists.
«There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now,» wrote James Baldwin. Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, The Time is Always Now is edited by curator Ekow Eshun, former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The book brings together 22 contemporary African diasporic artists working primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States, whose practices?whether through painting, drawing or sculpture?foreground the Black figure. Acknowledging the paradox of race as both a «socially constructed fiction» and a «lived reality,» as Eshun writes, The Time is Always Now celebrates these Black figurative artworks against a background of heightened cultural visibility. Through a three-part structure, this book examines Black figuration as a means to address the absence and distortion of Black presence within Western art history. Each artist receives a detailed biographical profile alongside reproductions of their included works. The catalog is also supplemented by three original essays from Dorothy Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art; Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other; and Esi Edugyan, two-time Giller Prize winner for her novels Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black.
Artists include: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Jordan Casteel, Noah Davis, Godfried Donkor, Kimathi Donkor, Denzil Forrester, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Chris Ofili, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Jennifer Packer, Thomas J. Price, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Lorna Simpson, Amy Sherald, Henry Taylor, Barbara Walker.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A jaunt through the art-inspired cocktail menu from the National Portrait Gallery's glamorous new speakeasy
Experience iconic works from the National Portrait Gallery's Collection and the cocktails inspired by them in the menu for the gallery's award-winning underground speakeasy, Larry's, by the Daisy Green Collection. From the regal gin cocktail "The Cecil Beaton" to the experimental, colorful gin fizz "The Yevonde" and the award-winning "McBean" dirty martini, these fabulous cocktails evoke bygone eras and the creative spirit of London's West End, which is known for its hub of creativity and pioneering jazz scene. This beautiful hardback publication begins with an introduction to Larry's Bar and the story of its namesake, the actor Sir Laurence Olivier. It then showcases each of Larry's bespoke cocktails, telling the stories behind their inspiration, ingredients and design. Each story is illustrated with portraits of iconic figures from the National Portrait Gallery's Collection, ranging from Audrey Hepburn to Francis Bacon.
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.
Ce livre reproduit une sélection d'esquisses de Lucian Freud, dont de nombreuses inédites. Au crayon, pastel, fusain ou à l'aquarelle, le célèbre artiste saisit tout au long de sa vie ses proches, ses amis et sa famille, mais aussi des animaux, des paysages, des nus et des natures mortes.
