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Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and has been crucial to the construction and articulation of individualism. Despite this, its status within academic art theory is uncertain and there is no adequate critical analysis of the subject available. With an international team of specialists, including Patricia Simmons, Ludmilla Jordanova, John Gage, Marcia Pointon and Ernst Van Alphen, this volume provides a much-needed, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the major issues in the history of portraiture. The book's chapters are structured chronologically, progressing from the Italian Renaissance to Dutch seventeenth-century portraiture and on to Picasso, surrealism, Lucian Freud and Cindy Sherman. Each chapter examines the key developments in portraiture within each specific period, complete with analytical subheadings, making this an ideal book for students.

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PremierArt Matte Canvas is a 2:1 double weave poly/cotton canvas that is instant drying and water resistant. The bright white base has a high D-Max and extended tonal range, making this canvas ideal for wedding and portrait photography, Giclee, d cor art and fine art printing. Premier Art's unique acid free coating produces the highest D-Max of any matte canvas on the market today. With a higher D-Max comes an expanded color gamut that produces more vibrant prints. This water resistant canvas is compatible with both dye and pigment based inks on either thermal or piezo printers.• Poly/cotton• Double weave fabric• Water resistant• Instant drying• Bright white base• High resolution coating• High opacity• Matte surface• Universal compatibility Easily Stretched The double weaved poly/cotton base is easily stretched and when coated with Premier Art Eco Print Shield, will not crack, making it ideal for mounting on stretcher bars. When used with the popular long life pigmented ink sets on the market today, this 100% acid free poly/cotton canvas will last for many generations, under proper framing and display conditions. Image Permanence From the poly/cotton base to the acid free coating, this canvas has been engineered to be extremely stable. Matte Canvas is currently being tested by Wilhelm Imaging Research. Although no ratings are yet available, previous PremierArt products using the same technology scored extremely well in WIR testing. Coatings For the longest lasting print, the canvas must be either framed under glass or sealed with a protective coating. Since the majority of canvas prints are stretched, the choice of coating becomes very important. PremierArt Eco Print Shield has been formulated especially for this canvas and will increase the life on the image significantly, depending on the ink set used. Eco Print Shield will not crack when stretched or yellow over time. Benefits • Best base for stretching• Excellent durability• Will not run with water contact• Easy handling• Highly saturated images• Photographic quality• Prevents image bleed through• Easily retouched• Piezo / thermal, dye / pigment Applications • Fine Art Photography• Giclee Reproduction• Portrait Photography• Wedding Photography

PremierArt Matte Canvas is a 2:1 double weave poly/cotton canvas that is instant drying and water resistant. The bright white base has a high D-Max and extended tonal range, making this canvas ideal for wedding and portrait photography, Giclee, d cor art and fine art printing. Premier Art's unique acid free coating produces the highest D-Max of any matte canvas on the market today. With a higher D-Max comes an expanded color gamut that produces more vibrant prints. This water resistant canvas is compatible with both dye and pigment based inks on either thermal or piezo printers.• Poly/cotton• Double weave fabric• Water resistant• Instant drying• Bright white base• High resolution coating• High opacity• Matte surface• Universal compatibility Easily Stretched The double weaved poly/cotton base is easily stretched and when coated with Premier Art Eco Print Shield, will not crack, making it ideal for mounting on stretcher bars. When used with the popular long life pigmented ink sets on the market today, this 100% acid free poly/cotton canvas will last for many generations, under proper framing and display conditions. Image Permanence From the poly/cotton base to the acid free coating, this canvas has been engineered to be extremely stable. Matte Canvas is currently being tested by Wilhelm Imaging Research. Although no ratings are yet available, previous PremierArt products using the same technology scored extremely well in WIR testing. Coatings For the longest lasting print, the canvas must be either framed under glass or sealed with a protective coating. Since the majority of canvas prints are stretched, the choice of coating becomes very important. PremierArt Eco Print Shield has been formulated especially for this canvas and will increase the life on the image significantly, depending on the ink set used. Eco Print Shield will not crack when stretched or yellow over time. Benefits • Best base for stretching• Excellent durability• Will not run with water contact• Easy handling• Highly saturated images• Photographic quality• Prevents image bleed through• Easily retouched• Piezo / thermal, dye / pigment Applications • Fine Art Photography• Giclee Reproduction• Portrait Photography• Wedding Photography

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Make your portrait photography stand out with the Smith-Victor K64, a 3 Light, 1,000 watt Controlled Quartz Portraiture Kit designed for professional photographers who demand high-quality, versatile lighting solutions. This durable kit is engineered by the reputable brand Smith-Victor, a leader in photography equipment, ensuring that you receive a product that meets the industry's high standards.The Smith-Victor K64 kit includes three powerful quartz halogen lights that provide a combined output of 1,000 watts, offering bright and consistent illumination for capturing stunning portraits. The lights are equipped with precision controls, allowing you to fine-tune the intensity and quality of light to match your creative vision.Included in this comprehensive kit is a large softbox, which diffuses light to create a soft, even glow that flatters your subjects and eliminates harsh shadows. The beauty dish included adds a unique, directional light that is perfect for highlighting facial features and adding depth to your images. Additionally, the kit comes with a versatile reflector that can be used to bounce light onto your subject, fill in shadows, or create dramatic effects.The Smith-Victor K64 is built to last, featuring durable construction that can withstand the rigors of frequent use. Its versatility is further enhanced by the inclusion of a sturdy light stand, which provides stable support for your lighting setup and can be easily adjusted to accommodate various shooting scenarios.Whether you're a seasoned professional or an enthusiast looking to elevate your portraiture, the Smith-Victor K64, 3 Light, 1,000 watt Controlled Quartz Portraiture Kit is an affordable solution that doesn't compromise on quality. Choose this kit for its wide range of lighting options and the ability to produce professional-grade results in any portraiture project.

Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France challenges widely held assumptions about both the genre of portraiture and the political and cultural role of images in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. After 1789, portraiture came to dominate French visual culture because it addressed the central challenge of the Revolution: how to turn subjects into citizens. Revolutionary portraits allowed sitters and artists to appropriate the means of representation, both aesthetic and political, and articulate new forms of selfhood and citizenship, often in astonishingly creative ways. The triumph of revolutionary portraiture also marks a turning point in the history of art, when seriousness of purpose and aesthetic ambition passed from the formulation of historical narratives to the depiction of contemporary individuals. This shift had major consequences for the course of modern art production and its engagement with the political and the contingent.

Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers’ studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passion for portraits in Africa. They review a variety of topics, including what defines a common culture of photography, the social and political implications of changing technologies for portraiture, and the lasting effects of culture on the idea of the person depicted in the photographic image.

The theme of this publication is Russian portraits over the past hundred years, painting a vivid picture of every period in the 20th century. The more than 460 illustrations were all taken from the collection of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, home to the world's largest collection of Russian art. The various movements and styles in which 20th century artists worked are widely reflected in portraiture. Those whose lives are indelibly linked to the events of the past century are depicted in realistic and avant-garde forms, constituting an unbroken chain of Russian history in faces.

One of the most remarkable artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire was the emergence in the early seventeenth century of portraits of identifiable individuals, unprecedented in both South Asia and the Islamic world. Appearing at a time of increasing contact between Europe and Asia, portraits from the reigns of the great Mughal emperor-patrons Akbar, Jahangirand Shah Jahan are among the best-known paintings produced in South Asia. In the following centuries portraiture became more widespread in the visual culture of South Asia, especially in the rich and varied traditions of painting, but also in sculpture and later prints and photography. This collection seeks to understand the intended purpose of a range of portrait traditions in South Asia and how their style, setting and representation may have advanced a range of aesthetic, social and political functions. The chapters range across a wide historical period, exploring ideals of portraiture in Sanskrit and Persian literature, the emergence and political symbolism of Mughal portraiture, through to the paintings of the Rajput courts, sculpture in Tamil temples and the transformation of portraiture in colonial north India and post-independence Pakistan.This specially commissioned collection of studies from a strong list of established scholars and rising stars makes a significant contribution to South Asian history, art and visual culture.

Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers’ studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passion for portraits in Africa. They review a variety of topics, including what defines a common culture of photography, the social and political implications of changing technologies for portraiture, and the lasting effects of culture on the idea of the person depicted in the photographic image.

Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France challenges widely held assumptions about both the genre of portraiture and the political and cultural role of images in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. After 1789, portraiture came to dominate French visual culture because it addressed the central challenge of the Revolution: how to turn subjects into citizens. Revolutionary portraits allowed sitters and artists to appropriate the means of representation, both aesthetic and political, and articulate new forms of selfhood and citizenship, often in astonishingly creative ways. The triumph of revolutionary portraiture also marks a turning point in the history of art, when seriousness of purpose and aesthetic ambition passed from the formulation of historical narratives to the depiction of contemporary individuals. This shift had major consequences for the course of modern art production and its engagement with the political and the contingent.

Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money, the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote the value and agendas of the ordinary middle classes. According to Kamilla Elliott, our current practices of "picture identification" (driver’s licenses, passports, and so on) are rooted in these late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century debates.Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction examines ways writers such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and C. R. Maturin as well as artists, historians, politicians, and periodical authors dealt with changes in how social identities were understood and valued in British culture―specifically, who was represented by portraits and how they were represented as they vied for social power.Elliott investigates multiple aspects of picture identification: its politics, epistemologies, semiotics, and aesthetics, and the desires and phobias that it produces. Her extensive research not only covers Gothic literature’s best-known and most studied texts but also engages with more than 100 Gothic works in total, expanding knowledge of first-wave Gothic fiction as well as opening new windows into familiar work.

The theme of this publication is Russian portraits over the past hundred years, painting a vivid picture of every period in the 20th century. The more than 460 illustrations were all taken from the collection of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, home to the world's largest collection of Russian art. The various movements and styles in which 20th century artists worked are widely reflected in portraiture. Those whose lives are indelibly linked to the events of the past century are depicted in realistic and avant-garde forms, constituting an unbroken chain of Russian history in faces.

This fascinating new addition to the acclaimed Oxford History of Art series explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been interpreted? The book provides a clear, yet thorough overview of the history of portraiture in terms of social, political, economic, and psychological factors over a broad time span. Issues such as identity, modernity, and gender are considered within their cultural and historical contexts. Shearer West uncovers intriguing aspects of portraiture-a genre that has often been seen as purely representational, featuring examples from African tribes to Renaissance princes, and from "stars" such as David and Victoria Beckham to everyday people. West examines the many meanings and uses of portraits throughout the ages and includes a wide range of artists from Botticelli to Picasso, and Hans Holbein to Frida Kahlo. In the process, she reveals the faces of the past in an exciting new way. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book is a unique and accessible introduction to the history of portraiture.

This is the first general and theoretical study devoted entirely to portraiture. Drawing on a broad range of images from Antiquity to the twentieth century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, Richard Brilliant investigates the genre as a particular phenomenon in Western art that is especially sensitive to changes in the perceived nature of the individual in society.The author's argument on behalf of portraiture (and he draws on examples by such artists as Botticelli, Rembrandt, Matisse, Warhol and Hockney) does not comprise a mere survey of the genre, nor is it a straightforward history of its reception. Instead, Brilliant presents a thematic and cogent analysis of the connections between the subject-matter of portraits and the beholder's response – the response he or she makes to the image itself and to the person it represents. Portraiture's extraordinary longevity and resilience as a genre is a testament to the power of this imaginative transaction between the subject, the artist and the beholder.

This is the first general and theoretical study devoted entirely to portraiture. Drawing on a broad range of images from Antiquity to the twentieth century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, Richard Brilliant investigates the genre as a particular phenomenon in Western art that is especially sensitive to changes in the perceived nature of the individual in society.The author's argument on behalf of portraiture (and he draws on examples by such artists as Botticelli, Rembrandt, Matisse, Warhol and Hockney) does not comprise a mere survey of the genre, nor is it a straightforward history of its reception. Instead, Brilliant presents a thematic and cogent analysis of the connections between the subject-matter of portraits and the beholder's response ? the response he or she makes to the image itself and to the person it represents. Portraiture's extraordinary longevity and resilience as a genre is a testament to the power of this imaginative transaction between the subject, the artist and the beholder.

This unique book is a photographer’s guide to the powerful medium of the environmental portrait. It explores in lucid detail the many "moving parts" of this imaging style, including the techniques and creative processes that drive some of this genre’s finest contemporary practitioners. In Environmental Portraiture, author Jim Cornfield puts his readers behind the viewfinder to help them successfully master what he calls "the portrait photographer’s most high-powered tool." In a series of detailed tutorial chapters and study models, Cornfield unpacks every practical aspect of the environmental portrait scenario, including research, location scouting, lighting interior and exterior environments, props and wardrobe, lens selection, composition, color, and after-capture. Along with this wealth of comprehensive nuts-and-bolts information, the book probes the deep structure of environmental portraiture―the blend of a sitter’s backstory with the meaningful visual clues in their surroundings. He introduces such concepts as "portraitcraft," "cognitive weight," and "the ideas and emotions quotient," among the many dimensions of an environmental portrait that create eye-opening revelations about the person in front of your lens. A separate section of the book is devoted to a prestigious roster of contemporary environmental portraitists, specifically recruited for this book to explore in-depth selected samples from their diverse portfolios. They bring with them a score of insights, tips and fascinating anecdotes that demonstrate their individualized approaches to this versatile branch of the photographer’s craft. Written for professionals, amateurs and serious students of photography, this book is both a guide and inspiration to creating powerful, communicative environmental portraiture.