Published to coincide with the Human Image exhibition, this book gathers together 60 of the most remarkable representations of the human image from the...
Unveiling the construction of the work of the art that is the human body, this text is a visual reference guide that takes a fresh approach to life drawing...
This is the first monograph on the influential yet elusive artist Simon English. Away from the Brit Art hype of the 1990s, English's oeurve has developed...
In Bodyscape, the author traces the roots of our obsession with body images from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. He argues that the representation...
PublishedNew York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]
Explores how artists from the European Renaissance to the global present have used sculpture and color to evoke the presence of the living body Since...
The act of drawing has long been considered the foundation of an artistic education, and the life class essential to the formation of an artist's style...
'The Body in Contemporary Art' presents an international survey of art made over the last two decades in which the human form is central. Featuring work...
The Body in Sculpture is a highly original, deft and compelling account of the history of sculpted representations of the human body, which acknowledges...
From Michelangelo's marbles to photographic self-portraits, artists have always been fascinated by their creative encounters with the human body. Often...