This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture change

Portraiture, the most popular genre of painting, occupies a central position in the history of Western art. Despite this, its status within academic art theory

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, whi

"The writing is beautiful, the ideas persuasive, and the picture it paints of the process of careful observation is one that every writer should read. . . . A r

In this follow-up book to his first volume, Portrait Sculpting: Anatomy & Expression in Clay, Philippe Faraut expands on modeling the human face in water-based