The English Face
2nd Edition
Published on 23. July 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-85514-009-7 (ISBN)
Description
The author considers how the face has been depicted by portrait painters, miniaturists, sculptors, caricaturists and photographers over the past 500 years and shows how every age has its own ideal standard of beauty influenced by changing fashions in dress, manners and artistic taste. This book explores the relationship between artist and sitter whilst considering whether or not the English face exists.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
130 colour and 90 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 275 mm
Width: 220 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85514-009-7 (9781855140097)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Stone effigy to Renaissance portrait; Holbein - painter at court; the Elizabethans - a rock against time; Jacobean melancholy; Restoration Baroque; the polite mask of the Augustan Age; Hogarth - character not caricature; the Golden Age of the society portrait; miniatures - profiles - silhouettes; Lawrence - Gillray and the New World of industry; Pre-Raphaelite yearning; Carlyle - the face of history; Sargent - the world and its centre; not beauty but character; the twentieth century.