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9) Crown of a thousand years: a millenium of British history presented as a pageant of kings and queens
Author
Pub. Date
1978
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this broad cultural survey, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus to the prolific self-image-making of contemporary artists. His intelligent and vivid account shows how artists' depictions of themselves have been part of a continuing tradition that reaches back for centuries. Along the way he reveals the importance of the medieval 'mirror craze'; the explosion...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
"Lincoln's somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson's swearing in. George W. Bush's reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly-discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack...
Series
Medieval Mediterranean volume 130
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (XX, 608 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scene of the rulers' bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated...
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