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National Worthies: Being a Selection from the National Portrait Gallery

Product Description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

By National Portrait Gallery

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9780548797839 | Kessinger Pub Co, November 30, 2007, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Great Britons: The Great Debate

Product Description: Why do some people find lasting fame for their achievements, whilst others lapse into obscurity? What makes an individual truly "great"? This work explores the lives of ten men and women who have influenced our history, and examines why they continue to spark international interest and admiration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Rosie Boycott (editor), John Cooper (editor), Brian Howard Harrison (editor), Mark Harrison (editor) and National Portrait Gallery (other contributor)

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9781855145078 | Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns, February 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Why do some people find lasting fame for their achievements, whilst others lapse into obscurity?

Portrait of the Art World: A Century of Artnews Photographs

Product Description: "ARTnews", the oldest art magazine in America and the most widely circulated art magazine in the world, is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2002. This volume celebrates and commemorates this milestone event, presenting 100 photographic portraits commissioned by and reproduced in the magazine since its origin...read more

By Tracey L. Avant, Milton Esterow, Pete Hamill, National Portrait Gallery (other contributor) and William F. Stapp

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9780300097528 | Yale Univ Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: "ARTnews", the oldest art magazine in America and the most widely circulated art magazine in the world, is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2002.

Women of Our Time: An Album of Twentieth-Century Photographs

Collects photographic portraits and brief biographies of some of the most influential women of the twentieth century, such as Helen Keller, Willa Cather, Marian Anderson, and Judy Garland.

By National Portrait Gallery (other contributor) and Frederick S. Voss (editor)

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9781858941691 | Merrell, October 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Collects photographic portraits and brief biographies of some of the most influential women of the twentieth century, such as Helen Keller, Willa Cather, Marian Anderson, and Judy Garland.

Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery

Product Description: Fifty graphic masterpieces representing the American artistic tradition from 1880 to the present day are showcased in "Eye Contact". Reproduced as full-page color images, they range from portraits of Theodore Roosevelt by Charles Dana Gibson and W...read more

By Amon Carter Museum of Western Art (corporate author), Elmhurst Art Museum (corporate author), Naples Museum of Art (other contributor), National Portrait Gallery (other contributor), Wendy Wick Reaves and Bernard Reilly

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9780295982670 | Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns, July 1, 2002, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Fifty graphic masterpieces representing the American artistic tradition from 1880 to the present day are showcased in "Eye Contact".

Mirror, Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists

Product Description: The self-portrait is an artist’s most intriguing vehicle for analysis and self-expression. Serving a dual role as both creator and subject, artists are offered unusual freedom; as a result, self-portraits offer special value and high interest for both artists and art lovers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Frances Borzello, Whitney Chadwick and Liz Redeal

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9780823030712 | Watson-Guptill Pubns, April 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The self-portrait is an artist’s most intriguing vehicle for analysis and self-expression.

George Romney 1734-1802

The year 2002 marks the bicentenary of the death of George Romney, one of the key figures in British art in the late 18th century. A chief rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, he was known both as a portraitist and as a draftsman. This book provides an overview of his career.

By Alex Kidson

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9781855143340 | Gardners Books, February 22, 2002, cover price $34.65 | About this edition: The year 2002 marks the bicentenary of the death of George Romney, one of the key figures in British art in the late 18th century.

George Romney 1734-1802

Product Description: This handsome catalogue, which accompanies a major international exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of George Romney's death, offers the first in-depth modern overview of a key figure in eighteenth-century British art. Romney was the main rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough--and for much of his career more fashionable than either...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Alex Kidson, National Portrait Gallery (other contributor), George Romney and Walker Art Gallery (corporate author)

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9780691095592 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 19, 2002, cover price $92.50 | About this edition: This handsome catalogue, which accompanies a major international exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of George Romney's death, offers the first in-depth modern overview of a key figure in eighteenth-century British art.

Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Ninereenth-Century Photography

Product Description: This volume explores the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the 19th century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography on the other, were different facets of the 19th-century fascination with classification and ordering...read more

By Peter Hamilton, Roger Hargreaves and National Portrait Gallery (other contributor)

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9780853318217 | Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, August 1, 2001, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This volume explores the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the 19th century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography on the other, were different facets of the 19th-century fascination with classification and ordering.

Horst Portraits: 60 Years of Style

Collects 170 of the twentieth-century photographer's portraits of actors, artists, models, royalties, and socialites, in a volume complemented by extensive notes on both the subjects and sittings and a complete chronology.

By Horst, Robin Muir, Boston Museum of Fine Arts (corporate author), National Portrait Gallery (other contributor) and Terence Pepper

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9780810941632 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Collects 170 of the twentieth-century photographer's portraits of actors, artists, models, royalties, and socialites, in a volume complemented by extensive notes on both the subjects and sittings and a complete chronology.

American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits

Presents a visual and literary review of famous Americans (view table of contents)

By Nancy Lewis, R. W. B. Lewis and National Portrait Gallery (other contributor)

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9780300078954 | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Presents a visual and literary review of famous Americans

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9780300079456 | Yale Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Presents a visual and literary review of famous Americans

A Brush With History - Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery

Includes over 78 examples of portraiture collected from the National Portrait Gallery including Edgar Degas' 'Mary Cassatt,' Thomas Hart Benton's 'Self-Portrait with Rita,' and Henry Inman's 'Sequoyah.' (view table of contents)

By Carolyn Kinder Carr, Margaret C. S. Christman, Ellen Gross Miles and National Portrait Gallery (other contributor)

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9781584650799 | Univ Pr of New England, January 1, 2001, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Includes over 78 examples of portraiture collected from the National Portrait Gallery including Edgar Degas' 'Mary Cassatt,' Thomas Hart Benton's 'Self-Portrait with Rita,' and Henry Inman's 'Sequoyah.

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9781584650805 | Univ Pr of New England, January 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Includes over 78 examples of portraiture collected from the National Portrait Gallery including Edgar Degas' 'Mary Cassatt,' Thomas Hart Benton's 'Self-Portrait with Rita,' and Henry Inman's 'Sequoyah.

Photographs by Snowdon: A Retrospective

A first retrospective on the photographer's nearly fifty-year career is published to accompany a major exhibition and includes fashion shots for Vogue, pictures of noted artists, portraits of the royal family, and photographs of the lonely and disadvantaged.

By Simon Callow, Georgina Howell, Patrick Kinmonth, Anthony Powell, Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon, Earl of and Carl Toms

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9780810944794 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 2000, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: A first retrospective on the photographer's nearly fifty-year career is published to accompany a major exhibition and includes fashion shots for Vogue, pictures of noted artists, portraits of the royal family, and photographs of the lonely and disadvantaged.

John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 1999

By National Portrait Gallery (editor)

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9781899823079 | Art Books Intl Ltd, June 1, 2000, cover price $21.95

Princes of Victorian Bohemia

Product Description: Uniting previously unpublished photographs with better-known works by the photographer, David Wilkie Wynfield, this book provides an intimate picture of 19th century artistic London. Winfield was a successful painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy, but today is best known for the photographic portraits of his contemporaries such as Millais, Lord Leighton, Holman Hunt, Manet and Burne-Jones...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Juliet Hacking, National Portrait Gallery (other contributor) and David Wilkie Wynfield (photographer)

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9783791323015 | Prestel Pub, February 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Uniting previously unpublished photographs with better-known works by the photographer, David Wilkie Wynfield, this book provides an intimate picture of 19th century artistic London.

Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time

Gathers and describes photographs and paintings of the American writer, and uses them to trace his life (view table of contents)

By National Portrait Gallery (other contributor), Michael S. Reynolds and Frederick Voss

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9780300079265 | Yale Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Gathers and describes photographs and paintings of the American writer, and uses them to trace his life

Hans Namuth: Portraits

Product Description: During the summer and early fall of 1950, as Jackson Pollock moved about the huge canvases on the floor of his Long Island studio, defining their surfaces with dripped and thrown paint, a young photographer named Hans Namuth documented the artist at work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Carolyn Kinder Carr, Hans Namuth and National Portrait Gallery (other contributor)

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9781560988090 | Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: During the summer and early fall of 1950, as Jackson Pollock moved about the huge canvases on the floor of his Long Island studio, defining their surfaces with dripped and thrown paint, a young photographer named Hans Namuth documented the artist at work.

George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years

Product Description: RESPONDING TO a near-constant flow of requests, George and Martha Washington sat for about two dozen portraits from 1789 to 1797, collected here in this elegantly illustrated volume. From miniatures executed on ivory for family and friends to a historical portrait that depicts Washington during the Revolution, the...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ellen Gross Miles and National Portrait Gallery (other contributor)

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9780813918860 | Univ of Virginia Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: RESPONDING TO a near-constant flow of requests, George and Martha Washington sat for about two dozen portraits from 1789 to 1797, collected here in this elegantly illustrated volume.

The Book of British Sporting Heroes

Product Description: Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Sporting Heroes charts the popular image of the British sporting hero in works of art dating from the 18th century to the present day. Contemporary heroes and heroines, including Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis, are brought together with their earlier counterparts such as the 19th-century pugilist Tom Cribb; with - among many others - cricketers from W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard Holt (introduced by), James Huntington-Whiteley (editor) and National Portrait Gallery (other contributor)

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9781855142497 | Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns, November 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Sporting Heroes charts the popular image of the British sporting hero in works of art dating from the 18th century to the present day.

Theodore Roosevelt, Icon of the American Century

By James Barber, National Portrait Gallery (other contributor), United States National Park Service (corporate author) and Amy Verone (editor)

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9780295977539 | Univ of Washington Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $22.95

Philippe Halsman, a Retrospective: Photographs from the Halsman Family Collection

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By Jane Halsman Bello (editor), Steve Bello (editor), Philippe Halsman, National Portrait Gallery (other contributor) and Mary Panzer (introduced by)

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9780821223734 | Bulfinch Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $75.00

Vanderzee: Photographer 1886-1983

Product Description: The career of the African-American photographer James VanDerZee spanned 80 years, from his turn-of-the-century photographs of family and friends in Lenox, Massachusetts, to his late portraits, made when he was in his nineties, of Bill Cosby, Eubie Blake and Jean-Michel Basquiat...read more

By Rodger C. Birt, National Portrait Gallery (other contributor), Deborah Willis-Braithwaite and Deborah Willis

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9780810927827 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The career of the African-American photographer James VanDerZee spanned 80 years, from his turn-of-the-century photographs of family and friends in Lenox, Massachusetts, to his late portraits, made when he was in his nineties, of Bill Cosby, Eubie Blake and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Cal 99 Cinema Portraits

By National Portrait Gallery

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9783823832461 | Desk edition (Te Neues Pub Group, August 1, 1998), cover price $8.95

9783823831648 | Wal edition (Te Neues Pub Group, August 1, 1998), cover price $12.95

Celebrity Caricature in America

Product Description: Mae West, George Gershwin, the Marx Brothers, Babe Ruth - these were just a few of the celebrities caricatured in popular American periodicals during the first half of the 20th century. This book presents hundreds of these rediscovered drawings and introduces a type of portraiture based on modern design and a preoccupation with personality-based fame...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By National Portrait Gallery (other contributor) and Wendy Wick Reaves

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9780300074635 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Mae West, George Gershwin, the Marx Brothers, Babe Ruth - these were just a few of the celebrities caricatured in popular American periodicals during the first half of the 20th century.

Faces of Time: 75 Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits

Honoring Time magazine's seventy-fifth anniversary, this collection of seventy-five works of art commisioned for the magazine's covers features Andrew Wyeth's portrait of Eisenhower, Warhol's study of Michael Jackson, and other images by Ben Shahn, Roy Lichtenstein, and other artists. 22,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Jay Leno (introduced by), National Portrait Gallery (other contributor) and Frederick S. Voss (editor)

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9780821224984 | Bulfinch Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A collection of seventy-five works of art commissioned for the cover of 'Time' features Andrew Wyeth's portrait of Eisenhower, Warhol's study of Michael Jackson, and other images by Ben Shahn, Roy Lichtenstein, and other artists

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