Robin Gibson Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

This volume presents over 60 major paintings and multi-media works showing the accomplishment, inventiveness and wit of the modern art form of the portrait. It includes international figures such as Lucien Freud, Frank Auerback, R.B. Kitaj, Gyorgy Gordon, David Hockney and Julian Schnabel.

In the Middle Ages, portrait painting as we understand the term did not exist. Social conditions did not encourage it; and for the most part artists would have been incapable of providing adequate likenesses ...- from the Introduction