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The many faces of Jonathan Yeo

Title: The many faces of Jonathan Yeo / texts by Damien Hirst, Martin Gayford, Giles Coren, and Sarah Howgate.
Publication: London : Art Books Publishing Ltd, [2013]

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Description

240 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Jonathan Yeo (born 1970) is one of Britain's best-known portrait painters. Over more than a decade, he has gained an international reputation for painting some of the most famous faces of our age: Nicole Kidman, Dennis Hopper, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Fry, Damien Hirst, Sienna Miller, Rupert Murdoch, Grayson Perry, Tony Blair and Prince Philip are just a selection of the many household names who have sat for Yeo. Renowned for his distinctive, highly figurative canvases and controversial collages, he employs a range of media and techniques to create a diverse body of work that expands the traditions of portraiture while examining contemporary perceptions of beauty, celebrity and power. Coinciding with a retrospective exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery, The Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo is the first major publication on the artist. Featuring his most popular paintings, drawings, collages and prints, the book also presents several new canvases made especially for the show. Alongside his intimate portraits of well-known sitters are dramatic and unsettling studies of cosmetic surgery patients that document the compulsive and painful pursuit of physical perfection. Dozens of studio shots and photographs of works in progress reveal Yeo's working practice and chart the process of creating individual portraits. Numerous contributions from his subjects lift the lid on what it is like to be scrutinized by the artist's exacting, forensic eye and to have oneself captured on canvas.

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Note

Published to coincide with the exhibition 'Jonathan Yeo Portraits' at the National Portrait Gallery, London, held on September 11, 2013-January 4, 2014--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (page 239) and index.

Contents

What is a protrait? / Damien Hirst -- The index of identity / Martin Gayford -- Portrait of the artist then and now / Giles Coren -- Home truths -- Image and power -- Cut and paste -- Ideal beauty -- Art and artifice -- Under the skin of Jonathan Yeo : an interview / Sarah Howgate.

Call Number

JQF 14-152

ISBN

190897009X
9781908970091

LCCN

2013432022

OCLC

845516572

Title

The many faces of Jonathan Yeo / texts by Damien Hirst, Martin Gayford, Giles Coren, and Sarah Howgate.

Publisher

London : Art Books Publishing Ltd, [2013]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 239) and index.

Added Author

Yeo, Jonathan, 1970- artist, interviewee.

Hirst, Damien, author.

Gayford, Martin, 1952- author.

Coren, Giles, author.

Howgate, Sarah, interviewer.

Research Call Number

JQF 14-152

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