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The Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo
The Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo
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Hbk, 9.75 x 9.75 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color. | 11/30/2013 | Out of stock
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The Many Faces of Jonathan YeoThe Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo

Published by Art / Books.
Text by Martin Gayford, Tim Marlow, Sarah Howgate, Giles Coren.

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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Hardcover, 9.75 x 9.75 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 143   

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