By R. W. B. Lewis (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) and Nancy Lewis This book brings together 160 famous American figures from Pocahontas to Louis Armstrong, providing visual and verbal portraits that illuminate their place in American life. The portraiture – painting, sculpture, photograph, or cartoon – is paired with literary images taken from eyewitness accounts, memoirs, … Continued
Edited by James Knowlson (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) and John Haynes Images of Beckett combines John Haynes' unique repertoire of photographs of Beckett's dramatic opus alongside three newly written essays by Beckett's biographer and friend, James Knowlson. Haynes captures images of Beckett's work in progress and performance and includes hitherto unknown portraits of Beckett himself. Haynes … Continued
By Joanna Woods-Marsden (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) The autonomous self-portrait, a central mode of expression in Western art, was a Renaissance invention. This book explores for the first time the genesis and early development of this important genre as it took place in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Joanna Woods-Marsden examines a series of … Continued