Publications Catalogue 2015 –16 Vogue 100 New titles A Century of Style Robin Muir While principally a fashion magazine, Vogue has never been just that. It has assumed a central and vital role on the cultural stage, with a history that spans the most inventive decades in fashion and taste, and in the arts and society. Published to mark the magazine’s centenary, and accompanying a major exhibition, this book celebrates the twentieth century and beyond with an authoritative and discriminating eye. In more than 2,000 issues, British Vogue has acted as a cultural barometer, putting fashion in the context of the wider world – how we dress, how we entertain, what we eat, listen to, watch, who leads us, excites us and inspires us. The century’s most talented photographers, Lee Miller, Norman Parkinson, Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Snowdon and Mario Testino among them, have contributed to it. In 1916, when the First World War made transatlantic shipments of American Vogue impossible, its proprietor, Condé Nast, authorised a British edition. It was an immediate success, and over the following ten decades cover Provisional of uninterrupted publication continued to mirror its times – the austerity and optimism that followed two world wars, the ‘Swinging London’ scene 310 x 254 mm, 304 pages of the sixties, the radical seventies, the image-conscious eighties – and in Over 300 illustrations its second century remains at the cutting edge of photography and design. ISBN 978 1 85514 561 0 Decade by decade, Vogue 100 celebrates the greatest moments in Price £40 TBC (hardback) fashion, beauty and portrait photography. Illustrated throughout with well- Fashion/Photography known images, as well as the less familiar, the book focuses on the faces 11 February 2016 that shaped the cultural landscape: from Matisse to Bacon, Freud and Hirst, from Dietrich to Paltrow, from Rudolph Valentino to David Beckham, from Exhibition Lady Diana Cooper to Lady Diana Spencer. It features the fashion designers National Portrait Gallery, London who defined the century – Chanel, Saint Laurent, McQueen – and explores 11 February–23 May 2016 more broadly the changing form of the twentieth-century woman. Manchester Art Gallery June–August 2016 (dates TBC) Robin Muir is a Contributing Editor to British and Russian Vogues. His Exhibition organised by the other books include Under the Influence: John Deakin, Photography and National Portrait Gallery, London the Lure of Soho (2014), Vogue Model (2013), Vogue Covers (2009), In in association with Vogue Camera: Snowdon and the World of British Art (2007), The World’s Most Photographed (2005), People in Vogue (2005), Norman Parkinson: Portraits in Fashion (2004) and David Bailey: Chasing Rainbows (2001). ALSO AVAILABLE Vogue 100 Highlights A selection of fifty images from the centenary exhibition, each accompanied by an extended caption. Includes an introductory essay on the history of British Vogue and an illustrated chronology. 210 x 168mm TBC • 128 pages • 60 illustrations • ISBN 978 1 85514 576 4 • £14.95 (paperback) • National Portrait Gallery retail outlets only Vogue 100 Postcard Box A set of postcards featuring forty images from the exhibition beautifully presented in a pull-drawer box. Opposite: Harlequin Games: Schiaparelli Hats 165 x 125 x 37mm • 40 postcards • ISBN 978 1 85514 581 8 • (unpublished version) by Erwin Blumenfeld, 1938. £14.95 (inc. VAT) • Gift box • Fashion/Photography/Gifting © 2015 Condé Nast Publications Inc. 1 New titles Audrey Hepburn Portraits of an Icon Terence Pepper and Helen Trompeteler During her lifetime, the Belgian-born British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929–93), star of such films asRoman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Fair Lady, Charade and Two for the Road, was recognised around the world. Posthumously, her popularity has endured and her image continues to be reproduced in a variety of international cultural contexts. Unlike other collections, in this new book the authors call attention to the circumstances in which pictures of Hepburn were published and consumed, thereby illuminating more generally our changing relationship with such images over the course of the twentieth century. Hepburn’s career is charted through more than eighty portraits – from her early years in London as a student of ballet and a performer on the West End stage, to her Hollywood heyday, to her final years as a special ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Alongside work by the photographers whose portraits defined Hepburn’s image and shaped her career are publicity photographs and images made on- and 280 x 230mm, 192 pages off-set during the production of her films, as well as family photographs 145 illustrations and informal archive news pictures. ISBN 978 1 85514 497 2 Possessing the features, height and poise of a model, Hepburn £29.95 (hardback) collaborated with a number of couturiers, notably Hubert de Givenchy. Photography/Film Her image often graced the pages and covers of fashion magazines such 2 July 2015 as Harper’s Bazaar, for which she was photographed by Richard Avedon, whose work is represented here together with portraits by Cecil Beaton, Exhibition Antony Beauchamp, Philippe Halsman, Angus McBean, Norman Parkinson National Portrait Gallery, London and Irving Penn. 2 July–18 October 2015 The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Terence Pepper is Senior Special Advisor on Photographs at the National Gallery & Museum, November Portrait Gallery, London, and co-curator of the exhibition Audrey Hepburn: 2015–January 2016 (dates TBC) Portraits of an Icon. From 1978 to 2014 he was the Gallery’s Curator Organised with support from the of Photographs. His past exhibitions include retrospectives on Norman Audrey Hepburn Estate/Luca Dotti Parkinson (1981), Lewis Morley (1989), Dorothy Wilding (1991), James & Sean Hepburn Ferrer Abbe (1995), Horst P. Horst (2001), Cecil Beaton (2004) and Man Ray (2013). His publications include the award-winning Vanity Fair Portraits (2008), Beatles to Bowie (2009) and Hoppé Portraits (co-author, 2011). Helen Trompeteler is Associate Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and co-curator of Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon. Previously Assistant Curator of the Man Ray Portraits exhibition (2013), her past displays include Snowdon: A Life in View (2014), Fred Daniels: Cinema Portraits (2012) and Format Photography Agency (2010). 2 Giacometti New titles Pure Presence Paul Moorhouse Since his death at the age of sixty-four in 1966, Alberto Giacometti has become recognised internationally as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century and sales of his sculptures now achieve record-breaking prices. Belonging to no particular artistic movement, he developed through cubist and surrealist phases and later attained a mature, individual idiom whose preoccupation with the depiction of a human presence in an enveloping space may be seen in relation to contemporary existentialist concerns with defining the place and purpose of man in a godless universe. Taking its title from Jean-Paul Sartre, who described Giacometti’s endeavour to give ‘sensible expression’ to ‘pure presence’, the book explores the artist’s work in relation to existentialist ideas. Spanning painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking, Giacometti’s oeuvre ranges from idiosyncratic surrealist objects to intensely observed images of the human figure, with images of particular individuals at the centre. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, looks at the various phases of the artist’s career and explores in detail his depiction of his cover Provisional main sitters, including his mother; Diego his brother; his wife Annette; Jean Genet the playwright; Caroline, a prostitute; and his friends Yanaihara 300 x 220mm, 192 pages and Lotar. Early drawings, paintings and sculptures of members of his 90 illustrations family and his own image demonstrate Giacometti’s awareness of post- ISBN 978 1 85514 532 0 impressionist and divisionist styles. After moving to Paris in 1922, until £29.95 (hardback) the late 1930s he made progressively abstracted images of a range Fine Art of sitters. From 1946, Giacometti resumed painting and depicting an 15 October 2015 individual human presence became central to his work. After 1954, when he began making sculpture from life, increasingly his portraits evolved as Exhibition the outcome of an ongoing dialogue between painting and sculpture. National Portrait Gallery, London Giacometti subjected the human image to a radical process 15 October 2015–10 January 2016 of interrogation and transformation in which the exploration and representation of flesh, presence, distance and space are vital, interacting elements. As a result, a human presence seems poised between being and non-being, providing the basis for Giacometti’s reputation as one of the most innovative artists of the last century. Paul Moorhouse is Curator of Twentieth-Century Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the curator of Giacometti: Pure Presence. His publications include The Great War in Portraits (2014), Cindy Sherman (2014), A Guide to Twentieth Century Portraits (2013), The Queen Art & Image (2011), Bridget Riley: From Life (2010), Gerhard Richter Portraits: Painting Appearances (2009) and Pop Art Portraits (2007). 5 New titles Russia and the Arts Rosalind P. Blakesley with an essay by Tatiana L. Karpova Russian portraiture enjoyed a golden age between the late 1860s and the First World War. While Tolstoy and