The Machinery of Portrait: Experience Of a Viewer, Teacher, Artist

Russian graphic artist Victor Melamed — who is well-known for his works for the leading domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines like Kommersant, Expert, The Rolling Stone, The New Yorker — in his book shares reflections on the art of portrait in the past and present, in high and pop culture, in painting, illustrating, caricature, and design. Having a practical approach to the creation of a portrait and pulling back the curtain of the artist’s creative “kitchen”, the author discreetly raises the bar and invites us to think about how the image of a man is being formed and perceived.