Mashineriya portreta. Opyt zritelya, prepodavatelya i hudozhnika

Rossiyskiy grafik Viktor Melamed, shiroko izvestnyy rabotami dlya veduschih otechestvennyh i zarubezhnyh gazet i zhurnalov - Kommersant', Ekspert, The Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, - v svoey knige delitsya razmyshleniyami ob iskusstve portreta v proshlom i nastoyaschem, v vysokoy i populyarnoy kul'ture, v zhivopisi, illyustracii, karikature i dizayne. Podhodya k sozdaniyu portreta s prakticheskoy tochki zreniya i otodvigaya zavesu pered tvorcheskoy "kuhney" hudozhnika, avtor nenavyazchivo podnimaet planku i predlagaet nam zadumat'sya o tom, kak formiruetsya i vosprinimaetsya obraz cheloveka.