The National Portrait Gallery of Kessa: The Art of Arabella Proffer

Taking inspiration from artists of the Renaissance to Rococo periods, contemporary artist Arabella Proffer has re-imagined the mannerist portrait with a pop surrealist twist. After researching fashion history, heraldry, and peerage protocol, she went on to create her own world parallel to that of old world Europe. Concocting a family legacy -- ancestors that could belong to anyone - it has become an impulse and a passion the artist continues to explore, adding characters and stories to her ever-growing private empire of punks, goths, and nobility behaving badly. Included are over 40 portraits created between 2000 and 2011, their stories, family trees, map and more, as well as a foreword by Josh Geiser of Creep Machine and Paper Devil.

Author: Arabella Proffer

Publisher: Cooperative Press

Publication Date: Dec 09, 2011

Number of Pages: 104 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 1937513025

ISBN-13: 9781937513023