Nicholas Jeeves is a designer, writer, and lecturer at Cambridge School of Art.
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From the Mona Lisa to Dutch genre painting, the smile has long been a complex, culturally coded expression in portraiture, revealing social norms, artistic challenges, and shifting ideas of human emotion.
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Nicholas Jeeves is a designer, writer, and lecturer at Cambridge School of Art. He is also designer and editor of Lucian’s Dialogues of the Gods, a new edition of Lucian’s comic masterpiece out now on PDR Press.
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Remembering Roy Gold, Who Was Not Excessively Interested in Books
Public Domain Review | May | 2018
Jeeves provides an entertaining and informative eulogy for Károly Tibor Goldman, better known as Roy Gold, who vandalized books very beautifully.
The Smile in Portraiture
Public Domain Review | September | 2013
Nicholas Jeeves investigates the odd fact that portraiture before the twentieth century very rarely showed open-mouthed smiles and rather favored expressions that looked serious or smirking.
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Co-authors: Lucian of Samosata, H. Fowler, F. Fowler and W. Tooke | PDR Press | 2016
Lucian provides a peek behind the curtain of life on Mount Olympus. Zeus bickers with Hera over his latest infidelity; Eros is in trouble again for his mischief; and there are Hermes, Apollo, Pan, Aphrodite, and all the rest of the pantheon, each behaving badly.
This new collection draws on historical sources to present the Dialogues in their entirety, featuring a beautiful new layout and including an introductory essay and extensive appendices.
