Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art

This booklet investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like photographs of praying ebook vendors reply to and support boost a transforming into drawback with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterised the spiritual lifetime of the laity after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.

On Drawing Trees and Nature: A Classic Victorian Manual (Dover Art Instruction)

This vintage of artwork guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching significant other to the good Victorian artwork critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought continuously to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each appreciate, because the device, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer rather a lot by means of bona fide imitation, as by means of reviving within the brain these rules that are woke up via a contemplation of Nature .

Playboy: 50 Years of Cartoons

For over 50 years, Playboy journal has showcased the world's top and brightest cartoonists. Their incredible sturdy of artists comprises luminaries comparable to greenback Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and 1000s of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have constantly proffered a worldly model of humor sorely lacking in different men's magazines.

Chibi Manga: Irresistible!

For artists of every age, the final word full-color advisor to drawing a number of cute chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the best anime tuition and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in photograph novels, games, and films—and essentially the most tough manga types to grasp.