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

This publication investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like images of praying booklet vendors reply to and aid improve a growing to be obstacle 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 guide is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching spouse to the good Victorian artwork critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought constantly to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each admire, because the software, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not quite a bit through bona fide imitation, as through reviving within the brain these principles that are woke up by way of a contemplation of Nature .

Playboy: 50 Years of Cartoons

For over 50 years, Playboy journal has showcased the world's most sensible and brightest cartoonists. Their extraordinary solid of artists contains luminaries resembling dollar Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and enormous quantities of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have regularly proffered a cosmopolitan 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 various lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the prime anime university and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight 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 kinds to grasp.