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

This publication investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like photographs of praying ebook vendors reply to and aid improve a starting to be crisis with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterised the non secular 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 better half to the nice Victorian artwork critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought consistently to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each appreciate, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer rather a lot by means of bona fide imitation, as via reviving within the brain these principles that are woke up through 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 fantastic strong of artists comprises luminaries equivalent 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 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 consultant to drawing quite a few cute chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the top anime tuition and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in photo novels, games, and films—and probably the most tough manga types to grasp.