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

This e-book investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like photographs of praying publication vendors reply to and support improve a growing to be hindrance 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 paintings guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching spouse to the nice Victorian artwork critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought regularly to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each admire, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer loads through bona fide imitation, as by way 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 most sensible and brightest cartoonists. Their outstanding sturdy of artists comprises luminaries akin to 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 constantly proffered a cosmopolitan model of humor sorely lacking in different men's magazines.

Chibi Manga: Irresistible!

For artists of every age, the last word full-color consultant to drawing quite a few lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the prime anime institution and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in photograph novels, games, and films—and probably the most tough manga kinds to grasp.