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 e-book vendors reply to and aid enhance a turning out to be problem 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 spouse to the nice Victorian paintings 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 appreciate, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer lots by means of bona fide imitation, as by means of 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 top and brightest cartoonists. Their unbelievable strong of artists comprises luminaries similar to dollar Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and thousands of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have regularly proffered a worldly model of humor sorely lacking in different men's magazines.

Chibi Manga: Irresistible!

For artists of every age, the last word full-color advisor to drawing a number of lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the prime anime institution and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in picture novels, games, and films—and some of the most tricky manga kinds to grasp.