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

This booklet investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like images of praying booklet proprietors reply to and support strengthen a transforming into trouble 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 better half to the nice Victorian paintings 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 device, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not loads through bona fide imitation, as via 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 impressive 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 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 various cute chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the major anime institution and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in photo novels, games, and films—and some of the most tricky manga kinds to grasp.