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 images of praying ebook proprietors reply to and support advance a transforming into problem 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 paintings guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching better half to the good Victorian artwork critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought continuously to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each appreciate, because the device, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not quite a bit by way of 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 most sensible and brightest cartoonists. Their extraordinary solid of artists contains luminaries comparable to greenback 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 consistently 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 prime anime college 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 tough manga types to grasp.