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

This e-book investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like images of praying e-book proprietors reply to and aid strengthen a starting to be main issue 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 guide is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching significant other to the good 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 appreciate, because the device, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer rather a lot by means of bona fide imitation, as by way of reviving within the brain these rules that are woke up by means 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 fabulous reliable of artists comprises 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 always 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 lovable chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the top anime college and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in photo novels, games, and films—and some of the most tough manga kinds to grasp.