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 e-book proprietors reply to and support enhance a turning out to be challenge 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 better half to the good Victorian paintings critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought continually to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each recognize, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer loads by way of bona fide imitation, as via 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 most sensible and brightest cartoonists. Their excellent reliable of artists comprises luminaries equivalent to greenback Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and countless numbers of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have continuously 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 advisor to drawing various lovable chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the major anime university and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in picture novels, games, and films—and the most tough manga kinds to grasp.