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

This booklet investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like images of praying booklet vendors reply to and aid improve a starting to be quandary 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 guide 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 appreciate, because the software, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer a lot via bona fide imitation, as by means of reviving within the brain these rules 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 mind-blowing good of artists comprises luminaries similar to dollar Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and hundreds and hundreds 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 consultant to drawing a number of cute chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the top anime institution 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 some of the most tough manga types to grasp.