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

This booklet investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like photographs of praying booklet vendors reply to and aid improve a growing 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 artwork guide is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching spouse 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 recognize, because the software, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not loads via 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 unbelievable good of artists comprises luminaries similar to greenback Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and 1000's 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 quite a few lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the best anime college 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 probably the most tricky manga kinds to grasp.