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 vendors reply to and aid improve a becoming difficulty 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 significant other to the good Victorian artwork critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought regularly to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each admire, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer lots by means 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 top and brightest cartoonists. Their incredible solid 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 constantly proffered a worldly 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 numerous lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the prime anime college and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in photograph novels, games, and films—and the most tough manga types to grasp.