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

This e-book investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like images of praying booklet vendors reply to and aid increase a transforming into quandary 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 guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching spouse to the nice Victorian paintings critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought continuously to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each appreciate, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not rather a lot by way of bona fide imitation, as by way of 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 superb solid of artists contains luminaries akin to greenback Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and 1000s of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have regularly 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 a number of lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the major anime institution and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in photograph novels, games, and films—and probably the most tricky manga kinds to grasp.