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

This publication investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like photos of praying booklet proprietors reply to and aid increase a growing to be drawback 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 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 continually to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each appreciate, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer quite a bit by way of bona fide imitation, as by way 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 top and brightest cartoonists. Their extraordinary good of artists contains luminaries equivalent to greenback 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 consistently 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 lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the best anime institution and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in photo novels, games, and films—and some of the most tough manga types to grasp.