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 photos of praying booklet vendors reply to and aid improve a transforming into 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 guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching spouse to the good Victorian artwork 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 admire, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer rather a lot through bona fide imitation, as through reviving within the brain these rules that are woke up by means 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 solid of artists comprises luminaries comparable to dollar Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and enormous quantities 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 final word full-color advisor to drawing numerous lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the major anime institution and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in image novels, games, and films—and probably the most tricky manga kinds to grasp.