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 strengthen a becoming 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 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 recognize, because the software, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer a lot through bona fide imitation, as via 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 most sensible and brightest cartoonists. Their outstanding good of artists comprises luminaries corresponding to dollar Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and countless numbers 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 various lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the prime anime institution and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in photograph novels, games, and films—and the most tricky manga types to grasp.