Download or read book Maidens Monsters and Heroes written by H. J. Ford and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his illustrations from Andrew Lang's 12-volume series of "Color" fairy books, H. J. Ford also depicted historical figures from the Middle Ages through the 18th century. This collection features his most compelling images from works of fact and fancy. Half of the images are printed in their rare original full-color format.
Download or read book Heroes Monsters of Greek Myth written by Bernard Evslin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1967 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of all the great tales of Greek mythology in language that is simple, swift and highly dramatic.
Download or read book Heroes Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths written by Bernard Evslin and published by Graymalkin + ORM. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling compendium of ancient Greece’s timeless tales and towering figures of mythology from a classics expert. The world of Greek mythology contains some of the most exciting and imaginative stories ever told. In Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths, bestselling author Bernard Evslin shares his passion for these fabulous tales and the eternal themes they so beautifully express. In this accessible overview, you’ll get to know the iconic gods, heroes, and tragic figures: Zeus, the all-powerful king of the gods; Hera, his cunning and jealous wife; King Midas, whose touch could turn anything into gold; the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his own creation; and many more. With each story, Evslin brings new life to these legendary characters and the magical world they inhabit. Translated into multiple languages, and with more than ten million copies sold, this invaluable resource has become a classic in itself.
Download or read book Great Illustrations by N C Wyeth written by N. C. Wyeth and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full-color collection focuses on the artist's early and most popular illustrations, featuring more than 100 images from The Mysterious Stranger, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, The Boy's King Arthur, and other classics.
Download or read book Heroes and Monsters written by Dharanidhar Sahu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literate persons world over are more or less familiar with the names of ancient Greek heroes, monsters, gods and goddesses, but many of them may not be well-informed about them. This book is an attempt to supply information about them in a pleasant manner. While enjoying the adventures of these heroes and their confrontation with different monsters, the reader may get such facts right as would enable him or her to understand and appreciate western literatures better and mention their names in their writings and conversation with greater confidence.The hero and the monster stand for opposite poles:The first represents Order,the second,the Chaos.This book narrates the story of ten noted monsters and as many heroes equal to their powers.
Download or read book Monsters written by David D. Gilmore and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. All known folklores brim with visions of looming and ferocious monsters, often in the role as adversaries to great heroes. But while heroes have been closely studied by mythologists, monsters have been neglected, even though they are equally important as pan-human symbols and reveal similar insights into ways the mind works. In Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores what human traits monsters represent and why they are so ubiquitous in people's imaginations and share so many features across different cultures. Using colorful and absorbing evidence from virtually all times and places, Monsters is the first attempt by an anthropologist to delve into the mysterious, frightful abyss of mythical beasts and to interpret their role in the psyche and in society. After many hair-raising descriptions of monstrous beings in art, folktales, fantasy, literature, and community ritual, including such avatars as Dracula and Frankenstein, Hollywood ghouls, and extraterrestrials, Gilmore identifies many common denominators and proposes some novel interpretations. Monsters, according to Gilmore, are always enormous, man-eating, gratuitously violent, aggressive, sexually sadistic, and superhuman in power, combining our worst nightmares and our most urgent fantasies. We both abhor and worship our monsters: they are our gods as well as our demons. Gilmore argues that the immortal monster of the mind is a complex creation embodying virtually all of the inner conflicts that make us human. Far from being something alien, nonhuman, and outside us, our monsters are our deepest selves.
Download or read book The Analysis of Beauty written by William Hogarth and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great 18th-century artist discusses and illustrates the expression of beauty with serpentine lines. Hogarth defines graceful imagery's underlying qualities and dramatizes their effective combination in more than 30 black-and-white plates.
Download or read book Treasury of American Pen Ink Illustration 1881 1938 written by Fridolf Johnson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 236 drawings by more than 100 artists, this survey of America's most beloved illustrators includes contributions from Edwin Austin Abbey, Maxfield Parrish, Charles Dana Gibson, and Rockwell Kent.
Download or read book A Sunday Reader written by Aley Fox and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple but captivating renditions of ever-popular Bible stories are accompanied by 90 memorable black-and-white illustrations by distinguished Victorian artists such as Leighton, Burne-Jones, Poynter, Watts, Hunt, and other luminaries.
Download or read book Animal Motifs from Around the World written by Doris Rosenthal and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the ancient art and artifacts of an international array of museum collections, this spectacular volume offers a unique selection of unusual animal motifs from Prussia, Egypt, Persia, China, Germany, Sweden, and other areas. The edgy designs possess a timeless appeal that makes them especially attractive to contemporary designers, tattoo artists, crafters, and others.
Download or read book Dystopia written by Gregory Claeys and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this volume redefines the central concepts and the chronology of the genre and offers a paradigm-shifting understanding of the subject. Part One assesses the theory and prehistory of 'dystopia'. By contrast to utopia, conceived as promoting an ideal of friendship defined as 'enhanced sociability', dystopia is defined by estrangement, fear, and the proliferation of 'enemy' categories. A 'natural history' of dystopia thus concentrates upon the centrality of the passion or emotion of fear and hatred in modern despotisms. The work of Le Bon, Freud, and others is used to show how dystopian groups use such emotions. Utopia and dystopia are portrayed not as opposites, but as extremes on a spectrum of sociability, defined by a heightened form of group identity. The prehistory of the process whereby 'enemies' are demonised is explored from early conceptions of monstrosity through Christian conceptions of the devil and witchcraft, and the persecution of heresy. Part Two surveys the major dystopian moments in twentieth century despotisms, focussing in particular upon Nazi Germany, Stalinism, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and Cambodia under Pol Pot. The concentration here is upon the political religion hypothesis as a key explanation for the chief excesses of communism in particular. Part Three examines literary dystopias. It commences well before the usual starting-point in the secondary literature, in anti-Jacobin writings of the 1790s. Two chapters address the main twentieth-century texts usually studied as representative of the genre, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The remainder of the section examines the evolution of the genre in the second half of the twentieth century down to the present.
Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting written by Mrs. Mary P. Merrifield and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare 1849 work reprints 12th- through 17th-century manuscripts on painting and related arts — oil painting practices, mixing pigments, and much more. Commentary on each treatise, plus an extensive introduction.
Download or read book The Practice of Oil Painting and Drawing written by Solomon J. Solomon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete with an Introduction by James Gurney, the author of Dinotopia, this guide introduces not only the techniques of oil painting but also the underlying principles of figure drawing. A series of images by the Old Masters includes 32 pages in full color, featuring paintings from the Italian, Dutch, Spanish, French, and British schools. "A masterly exposition." — Liverpool Daily Post.
Download or read book English Wood Engraving 1900 1950 written by Thomas Balston and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume showcases five decades' worth of magnificent black-and-white illustrations and includes an informative history of the art. Images include scenes of animals and rural life, portraits, episodes from literature, and much more.
Download or read book Heroes written by Joe McGinniss and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1976 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A search for the vanished American hero and the causes of his demise takes the form of an autobiographical commentary on the hero's traits and attractions and on contemporary celebrities who might have achieved hero status.
Download or read book Horror at the Drive In written by Gary D. Rhodes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drive-in movie theaters and the horror films shown at them during the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s may be somewhat outdated, but they continue to enthrall movie buffs today. More than just fodder for the satirical cannons of Joe Bob Briggs and Mystery Science Theatre 3000, they appeal to knowledgeable fans and film scholars who understand their influence on American popular culture. This book is a collection of eighteen essays by various scholars on the classic drive-in horror film experience. Those in Section One emphasize the roles of the drive-in theater in the United States--and its cultural cousin, Australia. Section Two examines how horror operated at the drive-in, the rhetoric used in coming attraction trailers, horror film premieres at drive-ins, double features, and the preproduction, production, and marketing of Last House on the Left. Section Three addresses the effects of the Vietnam War and counter-culture on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the Cold War on Cat Women of the Moon. Section Four explores gender issues and sexuality, two of the most common and most important subjects of horror film analysis. Section Five covers drive-in culture via Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 2000 Maniacs, and the films of Mario Bava. Section Six investigates a variety of issues, such as the drive-in horror film's embrace of DNA, the use of cinematic form to create a non-Hollywood look in Wizard of Gore, and the many different prints and running times of I Drink Your Blood.
Download or read book Monsters Heroes and Social Identity in Medieval Icelandic and English Literature written by Janice Hawes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
