Download or read book Gargoyle Country written by Jerry D. Vineyard and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gargoyle Country explores the fascinating geological history of southwestern Missouri for general readers. Gargoyles are the charming rock outcrops that flank many roads and highways in this region. Numerous colorful illustrations and useful maps and descriptions direct readers to specific places where the reader can see and touch real geology. Because the region is now heavily populated, historic buildings and various "rockworks" use rocks that once were plentiful but now hard to find in an urbanized environment.
Download or read book The Country Gentleman written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Country Life in America written by Liberty Hyde Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gargoyles of Notre Dame written by Michael Camille and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the seven million people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris each year probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval masterpiece were not constructed until the nineteenth century. The first comprehensive history of these world-famous monsters, The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame argues that they transformed the iconic thirteenth-century cathedral into a modern monument. Michael Camille begins his long-awaited study by recounting architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s ambitious restoration of the structure from 1843 to 1864, when the gargoyles were designed, sculpted by the little-known Victor Pyanet, and installed. These gargoyles, Camille contends, were not mere avatars of the Middle Ages, but rather fresh creations—symbolizing an imagined past—whose modernity lay precisely in their nostalgia. He goes on to map the critical reception and many-layered afterlives of these chimeras, notably in the works of such artists and writers as Charles Méryon, Victor Hugo, and photographer Henri Le Secq. Tracing their eventual evolution into icons of high kitsch, Camille ultimately locates the gargoyles’ place in the twentieth-century imagination, exploring interpretations by everyone from Winslow Homer to the Walt Disney Company. Lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred images of its monumental yet whimsical subjects, The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame is a must-read for historians of art and architecture and anyone whose imagination has been sparked by the lovable monsters gazing out over Paris from one of the world’s most renowned vantage points.
Download or read book Gargoyle written by Jake Hanrahan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gargoyle is a compilation of written work by British journalist Jake Hanrahan, collecting his on-the-ground reporting from all the wrong crowds. In this book he visits hidden places and speaks to tough people, from the militant hideouts in Kurdistan, to the secret safe-houses of dark web drug dealers. Hanrahan has a particular knack for discovering, and gaining access to, the dark underbellies of the modern era. Gargoyle is his first-hand documentation of these dangerous and often bizarre journeys.
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Country Gentleman written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Gargoyle Hunters written by John Freeman Gill and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both his family and his city are crumbling when thirteen-year-old Griffin Watts stumbles headlong into his estranged father’s illicit architectural salvage business in 1970s Manhattan. Griffin clambers up the façades of tenements and skyscrapers to steal their nineteenth-century architectural sculptures—gargoyles and sea monsters, goddesses and kings. As his father sees it, these evocative creatures, crafted by immigrant artisans, are an endangered species in an age of sweeping urban renewal. Desperate for money to help his artist mother keep their home, and yearning to connect with his father, Griffin fails to see that his father’s deepening obsession with preserving the treasures of Gilded Age New York endangers them all. As he struggles to hold his family together and build a first love with his girlfriend on a sturdier foundation than his parents’ marriage, Griffin must learn to develop himself into the man he wants to become, and discern which parts of his life may be salvaged—and which parts must be let go. Hilarious and poignant, this critically acclaimed debut is both a vivid love letter to a vanishing city and an intimate portrait of father and son. And it solves the mystery of a stunningly brazen architectural heist—the theft of an entire landmark building—that made the front page of The New York Times in 1974. With writing both tender and powerful, The Gargoyle Hunters brings a remarkable new voice to the canon of New York fiction.
Download or read book The Gargoyle written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Gargoyles and Medieval Monsters written by A. G. Smith and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragons, winged dogs, demons, lions, griffins, a bull, unicorn, eagle, various other grotesques from The Book of Kells, medieval architecture, other sources. Detailed black-and-white illustrations of 45 mythical animals. Captions.
Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Gargoyle s Female written by Diane Story and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [BookStrand Fantasy Romance, shape-shifters, HEA] The Gargoyles' younglings and their unhatched eggs have been without human protection for far too long. Will the love between a human and a Gargoyle give them what they need to survive? Most humans can't see Katharine's true beauty. Nor could they have guessed that her father was a SkinWalker and that she is the great-great-granddaughter of Princess Katharine of Avalon. Handsome and flamboyant Behlem is a Gargoyle, and he is Katharine's Prince Charming. What will it take for Behlem to realize that Katharine is his female? Central Park in the fall is supposed to be lovely, but for Katharine and Behlem it is the season that hands them hell. A battle between the Gargoyles and the Narcoblix might be the seed of their love. But deceit, blood, and anger get in their way. ** A BookStrand Mainstream Romance
