Faces In Stone

Author : Robert Arthur King
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393732344
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces in Stone written by Robert Arthur King and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An architectural impulse book, gift-sized and -priced, for those who love finding unknown corners of New York City. This collection of one hundred architectural details features brief introductions and contextual photographs to show the buildings on which the ornaments appear, the addresses, and transportation information.

Author : William Gardner Smith
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375168
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stone Face written by William Gardner Smith and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961. As a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent encounter with white sailors, Simeon makes up his mind to move to Paris, known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals, and before long he is under the spell of the City of Light, where he can do as he likes and go where he pleases without fear. Through Babe, another black American émigré, he makes new friends, and soon he has fallen in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. At the same time, however, Simeon begins to suspect that Paris is hardly the racial wonderland he imagined: The French government is struggling to suppress the revolution in Algeria, and Algerians are regularly stopped and searched, beaten, and arrested by the French police, while much worse is to come, it will turn out, in response to the protest march of October 1961. Through his friendship with Hossein, an Algerian radical, Simeon realizes that he can no longer remain a passive spectator to French injustice. He must decide where his true loyalties lie.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588391922
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Set in Stone written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Arleen Paré
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771314640
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girls with Stone Faces written by Arleen Paré and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arleen Paré turns her cool, benevolent eye to the shared lives of Florence Wyle and Frances Loring, two of Canada's greatest artists, whose sculptures she comes face to face with at the National Gallery of Canada. In the guise of a curator, Paré takes us on a moving, carefully structured tour through the rooms where their work is displayed, the Gallery's walls falling away to travel in time to Chicago (where they met at art school and fell in love in the 1910s), New York, and Toronto (where they lived and worked for the next six decades). Along the way, Paré looks at fashions in art, the politics of gender, and the love that longtime proximity calls forth in us."--

Author : James Gaskins
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1684560772
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Effigies of the High Plains Hunters written by James Gaskins and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is meant to educate and help people with the identification of unusual stones fashioned by early man. Many of these stones are nothing short of true works of art, as you will see. In these pages are photographs and drawings of stones collected over thirty years, and four years to write this book—60,000 words and 318 photos and drawings to help you understand how ancient man used and really looked at a stone, and you will too. There's no book like this on earth!

Author : Matthew Champion
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473503639
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Graffiti written by Matthew Champion and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries carved writings and artworks in churches lay largely unnoticed. So archaeologist Matthew Champion started a nationwide survey to gather the best examples. In this book he shines a spotlight on a forgotten world of ships, prayers for good fortune, satirical cartoons, charms, curses, windmills, word puzzles, architectural plans and heraldic designs. Drawing on examples from surviving medieval churches in England, the author gives a voice to the secret graffiti artists: from the lord of the manor and the parish priest to the people who built the church itself. Here are strange medieval beasts, knights battling unseen dragons, ships sailing across lime-washed oceans and demons who stalk the walls. Latin prayers for the dead jostle with medieval curses, builders’ accounts and slanderous comments concerning a long-dead archdeacon. Strange and complex geometric designs, created to ward off the ‘evil eye’ and thwart the works of the devil, share church pillars with the heraldic shields of England’s medieval nobility.

Author : Constance H. Frick Irwin
Publisher : New York, St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fair Gods and Stone Faces written by Constance H. Frick Irwin and published by New York, St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puts forth a theory that the Aztecs, Mayas, and Incas and earlier peoples from whom these groups drew much of their culture, did not spring up independently, but as a result of pre-Columbian transatlantic contact between the Old World and the New. Archaeologists have unearthed colossal stone negroid heads; reliefs depicting priests with semitic features; indications of snake, sun, and cat cults and objects found to antedate the Maya epoch.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Stone Face written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carrie Stuart Parks
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1581802161
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces written by Carrie Stuart Parks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-01-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draw amazingly accurate portraits starting today! Even if you're an absolute beginner, you can render strikingly realistic faces and self-portraits! Instructor and FBI-trained artist Carrie Stuart Parks makes it simple with foolproof step-by-step instructions that are fun and easy to follow. You'll quickly begin to: • Master proportions and map facial features accurately • Study shapes within a composition and draw them realistically • Use value, light and shading to add life and depth to any portrait • Render tricky details, including eyes, noses, mouths and hair Proven, hands-on exercises and before-and-after examples from Parks' students ensure instant success! It's all the guidance and inspiration you need to draw realistic faces with precision, confidence and style!

Author : Jean L. S. Patrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979882388
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Famous Faces written by Jean L. S. Patrick and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When prairie dog and his friends search for the Four Famous Faces, they become confused. They think they're looking for animal faces! With wordplay, poetry, and rich illustrations, the award-winning team of Jean L.S. Patrick and Renée Graef leads readers through the famous parks, memorials, and monuments of the Badlands and Black Hills region. Bonus! Six pages of facts about the animals, geology, and history of each location" -- page 4 of cover.