Gargoyles Grotesques Green Men

Author : Gary R. Varner
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435711424
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gargoyles, Grotesques & Green Men written by Gary R. Varner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The symbols and strange images that we find in our cemeteries, religious structures, banks and in our parks are the same symbols that have been part of the framework of the human psyche for thousands of years. While contemporary man may think that they are simply decorative manifestations of a by-gone era, they represent the fears, dreams, ideas, beliefs and struggles that humankind has endured since we began to walk upright. This book surveys many of these icons and will give a meaning for them both in the context of ancient history and folklore as well as a meaning that is suitable for our contemporary times. Illustrated with dozens of photographs, this book will be of interest to anyone interested in historic preservation, ancient symbolism, the Green Man and the universal application of imagery. Gary R. Varner has written numerous books on ancient traditions, folklore, the environment and contemporary issues. He is a member of the American Folklore Society and the Foundation for Mythological Studies.

Author : Gary R. Varner
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781312939745
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monsters in Stone - Kentucky's Gargoyles, Grotesques and Green Men written by Gary R. Varner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photo story of the archetypal symbols present on many of Kentucky's 19th century buildings, including gargoyles, Green Men and other strange and grotesque images carved in stone. Includes over 40 illustrations, index and bibliography.

Author : Shawn Cipa
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781565233294
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carving Gargoyles Grotesques, and Other Creatures of Myth written by Shawn Cipa and published by Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-02-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two complete projects, fascinating history and myth, and 26 additional full page patterns for creating functional and decorative gargoyles from wood. Learn to carve a traditional water-spouting gargoyle and classic grotesque with step-by-step instructions. Includes 10 additional patterns for mythical creatures incorporated into architectural elements, like a working doorknocker.

Author : Janetta Rebold Benton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780789201829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Terrors written by Janetta Rebold Benton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and irresistible history of gargoyles-a society of stone creatures perched high above the workaday world. Includes an invaluable guide to gargoyle sites throughout western Europe.

Author : J. Douglas Kenyon
Publisher : Atlantis Rising LLC
ISBN 13 : 0965331067
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantis Rising Magazine - 113 September/October 2015 written by J. Douglas Kenyon and published by Atlantis Rising LLC. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside this full-color digital edition: ALTERNATIVE NEWS Life and Death in a Nuclear Powered World By Jerry Decker Checking the Newest Claim for Oldest Stone Tools By Michael Cremo Fighting to Forget Is Terrorism a Symptom of Planetary Amnesia? By MARTIN RUGGLES The Surveillance State How much of your Freedom is at Stake By MARIE D. JONES & LARRY FLAXMAN The Otherworld in the Andes A Global Tradition of Secret Initiatory Rites and Peru's Iconic Sacred Sites By FREDDY SILVA Gothic Wonders The Magic of the Cathedrals Amazes Still By KAREN RALLS, Ph,D. Fairie Factors vs Materialism Fact or Fantasy: What's the Truth? By PATRICK MARSOLEK The Foundations of Reality What Do We Know For Sure? By WILLIAM B. STOECKER Hominids & Humbug Trouble in the House of Darwin? By SUSAN B. MARTINEZ, PH.D. HOW DID THE ICE AGE END? With a Bang, Not a Whimper, Believes Maverick Researcher Randall Carlson By CYNTHIA LOGAN Ice-Age-EndS cenarios A Much -- Cited Geologist Weighs In on the Evidence By ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D. Columbus and the Brothers Pinzon The Untold Story of America's Other Discoverers By STEVEN SORA Jupiter in Virgo Lightning Bolts and Staves of Wheat By Julie Loar DVD LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE? How Much Does This Life Depend on Influences from Those No Longer Here? By Marsha Oaks

Author : Alex Woodcock
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747808312
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gargoyles and Grotesques written by Alex Woodcock and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gargoyles are an architectural feature designed to throw rainwater clear of the walls of a building. Widely used on medieval churches, these water spouts were often richly decorated, and fashioned as serpents' heads and other fanciful shapes. Today, the term gargoyle is also popularly applied to any carved decorative head or creature high up on a building and this book is an exploration of all of these enchanting features. Written by an academic and stonecarver, it is the perfect introduction to this fascinating subject. Gargoyles aims to provide a concise introduction to the stone carvings often found on religious and secular buildings in Britain from the medieval period to the modern. It will explore the typical imagery, some of the theories put forward to explain them, as well as consider the carvings within their architectural and social contexts. Incorporating recent and current research, the book will nevertheless be accessible to the general reader.

Author : Dav Pilkey
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338095587
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Bless the Gargoyles written by Dav Pilkey and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gargoyles have been feared and misunderstood for centuries, but now Caldecott Honor artist Dav Pilkey tells the real story of these gentle stone creatures come to life. Behind their cold, stone faces, gargoyles have warm, loving souls -- yet most people don't look deeply enough to notice. Angels can see the good inside them, though, and tonight the angels will sweep down to take their silent, stone friends on a magical journey, hand in hand.Caldecott Honor artist Dav Pilkey's lyrical tale of these gentle stone creatures come to life is a reminder that everyone -- from the grievers to the dreamers to the believers -- is worthy of love.

Author : John Kleiner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721431
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mismapping the Underworld written by John Kleiner and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three central chapters of the book each examine a different type of error or anomaly: a mismeasured giant, a self-defeating experiment, an erring citation of Virgil. These apparently trivial discrepancies are linked, the author suggests, to much larger questions. What is the status of mimetic realism in Dante's poem? By what right does a poet pretend to represent the order of God's mind? Where does aggressive allegoresis cross over into interpretive error? Through the study of error, the author offers an alternative account of Dante's poetic project, one that gives priority to wit and self-irony rather than didactic seriousness.

Author : Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317609018
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic written by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a carefully selected range of contemporary disciplinary approaches to new areas of Gothic inquiry. Moving beyond the representational and historically based aspects of literature and film that have dominated Gothic studies, this volume both acknowledges the contemporary diversification of Gothic scholarship and maps its changing and mutating incarnations. Drawing strength from their fascinating diversity, and points of correlation, the varied perspectives and subject areas cohere around a number of core themes — of re-evaluation, discovery, and convergence — to reveal emerging trends and new directions in Gothic scholarship. Visiting fascinating areas including the Gothic and digital realities, uncanny food experiences, representations of death and the public media, Gothic creatures and their popular legacies, new approaches to contemporary Gothic literature, and re-evaluations of the Gothic mode through regional narratives, essays reveal many patterns and intersecting approaches, forcefully testifying to the multifaceted, although lucidly coherent, nature of Gothic studies in the 21st Century. The multiple disciplines represented — from digital inquiry to food studies, from fine art to dramaturgy — engage with the Gothic in order to offer new definitions and methodological approaches to Gothic scholarship. The interdisciplinary, transnational focus of this volume provides exciting new insights into, and expanded and revitalised definitions of, the Gothic and its related fields.

Author : Andrew Davidson
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371638
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gargoyle written by Andrew Davidson and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him. And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he'd never uttered: love.