Graham The Gargoyle

Author : Brian Clopper
Publisher : Teeny Behemoth Books
ISBN 13 : 9780970065902
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graham the Gargoyle written by Brian Clopper and published by Teeny Behemoth Books. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young gargoyle is afraid of heights and is teased, so he isn't looking forward to his first flight. Can he overcome hsi fears and discover true courage when the life of his best friend hangs in the balance?

Author : Michael Camille
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226092461
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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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.

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Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gargoyle written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gargoyle written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Bueno
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1770979913
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rainbow Alchemist written by Martin Bueno and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl, Rachel, mutters a mysterious chemical formula in her sleep. Is she dreaming or is this a message from beyond? Graham, an aspiring politician, is caught up in his curiosity about the occult, an obsession which will ultimately decide his career and fate. Eva, Graham's devoted secretary and companion, is skeptical about anything to do with mysticism but finds herself unwittingly drawn into this magical world. Who are the speakers and why do they communicate through Rachel and Lady Sarah, a mannequin who stands proudly on the porch of the Old Antique Store? Martin Bueno's debut novel takes place in Toronto, Ottawa and New England and has all the intrigue of a new age fantasy complete with a deep trance psychic, a Harvard chemistry professor and a lawyer determined to benefit from the formula.

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Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gargoyle written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Freeman Gill
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970901
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Gregory Lamberson
Publisher : Medallion Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605423483
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Demons written by Gregory Lamberson and published by Medallion Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While battling a cocaine addiction, Jake Helman starts a high-pressure position as the director of security at a controversial genetic-engineering company. As Jake delves deeper into this frightening laboratory, he unveils much more than unethical practices performed in the name of human progress. Original.

Author : Garry Kilworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749728892
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gargoyle written by Garry Kilworth and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gargoyle written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: