Master Of Miniatures

Author : Jim Shepard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984414239
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Master of Miniatures written by Jim Shepard and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. "As in Nosferatu, with its smartly imagined life of the German film director F. W. Murnau, here Shepard considers the Japanese special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya and his cinematic inventions for the science-fiction movie we know as Godzilla. And like many of Shepard's stories, MASTER OF MINIATURES limns the intense and alienated world of a focused expert obsessed with his field of endeavor, at a cost to his marriage and children. For Japanese survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the fifties, America itself seemed king of the monsters, to be looked at with fear and awe. This is a poignant and important story that seems to me a summation and condensation of many themes that have preoccupied Shepard before. Like a diamond held aloft, each turn of this tale in his deft hand flashes still more light" Ron Hansen."

Author : Wes Siegrist
Publisher : Wes Siegrist
ISBN 13 : 0982127839
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Masters of Miniature Art in America written by Wes Siegrist and published by Wes Siegrist. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : K. van der Horst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters and Miniatures written by K. van der Horst and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Day Smith
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780933168817
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters in Miniature: 12 artisans at work written by Anne Day Smith and published by Kalmbach Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gav Thorpe
Publisher : Games Workshop
ISBN 13 : 9781849705196
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Master of Sanctity written by Gav Thorpe and published by Games Workshop. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More secrets of the Dark Angels are revealed as the Legacy of Caliban trilogy continues. The Legacy of Caliban echoes down through the ages, and the secretive mission of the Dark Angels Space Marines continues. Interrogator-Chaplain Asmodai sees treachery and deceit everywhere he turns – while this serves him well in his hunt for the Fallen, it also strains the Chapter’s relations with their Imperial allies. With their true quarry now seemingly within their grasp, Brothers Annael and Telemenus find themselves at the forefront of a new operation that could shake the Imperium itself to its very core.

Author : David Neat
Publisher : Crowood
ISBN 13 : 1847977294
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Model-making written by David Neat and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2013-12-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model-making: Materials and Methods focuses primarily on the wide variety of materials that can be employed to make models; those which have been favoured for a while and those which are relatively new. The book looks at how these materials behave and how to get the best out of them, then illustrates a range of relatively simple methods of building, shaping, modelling, surfacing and painting with them. Useful features of the book include: the different uses of models in various disciplines; the sequence of making; planning and construction, creating surfaces, painting and finishing; methods of casting, modelling and working with metals; step-by-step accounts of the making of specially selected examples; simple techniques without the need for expensive tools or workshop facilities; a 'Directory' of a full range of materials, together with an extensive list of suppliers. This book is intended for students of theatre production, art & architecture, animation and theatre/television set designers where accurate scale models are necessary, and is also of interest to anyone involved with the process of making forms in 3D and the challenge of making small-scale forms in general. Superbly illustrated with 185 colour photographs.

Author : Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503516844
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-making the Margin written by Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of the present publication is the working practices of the Ghent-Bruges illuminators, active in Flanders in the decades around 1500. Its focus is on manuscripts featuring freestanding, isolated motifs painted in the margins of text pages. The author traces how this decorative system was created by the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary, a prolific inventor of appealing borders, how it was applied by his closest collaborators, and how it was imitated and adapted by other illuminators. Among these were Simon Bening, the Carmelite sister Cornelia van Wulfschkercke, and a number of anonymous masters, including several whose oeuvres are identified here for the first time. The author elucidates the sources for the isolated motifs and demonstrates how the codicological structure of the manuscripts provides insight into the use and the dispersion of various models for border decorations. The book discusses the famous strewn-flower borders and other types of fully decorated borders as well. The author analyses the isolated motifs in relationship to the page layout and the decorative programme of Ghent-Bruges standardised books of hours. The stylistic examination of both the miniatures and the borders of the manuscripts under discussion completes the integrated approach of this study. The author demonstrates how the illuminators collaborated with each other and exchanged artistic models for the illumination of these precious manuscripts.

Author : Jon Peterson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262542951
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Wizards written by Jon Peterson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators. When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success--and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. As the game's fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson--a noted authority on role-playing games--explains how D&D and its creators navigated their successes, setbacks, and controversies. Peterson describes Gygax and Arneson's first meeting and their work toward the 1974 release of the game; the founding of TSR and its growth as a company; and Arneson's acrimonious departure and subsequent challenges to TSR. He recounts the "Satanic Panic" accusations that D&D was sacrilegious and dangerous, and how they made the game famous. And he chronicles TSR's reckless expansion and near-fatal corporate infighting, which culminated with the company in debt and overextended and the end of Gygax's losing battle to retain control over TSR and D&D. With Game Wizards, Peterson restores historical particulars long obscured by competing narratives spun by the one-time partners. That record amply demonstrates how the turbulent experience of creating something as momentous as Dungeons & Dragons can make people remember things a bit differently from the way they actually happened.

Author : Jim Shepard
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307427331
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project X written by Jim Shepard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can't quite bring themselves to fathom the ruthless forces that demoralize him daily. Sharing in these schoolyard indignities is his only friend, Flake. Branded together as misfits, their fury simmers quietly in the hallways, classrooms, and at home, until an unthinkable idea offers them a spectacular and terrifying release. From Jim Shepard, one of the most enduring and influential novelists writing today, comes an unflinching look into the heart and soul of adolescence. Tender and horrifying, prescient and moving, Project X will not easily be forgotten.

Author : Sirarpie Der Nersessian
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022022
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miniature Painting in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century written by Sirarpie Der Nersessian and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sirarpie Der Nersessian's scholarship has influenced the understanding of Armenian art and its Byzantine context. These two volumes are the culmination of six decades devoted to the exploration of Armenian art, and reflect a deep knowledge of the manuscripts and their creators.