The Masterwork Of A Painting Elephant

Author : Michelle Cuevas
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429969806
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Masterwork of a Painting Elephant written by Michelle Cuevas and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since he was an infant, Pigeon Jones has lived on the back of an artistically gifted white elephant named Birch. Birch is a loving father, but that doesn't stop Pigeon from wondering about the human parents who abandoned him. Birch has dreams, too—of being a well-known artist, and of finding the acrobat he fell in love with while they performed together in a circus years ago. And so, on Pigeon's tenth birthday, their search for fame and lost loves begins. Pigeon and Birch paint their way across the world, dodging an evil circus ringleader, freeing zoo animals, and befriending singing hoboes along the way. But when they reach the end of their journey, Birch must master the most difficult art of all: letting go and allowing his beloved Pigeon to stand on his own two feet.

Author : Komar & Melamid
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780060953522
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Elephants Paint written by Komar & Melamid and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-11-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries elephants in Thailand have been revered as a national symbol, worshiped as living gods and employed as beasts of burden in the nation's thriving timber industry. But when logging was banned in Thailand in 1990, these noble animals fell on hard times. Reduced to performing tricks for tourists by day and illegal heavy labor by night, Thailand's elephants were exhausted, malnourished, and dying in alarming numbers. Hearing of their plight, a pair of unlikely heroes came to the rescue, Wildly eccentric Russian emigre artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid devised a brilliant scheme: to create the world's first quadruped occupational retraining program-a network of art schools for unemployed elephants. Taking a cue from elephant trainers in a number of American zoos, Komar and Melamid taught the animals to hold brushes in their trunks and apply paint to canvas. And the results were astonishing: Not only did the elephants' paintings closely resemble the expansive gestural work of such Abstract Expressionist artists as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, but the pachyderm painters also began to develop clearly distinct regional styles-lyrical and expressive in the northern Thai school, subtle and atmospheric in the east, dynamic and angst ridden in the central school. Sanctioned by the World Wildlife Fund, the Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project has been a remarkable success; paintings by some of the most talented elephant artists have been auctioned at Christie's for thousands of dollars, generating funds to provide proper care for the elephants and support for their trainers. When Elephants Paint follows Komar and Melamid and their eclectic entourage through Thailand's lush jungles and steaming cities, describing the odd encounters and creative cajoling that helped turn this seemingly whimsical idea into a concrete, beneficial reality. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, including actual elephant paintings, this riotously funny and provocative book offers a valuable lesson in wildlife conservation and startling revelations about the nature of art itself.

Author : Janet Buell
Publisher : Scott Foresman
ISBN 13 : 9780673625014
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elephant Painter written by Janet Buell and published by Scott Foresman. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dick George
Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780385321006
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruby written by Dick George and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Ruby, an Asian elephant who came to America from Thailand when she was seven-months-old and her remarkable painting talent

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Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elephants Can Paint Too! written by and published by Anne Schwartz Books. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist teaches elephants to paint so as to raise funds to maintain the elephants.

Author : Christine Denis-Huot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788880959359
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Being an Elephant written by Christine Denis-Huot and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gaye Leigh Green
Publisher : Chartreuse Press
ISBN 13 : 9780990734871
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Can't Make an Elephant Paint written by Gaye Leigh Green and published by Chartreuse Press. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You Can't Make an Elephant Paint: Animals Who Create" presents an array of animals who use art materials to create. The book presents many examples of work made by both wild and domestic animals, suggests aesthetic issues that relate to the work that can be discussed with children, and provides resources to further explore the world of animals and art.

Author : Christa Clarke
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588391906
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Africa written by Christa Clarke and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CD-ROM and DVD set extracted from the 'The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators.' The CD-ROM "contains a PDF of 'The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators, ' which features forty traditional works of African art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes a brief overview of the Metropolitan's collection of African art; a short introduction and history of Africa; an explanation of the role of visual expression in the continent; descriptions of the featured works of art and background about the materials and techniques that were used to created them ... The DVD, 'Ci Wara Invocation, ' "presents the highlights of a dozen ci wara performances in Bamana communities in present-day Mali that were recorded by five different observers between 1970-2002. Among the Bamana, oral traditions credit a mythical being named Ci Wara, a divine being half mortal and half antelope, with the introduction of agriculture to the Bamana. The ci wara performances are part of biannual celebrations that either launch or conclude the farming season."--Container

Author : B. N. Goswamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domains of Wonder written by B. N. Goswamy and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art, Oct. 22, 2005-Jan. 22, 2006; and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Aug. 6, 2006.

Author : Manny Farber
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 159853470X
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber written by Manny Farber and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manny Farber (1917–2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called "termite art" (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to "white elephant" monumentality), master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent twists and turns made every review an adventure, he has long been revered by his peers. Susan Sontag called him "the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country ever produced"; for Peter Bogdanovich, he was "razor-sharp in his perceptions" and "never less than brilliant as a writer." Farber was an early discoverer of many filmmakers later acclaimed as American masters: Val Lewton, Preston Sturges, Samuel Fuller, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann. A prodigiously gifted painter himself, he brought to his writing an artist's eye for what was on the screen. Alert to any filmmaker, no matter how marginal or unsung, who was "doing go-for-broke art and not caring what comes of it," he was uncompromising in his contempt for pretension and trendiness, for, as he put it, directors who "pin the viewer to the wall and slug him with wet towels of artiness and significance." The excitement of his criticism, however, has less to do with his particular likes and dislikes than with the quality of attention he paid to each film as it unfolds, to the "chains of rapport and intimate knowledge" in its moment-to-moment reality. To transcribe that knowledge he created a prose that, in Robert Polito's words, allows for "oddities, muddles, crises, contradictions, dead ends, multiple alternatives, and divergent vistas." The result is critical essays that are themselves works of art. Farber on Film brings together this extraordinary body of work in its entirety for the first time, from his early and previously uncollected weekly reviews for The New Republic and The Nation to his brilliant later essays (some written in collaboration with his wife Patricia Patterson) on Godard, Fassbinder, Herzog, Scorsese, Altman, and others. Featuring an introduction by editor Robert Polito that examines in detail the stages of Farber's career and his enduring significance as writer and thinker, Farber on Film is a landmark volume that will be a classic in American criticism. From the Trade Paperback edition.