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Author | : Gary R. Varner |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2015-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781312939745 |
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 | : Jennifer Dussling |
Publisher | : Tarcher |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780448419619 |
Describes different kinds of gargoyles, how they are created, and how they function as waterspouts.
Author | : Susan Pesznecker |
Publisher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2007-01-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1601639783 |
Gargoyles takes you on a journey into a mysterious world, through bestiaries and traveling menageries, past grotesques and chimeras, through medieval cities and guilds and into huge stone buildings. Gargoyles are an embodiment of form and function—serving a clear architectural purpose but, also, symbolically important. Whether warding off evil, frightening away fear or showcasing human foibles, when a gargoyle was placed on a building, people noticed. The book delves into historic models of arcane craftsmanship and architecture, considering the reasons for gargoyles coming into being and hearing the legends of the gargoyle, both mythic and modern. It, also, covers the emergence of stone creatures into popular culture. For modern magick users, Gargoyles explores the role of the gargoyle in magickal practice, including gargoyle use in elemental correspondences, stone magick, protection, warding, egregores, talismans, animal associations, ritual and spell work.
Author | : Sinclair Lewis |
Publisher | : First Avenue Editions TM |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1728468884 |
Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.
Author | : Annette M. B. Meakin |
Publisher | : Heritage Books |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
"Galicia is the least known and the least written about of all the little kingdoms that go to the making of Spain. Her boundaries have been greatly reduced since the days when the Romans divided the Peninsula into five provinces and called one of them Galicia".The irruption of the Saracens in 713 again changed the aspect of the Peninsula, and the limits of Galicia were contracted; but Spanish geographers to this day call her a reino, or kingdom, and divide her into four little provinces 'Coru'a, Pontevedra, Orense, and Lugo." The history of this little known Spanish kingdom examines geography, early history, architecture, emigration, farming, monasteries and other topics. Chapters include: Ancient Galicia; The Geography of Galicia; The First Golden Age; The Salve Regina; The Language of Galicia; Pilgrims to Santiago; The Architecture of Galicia; The Cathedral of Santiago; The Portico de Gloria; Sculptured Capitals; The Royal Hospital; The Colegiata de Sar; La Coru'a; Emigration; Rosalia Castro; Santiago de Compostela; Galicia's Livestock; Padron; La Bellisima Noya; Pontevedra; Vigo and Tuy; Orense; Monforte and Lugo; Betanzos and Ferrol; The Great Monasteries of Galicia; Trees, Fruits, and Flowers; and Dives Callaecia. A map of Galicia, 105 illustrations (mostly photographs), a bibliography, and an index to full names, places and subjects add to the value of this work.
Author | : James Luther Adams |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780802842671 |
The authors focus on the religious and theological significance of grotesque imagery in art and literature, exploring the religious meaning of the grotesque and its importance as a subject for theological inquiry.
Author | : Andrew J. Hoffman |
Publisher | : Bedford/St. Martin's |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-10-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781457690303 |
"The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series brings critical topics to life in a portable, cost-effective reader. In this volume, you'll explore these questions: why do we create monsters -- and why are we attracted to them? How do monsters adapt to reflect the values, beliefs, and culture of the times? Is the monster within us? Readings by a range of classic poets, contemporary fiction writers, pop-culture critics, philosophers, psychologists, occultists, ethicists, historians, and others take up these questions and more. The book helps you form your own questions and responses as you investigate and write about this popular and intellectually rich topic." -- From back cover.
Author | : Jeremy Tambling |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137518324 |
This book is about representations of the devil in English and European literature. Tracing the fascination in literature, philosophy, and theology with the irreducible presence of what may be called evil, or comedy, or the carnivalesque, this book surveys the parts played by the devil in the texts derived from the Faustus legend, looks at Marlowe and Shakespeare, Rabelais, Milton, Blake, Hoffmann, Baudelaire, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, and Mann, historically, speculatively, and from the standpoint of critical theory. It asks: Is there a single meaning to be assigned to the idea of the diabolical? What value lies in thinking diabolically? Is it still the definition of a good poet to be of the devil's party, as Blake argued?
Author | : John F. Pile |
Publisher | : Laurence King Publishing |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1856694186 |
Delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, the arts and crafts, technology and product design all overlap.
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1588394298 |
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 13, 2011-Mar. 4, 2012.