The Stone Carvers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stone Carvers write by Jane Urquhart. This book was released on 2010-10-29. The Stone Carvers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of a master carver, a seamstress haunted by a love affair cut short by the First World War, and by the frequent disappearances of her brother Tilman, afflicted since childhood with wanderlust. From Ontario, they are swept into a colossal venture in Europe years later, as Toronto sculptor Walter Allward’s ambitious plans begin to take shape for a war memorial at Vimy, France. Spanning three decades, and moving from a German-settled village in Ontario to Europe after the Great War, The Stone Carvers follows the paths of immigrants, labourers, and dreamers. Vivid, dark, redemptive, this is novel of great beauty and power.
The Stone Carvers
The Stone Carvers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stone Carvers write by Marjorie Hunt. This book was released on 2007-08-01. The Stone Carvers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Marjorie Hunt presents the lives and careers of two Italian American master stone carvers, Roger Morigi and Vincent Palumbo, who have spent decades creating the sculptural works, such as gargoyles, grotesques, capitals, pinnacles, saints, and angels that embellish Washington National Cathedral. Exploring the carvers' underlying aesthetic attitudes, Hunt reveals the spirit of creativity and mastery that infuses their work. The book records the stone-carving process, highlighting the carvers' complex body of technical knowledge—their opinions of various stones, their preferred tools for different stages of carving, and their techniques for achieving effects of light and shadow.
The Unfinished
The Unfinished - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unfinished write by Vidya Dehejia. This book was released on 2016. The Unfinished available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sheer number of unfinished stone monuments in India is staggering and examples appear at some of India's most famous and well-studied sites that include rock-cut Ellora, Ajanta, and Mamallapuram. Unfinished work also appears on built temples celebrated for the intricacy of their sculpted decoration, such as those in Hoysala kingdom or in Orissa. This detailed study provides an overall coverage of India's unfinished work while addressing a range of issues related to stone-carving by examining a select number of monuments at specific sites. Instead of focusing on a site in its entirety, the study here focuses on specific issues of consequence in the context of unfinished work, as they gain an added weight and significance through discovery of their repetitive occurrence at site after site. At the heart of this book are the many varieties of unfinished stone carving that merit close observation to see what is there and what is not, and to appreciate that all the finished work has been through these various stages of being unfinished before reaching completion.
The Underpainter
The Underpainter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Underpainter write by Jane Urquhart. This book was released on 2010-08-27. The Underpainter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Underpainter is a novel of interwoven lives in which the world of art collides with the realm of human emotion. It is the story of Austin Fraser, an American painter now in his later years, who is haunted by memories of those whose lives most deeply touched his own, including a young Canadian soldier and china painter and the beautiful model who becomes Austin’s mistress. Spanning decades, the setting moves from upstate New York to the northern shores of two Great Lakes; from France in World War One to New York City in the ’20s and ’30s. Brilliantly depicting landscape and the geography of the imagination, The Underpainter is Jane Urquhart’s most accomplished novel to date.
Stories Carved in Stone
Stories Carved in Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stories Carved in Stone write by Mary Elaine Gage. This book was released on 2003. Stories Carved in Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
