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Author: Atelier Kochartist Publisher: ISBN: 9781687345738 Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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Mermaids & Sea Monsters: Oil Paintings and Works of Michael D. Koch This book is a catalog of the paintings and other works by Michael D. Koch focusing on mermaids, ocean fantasy and the fantastic creatures of the sea. To tackle this subject, Koch called upon his long-standing interest in Greek mythology, his fascination with fantasy and science fiction, his love of comics as well as growing up in New England. Like unicorns, mermaids seem to have this odd yet warm affection in the public imagination. The painter regards this painting series and the Mermaid itself as a poetic subject that transforms the subject of the sea into one of legend and lore with its fantastic and spectacular creatures and oceanic beauty .
Author: Atelier Kochartist Publisher: ISBN: 9781687345738 Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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Mermaids & Sea Monsters: Oil Paintings and Works of Michael D. Koch This book is a catalog of the paintings and other works by Michael D. Koch focusing on mermaids, ocean fantasy and the fantastic creatures of the sea. To tackle this subject, Koch called upon his long-standing interest in Greek mythology, his fascination with fantasy and science fiction, his love of comics as well as growing up in New England. Like unicorns, mermaids seem to have this odd yet warm affection in the public imagination. The painter regards this painting series and the Mermaid itself as a poetic subject that transforms the subject of the sea into one of legend and lore with its fantastic and spectacular creatures and oceanic beauty .
Author: Chet Van Duzer Publisher: ISBN: 9780712358903 Category : Cartography Languages : en Pages : 0
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The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also in the history of the geography of the "marvelous" and of western conceptions of the ocean. Moreover, the sea monsters depicted on maps can supply important insights into the sources, influences, and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them. In this highly-illustrated book the author analyzes the most important examples of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps produced in Europe, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the 10th century and continuing to the end of the 16th century.
Author: Alison Luchs Publisher: Harvey Miller ISBN: 9781905375455 Category : Art, Italian Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book focuses on the conceptions of artists who made marine hybrids inventions of Renaissance Venice and Padua. The chapters deal with sea-hybrid imagery in book decoration; tomb monuments; church decoration; centers of political activity and private homes.--Publisher.
Author: Jon Hackett Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0861969391 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 241
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Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture offers its readers an in-depth and interdisciplinary engagement with the sea and its monstrous inhabitants; through critical readings of folklore, weird fiction, film, music, radio and digital games. Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the sea in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from a variety of academic perspectives; post- modernism, psychoanalysis, industrial-organisational analysis, fandom studies, sociology and philosophy are featured. Under examination are a wide range of narratives and media forms that represent, reimagine and create the Kraken, mermaids, giant sharks, sea draugrs and even the weird creatures of H.P. Lovecraft. Beasts of the Deep offers an expansive study of our sea-born fears and anxieties, that are crystallised in a variety of monstrous forms. Repeatedly the chapters in the collection encounter the contemporary relevance of our fears of the sea and its inhabitants – through the dehumanising media depictions of refugees in the Mediterranean to the encroaching ecological disasters of global warming, pollution and the threat of mass marine extinction.
Author: Karen Amanda Hooper Publisher: Starry Sky Publishing ISBN: 0985589949 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 333
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Yara Jones doesn't believe in sea monsters--until she becomes one. When a hurricane hits her island home and she wakes up with fins, Yara finds herself tangled up in an underwater world of mysterious merfolk and secretive selkies. Both sides believe Yara can save them by fulfilling a broken promise and opening the sealed gateway to their realm, but they are battling over how it should be done. The selkies want to take her life. The merfolk want something far more precious. Treygan, the stormy-eyed merman who turned Yara mer, will stop at nothing and sacrifice everything to protect his people--until he falls for Yara. The tides turn as Yara fights to save herself, hundreds of sea creatures, and the merman who has her heart. She could lose her soul in the process--or she might open the gateway to a love that's deeper than the oceans. Book 1 of The Sea Monster Memoirs Keywords: mermaids, selkies, sirens. gorgons, mythology, teen, young adult, YA romance, YA, fantasy, paranormal, ocean, romance, merfolk, series,
Author: Kate Pugsley Publisher: Tundra Books ISBN: 0735264910 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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Mermaids come in all shapes and sizes! In this sweet picture book, a shy little girl goes on a magical underwater adventure filled with adorable mermaids, silly sea creatures, games with new friends and wonderful surprises! One sunny Saturday, Maya and her parents visit the beach. Maya loves the beach: the warm sand feels wonderful between her toes. But it would be more fun if she had a friend. Too shy to say hello, Maya watches the kids play nearby, and slowly her eyes droop closed . . . When Maya awakens she has been transported to a magical underwater world. Maya admires the sea creatures flitting around her, and she discovers that she too has a beautiful tail. Maya is a mermaid! But who is calling out a greeting from behind that coral? Whose bright eyes are peering at her from the sea grass? Whose laughter does she hear? Could it be a new friend? Or just another sea creature? This adorable picture book will delight the youngest daydreamers and shows us that making new friends may not be as hard as you think -- if you have a good imagination!
Author: Richard Ellis Publisher: Globe Pequot ISBN: 9781592289677 Category : Cryptozoology Languages : en Pages : 0
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Few creatures have captured the imaginations of so many for so long as have monsters of the deep. Their history has been surprisingly consistent, the author notes. Most began as myths and then acquired a sense of reality when the existence of creatures resembling those chronicled in legend was documented. Ellis (Men and Whales) gives a superb account of marine monsters and their attendant myths, sightings, scientific discovery and biology. He describes only the best known and the best documented. He traces the mermaid to the manatee and dugong, Leviathan to the sperm whale, kraken to the giant squid and polyp to the octopus (sharks, however, remain sharks). He examines these monsters in art, literature and film, taking Jules Verne and Victor Hugo to task for their ignorance of biology, hysterical fantasy and unmitigated malice. Herman Melville, Arthur C. Clarke and Peter Benchley get better ratings. Of all the sighted monsters, only the giant squid (Architeuthis) retains its mythological and cryptozoological status, for its very existence is shrouded in mystery. Sharks have had a bad reputation throughout history, but until Jaws (1974) they did not figure prominently in literature. At the end of this engaging book, Ellis confesses to skepticism: "monsters, if they exist, have more to fear from us than we do from them.
Author: Nicholas Kotar Publisher: Waystone Press ISBN: 0998847941 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 438
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A land destroyed by war. An army of giants on the rampage. Can a broken girl heal the world before it dies? All 16-year-old Khaidu ever wanted was her own hunting eagle. Her ten brothers laugh at her. After all, the rule-bound world of the Gumiren nomads has no place for a girl hunter, much less a crippled one. But Khaidu has a secret. Mastering the ancient magic of eagle-binding, she captures the largest eagle her tribe has ever seen. Except her eagle isn’t an eagle at all. She’s a dying queen under an enchantment. Khaidu’s binding unlocks an ancient curse of blood and loss. As the curse turns Khaidu’s people against each other, the bond between eagle and hunter shatters. Desperate to find her lost eagle, Khaidu will brave monstrous beasts, face an army of shape-shifting giants, and cross the known world…only to be faced with a terrible truth. If Khaidu cannot save the queen in time, the world itself may die with her. Inspired by the Russian fairy tale “Finist the Bright Falcon,” The Heart of the World features complex characters, gorgeous magical landscapes, and unexpected plot twists. If you like creative twists on myths and legends and classic fantasy, then you’ll love Nicholas Kotar’s sweeping tale. Buy The Heart of the World to continue the journey today!
Author: Atelier Kochartist
Author: Atelier Kochartist
Author: Chet Van Duzer
Author: Alison Luchs
Author: Bob Eggleton
Author: Jon Hackett
Author: Karen Amanda Hooper
Author: Aaron Sautter
Author: Kate Pugsley
Author: Richard Ellis
Author: Nicholas Kotar