Plays from Hispanic Tales @ Art & Architecture book

Plays from Hispanic Tales
Description not available.Presents plays based on traditional Hispanic stories, legends, and folktales
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Mary Stuart by Charles E. Passage, Eric Bentley, F. J. Lamport, Friedrich Schiller, Joseph Mellish
Many have told the tragic tale of Mary Queen of Scots -- it is irresistible-but none more powerfully than Friedrich Schiller. Powerful is the word since, as Schiller himself put it: [Mary+ does not feel or excite tenderness. It is her destiny to experience and enflame violent passions . Like Mary Stuart herself and the legends which pursued her to her death, Schiller's drama continues to captivate the modern imagination nearly two centuries later. Eric Bentley's lean, forceful rendering of the German masterpiece will command the attention of theatre audiences for years to come.

AUTHOR: Charles E. Passage, Eric Bentley, F. J. Lamport, Friedrich Schiller, Joseph Mellish
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Be a Clown! by Heather Barberie, Ron Burgess
Description not available.From developing a character, to designing a clown face and costume, to mastering funny gags and pratfalls, a professional clown shares his advice on bringing the reader's inner clown character to life. Original. 15,000 first printing.

AUTHOR: Heather Barberie, Ron Burgess
PUBLISHER: Williamson Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters by Robert B. Hale
This famous work enables artists to learn drawing as those of the past did -- by study and emulation of the masters.

AUTHOR: Robert B. Hale
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Medieval Illuminators & Their Methods of Work by Jonathan J. Alexander
Who were the medieval illuminators? How were their hand-produced books illustrated and decorated? In this beautiful book Jonathan Alexander presents a survey of manuscript illumination throughout Europe from the fourth to the sixteenth century. He discusses the social and historical context of the illuminators' lives, considers their methods of work, and presents a series of case studies to show the range and nature of the visual sources and the ways in which they were adapted, copied, or created anew. Alexander explains that in the early period, Christian monasteries and churches were the main centers for the copying of manuscripts, and so the majority of illuminators were monks working in and for their own monasteries. From the eleventh century, lay scribes and illuminators became increasingly numerous, and by the thirteenth century, professional illuminators dominated the field. During this later period, illuminators were able to travel in search of work and to acquire new ideas, they joined guilds with scribes or with artists in the cities, and their ranks included nuns and secular women. Work was regularly collaborative, and the craft was learned through an apprenticeship system. Alexander carefully analyzes surviving manuscripts and medieval treatises in order to explain the complex and time-consuming technical processes of illumination - its materials, methods, tools, choice of illustration, and execution. From rare surviving contracts, he deduces the preoccupation of patrons with materials and schedules. Illustrating his discussion with examples chosen from religious and secular manuscripts made all over Europe, Alexander recreates the astonishing variety and creativity ofmedieval illumination. His book will be a standard reference for years to come.

AUTHOR: Jonathan J. Alexander
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Raphael by Mike Venezia
Description not available.Explores Raphael's life, his influences and contemporaries, and some of his most famous paintings, including The Sistine Madonna .

AUTHOR: Mike Venezia
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture