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This new book by Pam Gresham explores the wealth of design motifs developed by the German immigrants to Pennsylvania. These Pennsylvania "Dutch" designs are perfect for the medium of chip carving. Flowing lines combine with geometrical forms to create delightful and challenging patterns for the chip carver. Pam applies a variety the designs to a "Wilkom" plaque and a beautiful bible box. She leads the reader step-by-step through the process of chip carving each of these creations. In addition there is a gallery where the Pennsylvania Dutch designs are applied to other objects with wonderful results. For chip carvers who are familiar with Pam's other books, this is a welcome addition. For those new to chip carving, this new book will inspire and guide you through the process of this delightful craft. , 250 step-by-step color photos, patterns, 8 1/2" x 11"
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Nice designs.......2007-05-07
The author has written other books about chip carving and she does a good job with this one. You can make some very attractive carvings with this book.
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In the field of art and antiques, few books survive the test of time to become regarded as "classics." Monroe Fabian's 1978 edition of The Pennsylvania-German Decorated Chest is such a work. With more than two hundred fifty illustrations, this book is a visual feast of decorated chests. Now, more than twenty-five years later, this book still stands as the only significant work to be published on the subject of the Pennsylvania German decorated chest. It is the preeminent encyclopedia of Pennsylvania German blanket chests. Collectors, scholars and curators rely upon its images to identify the accepted standard of decorated chests. Fabian's thoroughness in identifying so many different chests means that readers have a suitable beginning point for comparing examples that they own or may come to view. With this edition, new color photography has been obtained or as many of the original chests as could be identified. Also where recent scholarship has produced new information, attributions and other information has been corrected. With a new foreword and updated photography, including an expanded color section and several new examples, this volume will be of interest to collectors, scholars, and all those who have a love of the richly decorated chests made by the Pennsylvania Germans. 8 1/2" x 11" 250 color and b&w photos
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The American fraktur tradition began about 1740 in southeast Pennsylvania, but quickly spread to other states, and remains popular even today. For centuries, these cherished hand-written and watercolor decorated paper manuscripts have embodied a richness of tradition and culture, blending text with riotous color and Pennsylvania Dutch design. Having roots in medieval European decorated manuscript art, fraktur celebrate family events such as births, baptisms, and marriages among some of America's earliest immigrants of German and Swiss heritage. 230+ photographs, many full page, present exquisite examples of three centuries of American fraktur, interwoven with insightful historical details, information on the making of fraktur, and techniques for preserving these delicate documents. The colorful pages will delight and stimulate curiosity among historians, scholars, and all who appreciate art to explore the hidden treasures that lie at the heart of these charming manuscripts.
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An overview of the art of fraktur is beautifully illustrated.......2007-01-12
The Earnests have given us a very readable and gloriously illustrated book with attention to all the recognized fraktur types and many of the most desirable artists. This survey will delight anyone who has an interest in folk art.
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Pennsylvania German Arts: More Than Hearts, Parrots, & Tulips
Irwin Richman
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There has never been a book like this intertwining the arts and artifacts of both the traditional and the evolving worlds. The Pennsylvania Germans are a remarkable people; some are among the most conservative of Americans, retaining a strong cultural identity to this day, while others have largely assimilated into the larger English world. Folk art and quilts are here, but so is the work of Precisionist painter Charles Demuth and Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline. Objects range from needlework, pottery, furniture, and glass to paper, paintings, and metals--including gold and silver! Here is a very personal and extensive historical text illustrated with the works of traditionalists, revivalists, and the avant garde displayed in over 350 color photographs. Pennsylvania German Arts has been written to be both informative and fun to read and is designed to showcase distinctive works of great beauty.
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This digital document is an article from Central Penn Business Journal, most recently published by Journal Publications Inc. on January 12, 2001. The length of the article is 647 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: 'It was a blast', Architec designs 'fantasy' solution for amusement park's ticket sales
Author: Dennis Reardon
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Central Penn Business Journal (News)
Date: January 12, 2001
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Volume: 17
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Creating Cartoon Animals (How to Draw and Paint series #232)
Don Jardine
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Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone.
Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again.
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• Information on art supplies used for cartoon drawing
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City of Victory: Vijayanagara, the Medieval Hindu Capital of Southern India
John Gollings ,
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How far will a man travel for love? What battles will he fight? Will he cross heaven and earth to be by the side of the woman he loves? Beginning in feudal Japan of 1704, Samurai: Heaven & Earth follows Shiro, a lone samurai warrior sworn to be reunited with the love of his life who has been spirited away by his enemies. His pursuit of Yoshiko will carry him farther than he could have imagined - from his native Japan to the sprawling empire of China, across Europe, and finally to Paris itself. There, in the fabled halls of King Louis XIV's Versailles, he must cross blades with the greatest swordsmen ever known if he is to reclaim his love. Ron Marz and artist Luke Ross, fresh off their triumphant finale on Green Lantern, have turned their skills to a historical epic in the tradition of Lone Wolf and Cub and Alexander Dumas' The Three Musketeers. Joined by Eisner-nominated colorist Jason Keith, they have produced a lushly illustrated tale of devotion and high adventure.
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D'Artagnan meets Musashi.......2006-09-24
Dark Horse beats Marvel and its silicon super-heroes, with the release of this early-modern swashbuckling adventure, perfect for all fans of old samurai tales, Alexandre Dumas' novels and XVIIth century charm. Instead of Dr Doom punching Spiderman or other plastic bozo, we have a piece of solid storytelling taking us from Japanese castle to swarming chinese cities, Silk Road dangers and finally the Cloak&Dagger European setting. Pitting our hero against famed musketeers was excellent idea, as well as contrasting refined japanese culture with as much refined french spirit. Authors perfectly managed to lay hold of various stereotypes - we can observe silent and melancholic dedication of a japanese samurai, rakish and fanciful behavior of a french musketeer as well as passionate and savageous wickedness of a spanish ambassador. The only disadvantage is, that authors tried to contain very large story in just one volume - the crossing of entire eurasian continent and political intrigues our hero is embroiled in, barely have enough room and thus many interesting characters (like arabian slaver or complaining frenchman) and events are scantly fleshed out, so you sometimes feel unpleasantly when thinking 'it could be told so much more here' but even if adventure is unveiling in a split-second style, it's still very good with many plot-twists. The leitmotiv of a samurai travelling to Europe isn't really new (the event really happened during Momoyama period), as well as most of storyline but all elements are composed in flossy manner. The art is very subtile, rich in craft details and engraved, rendering the historical settings with opulent style, and making the comic a must-have for early-modern histories afficionado. Let's hope that it is a beginning of a new trend in comic industry, of digging in interesting periods and episodes of the world history. A brief fable, Walter Scott himself would be dragged in.
Great! Can't wait for the sequil........2006-07-13
A great story with some of the best art i've ever seen. Lush and colorful. I hope they make more.
One of the first comic masterpieces of the new millenium.......2006-05-31
Abadazad.
Alias.
Runaways.
Fallen Angel.
Samurai: Heaven and Earth.
There have only been five books thus far in the millenium that I can safely praise as masterpieces, and this is one of them. "Samurai: Heaven and Earth" is one the most emotional, touching, amazing pieces of literature I've ever read.
You think it's a straightforward story about a man who lost his love and would go to any lengths to get her back, but it's about so much more than that. Everyone can identify with following your dreams, wanting that one thing that may always elude you, and this book understands that and cuts into the heart of that idea.
Marz's script is the best of his career by far, and that's saying something. He perfectly balances the action expectations of the book with the emotional center of it. There are twists you won't see coming, fish-out-of-water moments you'll sit in awe at, and an ending so perfectly pitched and timed you may just tear up.
The art is phenomenal. Luke Ross changed from a great comic artist into a master overnight. Who would have thought that penciled and colored comic art could look this close to paintings? You have to see it to believe its beauty, literally.
This is a must have for any serious comic collector. Heck, it's a must have for anyone who's ever loved and lost, or just loved.
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Samurai: Heaven and Earth Volume 2
Ron Marz ,
Luke Ross , and
Rob Schwager
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Samurai: Heaven And Earth
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The samurai Shiro followed his kidnapped love, Lady Yoshiko, across 18th-century Europe and Asia, only to have her slip through his fingers in the fabulous halls of Versailles, where she was stolen away by a villainous Spanish nobleman. Now Shiro's steadfast pursuit leads him across the Mediterranean and to the sands of fabled Egypt, where Yoshiko has been made a prized trophy in a desert warlord's harem. With the glorious ruins of ancient Egypt as a backdrop, Shiro will make a final stand and be reunited with Yoshiko no matter the cost.
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Samurai: Heaven & Earth Vol. 2 No. 1
Ron Marz
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