Author: Diane Glancy
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A mixed-blood American Indian woman, divorcTe Edith Lewis travels to Oklahoma to teach children the art and custom of mask-making and discovers new meaning in her life. (General Fiction)
The Mask Maker
Author: Diane Glancy
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A mixed-blood American Indian woman, divorcTe Edith Lewis travels to Oklahoma to teach children the art and custom of mask-making and discovers new meaning in her life. (General Fiction)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A mixed-blood American Indian woman, divorcTe Edith Lewis travels to Oklahoma to teach children the art and custom of mask-making and discovers new meaning in her life. (General Fiction)
The Mask Maker
Author: Ken Ulano
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996284813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Christmastime 2017, and the only thing the psychotic, but born with once-in-a-lifetime genius, ALBERT JOHNSON, wants is JILL PHILLIPS, the woman fueling his erotomania. The man screaming in the trunk of the Aston Martin heading into the Appalachian Mountains is how he plans to get her. When mutilated remains are discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Baltimore New Year's Day, DETECTIVES GARY ANDERSON and his partner, ANGELA OBONAUCH, are assigned the case. Gary believes it's the work of CARLOS DEGA, a gang leader who recently escaped from jail. Having spent his childhood abused and locked away in a shack of a home in rural Maryland, Albert's life completely derails when at eleven his father murders his mother in front of him. At sixteen, his dad's poor health forces the dysfunctional teen to seek employment, finding a janitorial position in Baltimore. Years later, he's staffed at a biopharmaceutical company where he fortuitously discovers research on advanced face transplants, allowing him to learn to perform them, even on himself, all the while scheming to kill Jill's husband and take his place. VICTOR ORTEGA, second in command of a gang named the Scorpions, taunted and mistreated Albert for years while working with him as a custodian at the same company as a means to cover up his criminal involvement. He pushes Albert to a breaking point and he kills Victor and his brother in ghastly fashion. When Carlos doesn't hear from Victor, he sends out a party of his men who go missing, too. Shortly thereafter, Albert transplants Jill's husband's face onto his own and shows up at her house, insisting the lights remain off while speaking little. The flustered and surprised Jill ultimately gives into the strangeness of the night despite feeling something's amiss because she'd been under the impression her husband was away on business. Hours later, she confirms her suspicions and sneaks off to the hospital where she learns her husband's been murdered and the imposter who raped her is related to her. Albert, upon returning home after his night with Jill, finds other gang members waiting for him and summarily kills them, too. He goes on the lam and sets up camp and a makeshift lab in the Appalachian Mountains where he transplants an officer's face onto his in order to kidnap Gary's girlfriend, GABBY MICHAELS, believing she's the bargaining chip to get Jill and gain safe passage. But Albert's scheme goes awry because he's too preoccupied with the persistent Carlos to notice Gary isn't following instructions. Unbeknownst to anyone, Angela's husband, CIA operative, DAVID OBONAUCH, has been tracking Carlos since locating him sometime after he escapes from prison. The inevitable confrontation on a dreary, blustery day between Gary, Carlos, David and Albert ultimately ends in Albert being shot and plunging from atop Blackwater Falls-the body's not immediately found, and Jill who lost so much, particularly her identity, leaves her family and life in Baltimore to go somewhere and try to make sense of it all.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996284813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Christmastime 2017, and the only thing the psychotic, but born with once-in-a-lifetime genius, ALBERT JOHNSON, wants is JILL PHILLIPS, the woman fueling his erotomania. The man screaming in the trunk of the Aston Martin heading into the Appalachian Mountains is how he plans to get her. When mutilated remains are discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Baltimore New Year's Day, DETECTIVES GARY ANDERSON and his partner, ANGELA OBONAUCH, are assigned the case. Gary believes it's the work of CARLOS DEGA, a gang leader who recently escaped from jail. Having spent his childhood abused and locked away in a shack of a home in rural Maryland, Albert's life completely derails when at eleven his father murders his mother in front of him. At sixteen, his dad's poor health forces the dysfunctional teen to seek employment, finding a janitorial position in Baltimore. Years later, he's staffed at a biopharmaceutical company where he fortuitously discovers research on advanced face transplants, allowing him to learn to perform them, even on himself, all the while scheming to kill Jill's husband and take his place. VICTOR ORTEGA, second in command of a gang named the Scorpions, taunted and mistreated Albert for years while working with him as a custodian at the same company as a means to cover up his criminal involvement. He pushes Albert to a breaking point and he kills Victor and his brother in ghastly fashion. When Carlos doesn't hear from Victor, he sends out a party of his men who go missing, too. Shortly thereafter, Albert transplants Jill's husband's face onto his own and shows up at her house, insisting the lights remain off while speaking little. The flustered and surprised Jill ultimately gives into the strangeness of the night despite feeling something's amiss because she'd been under the impression her husband was away on business. Hours later, she confirms her suspicions and sneaks off to the hospital where she learns her husband's been murdered and the imposter who raped her is related to her. Albert, upon returning home after his night with Jill, finds other gang members waiting for him and summarily kills them, too. He goes on the lam and sets up camp and a makeshift lab in the Appalachian Mountains where he transplants an officer's face onto his in order to kidnap Gary's girlfriend, GABBY MICHAELS, believing she's the bargaining chip to get Jill and gain safe passage. But Albert's scheme goes awry because he's too preoccupied with the persistent Carlos to notice Gary isn't following instructions. Unbeknownst to anyone, Angela's husband, CIA operative, DAVID OBONAUCH, has been tracking Carlos since locating him sometime after he escapes from prison. The inevitable confrontation on a dreary, blustery day between Gary, Carlos, David and Albert ultimately ends in Albert being shot and plunging from atop Blackwater Falls-the body's not immediately found, and Jill who lost so much, particularly her identity, leaves her family and life in Baltimore to go somewhere and try to make sense of it all.
Maskmaker
Author: Jane Johnson
Publisher: Marion Lloyd
ISBN: 9781407129679
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Jamie Wave is an ordinary boy, not particularly big or brave or clever. He knows a lot of jokes and he's good at making masks. But he will need all the talent he can muster when a sinister Maskmaker forces him to enter a dangerous faraway world. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Publisher: Marion Lloyd
ISBN: 9781407129679
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Jamie Wave is an ordinary boy, not particularly big or brave or clever. He knows a lot of jokes and he's good at making masks. But he will need all the talent he can muster when a sinister Maskmaker forces him to enter a dangerous faraway world. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
The Mask-maker
Author: 岡本綺堂
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carvers (Decorative artists)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Among the playwright's most successful short plays is Shuzen-ji Monogatari, or Taleof the Shuzen temple, often referred to as The mask-maker.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carvers (Decorative artists)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Among the playwright's most successful short plays is Shuzen-ji Monogatari, or Taleof the Shuzen temple, often referred to as The mask-maker.
The Mask of Maliban (The Secrets of Droon #13)
Author: Tony Abbott
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545418267
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon! Move over, Lord Sparr-there's a new bad guy in town. Prince Maliban is the creepy ruler of the Turtle City. And Maliban's mysterious mask maker, Hob is crafting an awesome new mask. The mask is very cool but very powerful. So Eric, Neal, and Julie have to make sure the mask doesn't fall into the wrong hands otherwise, it could mean serious trouble for Droon.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545418267
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon! Move over, Lord Sparr-there's a new bad guy in town. Prince Maliban is the creepy ruler of the Turtle City. And Maliban's mysterious mask maker, Hob is crafting an awesome new mask. The mask is very cool but very powerful. So Eric, Neal, and Julie have to make sure the mask doesn't fall into the wrong hands otherwise, it could mean serious trouble for Droon.
Mask Makers and Their Craft
Author: Deborah Bell
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786443994
Category : Mask makers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book explores the motivations and challenges of artists working to bring the traditional methods and conventions of mask making. Topics include the ways in which mask artists and performers maintain a sense of universality despite varying customs; and the ways in which traditional approaches in mask artistry continue to influence commercial mask performance ventures"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786443994
Category : Mask makers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book explores the motivations and challenges of artists working to bring the traditional methods and conventions of mask making. Topics include the ways in which mask artists and performers maintain a sense of universality despite varying customs; and the ways in which traditional approaches in mask artistry continue to influence commercial mask performance ventures"--Provided by publisher.
Crafting Identity
Author: Pavel Shlossberg
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816530998
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Crafting Identity goes far beyond folklore in its ethnographic exploration of mask making in central Mexico. In addition to examining larger theoretical issues about indigenous and mestizo identity and cultural citizenship as represented through masks and festivals, the book also examines how dominant institutions of cultural production (art, media, and tourism) mediate Mexican “arte popular,” which makes Mexican indigeneity “digestible” from the standpoint of elite and popular Mexican nationalism and American and global markets for folklore. The first ethnographic study of its kind, the book examines how indigenous and mestizo mask makers, both popular and elite, view and contest relations of power and inequality through their craft. Using data from his interviews with mask makers, collectors, museum curators, editors, and others, Pavel Shlossberg places the artisans within the larger context of their relationships with the nation-state and Mexican elites, as well as with the production cultures that inform international arts and crafts markets. In exploring the connection of mask making to capitalism, the book examines the symbolic and material pressures brought to bear on Mexican artisans to embody and enact self-racializing stereotypes and the performance of stigmatized indigenous identities. Shlossberg’s weaving of ethnographic data and cultural theory demystifies the way mask makers ascribe meaning to their practices and illuminates how these practices are influenced by state and cultural institutions. Demonstrating how the practice of mask making negotiates ethnoracial identity with regard to the Mexican state and the United States, Shlossberg shows how it derives meaning, value, and economic worth in the eyes of the state and cultural institutions that mediate between the mask maker and the market.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816530998
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Crafting Identity goes far beyond folklore in its ethnographic exploration of mask making in central Mexico. In addition to examining larger theoretical issues about indigenous and mestizo identity and cultural citizenship as represented through masks and festivals, the book also examines how dominant institutions of cultural production (art, media, and tourism) mediate Mexican “arte popular,” which makes Mexican indigeneity “digestible” from the standpoint of elite and popular Mexican nationalism and American and global markets for folklore. The first ethnographic study of its kind, the book examines how indigenous and mestizo mask makers, both popular and elite, view and contest relations of power and inequality through their craft. Using data from his interviews with mask makers, collectors, museum curators, editors, and others, Pavel Shlossberg places the artisans within the larger context of their relationships with the nation-state and Mexican elites, as well as with the production cultures that inform international arts and crafts markets. In exploring the connection of mask making to capitalism, the book examines the symbolic and material pressures brought to bear on Mexican artisans to embody and enact self-racializing stereotypes and the performance of stigmatized indigenous identities. Shlossberg’s weaving of ethnographic data and cultural theory demystifies the way mask makers ascribe meaning to their practices and illuminates how these practices are influenced by state and cultural institutions. Demonstrating how the practice of mask making negotiates ethnoracial identity with regard to the Mexican state and the United States, Shlossberg shows how it derives meaning, value, and economic worth in the eyes of the state and cultural institutions that mediate between the mask maker and the market.
The Comic Mask in the Commedia Dell'Arte
Author: Antonio Fava
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"The mask - as object, symbol, character, theatrical practice, even spectacle - is the central metaphor around which Fava builds his discussion of structure, themes, characters, and methods. His book combines historical fact, personal experience, philosophical speculation, and passionate opinion. Including period drawings, prints, and color photographs of leather masks made by Fava himself, The Comic Mask in the Commedia dell'Arte is a rich work of singular insight into one of the world's most venerable forms of theater." --Book Jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"The mask - as object, symbol, character, theatrical practice, even spectacle - is the central metaphor around which Fava builds his discussion of structure, themes, characters, and methods. His book combines historical fact, personal experience, philosophical speculation, and passionate opinion. Including period drawings, prints, and color photographs of leather masks made by Fava himself, The Comic Mask in the Commedia dell'Arte is a rich work of singular insight into one of the world's most venerable forms of theater." --Book Jacket.
Mexican Masks and Puppets
Author: Bryan J. Stevens
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764340277
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Mexican states of Puebla and Veracruz, old masked dances have survived in isolated mountain regions. These dances include wonderful masks of humans and animals, masks with beautiful, comic, or wicked faces. Created by Indigenous master carvers, mascareros, these masks and puppets appear during religious fiestas. Over 700 vivid color photos reveal these masks and puppets in all their glory. The thoroughly researched text answers the questions about who made these beautiful works of art, who these dance characters are, and the nature of the religion they represent. The Spanish conquerors strove to convert the Indian inhabitants of Mexico to Christianity. However, these converts secretly retained important deities from earlier times to accompany Christian elements, creating a poetic blend of beliefs. Given that these indigenous peoples have suffered many injustices, the masks, puppets, and dance dramas reflect many unresolved societal tensions along with veiled wishes for divine justice.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764340277
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Mexican states of Puebla and Veracruz, old masked dances have survived in isolated mountain regions. These dances include wonderful masks of humans and animals, masks with beautiful, comic, or wicked faces. Created by Indigenous master carvers, mascareros, these masks and puppets appear during religious fiestas. Over 700 vivid color photos reveal these masks and puppets in all their glory. The thoroughly researched text answers the questions about who made these beautiful works of art, who these dance characters are, and the nature of the religion they represent. The Spanish conquerors strove to convert the Indian inhabitants of Mexico to Christianity. However, these converts secretly retained important deities from earlier times to accompany Christian elements, creating a poetic blend of beliefs. Given that these indigenous peoples have suffered many injustices, the masks, puppets, and dance dramas reflect many unresolved societal tensions along with veiled wishes for divine justice.
The Maskmaker's Daughter
Author: Holly Webb
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408327678
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb. Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother won't speak of him - but Colette's embroidery moves and dances, and she's sure that there's magic in her blood . . . And then Colette discovers the truth: her father is a famous maskmaker and a powerful magician. But when he's ordered to create a mask that will bend others to its will, the magic becomes too strong for him to resist. Can Colette, with the help of a talking alley cat called Max, save him? The Magical Venice books are all share the same beautiful setting, but can be read as standalone stories. The series includes: The Water Horse, The Mermaid's Sister, The Maskmasker's Daughter, and The Girl of Glass. Discover more by Holly Webb with her Rose and Lily series - also filled with magical adventures.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408327678
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb. Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother won't speak of him - but Colette's embroidery moves and dances, and she's sure that there's magic in her blood . . . And then Colette discovers the truth: her father is a famous maskmaker and a powerful magician. But when he's ordered to create a mask that will bend others to its will, the magic becomes too strong for him to resist. Can Colette, with the help of a talking alley cat called Max, save him? The Magical Venice books are all share the same beautiful setting, but can be read as standalone stories. The series includes: The Water Horse, The Mermaid's Sister, The Maskmasker's Daughter, and The Girl of Glass. Discover more by Holly Webb with her Rose and Lily series - also filled with magical adventures.