Dark Toys
Title | Dark Toys PDF eBook |
Author | David Hopkins |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2021-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300225741 |
A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood We all have memories of the object-world of childhood. For many of us, playthings and images from those days continue to resonate. Rereading a swathe of modern and contemporary artistic production through the lens of its engagement with childhood, this book blends in-depth art historical analysis with sustained theoretical exploration of topics such as surrealist temporality, toys, play, nostalgia, memory, and 20th-century constructions of the child. The result is an entirely new approach to the surrealist tradition via its engagement with "childish things." Providing what the author describes as a "long history of surrealism," this book plots a trajectory from surrealism itself to the art of the 1980s and 1990s, through to the present day. It addresses a range of figures from Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer, Joseph Cornell, and Helen Levitt, at one end of the spectrum, to Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Paolozzi, Claes Oldenburg, Susan Hiller, Martin Sharp, Helen Chadwick, Mike Kelley, and Jeff Koons, at the other.
Dark Toys and Consumer Goods
Title | Dark Toys and Consumer Goods PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Staig |
Publisher | Macmillan Children's Books |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | Children's stories |
ISBN | 9780333475614 |
The Tale of the Terrible Toys
Title | The Tale of the Terrible Toys PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lee Byers |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780671021139 |
Carter Meacham is lonely, bored, and dreading the beginning of school when he finds some antique toys in the attic - a wooden soldier, a snake, and a jack-in-the-box. But something's strange. Carter thinks they're looking at him, even moving when he turns away. Then the wooden soldier salutes him and Carter finds that the toys not only move, they can talk! He promises to keep their secret, and the living toys soon become his best friends. But when odd and dangerous things start happening at school and around his house, Carter wonders if his new friends could be responsible. Are the toys just playing games, or are they deadly serious?
Toys, Games, and Action Figure Collectibles of the 1970s: Volume IV Star Wars to Zorro
Title | Toys, Games, and Action Figure Collectibles of the 1970s: Volume IV Star Wars to Zorro PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathon Jones |
Publisher | Jonathon Jones |
Pages | 993 |
Release | 2020-12-30 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN |
The last and final installment of the series, this volume has over 850 pictures covering over 35 categories, with some of the larger and more popular toy lines from the decade included within. Star Wars (Includes foreign releases), Stretch Armstrong, Sunshine Family, Super Jrs., Tree Tots, Viewmaster, Weebles, Wizard of Oz, Wonder Woman, World's Greatest Super-Heroes by Mego, and MANY more! This book, along with the others in the series, will help to define what 70s playtime was all about. From action figures to general toys to games, this guidebook will give visual examples as well as a checklist on a wide variety of items that were produced during this fantastic decade. Whether you're a collector or someone who wants to walk down memory lane, this is the book series that you've been waiting for. Keywords: 1970s, collectibles , pop culture , americana , kids toys , premiums
Toys in Space
Title | Toys in Space PDF eBook |
Author | Mini Grey |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 38 |
Release | 2013-05-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0307978478 |
A very silly (not-too-scary) story about losing a beloved toy. That summer night, the toys were left outside. . . . For the very first time, the Wonderdoll, the helpful wind-up robot, the thoughtful green dinosaur, and the rest of their plucky gang lie in the grass, gazing up at the stars. But one star seems brighter than the rest. As it grows bigger and bigger, the toys realize it may not be a star at all! Soon they're venturing into the unknown, traveling by spaceship, where they meet a lonely alien in need of help, and some friends. From ever-inventive, award-winning author-illustrator Mini Grey comes a hilarious and heartfelt new adventure: a motley group of toys left outside in the garden become true friends and brave heroes--in space!
Dark Toys and Consumer Goods
Title | Dark Toys and Consumer Goods PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Staig |
Publisher | |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Children's stories, English |
ISBN | 9780330314787 |
Killadelphia #1
Title | Killadelphia #1 PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Barnes |
Publisher | Image Comics |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2019-11-27 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN |
"SINS OF THE FATHER," Part One Featuring the show-stopping talents of SPAWN series artist JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER and the writer behind such hit shows as Wutang: An American Saga, MarvelÕs Runaways, and Starz's American Gods RODNEY BARNES. When a small-town beat cop comes home to bury his murdered fatherÑthe revered Philadelphia detective James Sangster Sr.Ñhe begins to unravel a mystery that leads him down a path of horrors that will shake his beliefs to their core. The city that was once the symbol of liberty and freedom has fallen prey to corruption, poverty, unemployment, brutality and vampires. Welcome to KILLADELPHIA.