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Art Fantasy Magic Night After Night by Diana Starr Cooper, The circus is a world of magic, a place where performers - whether they be people or animals - call forth myths of old. In Night After Night, which relives a performance of The Big Apple Circus, the reader shares the same delight and surprise felt by the audience when the lights go up. Meet Katja Schumann, La Dame du Cirque, who enchants us with her equestrian wizardry and who gave birth to her second child after performing in the evening show; Zamoratte, the contortionist, who squeezes himself whole into a bottle; Anna May, the intuitive performer and seasoned pro, who happens to be a 49-year-old elephant; and Paul Binder, the Ringmaster, who is both master and servant of the spectacle. Diana Cooper spotlights the circus family with spellbinding stories from the performers themselves. Circus is more than mere entertainment: It is a classical art form that blends an immersion in fantasy with consummate skills and traditions. It is the only art form in which varied species work and play as equals. Citing philosophers, poets, and circus lore, Cooper illuminates the special relationship between humans and animals. She views circus as embodying a rich fount of ideas: human/animal coexistence, the beauties of diversity, the permutations of fantasy and reality, our relation to ourselves and the world around us, and notions of what is - and what is not - natural. For centuries circuses have evoked awe, fear, wonder, and joy. As Cooper writes, "We need fantasies, and circus acknowledges that fantasy is reality wildly elaborated, reality in focus". Night After Night captures the poetry of that spirit, pervading and surrounding us with the total magic of circus.
Kids Draw Manga Fantasy Manga and fantasy--is there a combination that's got more appeal for kids? The twelfth book in the super-popular Kids Draw series, Kids Draw Manga Fantasy, is ready to whisk young artists away to a world of wonder and adventure. They'll start by learning to draw the manga face and body, then how to tweak characters to make them part of the fantasy genre. After that, they're ready to draw a huge range of exciting manga fantasy characters, from beautiful faeries and angel-guardians, to heroic knights and warriors, magical villains and mermaids, medieval sorcerers, futuristic princesses, and more.
Fantasy - Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. The genre is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by overall look, feel, and theme of the individual work, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three (collectively known as speculative fiction). Fantasy (disambiguation) - Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. Fantasy art - Fantasy art is a genre of art that depicts magical or other supernatural themes, ideas, creatures or settings. While there is some overlap with science fiction, horror and other speculative fiction art, there are unique elements not generally found in other forms of speculative fiction art. Final Fantasy magic - Magic is one of the two principal forms of attack in Square Enix's (formerly Square Co., Ltd. artfantasymagic |
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