Faces on places

Autori

• Terry Murray

Parametri

• Arte
• Arte / Cultura

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Look up, way up, and in Toronto, what do you see? If you look with Terry Murray, you'll see beyond glass and steel and brick to spy gargoyles, griffins, angels, gods and goddesses, animals, and historical personages. These real and imaginary beings have been watching over the city for more than a century, but most Torontonians hardly know of thier existence.Let writer aand photographer Murray be your guide through this strange and delightful stone menagerie, with her passion for its inhabitants, her impeccable research, and her beautiful images. She has spent ten years hunting and capturing in words and on film the carved denizens of more than sixty buildings. She has tracked down and interviewed architects, stone carvers, and building occupants, as well as scouring archives for original architectural plans, to discover who these creatures are and why they exist where they do. Read the stories behind thier creation - from the well known, such as the gargoyles on Old City Hall, to the neglected and unnoticed, like the faces on the former headquarters of Confederation Life.Includes a map to follow in Murray's footsteps.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2006