The Penguin Dictionary Of Symbols

Author : Jean Chevalier
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0140512543
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols written by Jean Chevalier and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds—including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the phenomenal range of possible interpretations they offer. This book draws together folklore, literary and artistic sources, and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every colour, number, sound, gesture, expression or character trait that has benefitted from symbolic interpretation. The conscious and unconscious minds are explored, desire and dreams are treated alongside the known and the chronicled. Extraordinary in its range and eclecticism, this dictionary was originally published in French as the Dictionnaire des Symboles, and it is regarded as the standard work on the subject.

Author : Hans Biedermann
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452011183
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Symbolism written by Hans Biedermann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedic guide explores the rich and varied meanings of more than 2,000 symbols—from amethyst to Zodiac.

Author : James Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429979568
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illustrated Dictionary Of Symbols In Eastern And Western Art written by James Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Companion volume to James Hall’s perennial seller Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art. which deals with the subject matter of Christian and Western art, the present volume includes the art of Egypt, the ancient Near East, Christian and classical Europe, India and the Far East. Flail explores the language of symbols in art showing how paintings, drawings and sculpture express man shades of meaning from simple, everyday hopes and fears to the profoundest philosophical and religious aspirations. The book explains and interprets symbols from many cultures, and over 600 illustrations clarify and complement the text. There are numbered references throughout the text to the sacred Iitcra-1 ture, myths and legends in which the symbols had their origins. Details of English translations of the works are in the bibliography. The book includes an appendix of the transcription of Chinese, notes and references, bibliography, chronological tables and index."

Author : Ad de Vries
Publisher : Amsterdam ; London : North-Holland Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Symbols and Imagery written by Ad de Vries and published by Amsterdam ; London : North-Holland Publishing Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Chevalier
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140512543
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols written by Jean Chevalier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds—including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the phenomenal range of possible interpretations they offer. This book draws together folklore, literary and artistic sources, and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every colour, number, sound, gesture, expression or character trait that has benefitted from symbolic interpretation. The conscious and unconscious minds are explored, desire and dreams are treated alongside the known and the chronicled. Extraordinary in its range and eclecticism, this dictionary was originally published in French as the Dictionnaire des Symboles, and it is regarded as the standard work on the subject.

Author : J. E. Cirlot
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504085655
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Symbols written by J. E. Cirlot and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic encyclopedia of symbols by the renowned Spanish poet illuminates the imagery of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art. J. E. Cirlot’s A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature—a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. Cirlot was a composer, poet, critic, and champion of modern art whose interest in surrealism helped introduce him to the study of symbolism. This volume explores the space between the world at large and the world within, where nothing is meaningless, and everything is in some way related to something else. Running from “abandonment” to “zone” by way of “flute” and “whip,” spanning the cultures of the world, and including a wealth of visual images to further bring the reality of the symbol home, A Dictionary of Symbols is a luminous and illuminating investigation of the works of eternity in time.

Author : Jack Tresidder
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781973928928
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Dictionary of Symbols written by Jack Tresidder and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Dictionary of SymbolsBy Jack Tresidder

Author : Steven Olderr
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476646694
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reverse Symbolism Dictionary written by Steven Olderr and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only dictionary of its kind, this greatly expanded second edition lists objects, concepts, traits and situations ancient and modern and gives their appropriate symbols. A companion to Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary (2012), this volume presents symbols and their referents in reverse association (but is not simply a reconfiguring of information). Examples: a symbol for "hell" is descending stairs; an attribute of Saint Benedict is a raven; joy after sorrow is signified by the gemstone amber. Ethnic, literary, artistic, religious, heraldic, numerological, folkloric, occult and psychological usages are included.

Author : Carl G. Liungman
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051991970
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thought Signs written by Carl G. Liungman and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of Western ideograms ever published, unique in its search systems, that allows the reader to locate a symbol by defining just four of its visual characteristics. It is about our graphic cultural heritage as expressed in subway graffiti, fighter jets' signs and emergency exit symbols. It contains 2,300 symbols, 1,600 articles and streamlined reference functions. Ideogram scarved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men 25,000 years ago, put on modern household appliances by their manufacturers or sprayed on walls by political activists, are all presented in dictionary form for easy reference. Symbols cover current designs used in advertising, logotyping, architecture, design, decoration, religion, politics and astrology.

Author : Michael Ferber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521591287
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Literary Symbols written by Michael Ferber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than "universal" pyschological archetypes, myths or esoterica. Michael Ferber has assembled nearly two hundred main entries clearly explaining and illustrating the literary symbols that we all encounter (such as swan, rose, moon, gold), along with hundreds of cross-references and quotations. The dictionary concentrates on English literature, but its entries range widely from the Bible and classical authors to the twentieth century, taking in American and European literatures. Its informed style and rich references will make this book an essential tool not only for literary and classical scholars, but for all students of literature.