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Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100486425231
ISBN-139780486425238
eBay Product ID (ePID)14069194993
Product Key Features
Number of Pages528 Pages
Publication NameDictionary of Symbols
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
SubjectDictionaries, Reference, Folk & Outsider Art
TypeNot Available
Subject AreaArt, Reference, Social Science
AuthorJ. E. Cirlot
SeriesDover Occult Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight22.3 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2002-022956
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal001.56
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisA valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. 32 black-and-white illustrations., A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. Alphabetical entries clarify essential meanings of each symbol, as drawn from religion, astrology, alchemy, numerology, other sources. 32 black-and-white illustrations., Humans, it's said, are symbolizing animals. At every stage of civilization, people have relied on symbolic expression, and advances in science and technology have only increased our dependence on symbols. The language of symbols is considered a science, and this informative volume offers an indispensable tool in the study of symbology. It can be used as a reference or simply browsed for pleasure. Many of its entries -- those on architecture, mandala, numbers, serpent, water, and zodiac, for example -- can be read as independent essays. The vitality of symbology has never been greater: An essential part of the ancient arts of the Orient and of the Western medieval traditions, symbolism underwent a 20th-century revival with the study of the unconscious, both directly in the field of dreams, visions, and psychoanalysis, and indirectly in art and poetry. A wide audience awaits the assistance of this dictionary in elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas.
LC Classification NumberBF1623.S9C513 2002
