The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols

Author: Jean Chevalier
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0140512543
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

The Complete Dictionary of Symbols

Author: Jack Tresidder
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781973928928
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
The Complete Dictionary of SymbolsBy Jack Tresidder

Illustrated Dictionary Of Symbols In Eastern And Western Art

Author: James Hall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429979568
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 930

Book Description
"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."

A Dictionary of Symbols

Author: J. E. Cirlot
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486132668
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532

Book Description
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. 32 black-and-white illustrations.

Dictionary of Symbolism

Author: Hans Biedermann
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0452011183
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This encyclopedic guide explores the rich and varied meanings of more than 2,000 symbols—from amethyst to Zodiac.

Dictionary of Symbols and Imagery

Author: Ad de Vries
Publisher: Amsterdam ; London : North-Holland Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 540

Book Description

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Symbols

Author: Udo Becker
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826412218
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
An alphabetical reference with more than 1,500 entries that trace symbols to their cultural, religious, or mythological origins, and explain the hidden or encoded meaning that lies concealed beneath objects' and concepts' ordinary, outward appearance.

Finite Automata; Behavior and Synthesis

Author: Boris Avraamovich Trakhtenbrot
Publisher: North-Holland
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description

The Book of Symbols

Author: Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
ISBN: 9783836514484
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 807

Book Description
Offers photograph illustrations and essays on numerous symbols and symbolic imagery, exploring their archetypal meanings as well as cultural and historical context for how different groups have interpreted them.

Reverse Symbolism Dictionary

Author:
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786421251
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This is a companion to the hugely successful Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. The earlier dictionary was arranged by symbol and told what the meanings were. The present work goes the other way (but it is not simply a refiguring of the data). It presents ideas, situations or objects (ancient to modern), and gives the appropriate symbols (allusions, associations, attributes, or emblems). Some examples: one of the symbols for "hell" is descending stairs; an attribute of Saint Benedict is a raven; joy after sorrow is symbolized by the gemstone, amber. Literary, artistic, religious, heraldic, numerological, folkloric, occult, psychological, and biblical usages are included.