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Symbols in Art

Author : Matthew Wilson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500295743
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Symbols in Art written by Matthew Wilson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly user-friendly and covering a broad historical sweep, this book is a reference guide to fifty of the most frequently occurring symbols in global art history. Iconography, or the study of symbols—be they animals, artifacts, plants, geometric shapes, or gestures—is an essential aspect of interpreting art. One of the most consistent features of human society throughout time has been the use of visual symbols, which often act as substitutions for the written word, crossing dialects and borders and uniting understandings of the world through a shared language. Incorporating and analyzing a wealth of cultures, Symbols in Art serves as a reference guide to fifty of the most frequently occurring symbols in global art history from 2300 BCE to the present day, exploring their subtle implications and covert meanings. Entries devoted to specific symbols expose nuances of meaning and historical use, from easily identifiable symbols across the globe to those used to speak to specific cultural groups. This book exposes such intriguing correspondences as the symbolism of grapevines in a fifteenth-century painting by Giovanni Bellini compared to the images in Yinka Shonibare’s Last Supper. Complete with a user-friendly glossary of symbols and a well-selected array of illustrations, this book illuminates common and thought-provoking symbols in art across history and the globe, functioning as an indispensable tool for interpretation.

Symbols and Allegories in Art

Author : Matilde Battistini
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892368181
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Symbols and Allegories in Art written by Matilde Battistini and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this volume is to provide today's readers and museum-goers with a tool for orienting themselves in the world of images and learning to read the hidden meanings of certain famous paintings."--Introduction.

Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning

Author : Pamela Sachant
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning written by Pamela Sachant and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics

Nature and Its Symbols

Author : Lucia Impelluso
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892367726
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Its Symbols written by Lucia Impelluso and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Guide to Imagery series introduces readers to important visual vocabulary of Western art."--Back cover.

Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives

Author : Charles Alfred Speed Williams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486233727
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (337 download)

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Book Synopsis Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives by : Charles Alfred Speed Williams

Download or read book Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives written by Charles Alfred Speed Williams and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes historical, legendary, and supernatural persons, animals, and objects that recur as symbols in Oriental art and literature

Symbolism and Art Nouveau

Author : Maly Gerhardus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Symbolism and Art Nouveau written by Maly Gerhardus and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of Symbols

Author : Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
ISBN 13 : 9783836514484
Total Pages : 807 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Symbols written by Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Symbolism

Author : Nathalia Brodskaïa
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1783103981
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Symbolism written by Nathalia Brodskaïa and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolism appeared in France and Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the 20th century. The Symbolists, fascinated with ancient mythology, attempted to escape the reign of rational thought imposed by science. They wished to transcend the world of the visible and the rational in order to attain the world of pure thought, constantly flirting with the limits of the unconscious. The French Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, the Belgians Fernand Khnopff and Félicien Rops, the English Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the Dutch Jan Toorop are the most representative artists of the movement.

Color and Meaning

Author : John Gage
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520226111
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Color and Meaning written by John Gage and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Gage's Color and Meaning is full of ideas. . .He is one of the best writers on art now alive."--A. S. Byatt, Booker Prize winner

Symbolist Art in Context

Author : Michelle Facos
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520255828
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Symbolist Art in Context written by Michelle Facos and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Symbolist art movement of the late 19th century forms an important bridge between Impressionism and Modernism. But because Symbolism emphasizes ideas over objects and events, it has suffered from conflicting definitions. In this book, Michelle Facos offers a comprehensive description of this challenging subject.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art

Author : Hope B. Werness
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826419132
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art by : Hope B. Werness

Download or read book Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art written by Hope B. Werness and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.

Signs & Symbols in Christian Art

Author : George Ferguson
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195014327
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Signs & Symbols in Christian Art written by George Ferguson and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the use and meaning of Christian symbols found in Renaissance art.

Symbols of Power in Art

Author : Paola Rapelli
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 160606066X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Symbols of Power in Art written by Paola Rapelli and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the ways that sovereign rulers have employed well-defined symbols, attributes, and stereotypes to convey their power to their subjects and rivals, as well as to leave a legacy for subsequent generations to admire. Legendary rulers from antiquity such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Constantine have been looked to as models for their display of imperial power by the rulers of later eras. From medieval sovereigns such as Charlemagne and France's Louis IX to the tsars of Russia and the great European royal dynasties of the Hapsburgs, the Bourbons, and the Tudors, the rulers of each period have appropriated and often embellished the emblems of power employed by their predecessors. Even the second-tier lords who ruled parts of France and Italy during the Renaissance, such as the dukes of Burgundy, the Gonzaga of Mantua, and the Medici of Florence became adept at manipulating this imagery. The final chapter is reserved for Napoleon I, perhaps the ultimate master of symbolic display, who assumed the attributes of Roman emperors to project an image of eternal and immutable authority. The author examines not only regal paraphernalia such as crowns, scepters, thrones, and orbs, but also the painted portraits, sculptures, tapestries, carved ivories, jewelry, coins, armor, and, eventually, photographs created to display their owner's sovereign power, a vast collection of works that now forms a significant portion of the cultural heritage of Western civilization.

Symbolist Art

Author : Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500181317
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Symbolist Art written by Edward Lucie-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolic art - Romanticism and Symbolism - Symbolist movement in France - Gustave Moreau - Redon and Bresdin - Puvis de Chavannes and Carriere - Gauguin, Pont-Aven and the Nabis - Edvard Munch.

Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art

Author : Emanuel Winternitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art written by Emanuel Winternitz and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book first appeared in 1967. In the years since then, it has spawned the new academic sub-discipline of musical iconology, which belongs equally to the histories of art and of music. Emmanuel Winternitz, who was for thirty-one years Curator of Musical Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is one of the world's leading authorities on the history of musical instruments. He is also an erudite historian of art. Combining these two interests he has for many years studied the innumerable representations of musical instruments in Western art. In this collection of closely related articles, he examines what these pictures tell of the design and construction of instruments, of their performance, practice, and of the often subtle symbolic use to which artists put them. Kithara and cittern, lute and lyre, bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy, and the ubiquitous lira da braccio, all of these figured largely in the art of the Middle Ages or the Renaissance, together with a clutch of shwms, zinks, and crumhorns, and a variety of fantastic instruments that existed only in the imagination of the artists. In more than 200 photographs and many drawings, Winternizt illustrates instruments that range from an Egytptian wall-painting of a harp to a musette in a Watteau F te champ tre. He draws from the works of Titian, Raphael, D rer, and Bruegel, and also from medieval manuscripts and sculpture. Winternitz discusses these diverse elements with a combination of formidable learning, wit, and keen insight that makes this book at once a seminal work for scholars and a delight for lovers of art and music.

Symbolism

Author : Rodolphe Rapetti
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Symbolism written by Rodolphe Rapetti and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 2005 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new analysis of European symbolist art, situating the movement in its historical context and retracing its links with the evolution of ideas, particularly in literature.

A Forest of Symbols

Author : Andrei Pop
Publisher : Zone Books
ISBN 13 : 1935408364
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book A Forest of Symbols written by Andrei Pop and published by Zone Books. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Andrei Pop presents a lucid reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century whose work merits the adjective “symbolist.” For Pop, this term denotes an art that is self-conscious about its modes of making meaning and he argues that these symbolist practices, which sought to provide more direct access to the viewer by constant revision of its material means of meaning-making (brushstrokes on a canvas, words on a page), are crucial to understanding the genesis of modern art. The symbolists saw art not as a social revolution, but a revolution in sense and in how we conceptualize the world. At the same time, the concerns of symbolist painters and poets were shared to a remarkable degree by theoretical scientists of the period, especially by mathematicians and logicians who were dissatisfied with the strict empiricism dominant in their disciplines, and which made shared knowledge seem unattainable. A crisis of sense made art and science look for conceptual foundations underlying the diverging subjective responses and perceptions of individuals. Unlike other studies of this period, Pop’s focus is not on how individual artists may have absorbed bits of scientific theories, but rather on the philosophical questions that were relevant to both domains. The problem of subjectivity in particular, of what in one’s experience can and cannot be shared, was crucial to the possibility of collaboration within science and to the communication of artistic innovation. Pop’s brilliant close readings of the literary and visual practices of Manet and Mallarmé, of drawings by Ernst Mach, William James and Wittgenstein, of experiments with color by Bracquemond and Van Gogh, and of the philosophical systems of Frege and Russell add up to a startling but coherent picture of the symbolist heritage of modernity and its consequences.