Pleasingly chunky and vibrantly colorful, this pocket-sized compendium covers iconography from around the world and is perfect for travel and museum outings. Author Jack Tresidder examines common imagery in art, religion, and literature, revealing hidden meanings rich with cultural history. For example, did you know that the phrase "salt of the earth" comes from the ancient use of salt as a preservative and the associated idea of incorruptibility? There is a symbol for virtually every human emotion and 1,001 Symbols helps us unlock them in a winning format that's proven as popular as its subject.
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Jack Tresidder was born and educated in New Zealand. A writer and art historian, he now lives in a remote valley in the French Alps.
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Thinking in pictures,
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The author investigates imagery in literature, religion and art, making the connection to universal themes in the human psyche. The book lists the idea, quality or state symbolised and then discusses all the major imagery used to represent it under the topic. Important symbols with multiple meanings therefore appear under various different topic headings, whilst related topics are sometimes grouped together.
The book provides an overview of the various imagery used by different cultures that stand for concepts like happiness, joy, wisdom, goodness, evil, truth justice, freedom and salvation amongst others. The author claims that traditional imagery as a whole represents a relatively small spectrum of emotions and ideas that were seen as the keystones of civilisation, in order to emphasize the positive over the negative. The book includes many cross-references, an index and plenty of striking monotone and full colour illustrations.
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Cool book, I wish it was bigger.,
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This is a neat book with interesting info about many symbols. This is good if you are curious and want to expand your knowledge but this is not a research resource. The book is very small and can be hard to keep open with one hand as it is very thick. Make it bigger and add more visual symbol samples (drawings, pics, etc.) and it would be perfect.
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Good condition, Quick delivery :),
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This is a gift, but I looked through it and it is interesting, and i'm quite picky with the "history" some people write.. This is not very detailed (it's a very small sized book), but what's in there is enough to peak interest, set someone on the right path to searching for more info.
Just what I hoped it would do:)
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Middle East, Virgin Mary, Tree of Life, Book of Revelation, Old Testament, North American Indian, Last Supper, New Testament, World Tree, Asia Minor, Book of Genesis, Islands of the Blessed, Seven Deadly Sins, South American, Tantric Buddhism, World War, Leonardo da Vinci New!
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