Tag: Symbolism

Free Download Chinese symbolism and art motifs : a comprehensive handbook on symbolism in Chinese art through the ages By Williams, Charles Alfred Speed
2006 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 080483704X | EPUB | 21 MB
Gain a deeper appreciation for Chinese art and architecture by understanding its symbols. The Yin and Yang, dragon, phoenix, five elements, and other symbols are explained in their historical and cultural context. Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs also includes articles on Chinese beliefs, customs, arts and crafts, foods, agriculture and medicine. Originally published in 1941, this is the standard reference book, with over 400 illustrations to help clarify and define this ancient, complex culture

Free Download Liana De Girolami Cheney, "Radiance and Symbolism in Modern Stained Glass"
English | ISBN: 1443885851 | 2016 | 395 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book focuses on the aesthetic, symbolic, and cultural concepts of radiance and beauty in stained glass in modern art; global exchanges between stained-glass artists in Europe and the Americas; and the transformation of stained glass from religious decoration to secular material culture. Unique features of the book include its geographic breadth, encompassing England, France, Italy, USA, and Mexico, and its inclusion of American female glassmakers. Essays consider how stained glass became an art form during this time, and show how the narrative for the figurative design drew from the Bible, mythology, history, literature, and the symbolism of the time, including popular culture such as ecology and materiality. Written for students and the general public interested in the humanities, literature, history, art history, and new media and popular culture, this book examines the visual beauty and symbolism of stained-glass windows in Europe and American cultures during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the modern era.

Free Download Rosina Neginsky, "Mental Illnesses in Symbolism"
English | ISBN: 1443891266 | 2017 | 191 pages | PDF | 5 MB
For the artists, writers and musicians of the Symbolist Movement of the turn of the century, true art, an extension of ones soul or unconscious, was often regarded as dark, mysterious and unreliablethe world of Dionysus. Such artists, writers and musicians searched for symbols to express or suggest psychological pathologies manifested in exaltation, madness, and other extreme mental states. Mental Illness in Symbolism inquires into the mysteries of the Symbolist psyche through essays on works of art, literature and music created as part or extension of the Symbolist Movement.

Free Download Scott Davidson, "A Companion to Ricoeur’s The Symbolism of Evil "
English | ISBN: 1498587143 | 2020 | 246 pages | EPUB | 458 KB
The Symbolism of Evil is the final book in Ricoeur’s early trilogy on the will. While Freedom and Nature sets aside normative questions altogether and Fallible Man examines the question of what makes the bad will possible, here Ricoeur takes up the question of evil in its actuality. What is the nature of the will that has succumbed to evil? The question of evil resists reflection and remains inscrutable, leading Ricoeur to proceed indirectly through a study of the abundant resources contained in symbols and myths. Symbols, as Ricoeur famously says, "give rise to thought" and thereby open up a field of meanings which help to inform a philosophical reflection on evil. This hermeneutics of symbols signals an important shift in Ricoeur’s philosophical trajectory, which increasingly turns to language and the various forms of discourse which harbor multiple meanings. The contributors to this volume, edited by Scott Davidson, highlight a wide range of important themes in Ricoeur’s treatment of the symbolics of evil that resonate with current topics in contemporary philosophy and religion.

Free Download Ratka Relic, "The Esoteric Symbolism of Shamanic Trance and Altered States Phenomena"
English | ISBN: 1527549992 | 2020 | 150 pages | PDF | 891 KB
Bringing together extensive research on psychology, psychophysiology and phenomenology of the shamanic trance and altered states of consciousness, this book represents a cross-cultural approach to the study of shamanism. It discusses Buryat shamanism in Siberia in comparison with Buddhist and Hindu Yogic techniques, as well as other esoteric traditions. The phenomenon of the shamanic trance is here investigated from the esoteric point of view as a form of mystical or religious experience. The book explores the inner feelings and psychic states of the shaman during the trance, describing the inner psychic processes and referring to the systems of chakras and subtle channels in shamanism and classical Buddhist and Hindu yoga, as well as other cultural traditions. In addition to its adoption of psychoanalytic and transpersonal approaches, it also uses phenomenological methods in its investigation, representing works from scholars in Oriental studies, as they provide deeper insight into the research of shamanism and mystical experiences.

Free Download Florian Klaeger, "Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics "
English | ISBN: 3110775859 | 2022 | 270 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 16 MB
Special Focus: "Omission", edited by Patrick Gill

Free Download Rüdiger Ahrens, "Symbolism 2021: Special Focus: Law and Literature "
English | ISBN: 3110756390 | 2021 | 280 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
Special Focus: Law and Literature

Free Download Julie M. Hopkins, "’The Wings of the Spirit’: Exploring Feminine Symbolism in Early Pneumatology: A Reassessment of a Key Metaphor in the S"
English | ISBN: 9042941138 | 2020 | 82 pages | PDF | 590 KB
The book explores the rich symbolism of the Holy Spirit as a mother bird with hovering wings within early Syriac sacramental liturgies, proto-monastic rites of initiation, hymnody and teaching on prayer and spiritual states of inspiration and contemplation. The author traces these influences into the Greek writings of the Fourth Century Mesopotamian ascetic teacher and writer of the `Macarian Homilies’. Macarian pneumatology was known to have influenced the Cappadocian brothers, Basil and Gregory, in the period leading up to the addition of the clause on the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed. By demonstrating a cultural and religious dialogue between the Cappadocians and Macarian and Syriac teaching on the Holy Spirit, Julie Hopkins challenges the current scholarship which claims that the Cappadocian appropriation of the "wings of the Spirit" metaphor derived from the Platonic "wings of the soul". In her study, the agency and functions of the Syriac feminine Holy Spirit were appropriated by Gregory of Nyssau in his mystical writings as a powerful verbal ikon, even though the gender was lost in translation.

Published 5/2023
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Enter into the magical world of mermaids and mermaid mythology.