- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books (Feb 1 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0811804623
- ISBN-13: 978-0811804622
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 658 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #557,983 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Since Jung's Man and His Symbols , several visual glossaries, from Eva Hangen's Symbols , Our Universal Language , to full-text studies by Joseph Campbell, have appeared. Drawing not only from nature, or objects, but sounds, odors, metaphors, gestures, myths, hybrid creatures, mazes, mystical gardens, mandalas, and celestial bodies Fontana (Univ. of Wales) offers the most comprehensive array yet. In this work, enhanced by over 300 color illustrations, he aims to stimulate interest and access to the symbolic world. The work is more than a simple reference tool; opening chapters reflect a Jungian slant that archetypes from the collective unconscious project the power of symbols found in art, meditation, and dreaming. Final chapters describe occult symbolic systems such as Kabbalah, alchemy, tarot, tantra, astrology, and I Ching. Highly recommended.
- Dara Eklund, Los Angeles P.L.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Dara Eklund, Los Angeles P.L.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From the I Ching and the Chakras to the Tarot and the Zodiac, this credible, highly readable, and vividily illustrated encyclopedic volume traces the origins and evolution of hundreds of symbols and symbol systems that have impacted human culture, history, art, and psychology since the dawn of time. 450 full-color illustrations.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Firmin's illustrations were a mistake.,
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This review is from: The Secret Language of Symbols: A Visual Key to Symbols Their Meanings (Paperback)
I got this book as a gift, and as gifts go, I can deal with it. The commissioned artwork by Hannah Firmin ranges from mediocre to horrible, but fortunately it only accounts for about half of the book's illustration. The other half includes decent reproductions of many beautiful and rarely-seen paintings, statues, manuscripts, etc., both ancient and modern. As for the text, its perusal "may be omitted with advantage." It is just sufficiently quaint and insipid enough to meet one's general expectation of this sort of book. Anyway, in spite of its flaws I do refer to it from time to time as a visual resource. Also "Art and Symbols of the Occult" by James Wasserman, a similar compendium of rare and fascinating images with unnecessary text. There are lots of books out there of a precisely similar nature.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Pages in 2003 edition are way too small,
By Katie W "Katie W" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Secret Language of Symbols: A Visual Key to Symbols & Their Meanings (Paperback)
From what I can see, the content is the same as the 1994 edition, however, the pages are so small that many illustrations are printed over onto 2 pages. The colors are better in the 1994 edition also.Buy the 1994 edition, it is beautifully illustrated, with descriptions are complete, without boring you too much information.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Understand A little more,
By Mr. "W" (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Secret Language of Symbols: A Visual Key to Symbols Their Meanings (Paperback)
This book is wonderful in both it's lay-out, illustrations, and ways of explaining the symbolic language. My only complaint is, it wasn't long enough!
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