The Watkins Dictionary of Symbols

Jack Tresidder (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2008
Watkins Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-905857-67-8 (ISBN)

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Covers traditional symbols such as animals, plants, gemstones, objects, elements and graphic shapes that have become primal metaphors for human concepts and qualities. This book also covers historical and mythological figures.

'Traditional symbols form a visual shorthand for ideas ...For thousands of years they have enabled sculptors, painters and craftsmen to embody and reinforce deep thoughts and beliefs about human life in single, immediate and powerful images' - From Jack Tresidder's introduction. Its fully cross-referenced A-Z entries cover traditional symbols such as animals, plants, gemstones, objects, elements and graphic shapes that have become primal metaphors for human concepts and qualities. There is also a helpful index covering historical and mythological figures and other symbolic references.

Jack Tresidder has worked as a newspaper journalist, foreign news editor, book and theatre critic and a publishing director. He is the author of 1001 Symbols and Symbols and their Meanings. Born and educated in New Zealand, he now lives and writes in a remote valley in the French Alps.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.9.2008
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	125 x 197 mm
Gewicht	236 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-905857-67-5 / 1905857675
ISBN-13	978-1-905857-67-8 / 9781905857678
Zustand	Neuware