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The Book of Symbols is an exhaustive reference work that charts the visual representation of human experience. It's also a must for designers... Even at first glance the 800-page volume was thrilling... it was still possible, even now, for publishers to do something we have never seen before... This citadel of a book is divided into five main sections... Almost every significant area of human experience and symbolism is documented. Each symbol receives at least a double-page spread...The book's picture selection, a monumental feat of research, is outstanding, with images and artifacts from every culture and period in history to demonstrate the recurrence of these archetypal symbols... Regular TASCHEN designers Andy Disl and Birgit Eichwede of Sense/Net in Cologne have designed The Book of Symbols and once again have done a magnificent job. The two-column layout is restrained and unflashy as befits a project of this gravity, but not the slightest bit textbooky or dull. The balance of text and pictures against white space is perfectly measured: the book feels dense with information yet leaves plenty of room to breathe as you explore its corridors and chambers. It's a pleasure to get lost in. The Book of Symbols is a project of mind-blowing ambition and reach, and a book with an almost old-fashioned educational appeal. Bright, optimistic, bountiful and brainy, it makes you reel with a sense of wonder at the complexity of the human mind and soul... This fabulously instructive and inspiring work of reference will make an inexhaustible addition to any design studio library. No home should be without one either. All human life is in there. You can't ask for more than that.
--Creative Review, London
--Creative Review, London
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In this title, around 350 incisive essays and almost 800 full-color images evoke the hidden dimensions of archetypal symbology - showing how symbols in art, religion, life or dreams can lead to transformational experience and psychological resonance. This is an exploration of symbols and their meanings. "The Book of Symbols" combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all eras of history. The highly readable texts and almost 800 beautiful full-color images come together in a unique way to convey hidden dimensions of meaning. Each of the c. 350 essays examines a given symbol's psychic background, and how it evokes psychic processes and dynamics. Etymological roots, the play of opposites, paradox and shadow, the ways in which diverse cultures have engaged a symbolic image - all these factors are taken into consideration. Authored by writers from the fields of psychology, religion, art, literature, and comparative myth, the essays flow into each other in ways that mirror the psyche's unexpected convergences. There are no pat definitions of the kind that tend to collapse a symbol; a still vital symbol remains partially unknown, compels our attention and unfolds in new meanings and manifestations over time. Rather than merely categorize, "The Book of Symbols" illuminates how to move from the visual experience of a symbolic image in art, religion, life, or dreams, to directly experiencing its personal and psychological resonance. "The Book of Symbols" sets new standards for thoughtful exploration of symbols and their meanings, and will appeal to a wide range of readers: artists, designers, dreamers and dream interpreters, psychotherapists, self-helpers, gamers, comic book readers, religious and spiritual searchers, writers, students, and anyone curious about the power of archetypal images. This title is suitable for readers of works of high-quality popular history by Schama, Marr and Kynaston, as well as families and individuals looking for a one-stop history of Britain that takes a strikingly different approach from standard narrative histories.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is an outstanding book - from content, to cover and how the book is put together and with the materials it is crafted from. A beautiful volume to be well loved and well thumbed for many, many years to come. In my opinion, the best book of symbols I've seen so far. I'm very happy with it.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Wow, what an amazing book. The publishers succeed fully in collecting archetypal images, some ancient and some surprisingly modern, and guiding the reader on to further research through reference, poetry and art.
Some reviewers have criticized the small pictures and "insufficient" writing, but if the publishers had given us all the detail available the book would be so heavy you would have needed a trolley to carry it around and weight-lifter's arms just to open it. Plus which this is a book about symbols, which resonate on an unconscious level, so excess writing is not necessary.
A book to keep on your bedside table and randomly flick through before sleep, or to read from page one to the end. Can't recommend highly enough.
Some reviewers have criticized the small pictures and "insufficient" writing, but if the publishers had given us all the detail available the book would be so heavy you would have needed a trolley to carry it around and weight-lifter's arms just to open it. Plus which this is a book about symbols, which resonate on an unconscious level, so excess writing is not necessary.
A book to keep on your bedside table and randomly flick through before sleep, or to read from page one to the end. Can't recommend highly enough.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The book is well organised and has loads of colour illustrations. Of all my books this has to be the most sophisticated and interesting. The sheer size and content is well worth the money. Compared to similar symbol books, if symbols are your thing, this book exceeds all expectations and has my recommendation.
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