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The Green Man (Paperback)

by Kathleen Basford (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: D.S.Brewer; New edition edition (20 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0859914976
  • ISBN-13: 978-0859914970
  • Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.4 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 382,027 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #22 in  Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > History of Art & Architecture > Countries & Regions > Europe > Byzantine to Gothic: 500-1400
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The rarest, most recondite and fascinating art book, which is a folklore and magic book as well... An incredibly thorough study, with every example illustrated, of the weird foliate heads or masks found in the medieval churches and cathedrals of Western Europe, with leaves sprouting from them. THE TIMES

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The Green Man, the image of the foliate head or the head of a man sprouting leaves, is probably the most common of all motifs in medieval sculpture. Nevertheless, the significance of the image lay largely unregarded until Kathleen Basford published this book - the first monograph of the Green Man in any language -and thereby earned the lasting gratitude of scholars in many fields, from art history and folklore to current environmental studies. This book has opened up new avenues of research, not only into medieval man's understanding of nature, and into conceptions of death, rebirth and resurrection in the middle ages, but also into our concern today with ecology and our relationship with the green world. It is therefore a work of living scholarship and its publication in paperback will be greatly and justly welcomed.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A very one sided approach but some great photos, 16 Mar 2007
By M. J. Aldis-evans (Dessau, Germany) - See all my reviews
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If you are looking for a gazetter of Green men not just in England, then this is a great book. It is mainly photos, nicely produced black and white shots, with informative captions about each. Listed are Green Men as far afield as Istanbul, and there are entries for France and Germany too.
The short (14 page) essay at the start does give some useful factual information on early Green Men, where they are and how the images developed in churches through the centuries. Also on how they differed in England and France. However, it is an incrediably one-sided argument. She gives only the Christian viewpoint, indeed perhaps only her Christian view point and totally dimisses any other theories. If you want to learn a little more on other arguments about what is represented by the Green Man, I recommend "The Green Man in Britain" by Geoff and Fran Doel. Poor old Green Man - he get's a bit of a rough deal from Ms. Basford.
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