The Mediation of Ornament

Oleg Grabar

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objects Based on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many art... Lees meer

Critique of Psychoanalysis

C G Jung

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Until 1912 the association of Jung and Freud was very close, and Jung was regarded as one of the leading practitioners of psychoanalysis. Subsequently... Lees meer

Images and Symbols

Mircea Eliade

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode o... Lees meer

The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 2

Louis Massignon

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Volume 2 of 4. Encompassing the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization, this major work of Western orientalism explores the meaning of the life an... Lees meer

Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 2

Miguel de Unamuno

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The first English translation of the Diario Intimo and a selection of letters. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the lat... Lees meer

Mambu

Kenelm Burridge

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians... Lees meer

Contact: Art and the Pull of Print

Jennifer L Roberts

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print In process and technique, printmaking is an art... Lees meer

Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry

Jacques Maritain

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The classic work on the sublime interplay between the arts and poetics This book explores the rich and complex relationship between art and poetry, sh... Lees meer

The Moment of Caravaggio

Michael Fried

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• A richly illustrated reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historians This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most imp... Lees meer

The Sack of Rome, 1527

André Chastel

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• From a leading art historian of Renaissance Italy, a compelling account of the artistic and cultural impact of the sack of sixteenth-century Rome In t... Lees meer

Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 6

Miguel de Unamuno

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The three remarkable pieces of fiction included in this volume are not so much novelets, novels, as nivolas, a form invented by Unamuno. Originally pu... Lees meer

Navaho Religion

Gladys Amanda Reichard

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward thei... Lees meer

Mnemosyne

Mario Praz

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual arts In his search for a common link between literature and the visua... Lees meer

The Thief Who Stole My Heart

Vidya Dehejia

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the thirteenth centur... Lees meer

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 15

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The Opus Maximum gathers the last major body of unpublished prose writings by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Consisting primarily of fragments dictated to J... Lees meer

Giorgio Vasari

Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• A striking account of Vasari's career, friendships, and contribution to the art of the Italian Renaissance Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Archit... Lees meer

Horace Walpole

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the arts Horace Walpole (1717-1797) was a collector,... Lees meer

The Inward Turn of Narrative

Erich Kahler

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is forever transforming real... Lees meer

The Wisdom of the Serpent

Joseph Lewis Henderson, Maud Oakes

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book t... Lees meer

Gold, Silver, and Bronze

Jennifer Montagu

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• An in-depth look at the exquisite metal sculpture of the Roman baroque Roman baroque sculpture is usually thought of in terms of large-scale statues i... Lees meer

Pandora's Box

Dora Panofsky, Erwin Panofsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire... Lees meer

Last Looks, Last Books

Helen Vendler

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Modern American poets writing in the face of death In Last Looks, Last Books , the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great ... Lees meer

Malinowski and the Work of Myth

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impac... Lees meer

Shamanism

Mircea Eliade

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series | nr. 76
• First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of... Lees meer