Author: T. VolkerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004545301
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Animal in Far Eastern Art and Especially in the Art of the Japanese Netsuke, with References to Chinese Origins, Traditions, Legends, and Art
Author: T. VolkerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004545301
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Animals in Far Eastern Art
Author: Katarzyna MaleszkoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals in art
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Animal in Far Eastern Art
Author: T. VolkerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004042957
Category : Animals in art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Early Art of the Northern Far East
Author: Margarita Aleksandrovna Kirʹi︠a︡kPublisher: National Park Service Division of Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
Author: Roel SterckxPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791489159
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Exploring the cultural perception of animals in early Chinese thought, this careful reading of Warring States and Han dynasty writings analyzes how views of animals were linked to human self perception and investigates the role of the animal world in the conception of ideals of sagehood and socio-political authority. Roel Sterckx shows how perceptions of the animal world influenced early Chinese views of man's place among the living species and in the world at large. He argues that the classic Chinese perception of the world did not insist on clear categorical or ontological boundaries between animals, humans, and other creatures such as ghosts and spirits. Instead the animal realm was positioned as part of an organic whole and the mutual relationships among the living species—both as natural and cultural creatures—were characterized as contingent, continuous, and interdependent.
Global Clay
Author: John A. BurrisonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253035341
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
For over 25,000 years, humans across the globe have shaped, decorated, and fired clay. Despite great differences in location and time, universal themes appear in the world's ceramic traditions, including religious influences, human and animal representations, and mortuary pottery. In Global Clay: Themes in World Ceramic Traditions, noted pottery scholar John A. Burrison explores the recurring artistic themes that tie humanity together, explaining how and why those themes appear again and again in worldwide ceramic traditions. The book is richly illustrated with over 200 full-color, cross-cultural illustrations of ceramics from prehistory to the present. Providing an introduction to different styles of folk pottery, extensive suggestions for further reading, and reflections on the future of traditional pottery around the world, Global Clay is sure to become a classic for all who love art and pottery and all who are intrigued by the human commonalities revealed through art.
Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art
Author: Hope B. WernessPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826419132
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.
Fox
Author: Martin WallenPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861892973
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book is the first to fully explore the fox as the object of both derision and fascination, from the forests of North America to the deserts of Africa to the Arctic tundra.
Horror Dogs
Author: Brian Patrick DugganPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476649480
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
How did beloved movie dogs become man-killers like Cujo and his cinematic pack-mates? For the first time, here is the fascinating history of canines in horror movies and why our best friends were (and are still) painted as malevolent. Stretching back into Classical mythology, treacherous hounds are found only sporadically in art and literature until the appearance of cinema's first horror dog, Sherlock Holmes' Hound of the Baskervilles. The story intensifies through World War II's K-9 Corps to the 1970s animal horror films, which broke social taboos about the "good dog" on screen and deliberately vilified certain breeds--sometimes even fluffy lapdogs. With behind-the-scenes insights from writers, directors, actors, and dog trainers, here are the flickering hounds of silent films through talkies and Technicolor, to the latest computer-generated brutes--the supernatural, rabid, laboratory-made, alien, feral, and trained killers. "Cave Canem (Beware the Dog)"--or as one seminal film warned, "They're not pets anymore."
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