Author: Adele Nozedar Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0007283962 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 20
Book Description
Unlock the lost and hidden meanings of the world's ancient and modern signs and symbols with the latest in the hugely popular series of 'Element Encyclopedias'. This is the biggest A-Z reference book on symbolic objects you'll ever find.
Author: John Laing Publisher: Jensen ISBN: Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
"From cave paintings in Africa, Asia and Oceania, to the emergence of sophisticated graphic styles in Europe at the turn of the century, these images stimulate curiosity and wonder at the enormous breadth of human creativity."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Mark O'Connell Publisher: ISBN: 9780681185821 Category : Signs and symbols Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
An interpretation of the unconscious codes and secret languages that shape our most ancient emotions are illustrated in over 1600 visual symbols, including photographs, firne art paintings and line illustrations, with authoritative in-depth commentary definitions and explanations.
Author: D.R. McElroy Publisher: Wellfleet Press ISBN: 1577151860 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 259
Book Description
This informative and engaging illustrated reference provides the stories behind 1,001 signs and symbols, from ancient hieroglyphs to modern-day political and subculture symbols. What in the world does Ω mean? And what about its meaning might have led my coffee date to tattoo it on his entire forearm? Where did the symbol ∞ originate, and what was its first meaning? How did the ampersand symbol & come about and how was it applied daily in book publishing? And what is the full story behind that staring eye on top of the pyramid on our American dollar bill? This comprehensive guide to signs and symbols explains. Find within: More than 1,000 illustrations An extensive collection of written and cultural symbols, including animals, instruments, stones, shapes, numbers, colors, plants, food, parts of the body, religious and astrological symbols, emojis, and gestures Historical facts culled from a wide variety of sources Learn all about the signs and symbols that surround us and their part in our rich world history.
Author: Carl G. Liungman Publisher: IOS Press ISBN: 9789051991970 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 710
Book Description
The book is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of Western ideograms ever published, unique in its search systems, that allows the reader to locate a symbol by defining just four of its visual characteristics. It is about our graphic cultural heritage as expressed in subway graffiti, fighter jets' signs and emergency exit symbols. It contains 2,300 symbols, 1,600 articles and streamlined reference functions. Ideogram scarved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men 25,000 years ago, put on modern household appliances by their manufacturers or sprayed on walls by political activists, are all presented in dictionary form for easy reference. Symbols cover current designs used in advertising, logotyping, architecture, design, decoration, religion, politics and astrology.
Author: Mark O'Connell Publisher: ISBN: Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Contains definitions and interpretations of over 1,600 signs and symbols and discusses the cross-cultural, sociological, and psychological uses, meaning, and development of signs and symbols as a whole.
Author: Udo Becker Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9780826412218 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 372
Book Description
An alphabetical reference with more than 1,500 entries that trace symbols to their cultural, religious, or mythological origins, and explain the hidden or encoded meaning that lies concealed beneath objects' and concepts' ordinary, outward appearance.
Author: Mark O'Connell Publisher: Southwater Publishing ISBN: 9781844763573 Category : Signs and symbols Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Signs and symbols are integral to the world in which we live: from letters and words on a page to the constellations in the night sky; from the image of a god to the secret gargoyles on a cathedral roof; from the meaningful winking of an eye to an elabor
Author: Mark OConnell Publisher: Lorenz Books ISBN: 9780754835301 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 512
Book Description
The visual vocabulary and secret language that shape our thoughts and dreams and dictate our reactions to the world, with more than 2200 vivid images Many symbols carry an elemental power that transcends boundaries and holds significance for other cultures. This comprehensive and beautiful book discusses and illustrates thousands of these symbols and assesses their position in language, art, literature, mythology, magic, religion and psychology. In the second half of the book, how we dream and how we interpret dreams is analysed as a way of accessing our subconscious fears, desires and preoccupations. The erudite text provides a wealth of cultural background to primal metaphors that are part of mankind's universal language. The book is both a journey of discovery into the importance of symbolism and dreaming and a vast visual resource of signs and symbols.
Author: Adele Nozedar
Author: John Laing
Author: Mark O'Connell
Author: Mark O'Connell
Author: D.R. McElroy
Author: Carl G. Liungman
Author: Mark O'Connell
Author: Udo Becker
Author: Mark O'Connell
Author: Mark OConnell