The Continuum Encyclopaedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art - Hardcover

Werness, Hope D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826415253 ISBN 13: 9780826415257

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2003

Synopsis

The focus of this encyclopedia is on animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and in different eras of human history. Most entries on particular animals begin with brief zoological information, which includes the animal's scientific name and classification as well as its range, habitat, and behavior. Main, general entries on cultural, chronological and geographical areas include cross-references to specific cultures discussed in greater detail. Other broader entries address the significance of animals in their own environements, such as the architecture of animals, tools used by animals, and still others deal with animals in the human sphere such as pet animals and zoo animals. The ways that people think about animals and what people do to and with animals as a result are discussed in more theoretical entries, such as anomalous animal and complimentary duality. Some entries deal with the ways in which animals are depicted (composition, X-ray images).

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Review:

Hugely important. One of the most enjoyable reads in the area of textbooks we have seen this year. Recommended as a teaching text in Anthropology and Art History courses. Recommended as a general reference text for all college-level and public sector libraries. Electric Review. net, September / October 2004 The focus of the encyclopedia is on animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and in different eras of human history. Tulanian, Spring 2005 international in scope Overall, entries are evocative and illustrative rather than exhaustive. Virtually every page has at least one black and white drawing. At the end are a useful bibliography and an index of persons that indicates main entries in capitals. Affordably priced this volume finds a niche only partially filled by such guides as Marvin Shaw and Richard Warren s A Viewer s Guide to Art: A Glossary of Gods, People and Creatures (1991) Recommended. All levels. Choice 9/04--G.M. Herrmann "Organ Australia "

About the Author:

Hope D. Werness is professor of art at California State University, Stanislaus. An art historian specializing in tribal, Precolumbian, and 19th and 20th European art, she is also a practicing artist, working in ceramics. She is the author of The Symbolism of Mirrors in Art from Ancient Times to the Present.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0826415253
• ISBN 13: 9780826415257
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400