| Description |
xxi, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Mircea Eliade -- The Scholar as Artist, Critic, and Poet -- Theories of Symbolism -- The Symbolism of Shadows in Archaic Religion -- Cultural Fashions and the History of Religions -- Survivals and Camouflages of Myths -- Art and the Sacred -- Divinities: Art and the Divine -- Masks: Mythical and Ritual Origins -- Reflections on Indian Art -- The Sacred and the Modern Artist -- A Dialogue with Marc Chagall -- Why Have We Become So Anxious? / Marc Chagall -- Beauty and Faith / Mircea Eliade -- Brancusi and Mythology -- Sites of the Sacred -- Sacred Architecture and Symbolism -- Barabudur, the Symbolic Temple -- From the Portuguese Journal, 1941-1944 -- Literature and the Sacred -- Folkloric Themes and Artistic Creations -- Marthe Bibesco and the Meeting of Eastern and Western Literature -- Eugene Ionesco and "The Nostalgia for Paradise" -- Literary Imagination and Religious Structure -- Photographic Credits |
| Analysis |
Arts and religion |
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Symbolism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Spine title: Symbolism, the sacred & the arts |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 178-179 |
| Subject |
Arts and religion.
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Symbolism.
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| Author |
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane.
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| LC no. |
85014037 |
| ISBN |
0824507231 |
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