Here be dragons : a fantastic bestiary
Material type:
TextPrinceton Princeton University Press c2003Description: 200p.; ill.; bibliog.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-691-11689-X
- N7745.A5 D4313 2003
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Originally publ. as Animaux etranges et fabuleux: un bestiare fantastique dans l'art, c. 2003.. Transl. from the French by Ariane Delacampagne.
Introduction. 1 Symbols, dreams, religions. 2 Inventing a bestiary. 3 Unicorns and human hybrids. 4 Flying quadrupeds and dragons. 5 Influences or coincidences?. 6 The fantastic today
'Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Bestiary is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the marvelous menagerie of imaginary animals that humans have conjured up over the ages. Ariane and Christian Delacampagne take us on a visually and intellectually riveting journey through five thousand years of art, examining the symbolic meanings of such creatures and what they say about the unconscious life of the human mind.'
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