The Mediation of Ornament

Oleg Grabar

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objects Based on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many art... Lees meer

The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 2

Louis Massignon

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Volume 2 of 4. Encompassing the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization, this major work of Western orientalism explores the meaning of the life an... Lees meer

The Moment of Caravaggio

Michael Fried

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• A richly illustrated reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historians This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most imp... Lees meer

Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry

Jacques Maritain

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The classic work on the sublime interplay between the arts and poetics This book explores the rich and complex relationship between art and poetry, sh... Lees meer

Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 4

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Essays by Rudolf Bernoulli, Martin Buber, C. M. von Cammerloher, T. W. Danzel, Friedrich Heiler, C. G. Jung, C. Kerényi, John Layard, Fritz Meier, Max... Lees meer

The Myth of the Eternal Return

Mircea Eliade

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-schola... Lees meer

Contact: Art and the Pull of Print

Jennifer L Roberts

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print In process and technique, printmaking is an art... Lees meer

The Sack of Rome, 1527

André Chastel

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• From a leading art historian of Renaissance Italy, a compelling account of the artistic and cultural impact of the sack of sixteenth-century Rome In t... Lees meer

Mnemosyne

Mario Praz

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual arts In his search for a common link between literature and the visua... Lees meer

The Thief Who Stole My Heart

Vidya Dehejia

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the thirteenth centur... Lees meer

Horace Walpole

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the arts Horace Walpole (1717-1797) was a collector,... Lees meer

Gold, Silver, and Bronze

Jennifer Montagu

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• An in-depth look at the exquisite metal sculpture of the Roman baroque Roman baroque sculpture is usually thought of in terms of large-scale statues i... Lees meer

Philosophies of India

Heinrich Zimmer

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The description for this book, Philosophies of India, will be forthcoming. Lees meer

Last Looks, Last Books

Helen Vendler

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Modern American poets writing in the face of death In Last Looks, Last Books , the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great ... Lees meer

Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 6

Miguel de Unamuno

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The three remarkable pieces of fiction included in this volume are not so much novelets, novels, as nivolas, a form invented by Unamuno. Originally pu... Lees meer

Pandora's Box

Dora Panofsky, Erwin Panofsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire... Lees meer

Shamanism

Mircea Eliade

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series | nr. 76
• First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of... Lees meer

The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity

John Boardman

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• From one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek art, a groundbreaking account of how Greek images were understood and used by other ancie... Lees meer

Christian Iconography

André Grabar

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• An illuminating look at the iconography of the early church and its important place in the history of Christian art In this book, historian André Grab... Lees meer

Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 5

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Essays by Ernst Benz, Henry Corbin, Jean Daniélou, Mircea Eliade, G. van der Leeuw, Fritz Meier, Adolf Portmann, Daisetz T. Suzuki, Paul Tillich, Lanc... Lees meer

Of Divers Arts

Naum Gabo

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• Constructivist and sculptor Naum Gabo's personal account of his development as an artist A leading exponent of the modern art movement known as Constr... Lees meer

Twelve Caesars

Mary Beard

• Paperback | Engels | Bollingen Series
• From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome , the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, ... Lees meer

Selected Letters of C.G. Jung, 1909-1961

C G Jung

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• This one-volume edition allows the general reader to appreciate Jung's ideas and personality, as they reveal themselves in his comments to his colleag... Lees meer

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 13

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Hardcover | Engels | Bollingen Series
• The manuscript of Coleridge's Logic is published here in its entirety for the first time, along with the texts of manuscripts that are directly relate... Lees meer