Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The lady & the Virgin The lady & the Virgin Penny Schine Gold Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues tha… OL120458W
Myths and symbols in Indian art and civilization Myths and symbols in Indian art and civilization Heinrich Robert Zimmer This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an… OL1215967W
The Anthropology of experience The Anthropology of experience Edward M. Bruner "Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative… OL16667323W
Our war on ourselves Our war on ourselves Willem H. Vanderburg "Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and… OL16674468W
Word and image Word and image William J. Diebold An introductory account and interpretation of early medieval art combining art, history, and ideas from 600 to 1050. OL221410W
Sanatorium operations manual Sanatorium operations manual Pedro Reyes Providing short treatments that mix art and psychology in a museum and art context, Pedro Reyes's Sanatorium is documented for the first time in this ring-bound project manual. Mexican artist Pedro R… OL28599788W
Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt "Klimt's artistic vision pushed the boundaries of art at the turn of the last century. His unparalleled ability to merge the decorative arts with painting led him to create brilliant and glittering w… OL8066186W