Language of Vision Twenty-Two Meditations on Myth and Metaphor in the Arts

Name: Language of Vision Twenty-Two Meditations on Myth and Metaphor in the Arts
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ISBN: 9780802115188

ISBN-10: 0802115187

ISBN-13: 9780802115188

Edition: 1994

Authors: Jamake Highwater

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"Jamake Highwater, one of the most important, original and popular writers of our time, here continues a voyage into the realms of myth, art, and contemporary culture that began with his best-seller The Primal Mind and continued with Myth and Sexuality. Highwater, who has often been described as a modern myth-maker and visionary himself, has once again written a book bound to provoke, inspire, inform, and entertain as he explores and illuminates the links between the way society views its art and artists and the way our art and artists gaze back at us." "Organized around the twenty-two cards of the Tarot Major Arcana, The Language of Vision presents a dazzling range of challenging and…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144

The Fool: Labyrinth of Dreams	p. 1
The Emperor: Chimera of Reality	p. 7
The Falling Tower: Death of the Sacred	p. 17
The Hierophant: Body as Metaphor	p. 31
The Magician: Originality and Illusion	p. 51
The High Priestess: Myth as Discovery	p. 67
The Empress: Rituals of the Land	p. 87
The Lovers: Revelation as Pleasure	p. 109
The Chariot: Escape from Reality	p. 125
Strength: Mind and Matter	p. 135
Justice: Imagination as Political Power	p. 147
The Hermit: Invisible Art	p. 161
The Wheel of Fortune: Iconography as Destiny	p. 171
The Hanged Man: Homosexuality as Metaphor	p. 191
Death: Transformation and Identity	p. 213
Temperance: Myths of Morality	p. 223
The Devil: Play as Mythology	p. 241
The Star: Reinventing the Past	p. 253
The Moon: Deception as Doctrine	p. 267
The Sun: Cultural Piracy	p. 283
Judgment: The Mythology of Exclusion	p. 301
The World: Triumph of Dreams	p. 315
Bibliography	p. 321
Index	p. 331
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