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Patterns that connect : social symbolism in ancient & tribal art / Carl Schuster & Edmund Carpenter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schuster, Carl, 1904-1969.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art.
- Art, Ancient.
- Folk art.
- Material culture.
- Symbolism in art.
- Physical Description:
- 317 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
- Summary:
- Travelers & scholars have long been puzzled by similarities in the arts of diverse ancient & tribal cultures. It remained for the American art historian Carl Schuster (1904-1969) to discover a set of patterns designed by ancient peoples to illustrate their ideas about kinship. Schuster succeeded in decoding this iconography, which lasted over ten thousand years, crossed continents, & outlived most of the cultures that sheltered it.
- Notes:
- "A Times Mirror Company"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 317).
- ISBN:
- 0810963264
- OCLC:
- 34471227
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