Color symbolism : the Eranos lectures / Gershom Scholem ... [and others] ; edited by Klaus Ottmann.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982.

Ottmann, Klaus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color--Congresses.

Color.

Symbolism of colors--Congresses.

Symbolism of colors.

Colors--Religious aspects--Congresses.

Colors.

Colors--Religious aspects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second revised and enlarged edition.

Place of Publication:

Putnam, Conn. : Spring Publications, 2005.

Summary:

Seven papers originally delivered at the annual Eranos conference in Ascona, Switzerland, August 1972, by Adolf Portmann, Gershom Scholem, Christopher Rowe, Dominique Zahan, Ernst Benz, Ren Huyghe, and Toshihiki Izutsu.

Contents:

Logic and mysticism : running against the boundary of color / Klaus Ottmann

Colors and their symbolism in Jewish tradition and mysticism / Gershom Scholem

The realism and symbolism of colors in Shiite cosmology / Henry Corbin

Color and expression of inner time in Western art / René Huyghe

Color in Christian visionary experience / Ernst Benz

White, red, and black : color symbolism in Black Africa / Dominique Zahan

The elimination of color in Far Eastern art and philosophy / Toshihiko Izutsu

Color sense and the meaning of color from a biologist's point of view / Adolf Portmann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Eranos Conference (1972 : Ascona, Switzerland)

ISBN:

0882145541

OCLC:

60491940

Publisher Number:

9780882145549