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Color symbolism : the Eranos lectures / Gershom Scholem ... [and others] ; edited by Klaus Ottmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- 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
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