Spirits in transcultural skies [electronic resource] : auspicious and protective spirits in artefacts and architecture between East and West / Niels Gutschow, Katharina Weiler, editors.
Gutschow, Niels, editor.; Weiler, Katharina, editor.
2015
N8012.G63
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Title
Spirits in transcultural skies [electronic resource] : auspicious and protective spirits in artefacts and architecture between East and West / Niels Gutschow, Katharina Weiler, editors.
ISBN
9783319116327 electronic book
3319116320 electronic book
9783319116310
3319116312
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11632-7
Published
Cham : Springer, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 221 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-11632-7 doi
Call Number
N8012.G63
Dewey Decimal Classification
700/.4820211
Summary
The volume investigates the visualization of both ritual and decorative aspects of auspiciousness and protection in the form of celestial characters in art and architecture. In doing so, it covers more than two and a half millennia and a broad geographical area, documenting a practice found in nearly every corner of the world. Its transcultural approach aims at gaining insights into cultural dynamics and consistent networks and defining new historical mindmaps; it examines reciprocal effects and aspects of interwovenness in art and architecture with a view to reconceptualizing their established realms. The collection opens a window on a phenomenon in the history of art and architecture that has never before been considered from this perspective. The book focuses on a transcultural iconography of aerial spirits, goddesses and gods in art history, pursuing a methodologically innovative approach in order to redefine and develop the practice of identification and classification of motifs as a means to understanding meaning, and attempting to challenge the categories defined by academic disciplines.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 3, 2015).
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Gutschow, Niels, editor.
Weiler, Katharina, editor.
Series
Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context.
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Epilogue.

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