THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SIGNS & SYMBOLS

Identification and analysis of the visual vocabulary that formulates our thoughts and dictates our reactions to the world around us. A fascinating guide to hundreds of symbols, signs and ideographs, illustrated with photographs, artworks, diagrams and drawings, and presented with authoritative text, commentary and definitions. Lavish illustration reflect how signs and symbols have been interpreted and represented through thousands of years or art, mythology and religion, from the Babylonians and Sumerians to the modern world. An erudite, accessible text explains, decodes and categorizes the signs, including in-depth analysis of some of the most important symbols of all, such as the wheel, the cross, the gateway, the rainbow, the dragon and the sun. Contains a directory of over 1000 illustrations of iconographic symbols, in addition to hundreds of colour images featuring these primal metaphors.