{"product_id":"a-dictionary-of-symbols","title":"A Dictionary of Symbols","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan polymath Joan Cirlot that illuminates the symbolic underpinnings of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJuan Eduardo Cirlot’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDictionary of Symbols\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature, a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eCirlot was a composer, a poet, an art critic, and a champion of modern art whose interest in surrealism helped to bring him to the study of symbolism. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCarl Jung, Mircea Eliade, René Guénon, Erich Fromm, and Gaston Bachelard also helped to shape his thinking in a book that explores the space between the world at large and the world within, where, as Cirlot sees it, nothing is meaningless, everything is significant, and everything is in some way related to something else. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eFrom “abandonment” to “zone” by way of “flute” and “whip,” spanning the cultures of the world, and including a wealth of visual images to further bring the reality of the symbol home, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Dictionary of Symbols\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, here published for the first time in English in its original, significantly enlarged form, is a luminous and illuminating investigation of the works of eternity in time.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039000035586,"sku":"9781681371979","price":51.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2228\/7429\/files\/adictionaryofsymbols.jpg?v=1794529062","url":"https:\/\/shop.stlartsupply.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-dictionary-of-symbols","provider":"St. Louis Art Supply","version":"1.0","type":"link"}