Allegory and the Migration of Symbols

by Rudolf Wittkower

Rudolf Wittkower deplored specialiation. For him, it was the fact that art communicated experience which made it a rewarding study, and nothing fascinated him more than the way in which one culture picked up and transformed the images of another. This volume draws together fourteen essays written over a thirty-three-year period in which he ranges far and wide in search of these "migrating" symbols, trying to penetrate the meaning that artists have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500274703
• ISBN13: 9780500274705
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.9"