Goddesses in Art

by F. Lanier Graham and Lanier Graham

Book Overview

Since time immemorial, artists have created impassioned images of the goddess as the ultimate generator and destroyer of life, as fertility figure, and as ruler of love and war. Encompassing a variety... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896600688
• ISBN13: 9780896600683
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Artabras Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.4" x 12.4"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful book full of Goddess images

Great collection of Goddess images and artwork. Short on words; long on beautiful photographs. The only drawback is the size. The book is so well done that I wish it was larger!

beautiful imagery

This book is absolutely wonderful. It's great to see a book focused on the goddess in art. The photographs in the book are very well done.

A wonderful rendering of The Goddess in words and images.

This is a wonderful book. Graham is a lifetime student of spirituality who deeply understands what he studies -- and who is able to communicate that understanding in luminous words and images. "Goddesses in Art" is a book of enormous range, a tour of spiritual traditions through history and across the world. Graham reaffirms The Goddess (whose whole spectrum of possibilities fills these pages), but also underscores the ways in which goddesses intertwine with gods in most traditions to generate our world. For me, part of the fun of the book was to trace the ways these intertwinings are expressed, as in the Hindu view of "the [male] motionless transcendent and the [female] energy by which the transcendent moves through the material world." All who read "Goddesses in Art" will find favorite passages and images of their own, and (I think I can promise!) will be enriched in the finding.

Overview of beautiful sacred art

This book is a collection of some of the most beautiful sacred art in the world, including many fine pieces from Asia and Africa with which the casual reader will be unfamiliar. This work covers Goddess images from prehistory to modern images of the feminine Divine from posters of Marlene Dietrich to works by many WOMEN artists (I count five from casual perusal of the plates). Dr. Graham's work centers on the *image* of the Goddess as presenting an important method of understanding Divinity separate from cultural influence and religious theology.

A celebration of the feminine.

This book is an extraordinary collection of images from many different cultures and countries. We discover how the image of women has evolved, how different powers were attributed to the feminine, over time. It is a celebration of the feminine, reminding us visually of the ways in which different cultures, throughout the history of the human race, have worshipped and sometimes feared the feminine, associating it with life and healing, but also with death, war and demonic powers. We learn so much about a culture when we reflect on which aspects of the feminine they chose to worship. "Generator of all creation," she is also "destroyer of all creation"! I particularly enjoyed the beautiful chapter on the goddesses of wisdom.