Description
Collier Books (Art and Imagination Series) [Published Date: 1979]. Soft cover, 96 pp. First American Edition.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Illustrated paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing and soiling. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. With 155 illustrations, 16 in color. An examination of dragons as symbolic entities, exploring their roles in mythology, religion, and art. The book is richly illustrated, featuring numerous examples of dragon imagery from different cultures and time periods. Through these visuals and accompanying commentary, Huxley discusses the dragon's significance as a representation of natural forces, spiritual beliefs, and the human psyche. [From back cover] The dragon has haunted the childhood of the human race from time immemorial with its serpent form, its magic jewels, and its power to suggest that there is an immortal self in all things. For its nature is to be the animating spirit in every form, just as it is also the spirit, or genius, of the natural world. As the 'one in two and two in one' it is the outer aspect of an inner knowledge, taking substance through images of desire, hunger and death; and when reflected in the waters seeing itself as the mother of all life. This, together with its mysterious powers of transformation, is part of its divinity.