Series: Bollingen Series

The Origins and History of Consciousness is an extraordinary exploration of the evolution of human consciousness through the lens of world mythology. Erich Neumann, a pioneering figure in analytical psychology and a distinguished student of C. G. Jung, offers a profound and intricate analysis of the archetypal processes that shape the development of individual and collective consciousness. At the heart...

A revised translation of one of the most important of Jung's longer works. The volume also contains an appendix of four shorter papers on psychological typology, published between 1913 and 1935. Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 8 offers readers a comprehensive exploration of Jung's significant contributions to the understanding of psychological types. This volume is essential for anyone...

The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung is a profound exploration of the human psyche, examining the fragile balance between individual authenticity and the pressures of conformity within a mass society. Set against the backdrop of post-World War II, a time of immense cultural and psychological upheaval, Jung addresses the crucial question of self-knowledge in a world increasingly shaped by...

This volume has become known as perhaps the best introduction to Jung's work. In these famous essays, The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious and On the Psychology of the Unconscious, he presented the essential core of his system. Historically, they mark the end of Jung's intimate association with Freud and sum up his attempt to integrate the psychological...

What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book, against a background of today's 'sculpture wars', Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia, portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the western world have...

What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today's 'sculpture wars'—Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the western world have been shaped...

Volume one of the acclaimed Oxford translation of Aristotle's works—now fully revised and expanded Originally published in twelve volumes between 1912 and 1954, the Oxford translation of Aristotle is universally recognized as the standard English version of the great philosopher's works. This revised edition has been fully updated in light of modern scholarship while remaining faithful to the substance and...

The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilisation and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice that caught the blood of Christ. The story of the Grail sheds light on man's search for...

Throughout Chinese history, dynastic time—the organisation of history through the lens of successive dynasties—has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chinese art, even though there has been little examination of this concept in discourse and practice until now. Chinese Art and Dynastic Time uncovers how the development of Chinese art was described in its original cultural, sociopolitical,...

Dream analysis is a distinctive and foundational part of analytical psychology, the school of psychology founded by C G Jung and his successors. This title collects Jung's contributions to the study of dreams and their meaning. It reveals Jung's essential views about dreaming - especially regarding the relationship between language and dream.

The second volume of a classic account of 5,000 years of Indian artThe Art of Indian Asia is a unique work of scholarship and photography in two volumes (each sold separately). This is the second volume, which contains the photographic illustrations; the first volume contains the text. Together, the two volumes present a comprehensive view of Indian art, spanning from...

A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print. In process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting, every print is the record of a contact event: the transfer of an image between surfaces, under pressure, followed by release. Contact reveals how the...

A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States. Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, and featuring both real and invented characters, the book follows painters, poets, enslaved people, farmers, and artisans living and working...

Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. In simple and poetic language, Daisetz T. Suzuki describes Zen and its historical evolution. He connects Zen to the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmanship,...

In 726, the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive later endorsed by a synod of the Church in 753 under his son, Constantine V. If the policy of Iconoclasm had succeeded, the entire history of Christian art—and of the Christian church, at least in the East—would...

Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated and annotated the texts of instructions, discussions of the fundamentals of painting, notes on the preparation of colours, and chief editorial prefaces.

The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the centre of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilised world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions," C. Kerényi examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of Greek myth but also of human nature. Kerényi holds...

This introduction to the interior world of mythic consciousness has gone through many popular editions and become a classic point of reference for students of Greek religion as well as depth psychology. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in quotes or speech marks. Read Essays on a Science of Mythology with an eye for understanding the profound insights it...

The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social context, from the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During festivals, these bronze sculptures—including Shiva, referred to in a...

"What is abstract art good for? What's the use—for us as individuals, or for any society—of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at...

Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy. It continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, one of the best-known art critics of his time, presents radical insights into art's irrevocable deviation from its...

An illuminating look at the iconography of the early church and its important place in the history of Christian art In Christian Iconography, historian André Grabar demonstrates how early Christian iconography assimilated contemporary imagery of the time. Grabar looks at the most characteristic examples of paleo-Christian iconography, dwelling on their nature, form, and content. He explores the limits of originality...

This work presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos, from its beginnings in the Minoan culture, down to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of late antiquity under the Roman Empire. It constructs a picture of Dionysian worship, always underlining the constitutive element of myth. Included in this study are the secret cult sects of the...

One of the twentieth century's most influential texts on philosophical aesthetics Painting as an Art is acclaimed philosopher Richard Wollheim's encompassing vision of how to view art. Transcending the traditional boundaries of art history, Wollheim draws on his three great passions—philosophy, psychology, and art—to present an illuminating theory of the very experience of art. He shows how to unlock the...

Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything needed to read and understand the Paradiso. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text, which faces the translation on each page. Its companion volume of commentary is a masterpiece of erudition, offering a wide...

The classic work on Gothic religious architecture, now with added illustrations and a new section by the author on rose windows. No other monument of a culture so radically different from our own is as much a part of contemporary life as the Gothic cathedral. In this illuminating book, esteemed art historian Otto Georg von Simson explores how Gothic architecture...

The I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3,000 years, and interest in it has been rapidly spreading in the West.

When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov's friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of Books, other critics hailed the translation and accompanying commentary as Nabokov's highest achievement. Nabokov...

Essays which state the fundamentals of Jung's psychological system: On the Psychology of the Unconscious and The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious, with their original versions in an appendix.

Volume two of the acclaimed Oxford translation of Aristotle's works—now fully revised and expanded Originally published in twelve volumes between 1912 and 1954, the Oxford translation of Aristotle is universally recognised as the standard English version of the great philosopher's works. This revised edition has been fully updated in the light of modern scholarship while remaining faithful to the substance...

The Platonic Forms of the Platonic dialogues. - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A landmark one-volume edition of the complete Plato in classic translations. This is a classic one-volume edition of all the writings of Plato generally considered to be authentic. The editors, Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, chose the contents from the work of the...

In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy hell-bent on destroying us. Supreme virtuoso of the bizarre, diabolic, and outlandish, Bosch...

Antiques & Arts Weekly Holiday Books Round-up 2020 How artists created an aesthetic of 'positive barbarism' in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian and critic Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the mass devastation of World War II,...