El libro de los símbolos - Reseñas
| "It is still possible, even now, for publishers to do something we have never seen before. The Book of Symbols is a project of mind-blowing ambition and reach, and a book with an almost old-fashioned educational appeal. Bright, optimistic, bountiful and brainy, it makes you reel with a sense of wonder at the complexity of the human mind and soul… You can’t ask for more than that."— Creative Review, London, Reino Unido |
| "Problema: come raccogliere in un solo libro tutto l'incoscio del mondo? La domanda da un milione di simboli ha finalmente una risposta: sorprende che ci siano voluti 14 anni per organizzarla? L'opera enciclopedica ha un nome che è tutto un programma, Il libro dei simboli, e una firma prestigiosissima, quella dell'Aras, cioè L'Archivio per la ricerca del simbolismo archetipo ... Un grande, dottissimo manuale che sembra la popolarissima smorfia, un capolavoro di iconologia lungo 800 pagine, una sfida che forse soltanto TASCHEN, la casa editrice specializzata in libri d'arte e di fotografia, poteva raccogliere ... 'Non conosco particolarmente il concetto di archetipo di Jung' ha spiegato l'editore Benedikt Taschen 'ma sono sempre stato interessato al linguaggio delle immagini: da dove vengono e che cosa comunicano'. Che poi è quello che rende il volume prezioso e intellegibile anche per chi non voglia avventurarsi nei meandri della psicoanalisi."— XL - La Repubblica, Roma, Italy |
| "Life is full of symbols. They pop up everywhere. In literature, painting, architecture, the film world, and especially in religions rites and when we dream. Some you have control over, others have an interest that is fading into the mist. The publisher TASCHEN's The Book of Symbols offers a wealth of symbols and an explanation of their meanings. The book is like a large archive where dream readers and image interpreters can dive in. The text is written in an easily understandable manner, and the book contains over 800 illustrations in color and 350 essays written by a team of writers on the symbols. A treasure trove for connoisseurs. The book is based on Carl Gustav Jung's work on archetypes and the collective unconscious."— Jyllands-Posten, Copenhagen, Dinamarca |
| "After a long search, ARAS found a sympathetic soul in Benedikt Taschen, a publisher known for producing big and almost fetishistically exquisite books. ...evoking different notions by surrounding them with various kinds of human observations is what ARAS does, both in The Book Of Symbols, and in the archive it maintains on 39th Street, as well as in an online database."— The Wall Street Journal, New York, Estados Unidos |
| "The Book of Symbols is an invaluable reference book that details the use of symbols in our history."— Confessionsofanoverworkedmom.com, Estados Unidos |
| "When it comes to excellence in cutting-edge publishing, TASCHEN has been leading the pack for some time. This 800-page reference is a compressed physical version of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) in New York City, which uses Carl Jung’s ‘archetype’ as a springboard into the human psyche. Its pages are durable but incredibly thin, making for no less than the deepest of dives into the human mind… Like most TASCHEN tomes, it has bells and whistles, such as five different attached cloth bookmarks, hundreds of colorful photos and a durable cover. If there is an award for best reference book of 2010, this is a top five contender and ultimately the author is you."— DigBoston.com, Estados Unidos |
| "This latest TASCHEN tome takes a close look at the world’s most iconic images and symbols and some lesser known emblems from throughout history. Some 800 full-colour images tell their own stories, each dissected by authors in the fields of psychology, art, religion and literature in a collection of essays examining what it is these symbols evoke in our psyche."— Irish Tatler, Dublin, Reino Unido |
| "Yes, the 807 page book is a doorstop. But it is also a stairway to heaven. The amazing gift is not its weight or its cover, but what lies between: a tangible (r)evolution in consciousness… Each chapter - grouping one or more images with an original essay - is self-contained, yet seamlessly interwoven into the whole…Composed by writers in the comparative fields of psychology, art, religion, literature and comparative myth, the 350 essays reflecting on 800 images are luminous in their interweaving of fact, poetry, and myth… By giving a human contemporary form to a pictorial language arising at the dawn of civilization, The Book of Symbols is quite literally a dream come to life."— HuffingtonPost.com, |
| "The Book of Symbols is an exhaustive reference work that charts the visual representation of human experience. It’s also a must for designers… Even at first glance the 800-page volume was thrilling… it was still possible, even now, for publishers to do something we have never seen before… This citadel of a book is divided into five main sections… Almost every significant area of human experience and symbolism is documented. Each symbol receives at least a double-page spread…The book’s picture selection, a monumental feat of research, is outstanding, with images and artifacts from every culture and period in history to demonstrate the recurrence of these archetypal symbols… Regular TASCHEN designers Andy Disl and Birgit Eichwede of Sense/Net in Cologne have designed The Book of Symbols and once again have done a magnificent job. The two-column layout is restrained and unflashy as befits a project of this gravity, but not the slightest bit textbooky or dull. The balance of text and pictures against white space is perfectly measured: the book feels dense with information yet leaves plenty of room to breathe as you explore its corridors and chambers. It’s a pleasure to get lost in. The Book of Symbols is a project of mind-blowing ambition and reach, and a book with an almost old-fashioned educational appeal. Bright, optimistic, bountiful and brainy, it makes you reel with a sense of wonder at the complexity of the human mind and soul… This fabulously instructive and inspiring work of reference will make an inexhaustible addition to any design studio library. No home should be without one either. All human life is in there. You can’t ask for more than that."— Creative Review, London, Reino Unido |
| "Besides the intellect, wrote Carl Jung, ‘there’s a thinking in primordial images – in symbols that are older than historic man…that still make up the groundwork of the human psyche.’ What would a lexicon of the archetypes from the ‘collective unconscious’ look like? Jung himself thought the task impossible, saying that each entry would require an entire book. Fortunately one American archive, formed in the 1930’s by a colleague of the Swiss psychologist, has climbed the mountain – covering everything from Air to Zero, it’s crack team of contributors –experts in religion, art literature, the mind and comparative myth – has penned some 350 essays arranged in five sections covering creation and cosmos, and the world of plants, animals, humans and spirits…Given the world’s diverse stories and belief systems are key sources, you might expect the smattering of New Age mysticism (a ‘crown chakra’ here and a ‘Wholly Other there). More surprising is how every symbol is rooted in a scientific explanation or an empirical investigation of its human ramifications…This kind of enterprise can so easily descend into a parade of Wikipedia factoids, with a rigid editorial format drowning out the different voices; but no, the writing exhibits the right kind of consistency – deeply engaged, aphoristic and conductive to literal thinking. Likewise, each of the 800-odd images, drawn from every culture and era, has been chosen to offer a direct, psychologically resonant experience of a symbol…An archetype is like an old river, along which the water of life has flowed for centuries, digging a deep channel for itself.’ Like Jung’s simile, this potentially transformative reference work shows us that symbols take root in specificities."— World of Interiors, London, Reino Unido |
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“Me encanta El libro de los símbolos. Es una enciclopedia mística que te arrastra a un viaje a través del tiempo y te enseña nuevas maneras de ver el mundo.”
Illustration de Robert Nippoldt
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