The Visual Perception of Deities from the Palaeolithic to the Present
Subtitle: Faces of Gods
By: by Peter Hupfauf, Uta Herzog, Rudolf Simek and Sirpa Aalto
Contributors: Herzog, Uta, author; Simek, Rudolf, 1954- author; Aalto, Sirpa, author
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781527563018
Subjects: Idols and images; History; Gods in art; Art and religion; Religious Psychology
Description: Considering that figurines, such as the Venus from Willendorf, or the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel were already created approximately 30,000 years ago, it must be assumed that humans have had a desire to see a visual expression of their sacred beings for an exceedingly prolonged period of time. It is dialectical that visual interpretations of deities always result in a physical/body structure, resembling the shape of humans. This book is a fusion of multiple independent investigations regarding visual interpretations of deities and religions over a period of 30,000 years. A survey about the psychological necessity for humans to create images of gods and goddesses provides the background for the book's presentation of images of deities, placed in a historical context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Table of Contents; title: Acknowledgements; title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Chapter One; title: Chapter Two; title: Chapter Three; title: Chapter Four; title: Chapter Five; title: Chapter Six; title: Chapter Seven; title: Chapter Eight; title: Chapter Nine; title: Chapter Ten; title: Chapter Eleven; title: Chapter Twelve; title: Chapter Thirteen; title: Chapter Fourteen; title: Epilogue; title: References; title: Index; title: The Visual Perception of Deities from the Palaeolithic to the Present: Faces of Gods; title: By Peter Hupfauf, Uta Herzog, Rudolf Simek and Sirpa Aalto