books about: ideograms (calligraphy allegorical pictograms)

books about: ideograms

books:

Chinese Calligraphy; From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese Characters.
Edoardo. FAZZIOLI

Publisher Unknown, 1987

Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning

3 reviews
J. Marshall Unger

University of Hawaii Press, 2003

Debunking received ideas about Chinese characters
If you take a romantic view of Chinese characters as the embodiment of pure meaning, and if you want to remain in a state of innocence, then this book is not for you, because J. Marshall Unger will call into question everything you thought you knew about the nature of Chinese writing, and he will do it so convincingly that you will never think in the same way again. Unger is concerned with a ...

Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: the History of 214 Essential Chinese/japanese Characters

14 reviews
Edoardo Fazzioli

Abbeville Press, 2005

Best Chinese Book of 2006
Beautiful written characters combined with excelent text and funny image. Good for both students and teachers !

Symbols -- Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms

1 review
Carl, G Liungman

HME Publishing, 2004

Very useful
This book is a visually rich resource, providing the reader with 2,500 graphically clear drawings of signs in black and white, alongside with Carl G. Liungman's explanations of their origin and uses. Browsing the pages is rewarding for the artist looking for inspiration. There is plenty of it -- the book contains some 1,600 articles, and an additional 100 pages with essays on ...

Ideograms in China
Henri Michaux

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2002

Previously available only as a limited editon, Henri Michaux's Ideograms in China is now available as a New Directions paperback. Peerlessly translated by the American poet Gustaf Sobin, this long, beautifully illustrated and annotated prose poem was originally written as an introduction to Leon Chang's La calligraphie chinoise (1971), a work that now stands as an important complement to Pound and Ernest Fenollosa's classic study, The ...

Imago Mundi: Pictograms, Ideograms, Logos, Symbols and Signs
Sonia Diaz, Gabriel Martinez

Promotora de Prensa International S A (promopress), 2009

"Imago Mundi" aims to show the world through the unique perspective of the author, who expresses his personal perception of the world through pictograms, ideograms, logos, symbols and signs. This book is an instrument of communication and representation, through which we discover a creative interpretation of the world as seen through abstract signs pictographic textures and repeated designs. These graphic signs and symbols serve to express ...

The Dream of Being: Aphorisms, Ideograms, and Aislings

1 review
Jack Haas

Iconoclast Press, 2003

A unique and unusual book of poetic paragraphs
The Dream Of Being: Aphorisms, Ideograms, And Aislings by Jack Haas is a unique and unusual book of poetic paragraphs, enhanced with black-and-white illustrations of freestyle art, and embracing personal transformation as well as an esoteric evolution. The single (or few-paragraph) vignettes are not in a verse format, yet the rambling sentences evoke images and emotions similar to brief poems. ...

A dictionary of Aramaic ideograms in Pahlavi. (Henrik Samuel Nyberg's 'Frahang i Pahlavik'): An article from: ...
Shaul Shaked

American Oriental Society, 1993

This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on January 1, 1993. The length of the article is 2735 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: A ...

Condemned Building: An Architect's Pre-Text--Plans, Sections, Elevations, Details, Models, Ideograms, ...
Douglas Darden

Princeton Architectural Press, 1993

Thought Signs, The Semiotics of Symbols - Western Ideograms

Ios Pr Inc, 1995

This text is intended to be used as a reference source for Western ideograms. It examines the graphical cultural heritage of the West, manifested in such diverse forms as subway graffiti, fighter jets' signs and emergency exit symbols. This book contains 2300 symbols, 1600 articles and streamlined reference functions, covering all kinds of symbols, including those used in advertising, logotyping, architecture, design, decoration, religion, ...