Mermaids

Mermaids

Art, Symbolism and Mythology

Williamson, Ben; Halls, Christopher; Mueller, Axel

University of Exeter Press

04/2022

168

Dura

Inglês

9781804130032

15 a 20 dias

620

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Preface

Memorial note

1 Introduction: Why mermaids?

2 Mermaids conceived: hybrid goddesses and beasts in antiquity

3 Christian adaptations in the Romanesque to Baroque eras

4 Mermaid passions: obsessive fixation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art

5 Mermaids everywhere: postwar commercialization and trivialization

6 Mermaids rationalized: evolutionary theory confronts the fantastic

References

Acknowledgements

Index
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Mermaid; Art History; Art movements; Mythology; Evolutionary theory; Cultural anthropology