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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821237803321

Autore

Schechter Harold

Titolo

The new gods : psyche and symbol in popular art / / Harold Schechter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bowling Green, Ohio : , : Bowling Green University Popular Press, , 1980

©1980

ISBN

9786612622892

0-87972-876-0

1-282-62289-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

700/.1/9

Soggetti

Popular culture - Psychological aspects

Symbolism in art

Art and mythology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Individuation and popular art -- The realization of the shadow -- Animal house: images of the collective shadow -- Syzygy: the integration of the anima -- Hero with 2000 faces -- Appendix: The myth of the eternal child in sixties America.

Sommario/riassunto

Harold Schechter looks at the impossible tales and images of popular art--the space odysseys and extraterrestrial civilizations, the caped crusaders and men of steel, and monsters from the ocean floor--and finds close connections between religious myth and popular entertainment.