Product Description: When “revolution” becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary content, this book suggests that one way is to pay attention not so much to content as to form...read more

Product Description: Painters in the past and commercial artists in our own day have relied on allegory to create "message pictures." Once thought to rival literary works or political oratory in influence and prestige, such paintings, with their references to ancient myth, the Bible, or medieval astrology, all too often puzzle modern viewers...read more

Using a picture book which depicts Bible verses, Owen tries to find his way through the woods to his father's house, leading him to experience adventures through the deep woods, an impassible stream, and mysterious sounds and sights along the way.

In a collection of satirical tales in which members of the animal kingdom reflect humanity's denial behaviors, a duck struggles to gain acceptance in publish-or-perish academia, a hedonistic penguin attempts to drink himself to death, and more. By the author of Good Girl Wants It Bad. Original.

Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary maps that appeared in the seventeenth-century novels and stories, as well as of maps, atlases, and geographic treatises produced by professional scholars and engineers of the period, Mapping Discord considers the ideological structure and uses of cartographic language, and argues that allegorical maps have much to tell us about the potential capacity of every map to operate as a visual metaphor for power. Illustrated.

Product Description: Meet two high-spirited best buddies, Marty the Monkey and Gerard the Giraffe, as they live out 23 biblical parables in a thrilling, adventurous fasion.

Kelly, who has wanted a pet dog for a long time, runs into a highly-educated, mushamute dog from the planet Growf-Woof-Woof.

Product Description: This book is the first comprehensive study of the paintings of Evelyn Pickering De Morgan (1855-1919), one of the most significant and prolific Victorian women artists. Her complex and richly layered iconography, expressed in a polished late Pre-Raphaelite style, and centred on the female body (the protagonist in almost all her paintings), fuses metaphysical concerns about material embodiment and spritual transcendence with social concerns about debilitating constraits and creative freedom...read more

Shaddai, a wise and loving man, builds a wonderful village for his children, but when one of them chooses to go out into the dangerous wilderness, Shaddai does not abandon him.

A look at the iconographical uses of womanhood from classical times to the present day, in the mass media and in the fine arts interprets the reasons behind the conventions and assesses their effects on ideas about women (view table of contents)

Product Description: The subject matter and iconography of much of the art in the U.S. Capitol forms a remarkably coherent program of the early course of North American empire, from discovery and settlement to the national development and westward expansion that necessitated the subjugation of the indigenous peoples...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the life and career of the Italian Renaissance painter and analyzes important works and themes, focusing on his 'Spring.'

A Christian allegory follows the journey of Much-Afraid, a dweller in the Valley of Humiliation, to spritual heights in the service of the Chief Shepherd.

After a long and arduous journey, Christopher Mouse reaches the Evergreen Wood, where all the animals live in peace and safety.

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Uses rabbits, a species introduced to Australia, to represent an allegory of the arrival of Europeans in Australia and the widespread environmental destruction caused by man throughout the continent.

Product Description: Using nude figures as his central subjects i n 100 computer-generated collage images, multimedia artist P eter Greenaway illustrates his unique vision of the world, b y presenting 100 allegories to represent human existence. '