Color Symbolism: The Eranos Lectures
By: Klaus Ottmann, Gershom Scholem, Henry Corbin, Rene Huyghe, Ernst Benz, Dominique Zahan, Toshihiko Izutsu, and Adolf Portmann
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Seven papers originally delivered at the annual Eranos conference in Ascona, Switzerland, August 1972. This revised and expanded edition includes, for the first time in English translation, Gershom Scholem’s paper on “Colors and their Symbolism in Jewish Tradition and Mysticism” and Henry Corbin’s paper on “The Realism and Symbolism of Colors in Shiite Cosmology.”
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2nd Revised and Enlarged ed.
Klaus Ottmann is a philosopher, writer, and curator based in New York. He has written numerous essays on art, design, and philosophy, and is the author of The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and the Postmodern Condition; Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective; and James Lee Byars: Life, Love, and Death. He is the curator of the sixth SITE Santa Fe international biennial, which takes place between July and December 2006.