xxi, 185 pages : 24 cm; Spine title: Symbolism, the sacred & the arts.; Introduction /Mircea Eliade --The Scholar as Artist, Critic, and Poet --Theories of Symbolism --The Symbolism of Shadows in Archaic Religion --Cultural Fashions and the History of Religions --Survivals and Camouflages of Myths --Art and the Sacred --Divinities: Art and the Divine --Masks: Mythical and Ritual Origins --Reflections on Indian Art --The Sacred and the Modern Artist --A Dialogue with Marc Chagall --Why Have We Become So Anxious? /Marc Chagall --Beauty and Faith /Mircea Eliade --Brancusi and Mythology --Sites of the Sacred --Sacred Architecture and Symbolism --Barabudur, the Symbolic Temple --From the Portuguese Journal, 1941-1944 --Literature and the Sacred --Folkloric Themes and Artistic Creations --Marthe Bibesco and the Meeting of Eastern and Western Literature --Eugene Ionesco and "The Nostalgia for Paradise" --Literary Imagination and Religious Structure --Photographic Credits.; 

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