Mermaids: Art, Symbolism and Mythology Muller Axel
Mermaids: Art, Symbolism and Mythology Muller Axel Women with fish tails are among the oldest and still most popular of mythological creatures, possessing a powerful allure and compelling ambiguity.…
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Mermaids: Art, Symbolism and Mythology Muller Axel
Women with fish tails are among the oldest and still most popular of mythological creatures, possessing a powerful allure and compelling ambiguity. Mermaids: Art, Symbolism and Mythology presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on Western culture. They dwell right in the uncanniest valley of the sea: so similar to humans, yet profoundly other.
Our story starts in Mesopotamia, source of the earliest preserved illustrations of half-human, half-fish creatures. The roots of mermaid mythology and its metamorphosis through the centuries are discussed with examples from visual art, literature, music and architecture-from 600 BCE right up to the present day. The myths and legends of the Mesopotamians were incorporated and adopted by ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman cultures.
Then, during the early medieval period,
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