Dreams: From Giotto to Kusama: Eternal Themes in Art

By Prestel
$65.00
Description

This evocative book traces the ways artists have envisioned the dreamworld — from prophetic vision and sacred visitation to fantasies, nightmares, and surreal inventions.

Spanning millennia and a wide range of artistic forms, this volume brings together a diverse selection of works that show how dreams have stirred imagination, shaped belief, and opened pathways to other states of consciousness. 

Sculptures, painted panels, illuminated manuscripts, frescoes, temple reliefs, narrative cycles, drawings, prints, photographs, collages, and street art reveal how artists working in different contexts and historic eras have turned to dream imagery to express wonder, fear, longing, and transformation. 

Across varied media, readers encounter images that frame dreams as divine messages, moral warnings, spiritual encounters, psychological disturbances, and powerful tools to free the artistic imagination. Devotional scenes and prophetic narratives give way to more inward, fragmented, and surreal explorations of the dreaming mind.

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