Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination

by Warren Colman

How did humans develop the capacity for symbolic imagination?

In this ground-breaking book, Warren Colman provides a reformulation of archetypal symbols as emergent from humans' embodied and affective engagement with their social and material environment. Beginning with the oldest known figurative image in the world, the 40,000-year-old Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel in Germany, he traces the emergence of symbolic imagination through the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367862689
• ISBN13: 9780367862688
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"