| The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol Contributor(s): Quinn, Malcolm (Author) |
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ISBN: 041510095X ISBN-13: 9780415100953 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1994 Annotation: "The Swasitika" is the first substantial work specifically on the swastika as an emblem. While it is difficult to disconnect the swastika from its use by the Nazis, the emblem is a much older symbol with deep roots in mythical Aryan tradition. In this book, Malcom Quinn describes the historical and mythical significance of the emblem, and shows how the Nazis used this significance to construct a political symbol, enhancing its symbolic meanings, and encrusting it with new ones. In this way the Nazis latched on to an image with great inherent power. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology - History - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities |
| Dewey: 302.222 |
| LCCN: 94004683 |
| Series: Material Cultures |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.32" W x 9.45" (1.31 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original and controversial contribution examines the role that the swastika played in the construction of the Aryan myth in the nineteenth century, and its use in Nazi ideology as a symbol of party, nation and race, treating it as symbolic phenomenon in a cultural context. By identifying the swastika as a boundary or liminal image, Malcolm Quinn allies visual anaysis to issues of material culture and history. |