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Title: Recapturing Women's Art
Review: This massive compilation of symbols that used to belong to women and the goddess is a book I keep on my desk, next to Birds of Michigan, and Wildflowers. This is a reference book writers and artists can use often in their work. Walker doesn't take up room with justification for interpretation - history is in the potsherd. Consider that the ubiquitous modern use of "god" and male sacred imagery claims preeminence in antiquity, although the masculine role in procreation wasn't known for thousands of years. Most symbols, and iconic depictions were feminine; representative of the power of nature that was observable, even before the written word. Like most of recorded history, the powers that took the power write the books and redrew the pictures. Walker changes that here. I would have liked to have discovered this book a few decades ago, but I'm glad it's here for me now.
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