Functioning also as transmitters of social information, objects visualize sign and symbolic conventions of collectives. Well known to the members of a particular community, both objects and their uses are liable to consideration as social facts; whose analysis helps to discuss certain characteristics of...
Symbolism is a basic feature in most art, since artists commonly employ language and representations of objects, both real and imagined, as signs of something else, that is, symbols. They are designed to evoke some concept or emotion in the mind of a receiver while also having a real existe...
Symbolism: Objects, Places, and Spaces Honors English 9 Wlodarczyk/Spear Law #2 of Reading Novels: The Law of People and Things Characters are revealed not only by their actions and their words, but also by the items that surround them. Objects provide the concrete, tangible images that all...
‘ivory’ floor in Amma’s dollhouse. They represent Amma’s desire to have control over others and to manipulate and use others as objects or commodities. She’s completely sociopathic and killing people for their teeth so she could decorate her dollhouse represents her inability to have ...
Mr. Carker's disturbingly straight, white teeth are symbols of his deceptiveness and his animal-like nature. Though, on the surface, his teeth are perfect, something about their perfection gives him a creepy, unsettling air, suggesting that though he looks and acts the part of a deferential ...
44 Influenced by Romagnosi, Cavaleri structured his art collection around iconography and religious symbolism, to stress historical and cultural influences on art. This unconventional approach differed from the prevailing stylistic and formal analyses promoted by contemporary connoisseurs and art historians. ...
It represents firmness of spirit and spiritual power, and comes in various forms (with one, two, three, four, five, or nine prongs), each with its own distinct symbolism. According to the Flammarion Buddhism Guide (p. 65), the single-prong vajra probably represents the union of the ...
2c should give rise to the overall impression of being rounded, and the shape in Fig. 2d that of being spiky, as is opposite to their solid complements in Fig. 2a, b. Despite the reversal of the curvature sign, on the other hand, the shapes of these holes are still seen as either...
Milerius, Nerijus. “The Synchronisation and Desynchronisation of the Present and the Past in Soviet and Post-Soviet Spaces.” P.S. Landscapes: Optics for Urban Studies, edited by Nerijus Milerius and Benjamin Cope. European Humanities University, 2008, pp. 37–62.Search in Google Scholar ...
Back at LDF, Anouska Samms – who uses human hair to explore identity on a familial level, as well as interrogate mythology and symbolism – will exhibit some of her striking hair-infused ceramic pieces as part of group show Unfamiliar Forms. These come from her ongoing “Hair Series” (201...