UID:
edocfu_9959051603902883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9783110608212
Content:
The sieve exhibits a wide-ranging symbolism that extends across art history, philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. Barbara Baert looks at the sieve from an interdisciplinary perspective and from four different innovative methodological angles: as motif and symbol, as technique and as paradigm. The sieve as motif goes back to Roman stories the Vestal Virgins. In later times, their impermeable sieve, which - according to legend - they used to fetch water from the River Tiber, was iconographically transferred to Elisabeth I as a sign of her integrity. Furthermore, the long durée life of sieves as symbolic-technical utilitarian object is investigated: in examples from the Jewish folklore, the Berber culture, and ancient Egypt.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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The Queen, the Portrait, and the Sieve --
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Etymology, Symbolism, Cosmology --
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The Sieve Dances --
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A Short Break. The Nun in Affile --
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Bilderatlas --
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The Sieve as an Organism --
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Grid/Lozenge/Trellis --
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Moi-peau --
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(Un)heimlichkeit. Back to the Queen, the Portrait, and the Sieve --
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Galloping! --
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Bilderatlas --
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Digital Sieves --
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Notes --
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Picture Credits --
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Bibliography --
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Index nominum --
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Colophon
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110606157
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110606140
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110608212
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110608212
