About Sieves and Sieving: Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm

Barbara Baert

Published by De Gruyter 2019

About Sieves and Sieving

Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm

Barbara Baert

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110608212

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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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Barbara Baert, Catholic University, Leuven.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	11
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
The Queen, the Portrait, and the Sieve Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Etymology, Symbolism, Cosmology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
The Sieve Dances Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
A Short Break. The Nun in Affile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Bilderatlas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
The Sieve as an Organism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Grid/Lozenge/Trellis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Moi-peau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
(Un)heimlichkeit. Back to the Queen, the Portrait, and the Sieve Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Galloping! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
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Digital Sieves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (art history, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, history)
Pages
- Main content: 134
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 52

eBook

Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9783110608212

Paperback

Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9783110606140