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

By Barbara Baert

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2019
ISBN
9783110608212, 9783110606140
DOI
10.1515/9783110608212
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5938429 bytes)
Pages
134\132
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-26 06:47:42

Description

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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