About Sieves and Sieving : Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm / Barbara Baert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baert, Barbara, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sieves.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

The Queen, the Portrait, and the Sieve

Etymology, Symbolism, Cosmology

The Sieve Dances

A Short Break. The Nun in Affile

Bilderatlas

The Sieve as an Organism

Grid/Lozenge/Trellis

Moi-peau

(Un)heimlichkeit. Back to the Queen, the Portrait, and the Sieve

Galloping!

Digital Sieves

Notes

Picture Credits

Bibliography

Index nominum

Colophon

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

3-11-060821-9

3-11-060615-1

OCLC:

1100431241