About Sieves and Sieving: Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm
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Book Information
Publisher: | de Gruyter |
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Publish Date: | 04/15/2019 |
Pages: | 134 |
ISBN-13: | 9783110606140 |
ISBN-10: | 3110606143 |
Language: | English |
Full 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.