About Sieves and Sieving

Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-11-060614-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 134 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baert, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Künstliche Gegenstände
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Baert, Katholische Universität, Leuven.

Barbara Baert, Katholische Universität, Leuven.