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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Religious Imagery"”.
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Religious imagery in nineteenth-century French slavery narratives
… Doin. Beyond Christianity, the portrayal of religious beliefs and practices from around the Atlantic Triangle provide us with crucial insight into the French understanding of race and identity at the turn of the nineteenth century, showing how French authors used religion as a multifaceted …
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Religious imagery at the Khmer Pagoda of Canada : the significance of images for education
… and meaning of the Khmer Temple and its religious imagery for members of the Cambodian Buddhist community. This research study involved formal and informal interviews, participant observation as well as a review of literature related to Khmer and Buddhist views on art and education. Study …
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Religious appeals in the popular presentation of cosmology
This thesis explores the use of religious language, metaphors, and images in the popular presentation of cosmology. Specifically looking at books written by cosmologists and intended for a lay audience, I argue that these religious appeals present a particular model, or picture, of cosmology to the …
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Semiotic analysis of a Versace visual myth
This study analyzes the mythical religious imagery of Gianni Versace through a visual semiotic analysis. The image being examined has characteristics of the religious martyrdom of St. Sebastian. Analyzing the St. Sebastian image via semiotics allows the visual message, produced by Gianni Versace, …
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Concealing and revealing: Visions of transcendence in Jan Van Eyck and Mark Rothko
… they intended to produce. Van Eyck sought religious transcendence, while Rothko sought a secular transcendence. The interpretation of the works of these artists demonstrate that while both use symbolism, color, space, and light to convey their intentions, Van Eyck directly connects his …
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Religion and Proto-Feminism in Victorian Women's Poetry
… (Levy). This thesis examines the secular and religious institutions that these authors are tackling in their respective texts, looking at marriage specifically as the primary institution for Victorian women, considers the tales of sisterhood and the importance of relationships between women in …
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The Sacred in the Profane: Understanding Andy Warhol's Relationship with the Visual Image
… technique expose his lifelong connection to the religious imagery with which he grew up.
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Delivered Without Peril: Birth Girdles and Childbirth in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
… modern periods contain references to specific religious trends, social concerns, Christian theology, and medieval medical theory, as they stood during that time period. The goal of this thesis is to examine these aspects of birth girdles in order to contribute to the larger picture of late …
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Religion and hegemony : A Gramscian approach to the Chavín Staff God
… meanings of the Chavín Staff God icon. This religious symbol appears at Chavín de Huántar around 500 BC and is reconficured in the iconography of succeeding states and egalitarian groups to the present. Although the Andean archaeological sequence indicates that accelerated religious …
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Using Animals: the use of non-human animals from the material to the metaphorical, 1100-1380
… metaphorical (the use of animal sculpture and religious imagery). Although much of the thesis focusses on the ways in which animals are used in positive or affirming ways, I close with a consideration of the ways creatures were used to spread prejudice. I use a wide variety of sources …
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"Art is religion:" Adolf Hoelzel's modernism
… depiction, his recurring evocation of Christian imagery, especially those with small groups of people in reverential poses, reached back to an earlier period of sacred European art, as he pursued the ideal of harmony central to his artistic concerns. Hoelzel has been remembered as an important …
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“Beaten on Both Sides”: A Reevaluation of the Anti-Calvinism of Andrewes, Neile, and Laud
… in other situations. Iconoclasts believe that religious imagery is either idolatrous by nature or likely to lead to idolatry and thus must be destroyed or removed from churches. By analyzing the lives, sermons, and letters of Lancelot Andrewes, Richard Neile, and William Laud, I have shown how …
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Jan Sanders van Hemessen and Antwerp Painting before Bruegel
… portrayals of gender and sexuality in novel religious iconographies and nascent genre imagery—a subject too often neglected in the literature to date. The first half of the dissertation reassesses how Van Hemessen’s religious paintings counterintuitively use a confrontational and theatrical …
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‘The balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities‘: political tensions and religious transitions in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
… revolutionary climate on the evolving religious and political views of the young Coleridge, and their expression through his published works from 1794-1800. I consider how Coleridge‘s continuing use of religious imagery evolved, following his transition from the established tradition of …
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Dalí's Religious Models: the Iconography of Martyrdom and its Contemplation
This thesis investigates Dalí’s adoption of religious iconography to help represent themes that he had conceptualised through Surrealism, psychoanalysis and other thought systems. His selective use of sources was closely bound to his life circumstances, and I integrate biographical details in my …
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The geography of sinfulness: mapping Calvinist subjectiving between word and image
… Calvinist schemas of sin and selfhood within religious doctrine and treatises, this project examines the experiential nature of sinfulness as expressed through language or poetics. Given such examination, this work posits three things. First, in general terms, it contends that, during the …
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God Images: A Graphic Documentary
… preferred appellations or names of “God,” and religious affiliations. This hypothesis was based on the archetypal origin of all individual’s personal God images, and the universal quality of the image to access the unconscious. In fact, a number of common symbolic motifs were identified from …
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German Identity in the Court Festivals of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Holy Roman Empire
… the analysis shows that directly antagonistic religious imagery and language, seen elsewhere in European festival culture, does not feature. Instead, the emphasis is on non-divisive language and a unifying notion of Christendom. This was, of course, set against the dipole of the ‘Other’ which …
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Significant Images of Mary
… client’s artwork. Understanding spiritual and/or religious figures, especially a universal mother figure, are crucial to art therapists in incorporating these into the therapeutic process. It is important to understand a client’s devotion to mother and/or Mary by understanding Mary and the mother …