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

by Barbara Baert

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...

• Format: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110606143
• ISBN13: 9783110606140
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"