It is easy to minimize the importance of symbols in culture. Art tends to focus on existential symbolism, leap-frogging over the ways in which we interpret symbols constantly, in the form of letters, ...

Students can write down words that come to mind or shout out their answer as the teacher writes the responses on the board. The teacher will explain that Native (or First Peoples) symbols are ways to ...

In late 19th century Paris an artistic movement to explore the mystical, from incubi to chimeras and femininity to saints as well as an assortment of mythological creatures was on the rise. What first ...

Odlin Redon, “Head of a Young Woman” (c. 1900-1916) (Photo: Harvard Art Museums, © President and Fellows of Harvard College) Symbolist artists — including ...

AT the Friday evening discourse delivered at the Royal Institution on November 17, the audience had the unusual, but instructive, experience of hearing, in Sir Herbert Baker's account of “Symbolism in ...

The aim of JXB is to publish the highest quality manuscripts that address questions of broad interest in plant biology. We welcome manuscripts that identify fundamental mechanisms including those ...

Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives, such as ...

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