About Sieves and Sieving : : Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm / / Barbara Baert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Baert, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (134 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; The Queen, the Portrait, and the Sieve --; Etymology, Symbolism, Cosmology --; The Sieve Dances --; A Short Break. The Nun in Affile --; Bilderatlas --; The Sieve as an Organism --; Grid/Lozenge/Trellis --; Moi-peau --; (Un)heimlichkeit. Back to the Queen, the Portrait, and the Sieve --; Galloping! --; Digital Sieves --; Notes --; Picture Credits --; Bibliography --; Index nominum --; Colophon
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110608212; 9783110719567; 9783110605785; 9783110610017; 9783110616859; 9783110610765; 9783110664232
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110608212
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 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.