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Course Topics and LinksIndex of Topics | Previous | Next 07: Image Icon, Symbol, and Sign: Metaphor, Analogy, Context and MeaningSymbols and icons are basic and often complex artistic forms and gestures that are used as a kind of simplified key to convey visual, auditory, and kinetic representations of complex concepts, ideas, and events. The abundance of symbol and icon as it is used to relay contemporary cultural belief systems stems from and rivals the main characteristics of symbolic expression in many traditional religions and derives from the initial human need to qualify or quantify. Whether the value assigned to a symbolic system is tangible or spiritual, any well-assigned symbolic form maintains and strengthens the proposed relationship between humanity and environment and mediates the space between a person's present and projected, or transcendant act. Change: Rutgers Iconography Link to: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/artshum/art/iconog.html Rutgers University Library: Iconography Study Sources BC.edu: Department of Fine Art: Iconography Adelaide College, Australia: Anthropology : Symbols & Signs Encyclopedia Mythica: Myth, Folklore, Legend UMass Amherst Astronomy Department: D. Phast's HTML library of Greek Letters and Math Symbols The Evolution of Type - Michael Brandt WebElements periodic table of the elements Levity.com: Alchemical and chemical symbols and imagery- Holds an interesting database of 500 emblematic engravings and woodcuts from alchemical printed books. Smithsonian Institute: Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age Smithsonian Institution: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture Maps Of Meaning The Architecture of Belief. Jordan Peterson. Routledge. 1999. (abstract)
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