Barbara Baert Orden de los libros

Exploring the intricate relationship between humans and rain, this book delves into its ecological, cultural, and iconological significance through diverse examples, from prehistoric cave paintings to modern photography and film. It questions whether current paradigms in image science adequately capture the art and culture surrounding rain. Barbara Baert's insightful prose examines our ability to merge imagery with fascination, presenting a profound and passionate essay that intertwines art history, cultural anthropology, and philosophy, reflecting her expertise as a professor at KU Leuven.

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.