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, ...

Art theorist, intellectual historian, and cultural scientist Aby M. Warburg mused: Was bedeutet es, sich im raum zu orientieren?, a physical and spiritual mouthful which roughly translates as, “What ...

The earliest traces of symbolic material culture of the human race date back more than 500,000 years and are not limited to carved tools, but also to ornaments, body paintings or even non-figurative ...

In photography, the creative space often throws up new styles and talents. For the emerging hands, the practice is both tasking and interesting despite the influence of technology. But, in pursuance ...