Symbols are often seen as constituting an international language and to some extent they do, but that language is far from universal--context means everything in this complicated but engrossing form o
A comprehensive directory of symbols provides historical definitions and cross-cultural meanings for each, providing an alphabetical, cross-referenced index and organizing each symbol into related cat
Based upon a series of papers delivered at the April 2000 conference of the Association of Art Historians held at the U. of Edinburgh, this collection reflects upon the role of presence, defined as th