Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Related material —
The Faustus Square :
Design from 1514
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From OSF . . . Among the positions that take this independence even further is Susanne Langer's approach towards meaning. Long before Derrida, she suggested in her chapter "The logic of signs and symbols" that we should understand meaning not as a relation to an author at all. Influenced by music and musical notation, she defines meaning instead as the function of a term from which a pattern emerges:
It is better, perhaps, to say: "Meaning is not a Reference: Langer, Susanne K., 1948 [1954]. Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art. Mentor Book. |
Related art . . .
Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."
— T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942)
For seekers of a "crazy Christmas knot" —
The commercial logo below may be viewed as
three in-folded Y-shaped orange forked tongues.
See also this journal on the above opening date — July 23, 2021:
Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
"What happens in Canaan, stays in Canaan."
Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
“The serpent’s eyes shine
As he wraps around the vine”
Related material:
Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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