Sentences with phrase «as phallic symbols»

Both Ray Gun and Soft Drainpipe may be seen as phallic symbols.

In its conflation of penis and sword, the sculpture blurs metaphor and literalism in a way that echoes many of Lucas's earlier works (swords are often perceived as phallic symbols), for instance Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab in which a slang metaphor for the female body is made literal.

The Men and Machines series, showing working men with various types of mechanical equipment, portrays Cold - War era images of technological advancements and plays on the cliché of machines as phallic symbols of male sexual power.

To give up his magic is also to abandon his power over them, including his own daughter, Miranda; he waves his staff practically as a phallic symbol, and the choice to disempower himself is among the most touchingly self - humbling that a Shakespeare character makes.

Not exact matches

Those temples and the underground burial chambers related to them contained many images of obese humans — some no larger than a few centimeters, others the size of giants — as well as of animals and phallic symbols.

This sculptural structure can be interpreted as a reference to the unicorn as a medieval symbol of purity and operates in direct contrast to its potential phallic association.

Not only in the sense that it is it treated as a folkloric fertility symbol despite its debated origins, but also in terms of traditional monumental sculpture: solitary in the changing landscape, the hyper - phallic man is here made to bend at the knees and kneel as in prayer.