Sentences with phrase «making symbolic reference»

Vessels, cowrie shells, and busts are reoccurring forms, each making symbolic reference to the black body.

Vessels such as vases and urns, cowrie shells, huts, and busts are recurring forms, each making symbolic reference to the black female body.

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Symbolic or metaphoric modes of reference project a warm coating of color onto the cosmos, and this makes it a bit more habitable.

This would be done by virtue of the extraordinarily complex rhythms within human experience wherein the core of the person's own experience is made compatible with the rhythms of external things, with minimal distortion, and whereby semantic rhythms within the person's experience point out the external reference; Whitehead's discussion of symbolic reference is a good account of this.

References to the sitter's life are made in the decorative background with chrysanthemums (the official flower of Chicago), jasmine (symbolic of Hawaii where the President spent most of his childhood) and African blue lilies (alluding to the President's late Kenyan father).

Their practices are useful parallels to Love's; her works in the accompanying exhibition produce social critique in referencing hegemonic symbolic structures — like certain fashion or religious iconography — while being composed of expressive, powerfully raw mark making.

I didn't make any reference to the «symbolic value» that reconstruction gained.