Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of art history that deals with the description, analysis, and interpretation of icons or iconic representations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science or art of representation by effigies or pictures.
- noun A description of statues, pictures, engravings, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf.
iconography .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of
icons inart or arthistory .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Erwin Panofsky, with whose name iconology has been connected ever since, not only developed its theoretical foundations, but contributed by his practi - cal work in art history to the main triumph of iconol - ogy after the Second World War.
ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968
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Instead of religious iconology, Cartier-Bresson finds playful expression in the Surrealistic image of a pair of high-heeled shoes shaped like a heart.
Two Sides of the Same Coin Tobias Grey 2012
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For those of you that really dug Tom Hanks and his turn as Robert Langdon, the intrepid professor of religious iconology and symbology that continuously finds himself embroiled in one Religious Conspiracy after another, this should be a must-buy.
Flixnjoystix.com! » New Release Tuesday! Bobert Takes A Look At The DVD/Blu-rays Of The Week! 2009
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On the first floor, Strand's uncompromisingly austere photography from Spanish, North American and Mexican collections offers a hard-bitten "collective portrait" of small-town Mexican life told through photos of individuals, landscapes, studies of architecture and religious iconology.
Two Sides of the Same Coin Tobias Grey 2012
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Because that is what church iconology tried to establish.
Petru Popescu: Was Mary a Template for Today's Feminism? 2009
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This quite recent contribution to the Drongo Brown iconology ...
Kill The Pig .....humanely Newmania 2007
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Using the cross iconology, together with a naked woman for a campaign aimed at a problem which a good part of right-wing males at least here in italy consider their right was simply too much.
CONTROVERSY OVER “BLASPHEMOUS” ITALIAN ANTI-RAPE POSTER » Sociological Images 2008
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Yet there is a long tradition of cultural iconology and, indeed, idolatry in our political system.
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I think Elizabeth Moon is going to replace Anne McCaffrey in my author iconology - besides the fact I've actually met and talked with Elizabeth and I doubt that I'll ever have that opportunity with "The Lady" herself.
Another Wasted Day? sidewinder 2002
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This invocation of popular iconology grounds his satire not in an ideal realm from which the powerful are merely lampooned but rather within the actual and bloody struggle of the oppressed both to free their understandings and to appropriate for themselves their land, labor, and nation.
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