Iconography and Symbolism: Read/Listen/Events

View, read and listen:
Sperber, Dan, 1991, Rethinking Symbolism, Cambridge University press (eRes)
Lamber, Suzan, 1984, Reading Drawings, introduction to looking at drawings, Victorian and Albert Museum, UK (eRes)
The_Frick_Museum-_NY-_Manhattan_-_Lia_(RO).pps (6906KB)
Gombrich, E.H., 1978, Symbolic Images, Oxford press (eRes)
LACMA Collections online



Suggestions for group project:
• Trace a symbol from its textual inception to its iconography around us. For example the image of Moses in various art forms in NY: The blue chair in the American Folk art museum, The illuminated manuscripts in the Bible, the mural at the 42nd street public library, http://z.about.com/d/gonyc/1/0/Z/S/nypl_20060822_10.jpg
Goody, Jack 1988, The Interface between the Written and the Oral, Cambridge university press

Class related events:
10/30 @10:30 Lecture and demonstration, Metropolitan museum
11/6 @11:30 Symbolism in Dutch 14th Century art, Frick Collection