(n.) The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.
(n.) The study of representative art in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
(2) Often, Hofer’s flirtation with the iconography and language of the National Socialist movement has been far from covert.
(3) Filled with classic British gangster-movie iconography – hard London faces hung upside-down from meathooks, the stock-car pile-up – The Long Good Friday is also a grownup, despairing look at Britain on the edge of an economic and political precipice.
(4) This is what the iconography in Roman and Christian charity confirms.
(5) The eleven cases are reviewed and a classification supported by an iconography is given, according to the unstability of the odontoid or of the pedicles.
(6) And yet despite the iconography of her glacial portraits and the tales of wicked Sir Oswald, Britain's only significant fascist (and, in case it should be forgotten, previously a leading light in the MacDonald-era Labour party), Lady Mosley's real significance rests on her supporting role in a much grander tableau: the story of the Mitford girls and the 80-year sway that they have exerted over upper-level English society.
(7) When questioned about this iconography of one of the 20th-century’s worst mass murderers, he conceded that Mao had “probably” been a monster, but added: “We will be arguing about this to the end of time.” In a sense, Briggs remained marooned in the optimistic period of his prime – the 40s to the 60s – a believer above all in what he called in one of his best books The Age of Improvement (1959).
(8) With the help of an iconography they describe the possible anatomical variations according with the surgical possibilities.
(9) That’s not to say I’m not proud of my work, but the fact is I remember starting to shoot Super 8 and Star Trek Into Darkness and feeling like I hadn’t really solved some fundamental story problems.” The film-maker revealed that changes to well-known Star Wars iconography, such as C-3PO sporting a new red arm, and the Millennium Falcon now featuring a rectacular radar dish, were designed to convey a sense of the time that had passed since the events of Return of the Jedi.
(10) The band is famously subversive, with an ironic tone and use of political imagery including, most controversially, fascist iconography – while at the same time collaborating with anti-fascist artists .
(11) Not, perhaps, for its dogma, but for its iconography, its traditions, its teachings.
(12) Review of a very well documented case with a very complete iconography, and of the literature led to the following conclusions.
(13) The decision as to whether anticoagulant treatment should be instituted must be based on the certitude of the diagnosis, and this can be obtained in an atraumatic manner by ultrasonography of the popliteal fossa as shown by iconography.
(14) He cites the “grammar” of Islamic art “that underpins the whole of life”, the “magical” rhythms of gardens and nature, the timelessness of Christian iconography and the symmetry of 16th-century German astronomy, Thomas Aquinas’s “eternal law”, the Vedic traditions of India, and Chinese Daoism.
(15) But for all their invocations of the rich precedents of nudity in India's art history and religious iconography, Husain's defenders could do little to stem the tide of attacks – notably over the internet – on more and more of his images.
(16) The only rival to the toilet bowl for campaign iconography has been a statue of Hendrik Verwoerd, reviled architect of racial apartheid, in another DA-run municipality that the party holds up as a showcase of good governance.
(17) This principle of "two units combining to form one", this unification of two opposing and complementary principles has been depicted in a model manner in the iconography of Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism.
(18) The banners outside have tantalised people by showing iconography that they insist looks "flat".
(19) She has always been a subject we’ve been fascinated by and she has appeared in a few of our previous exhibitions but there’s never really been one exhibition entirely devoted to her iconography.
(20) By creating a colourful link with the iconography of the nation, Mas hopes to make an indissoluble connection between himself and the essence of being Catalan.
Photograph
Definition:
(n.) A picture or likeness obtained by photography.
(v. t.) To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.
(v. i.) To practice photography; to take photographs.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(3) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(4) Photograph: Gareth Phillips for the Guardian Because health is devolved, the Welsh government can do things differently from England.
(5) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
(6) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
(7) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(8) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
(9) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
(10) The record includes postoperative drawings of the intraoperative field by Dr. Cushing, a sketch by Dr. McKenzie illustrating the postoperative sensory examination, and pre- and postoperative photographs of the patient.
(11) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(12) Illustration by Andrzej Krause Photograph: Guardian The Foreign Office attributed the forgotten boxes to "an earlier misunderstanding about contents" and stated that there needed to be an "improvement in archive management".
(13) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
(14) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
(15) As part of a series of articles on various aspects of image conservation, practical advice is given on how best to ensure image permanence of contemporary photographs.
(16) Photograph: Jared Malsin for The Guardian They are among at least seven Egyptians – six Christians and one Muslim – who are believed to be held hostage in Libya, though that is regarded as a conservative estimate.
(17) The small number of discordant outcomes could generally be accounted for by three factors: (1) retinal abnormalities beyond those considered in the photographic grading system (12 eyes), (2) nonretinal visual pathway disease (five eyes), or (3) false-positive and false-negative results in the measurement systems used to evaluate structure and function (five eyes).
(18) Photograph: Facebook "Iran's state television is only showing one side of society, only the people with hijab.
(19) The positive predictive value of the clinical diagnosis could be increased to more than 80% by measuring the degree of miosis and ptosis on single photographs, or by assuming independent confirmation of the clinical diagnosis by a second observer.
(20) All was very accomplished; her award-winning photographs have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and her articles and pictures were published in books, periodicals, and newspapers around the world.