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  • An axiom - atic system may itself be regarded as the repre - sentation of a group, namely, the group of operational transformations which it permits its terms to undergo.

    AXIOMATIZATION ROBERT BLANCH 1968

  • Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Repre - sentation (New York, 1960).

    NATURALISM IN ART FRITZ NOVOTNY 1968

  • The parallel which this pre - sentation of baptism constitutes to the Osirian mortu - ary ritual is obvious and very remarkable; however, there is no evidence that Paul derived his conception from the ancient Egyptian practice; the parallel is significant as witnessing to the similarity of phenom - enological pattern produced by two wholly inde - pendent religious traditions.

    RITUAL IN RELIGION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

  • The same conclu - sion emerges from a consideration of the structure of the Elizabethan theater, in itself a microcosmic repre - sentation of the macrocosm, and — in one celebrated instance at least — significantly named The Globe.

    HIERARCHY AND ORDER C. A. PATRIDES 1968

  • We have to return, past the evolution of philosophy, which is lost in repre - sentation, to the presence of that Being which is re - vealed at times, but only partly in philosophical sys - tems; but this Being came open to Nietzsche's thought as it did to Hölderlin's.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN WAHL 1968

  • As Jean Seznec has shown, the influence of these writers was important in estab - lishing the notion that artists should consult learned authorities on the subject of mythological repre - sentation (pp. 257-58).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968

  • His study of the repre - sentation of death in classical times can be considered as one of the first essays in interpretative iconography, which is now called iconology.

    ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968

  • Page 527, Volume 2 sentation of sometimes complicated links among the events of sacred history, considered as prefigurations and fulfillments which were established between the figures and events of the Old and the New Dispen - sation.

    ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968

  • The modern mind thereby became familiarized with the image of the human body as a neat and exact assemblage of related structures — an image made all the more incisive by progress in the techniques of anatomical repre - sentation.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

  • It regards any repre - sentation of supernatural beings as lacking in both realism and naturalism.

    IMPRESSIONISM IN ART THOMAS MUNRO 1968

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