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    Cave paintings found in Lascaux, France dating back to around 15,000 BC represent some of the earliest forms of human representation. Representation refers to the use of language and images to convey meaning about the world, though there is debate around whether systems of representation objectively reflect reality or if humans construct meaning through the representations they create. Various artists throughout history have explored and questioned ideas around representation, mimesis, and the relationship between signs, signifiers, and concepts or meanings.

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    Cave paintings found in Lascaux, France dating back to around 15,000 BC represent some of the earliest forms of human representation. Representation refers to the use of language and images to convey meaning about the world, though there is debate around whether systems of representation objectively reflect reality or if humans construct meaning through the representations they create. Various artists throughout history have explored and questioned ideas around representation, mimesis, and the relationship between signs, signifiers, and concepts or meanings.

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    Cave Paintings, Lascaux,

    FRANCE 15,000 BC
    REPRESENTATION

    refers to the use of language and images


    to create meaning about the world around us.
    Pieter Claesz, Still life with stoneware jug, 1642
    Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533
    Debates about REPRESENTATION have
    questioned whether systems of representation
    reflect the world as it is,
    such that they mirror back to us as a form of
    MIMESIS or IMITATION,
    or whether in fact we construct the world and its
    meaning through the system of representation we
    deploy
    0
    Rene Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1928-29
    Duane Hanson, “Tourists,” 1988
    Robert Frank, Trolley, New Orleans, 1955-1956
    }
    IMAGE/SOUND/WORD SIGNIFIER
    SIGN
    CONCEPT/MEANING SIGNIFIED
    Vincent Van Gogh, Irises, 1899
    Marcel Duchamp, “Fountain,” 1917
    Raphael, The small Cowper Madonna, 1505 Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936

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