Laura  Xenopol 

 Laura Xenopol 





Research Areas:
sacred symbolism in global context, iconography, visual culture in archaeology, networks of texts and images in the history of religions


Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2006. Bach, Friedrich Teja, Margit Rowell, and Ann Temkin. Constantin Brancusi. Philadelphia; Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2000. Bergmann, Sigurd, and Forrest Clingerman, eds. Arts, Religion, and the Environment: Exploring Nature’s Texture. Studies in Environmental Humanities, volume 6. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2018. Christopher G  White author. Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2018. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5314715. Clair, Kassia St. The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017. “Eliade, Phenomenology, and the Sacred on JSTOR.”  https://www.jstor.org/stable/20008280?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents. “Hilma Af Klint Tree of Knowledge - Press Release | David Zwirner.”  https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2021/hilma-af-klint-tree-of-knowledge/press-release. Hoy, Meredith Anne. From Point to Pixel: A Genealogy of Digital Aesthetics, 2017. “Instagram and Contemporary Image.”  https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/59460874-instagram-and-contemporary-image. Lee, A. Life of Pi 2012. Fox 2000 Pictures, 2012. Nalin, Pan. Valley of Flowers. Adventure, Drama, Romance. Elzévir Films,  France 2 Cinéma,  Monsoon Films Private Limited, 2007. Ozerkov, Dmitry. Roberto Matta and the Fourth Dimension. Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated, 2020. Pandrea, Petre. Brancusi. Pravila de la Craiova. Etica lui Brancusi. Editura Vremea, 2011. Rhyne, Theresa-Marie. Applying Color Theory to Digital Media and Visualization. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315380384. SCI-Arc Channel. Simphiwe Ndzube: Embracing the Coexistence of Seemingly Irreconcilable Realities, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHnFY2uA4Sw. “The History of the CMYK Colour Model | Axiom Designs & Printing,” September 7, 2016. http://axiomdesigns.com/history-cmyk-colour-model.html. “The Wire That Transforms Much of Manhattan Into One Big, Symbolic Home - Atlas Obscura.” https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eruv-manhattan-invisible-wire-jewish-symbolic-religious-home. Thomson, Belinda, Tamar Garb, Philippe Dagen, Paul Gauguin, and National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Tate Modern (Gallery). Gauguin: Maker of Myth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Weldon, Jo. Fierce: The History of Leopard Print. Illustrated edition. New York, NY: Harper Design, 2018.

not bound to a single medium 


a holistic understanding of the existence of matter in both biological and cosmological form


                                                                                                                     

a mining body of information and knowledge


The Metamorphosis of Plants (1790). Goethe believed image making required what he described as “exact sensory imagination, by which one might penetrate the surface of things and gain the depths.”

a mining body of information and knowledge







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Survival of the Myth, more or less disguised, in the modern world.