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ID: 300055866
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300055866

 

Record Type: concept
allegory (artistic device) (symbolism (artistic concept), artistic devices, ... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Method of expressing complex or abstract ideas in the literary or visual arts under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive resemblance. An allegory is principally constructed from personifications and symbols. In art, allegories include combinations of personifications and/or symbols, which, on the basis of a conventionally agreed relation between concept and representation, refer to an idea outside the work of art. The properties and circumstances attributed to the apparent subject of the allegory really refer to another subject in an extended or continued metaphor. Allegories may have meaning on two or more levels that the viewer or reader can understand only through an interpretive process.
 
Terms:
allegory (artistic device) (preferred,C,U,LC,English-P,D,U,N)
allegories (artistic devices) (C,U,English,AD,U,PN)
allegorical (C,U,English,AD,U,N)
寓言 (藝術表現手法) (C,U,Chinese (traditional)-P,D,U,U)
諷喻 (藝術表現手法) (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
寓意 (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
象徵 (藝術表現手法) (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
寓言劇 (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
寓言故事 (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
寓言體 (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
寓意畫 (藝術表現手法) (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
託寓 (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
yù yán (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-P,UF,U,U)
yu yan (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones)-P,UF,U,U)
yü yan (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Wade-Giles)-P,UF,U,U)
allegorie (symboliek) (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)
zinnebeeldige voorstelling (C,U,Dutch,UF,U,U)
alegorias (C,U,Portuguese-P,D,PN)
alegoria (C,U,Portuguese,AD,SN)
alegoría (recurso artístico) (C,U,Spanish-P,D,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  B.BM

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Associated Concepts Facet
Associated Concepts Facet
Hierarchy of Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
.... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of <concepts in the arts and humanities>
........ <concepts in the arts and humanities> (G)
Hierarchy of artistic concepts
............ artistic concepts (G)
Hierarchy of artistic devices
................ artistic devices (G)
Hierarchy of symbolism (artistic concept)
.................... symbolism (artistic concept) (G)
Hierarchy of allegory (artistic device)
........................ allegory (artistic device) (G)

Additional Notes:
Chinese (traditional) ..... 在文學或視覺藝術作品的題材中,假借另一種可巧妙暗示的類似題材來表達抽象概念的手法。寓言主要是由擬人化與象徵符號所構成。寓言主要出現在西方藝術中,結合了擬人化及/或象徵符號,而這些元素則是基於概念與表達之間約定成俗的默契,用以指稱藝術作品之外的概念。寓言表面上呈現之題材所採用的事物與情境,實際上是以引申或延伸的隱喻來指涉另一個主題。寓言有可能具有兩層以上的意義,觀賞者或讀者需透過解說闡釋的過程方能明瞭。 
Portuguese ..... Método para expressar idéias complexas ou abstratas nas artes literárias ou visuais, sob o disfarce de outro assunto de semelhança sugestivamente apropriada. Uma alegoria é construída principalmente a partir de personificações e símbolos. Na arte, as alegorias incluem combinações de personificações e / ou símbolos que, com base em uma relação convencionalmente acordada entre conceito e representação, se referem a uma idéia fora da obra de arte. As propriedades e circunstâncias atribuídas ao assunto aparente da alegoria realmente se referem a outro assunto em uma metáfora estendida ou continuada. Alegorias podem ter significado em dois ou mais níveis que o espectador ou o leitor podem entender apenas através de um processo interpretativo. 

Related concepts:
involved with ....  allegories (literary genre)
........................  (<genres for literature>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, ... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) [300202507]

Sources and Contributors:
寓言 (藝術表現手法)............  [AS-Academia Sinica Preferred]
.......................  國家教育研究院-雙語詞彙、學術名詞暨辭書資訊網 June 29, 2015
.......................  大英視覺藝術百科全書 Vol. 9, 170
.......................  朗文當代大辭典 39
.......................  經濟部智慧財產局-本國專利技術名詞中英對照查詢資料庫 June 29, 2015
諷喻 (藝術表現手法)............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.......................  經濟部智慧財產局-本國專利技術名詞中英對照查詢資料庫 June 29, 2015
寓意............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
...........  經濟部智慧財產局-本國專利技術名詞中英對照查詢資料庫 June 29, 2015
象徵 (藝術表現手法)............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.......................  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
寓言劇............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
...........  國家教育研究院-雙語詞彙、學術名詞暨辭書資訊網 June 29, 2015
寓言故事............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
...........  經濟部智慧財產局-本國專利技術名詞中英對照查詢資料庫 June 29, 2015
寓言體............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
...........  經濟部智慧財產局-本國專利技術名詞中英對照查詢資料庫 June 29, 2015
寓意畫 (藝術表現手法)............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.......................  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
託寓............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
...........  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
alegoría (recurso artístico)............  [CDBP-SNPC Preferred]
...............................................  Moliner, Diccionario de uso del español (2004) I:123
...............................................  Toman, El Barroco. Arquitectura, escultura, pintura (1997) 482
alegoria............  [CVAA-BR]
.................  CVAA-BR Consortium (2020-)
alegorias............  [CVAA-BR Preferred]
....................  CVAA-BR Consortium (2020-)
allegorical............  [VP]
.......................  Oxford English Dictionary Online (2002-)
allegorie (symboliek)............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred]
......................................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
......................................  Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
allegories (artistic devices)............  [VP]
..................................................  Oxford English Dictionary Online (2002-)
allegory (artistic device)............  [VP Preferred]
...............................................  CDMARC Subjects: LCSH (1988-) precoor.; Allegory (Art)
...............................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
...............................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 85003642
...............................................  Random House Library of Painting and Sculpture (1981) Vol. 4, 10
...............................................  RILA, Subject Headings (1975-1990)
...............................................  Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961)
...............................................  Worcester Art Museum Library, List of subject headings, unpub. (1976)
yu yan............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
yù yán............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
yü yan............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
zinnebeeldige voorstelling............  [RKD, AAT-Ned]
...............................................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
...............................................  Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
 
Subject: .....  [AS-Academia Sinica, CDBP-SNPC, CVAA-BR, RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
............  CDMARC Subjects: LCSH (1988-) Symbolism in art
............  Contributed as a candidate term Cand --Getty Ctr, 9/92; allegorical photographs
............  CVAA-BR Consortium (2020-)
............  Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
............  Zinkham and Parker, Descriptive Terms for Graphic Materials (1986) allegorical photographs
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Oxford Companion to Western Art [online] (2008-)
.......... Oxford English Dictionary Online (2002-)
Chinese (traditional) .......... [AS-Academia Sinica]
.......... AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
Portuguese .......... [CVAA-BR]
.......... CVAA-BR Consortium (2020-)

 

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