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Glyphic

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glyph  (glf)
n.
1. Architecture A vertical groove, especially in a Doric column or frieze.
2. A symbolic figure that is usually engraved or incised.
3. A symbol, such as a stylized figure or arrow on a public sign, that imparts information nonverbally.
[Greek gluph, carving, from gluphein, to carve; see gleubh- in Indo-European roots.]
glyphic adj.


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Many of his statements have a universalizing character: thoughts on glyphic markings on earliest African rock art, on the wall patterning of Great Zimbabwe and on cattle-keepers' interests in ornamentation in eastern Africa.
Ornament on trial. (Royal Academy Forum) by Phillips, Tom / The Architectural Review
see defect and disintegration; or we can use these glyphic tests as purgatives and cordials by which to 'rectify / Nature' and those epitomes of nature they help us learn we are" (98-99).
A Gust For Paradise: Milton's Eden and the Visual Arts by Low, Anthony / Renaissance Quarterly
One group of work tends to suggest the next: the horizontal painting and the tondo that I saw in his studio expand and explode the mound and double-headed-hammer shape (it started as a kind of glyphic "wave") from his immediately preceding works.
Creatures of the plane by Kertess, Klaus / Artforum International
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