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lit·er·al·ize  (ltr--lz)
tr.v. lit·er·al·ized, lit·er·al·iz·ing, lit·er·al·iz·es
To make literal.
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Verb1.literalize - make literal; "literalize metaphors"
construe, interpret, see - make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"
spiritualise, spiritualize - give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense

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In the section entitled "Chemical Colors," he suggests that what is usually referred to as "mixing" or "dyeing" can be more usefully thought of as a "turning" ("von einer Seite nach der anderen wenden," "to turn over," "to turn from one side to the other"); thus, he literalizes the idea of changing colors in a way that is also possible from the perspective of English.
By positioning herself in her work simultaneously as both subject and object, author and text, Searle develops what has been a leitmotif since student days but is here articulated with much more force and yet with much more sensitivity: She literalizes the radical insufficiency of identity by devising a practice that visualizes simultaneous presence and absence, visibility and invisibility, as if she is never quite anywhere.
Knowledge of the title not only provides an occasion to look back into the painting with a completely different set of eyes, but also literalizes the limits of the medium and representation more generally.
 
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