ABSTRACT
By way of illustration of the foregoing theses and corollaries, consider the three following images as a compound object with three faces or facets (Figures 7.1–7.3) and, by looking through three juxtaposed images, foreground the problems (in this case the paradoxes and conundrums) being reckoned with in this excavation. The first two images incorporate brief texts and the force or import of each is essentially tied to these multimodal entities. One deals ostensibly with art, the other with belief. The third concerns a self-conscious use of an artwork in its hygienic and exhortatory functions, so as to remedy or cure an aberrant belief at a particular time (2010) and place (Western Poland). I Can See The Whole Room! And There's No Art in It!, 2011. Copyright https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203129289/65c2911d-402b-479e-a9ef-623f2c618728/content/fig7_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> © LG Williams/The Estate of LG Williams™. East Boulder Baptist Church sign. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203129289/65c2911d-402b-479e-a9ef-623f2c618728/content/fig7_2_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Photograph taken by the author. Colossal Christ Statue, Swiebodzin, Poland. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203129289/65c2911d-402b-479e-a9ef-623f2c618728/content/fig7_3_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Photograph taken by the author.
