Grammar in Art

Roman Jakobson (1959) reports: The Russian painter Repin was baffled as to why Sin had been depicted as a woman by German artists: he did not realize that sin is feminine in German (die Sünde), but masculine in Russian (грех). Does the grammatical gender of nouns in an artist’s native lang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Edward eSegel, Lera eBoroditsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Art
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00244/full