After all, it was the totemic image that provided representation for the group on the tjuringa.

"RICHARD POUSETTE-DART, 1916-1992" An exhibition of paintings and drawings tracing the Abstract Expressionist's evolution from Cubism, through totemic images to the visionary Pointillism of his mature style.

During his stay in Europe, Kadishman created a number of totemic images of people, gates, and altars of a talismanic and primitive nature.

As is customary in Mr. Foreman's work, totemic images abound, placed with the cadenced precision of tropes in a sonnet.

His efforts from these years are very much in step with, if not a little in advance of, the totemic images and mythical subjects of a number of North American artists whose style would soon be called Abstract Expressionist.

Some of the objects in the show evoke past totemic images, like the group of pillars that hark back to Ms. Bourgeois's wood and metal "Personnages" that she has done over the years.

A Midwestern museum that has not been identified paid $39,600 for a late-19th-century Northwest Coast house pole, carved with totemic images of an owl, a whale and a raven, by a Tlingit artisan.

Becker's assumption of similarity had been correct, she knew: these circular doors of black glass, trimmed with chrome, were central images in the other's memory, potent and totemic.

I agree with those who feel that New York would gain by restoring the totemic image of the twin towers to the skyline, if not in their original form.

Among the most important items was a Northwest Coast house pole of the late 19th century - a 75-inch-tall painted cedar relic carved by a Tlingit artisan with totemic images of an owl, a whale and a raven.