Elsewhere, as in an untitled canvas of 1941-42, the deconstructed and reorganized Crucifixion imagery suggests the terrifying power of familiar iconographic bits and pieces.

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Since much is still not fully understood about this art and its sources, the exhibition and catalog are replete with fascinating speculations rather than traditional iconographic interpretations negotiating a terrain that touches on cultural anthropology, the history of technology, and brain physiology.

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Played by Matt Smith, he journeys through "Time And Relative Dimension In Space" in his aptly-named ship, the TARDIS -- which looks like a blue British police call box on the outside, and is as iconographic a vehicle as the U.S.S. Enterprise, Millennium Falcon or DeLorean.

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