Art and other symbolic forms are an organic whole which is untied but different.

艺术与其它符号形式是“合而不同”的有机整体。

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At present, researches on fashion consumption focus mostly on a pure mass culture aspect, and there lacks deep research on fashion sense as well as symbolic forms of the media narration.

目前，关于时尚消费的探究大多是以一种纯粹的大众文化的角度切入，而缺乏对时尚意识以及以符号为形式的传媒叙事方式的深入研究。

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Many of the symbolic forms and colours adorning these striking garments are rooted in ancient legends.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Like the Neanderthals, the newcomers had been busy, too, developing advanced tools and weapons, better navigational skills, trade, complex language, art and other forms of symbolic thinking.

WSJ: Neanderthals: Why Us and Not Them?

These works share many visual characteristics, exploring the fertile territory of the unconscious that Freud and others had opened for 20th-century artists: a rich array of surreal forms that move between the representational and the symbolic.

WSJ: Becoming Mark Rothko | The Decisive Decade | Columbus Museum of Art