{"id":8734,"date":"2009-04-26T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T16:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=8734"},"modified":"2010-12-25T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T07:42:08","slug":"historical-context-and-illustrating-the-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/26\/historical-context-and-illustrating-the-catholic-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Context and Illustrating the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose at <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thick Culture<\/a> sent us this design for the Catholic Church&#8217;s Archdiocesan Youth Commission logo in 1973 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/04\/worst-logo-ever.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Dish<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8733\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/6a00d83451c45669e201156f47782f970c-800wi.jpg\" alt=\"6a00d83451c45669e201156f47782f970c-800wi\" width=\"200\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The logo nicely shows how images are polysemic.\u00a0 That is,\u00a0the same image can be read very differently by different people or, as this image illustrates, at different times.\u00a0\u00a0 Because of the shift in the social construction of the Catholic priesthood&#8211;from benevolent child chaperones to evil child molesters&#8211;the logo, though likely lovely then, would be very ill-advised today.<\/p>\n<p>Two more good examples of polysemy <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/28\/illustrating-polysemy-and-advertisers-influence\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/31\/polysemy-and-the-marketers-aim\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose at Thick Culture sent us this design for the Catholic Church&#8217;s Archdiocesan Youth Commission logo in 1973 (via The Daily Dish).\u00a0 The logo nicely shows how images are polysemic.\u00a0 That is,\u00a0the same image can be read very differently by different people or, as this image illustrates, at different times.\u00a0\u00a0 Because of the shift in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,42],"class_list":["post-8734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31488,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions\/31488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}