1The action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented.

2The description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way.

1. 2.1 The depiction of someone or something in a work of art.
   Picasso is striving for some absolute representation of reality

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   • Hence, the photograph is not only the representation of reality via the photographed object, it is likewise the preservation of the time in which the object existed.
   • I enjoyed Russell's depiction of the redundancy in Los Angeles and his visual representation of Creation.
   • The stopper of this container is remarkable in its representation of a female head, transforming this object, perhaps once owned by a man, into the stylized figure of a woman.
   • Since such painting is relativist - as concerned with style and representation as it is with reality - the artist draws no conclusions.
   • As Derrida suggests, a painter cannot look simultaneously at the model and at its representation.
   • Denoncourt's Via crucis explores a boy's imaginative interpretation of the Catholic iconic representation of the crucifixion and ascension of Christ.

   Synonyms

   depiction, portrayal, delineation, artist's impression
2. 2.2count noun A picture, model, or other depiction of someone or something.
   a striking representation of a vase of flowers

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   • The more marginal space of poetry, therefore, might rather be that of a dissensus, of which the pull toward margins would be a figurative representation.
   • Also, the pictorial representations that seem to depict a serene august order would lead one to believe that the room and the writing environment were commensurate with this.
   • As the kings of Kongo became the principal promoters of Christianity in the region, they commissioned local representations of the crucifixion as emblems of their leadership and power.
   • I suspect that the photograph and the sculpture are parallel representations of a similar scene in real life, although it is possible that the sculpture is based on the photo.
   • If we are destined to become earth one day, then in a sense the stone relic is a suitable memorial - an accurate representation of our being.
   • Another realist was Frederic Remington, whose lively representations of the picturesque Old West brought him popularity in sculpture, painting, and illustration.
   • If the latter, because the artwork is a representation rather than a direct experience, the sublime could be mitigated.
   • These show Josephson serially questioning the assumptions of photographic representation, inquiring whether photographs are faithful representations of the world.
   • An object model is a representation of the information, content and structure which needs to be exchanged or shared.
   • In a chapter entitled ‘To Give Memory a Place,’ Baer examines photographic representations of concentration camp sites through the work of Dirk Rienartz and Mikael Levin.
   • Moreover, it was not necessary to travel to St. Peter's, as these indulgences were granted to those who prayed in front of a representation of the Vera Icon as well.
   • It is my contention that Van Eyck's picture is a posthumous representation of Costanza, the only wife of Giovanni di Nicolao of whose existence we find any evidence.
   • Poussin's view of the genre, as a representation modelled on true nature, echoes the meaning of the caprice in at least one form of literature.
   • Among the numerous paintings in his outdoor gallery were poignant representations of the Crucifixion of Christ, the Nativity, the Three Wise Men, and the Annunciation to the Shepherds.
   • Further, the works seem constructed to evoke the interchangeable picture cycles, hieroglyphs, representations, and inscriptions of dynastic period art.
   • When asked to fashion their own representations, people justify their preferences by alluding to screen depictions as if they necessarily condition what is appropriate and viable.
   • Crewdson's pictures of the last decade offer tableau representations of a suburbia - sometimes faked through tine use of scale models gone disconcertingly off track.
   • ‘Scruburbia’ is a quirky representation of Australian suburban life through larger than life sculptures of domestic objects.
   • Firstly, it is a re-negotiation of the territory of photographic practice that sets out to critically engage with the political economy of photographic representations of Ireland.
   • Something as conventional as using ‘futuristic’ graphical overlays, graphs, models, and representations on the screen becomes yet another layer of mechanical representation of an organic reality.

   Synonyms

   likeness, painting, drawing, picture, portrait, illustration, sketch, diagram, artist's impression

   image, model, figure, figurine, statue, statuette, bust, head, effigy, icon

   simulacrum, reproduction
3. 2.3 (in some theories of perception) a mental state or concept regarded as corresponding to a thing perceived.
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   • The distinction made here is a broad one between two different categories of representation, the aniconic and the figural.
   • This result stems from the complexity of the actual payoff landscape and the relative crudeness of the cognitive representation.
   • Cognition is considered a mental representation where the mind is thought to operate by manipulating symbols which represent features of the world or represent the world as being a certain way.
   • On the other hand, the temperance narrative confines perception, and thus representation, within the limits of its own ideology.
   • While Schwarzbaum has a point, Trevor's physical form is clearly a representation of a decaying mental state.
   • It tries to produce stereotypes, to define faces and to arrange them hierarchically in space, based on the ontological and utilitarian criteria of representation.
   • In representation that is immediately perceptible and more abstract, Hobbs documents a world that is both familiar and strange (even to those who know it).
   • For Lacan, the representation of the gaze in art reflects something specific, something individual about the artist who has portrayed it.
   • Derrida suggests that representation or signification is based on both a distance from a signified and a difference among terms.
   • The importance of Neoplatonic ideas in renaissance visual representation of and intervention in the physical world has been well documented.
   • The whole idea of representation is totally at odds with the structural/materialist ideology.
   • Poussin's use of mirroring armor to encompass something beyond the representation is self-conscious and finds its closest parallel in another work by van Eyck.
   • Clearly, three decades of feminist theory of representation have yet to have any perceptible impact on Balthus studies.
   • It is this movement to an image of abstract ambiguity, both still and pulsating in time, which saves the films from repeating the stereotypes of feminist film theories of representation.
   • As I will argue here, the representation of fetishism in her writing exists in a paradoxical relationship with the fetishism of her theory of representation.
   • In this account, mental consciousness, and the ability to form mental representation, owe their existence to, and are correlated with the brain.
   • One of Artschwager's intentions has been to pose open-ended questions about the nature of perception and representation.
   • We examine the effect of shifting cognitive representation first in a purely cognitive choice process.
   • The affect retained or impressed is other than representation and is productive directly.
   • If search is driven both by cognition and experiential learning, then changing one's cognitive representation poses an additional risk.

3representationsFormal statements made to an authority, especially so as to communicate an opinion or register a protest.

1. 3.1count noun A statement or allegation.
   any buyer was relying on a representation that the tapes were genuine

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   • Even if this is not the case, if the young staffers have the perception that it is, they maybe less likely to aggressively challenge management's representations.
   • Second, Tyson claimed that the company made false representations about the extent of accounting problems at its food subsidiary, which produces hors d'oeuvres.
   • Many people worry about how to respond to those representations both critically and supportively.
   • As an auditor, Tim had understood that management representations required appropriate questioning.
   • In all three cases, our members accepted management's representations and issued unqualified audit reports on the statements presented.
   • Do the document review as quickly as possible and be cautious of the wording of representations made on accounting matters.
   • Ron argued that generally accepted auditing standards entitled him to rely on Hal's representations.
   • Probably the most important thing is don't make any kind of representations that are untrue - that you don't make statements that clearly have no basis.

   Synonyms

   statement, deposition, allegation, claim

   declaration, account, exposition, report, argument

   protestation, remonstrance, expostulation