Close examination discovers all kinds of cultural signifiers and underpainting and overpainting enhance the complication.

Stationery has always been important, but paper's cachet as a cultural signifier has increased dramatically in the age of e-mail.

Perhaps equally important is the way that raw materials read as ethnic or cultural signifiers.

Though Lee empathizes with women marginalized by a patriarchal society, he refuses to exploit easy cultural signifiers to arouse audience sympathy.

In this series of drawings, paintings, and installations, Vietnam remains a cultural signifier, but an opium-induced haze is also described.

Though hideous to look at, the layering of cultural signifiers is conceptually dizzying (Johnson).

As do a lot fo artists these days, Claudia Fitch toys with cultural signifiers.

When she puts herself in the picture, Brown says, she is not what's important - what's important is her relationship to the cultural signifiers.

How a plastic commodity becomes a cultural signifier at the World Cup.