And for all its totemic power, wedding cake is no longer a sacred fixture.

These things of his can have a tidal pull, a totemic power.

But both history and current events show that we should never underestimate the totemic power of state pageantry.

Titles aside, these women have a totemic power and abstractness.

It seems clear that the totemic power of the cross-column exceeded its structural value.

Wolf's horrified account attests to the totemic power of the posture-photo legend.

An African mask, sterile and isolated in a museum vitrine, can still emanate a totemic power.

Whence does O draw such totemic power?

Amanda Marcotte: If we cannot challenge the totemic power of guns in the US now, then when?

What may be overlooked this time is a deep, abiding fact about visual art, its totemic power: the power of representation.