I have set up a tumblr as a way to organise some of the research material for this project; see it here: 

http://towardanemblem.tumblr.com/

"This imagery is decorative and designed to impress. It is not for the everyday. There may be, further, a hint of deception, dishonesty, even pretentiousness. In the re-application of these emblemata, something plain and ordinary would speciously acquire an appearance of greater worth than it normally had." (John Manning, The Emblem, London: Reaktion Books, 2002, p. 47)

suggestive of modes of making performing engaging