Images such as Birth (1960), or Mother and Child (1956), show that right from the start, she was looking for big, even archetypal themes.
Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
Finally, the director of The Seventh Continent, about an archetypal middle-class family who have decided, for no apparent reason, to destroy all their possessions and kill themselves, was in the same room with the director whose most recent film is about an archetypal middle-class family who have decided, for no good reason, to peer up their dad's buttcrack.
Then there are the salt flats, the lagoons, Death Valley, the flamingo reserves … San Pedro's dusty streets may be thronged with tourists, but it is still an appealing, easygoing huaso (cowboy) town: one-storey adobe buildings, a leafy main square with an archetypal Andean church; an excellent archaeological museum.
In the accompanying notes to her latest collection, Diane Von Furstenberg says that the archetypal DVF woman "is the rock star and the muse of her own life".
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (208 pages): the archetypal modern African novel, Achebe's essential work tells the story of Okonkwo, a leader and wrestling champion in a fictional Nigerian village.
Catton comments, "I think there's something invisible about the male experience, they're archetypal in a way".
Van Rompuy and Juncker are the EU's brace of archetypal fixers, the quiet, clever men in suits who spend their lives mediating between Paris and Berlin, between big countries and small countries.
In any case, this is all a tad unfair on young Mr Badwan, who is hardly some archetypal privileged Tory oik.
Most fans will be familiar with Ali Al-Habsi, one of those archetypal genial giant goalies who made a name for himself in the English Premier League with Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic.
Typically, they're short, free-verse parables in which moral dilemmas are played out by archetypal characters.
