Sentences with phrase «alone aesthetic objects»

These artworks take on a triple meaning: as historic artifacts, as oblique critiques of the present, and as stand - alone aesthetic objects.

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Following the exhibition publication which relies more heavily on text than image, Printed in Germany is an artist's book conceived as a stand - alone visual object that extends Williams's conceptual and aesthetic ideas into book form.

Following the first publication, an exhibition catalogue that relied more heavily on text than image, Printed in Germany was conceived to exist as a stand - alone visual object and extend the artist's conceptual and aesthetic concerns into book form.

In Fried's «Art and Objecthood» 1967 he states that «objecthood alone can... secure something's identity,» especially in regards to sculpture, yet we find many objects vanish unable to signal an aesthetic commons or they so fully embrace a movement that they cease to offer insight.