Sentences with phrase «art as a status symbol»
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Billed as a soft opening, Punjab's first - ever international contemporary arts festival launched on 3 March, with performances staged in the courtyard of the Ran - Baas and before the magnificent Darbar Hall, where the Raj had held court, and which still flourishes gilded plaster mouldings, walls inlaid with mirrored glass and 14 crystal, status - symbol, F&C Osler chandeliers.
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The term he introduced quickly caught on, especially as the English middle class began to be more discerning in their art acquisitions, as symbols of their flaunted social status.
This winter, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) presents The Horse in Ancient Greek Art, a ground - breaking exhibition that explores the Greeks» fascination with an animal that served as a symbol of wealth, power, and status in ways that are recognizable and familiar even today.
Miller's gewgaws can be seen as modern equivalents to Warhol's dollar - sign paintings and Daniel Buren's stripes — fetishes that have no inherent value in themselves but that externalize unconsciousness, destabilize our relationship to art, and are vivid symbols for their own status as placeholders for the rich.
For the world's wealthiest people, art, and especially modern art, is now accepted as an asset - class investment, as well as being an object of desire and a symbol of social status — all of which insulate the top of the art market from the woes of the rest of the global economy.
Visually striking and playfully rigorous» the films occupy wildly different stylistic positions as a means of re-animating the ways in which form can become the unquestioned carrier of meaning — by the way in which meaning is implied through metaphor or example, inscribed by case studies, fictionalized in props or interpreted in art criticism, status symbols and as the evidence of crime...
That increase is being driven by an influx of wealthy investors who view modern and contemporary art not only as a status symbol but also as a way to diversify their vast portfolios.