Sentences with phrase «art as artifact»

In a sense, her artwork foretold its own fate, as shown in the haunting images on the pages of «Art as Artifact.»

The «Art as Artifact» catalog presents the oil paintings both before and after the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina.

«Art as Artifact» provides a glimpse into the dramatic world of Dona Simons» flooded paintings where beauty and destruction collide.

«Yeah, yeah, art as object, art as spectacle, art as abjection, art as artifact, art as this culture or that culture, old media or new media, gendered or neutered, formal or political, pre-this or post-that, blah, blah, blah.

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Musée des beaux arts Located in the historic Place de Miremont square, the fine - arts and archeology museum houses a collection of artifacts from Vienne's Roman past, as well as paintings from the 16th to early 20th centuries.

Rembrandt participated in this consumer paradise as artist, art dealer and collector of exotic artifacts that often lend picturesque credibility to his biblical subjects.

He knows, loves, and serves not God but his own species through reading novels and journals, visiting art galleries and museums where altarpieces are admired as artifacts from a superstitious age.

It was Consalvi who had these two great artifacts and much of the rest of the Roman Forum excavated, as it was Consalvi who built a new wing onto the Vatican museums in order to display the art recovered from French looters.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

At 15,000 square feet, it's billed as the largest traveling exhibit on the Maya ever mounted in the U.S. Hundreds of artifacts reveal both the art and everyday experience of the culture, while multimedia and hands - on displays give visitors a glimpse into ongoing field research that will further our understanding of this fascinating civilization.

Co-author Clive Bonsall from the University of Edinburgh explained that indigenous hunter - gatherers can be distinguished archaeologically from immigrant farmers by their material culture, such as artifacts, architecture, burial traditions, art, and body ornamentation.

Unlike the small museum from the first film, the Smithsonian would surely be overrun with people, even in the middle of the night, so there's really no explanation as to why Larry seems to be the only one trying to keep the peace for such a major institution full of priceless art and historical artifacts.

On February 21st, Dark Horse will publish The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts in English (known as The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Graphics in Japan).

Instead, he takes to the mystic arts and during his studies, comes across an ancient artifact known as the Eye of Agamotto.

So undefined and eccentricity - free are these men and women that their pre-film status as art historian and university lecturers is implausible, even unthinkable: When Blanchett's curator offers Damon the mother lode of archival keys, a little journal with index numbers matched to stolen artifacts, he seems surprised by the very idea of librarianship.

The online exhibit includes original artifacts and art objects, original documents, and reproductions of historic documents and images from the New York Historical Society as well as other repositories.

Attendees will explore ways to use museums as powerful sites for learning and engage meaningfully with art and artifacts in courses led by museum educators and classroom teachers, as well as continue exploration of Project Zero ideas begun the previous day.

What will remain in book form will be books as objects of art, books as historical artifacts, books as keepsakes, books as collectibles, books as study guides, books as old friends, and, most important of all, books as non-electronic objects that won't crash, run out of battery power, go on the fritz, blow up, overheat, or generally do anything except be available to you any time you have enough available light to read.

Delicate original art juxtaposes well with the many photos of artifacts, making this a handsome as well as an intriguing offering.

The museum also offers an unparalleled collection of Native American art and artifacts, as well as historical manuscripts, documents and maps.

There is simply so much for the discerning traveller to see and do and experience in the Village of Port Douglas such as a range of fine restaurants and cafes which showcase the very best in regional foods and wine, exclusive Village shopping, art galleries (including aboriginal art and artifacts), historic buildings and the Port Douglas beachfront Sunday Markets that offer genuine locally handcrafted products and produce.

Certainly, attending attractions such as Doha's Museum of Islamic Art, with its impressive collection of tapestries and other artifacts from throughout the Middle East and beyond, and the Msheireb Museums, chronicling the people and industries that laid the foundation for modern Qatar, illustrated that, yes, those looking for some cultural insight during their visit won't come up short.

As you play through each stage, there are hidden artifacts to find that unlock extra concept art to view in the bonus menu.

Pieces ranging from early -»60s paintings incorporating casts of manhole covers to brand - new sculptures made of resin and horsehair variously bring to mind Sue Coe's activist art, Robert Rauschenberg's indexical work of the 1950s, Bruce Nauman's casts of animal bodies and Jack Pierson's early installations, as well as fiber art and African artifacts.

The exhibition presents more than 300 artifacts from the Beniecke Rare Books & Manuscript Library's James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, including materials from intellectual and literary figures, and artists such as Aaron Douglas, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, and Laura Wheeler Waring.

Postmodernism has seen disruptions of art as self - contained cultural artifact in everything from Dada to Walter Benjamin's Arcades.

Investigating issues of race, power and technology, Otitigbe sees his art variously as creative protest, cultural artifact or shared experience.

Build strong content knowledge By engaging students with art and artifacts spanning thousands of years, Museum visits build on classroom units of study with themes such as Archaeological Dig, Ancient Civilizations, Remembering the Holocaust, and The Immigrant Experience.

Works on view are varied, including pioneering x-rays and aerial views, artifacts of early photojournalism, and recent examples of conceptual art all grouped in arrangements to emphasize the range of possibilities offered by photography as a medium.

Swallow seems to choose his objects and method of working with these ideas in mind, both as a comment on our seeming need for the dream and demise that science fiction allows for as well as our need to experience, make, and possess art objects it as if we were pre-creating artifacts of our own time.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts again welcomes a spectacular exhibition of Egyptian art and artifacts as To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum opened in the Ingram Gallery Oct. 7, 2011, and remains on view through Jan. 8, 2012.

The show brings together a breathtaking collection of rare historical documents and artifacts produced by Black literary and artistic leaders from 1912 to the present, as well as art — mainly prints and drawings — by 21 contemporary artists, including Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Laylah Ali, Derrick Adams, Renee Cox, William Downs, Wangechi Mutu and Hank Willis Thomas.

Meta - narratives, pop and subculture artifacts, religious iconography and a wide breadth of literary references are all present in his multifaceted installations, as well as allusions to art historical antecedents ranging from Basquiat's urban poetry to Sir Howard Hodgkin's abstract paintings as sculptural objects to Jonathan Meese's theatrical symbolism.

They facilitate use of the museum as a teaching resource and promote the study of art and artifacts in the museum's collection.

Exploring artifacts as diverse as video games, WikiLeaks files, the proliferation of spam, and political actions, she exposes paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.

Filled with handwritten lyrics, stage costumes and childhood artifacts, and with hardly any attempts at placing Bowie's career within a visual art context or linking him to contemporary practices visual or otherwise, it is very difficult to see this one - dimensional exhibition as more than a tactic to get the non-art audience in the doors.

Exhibitions include Dos Mundos: Worlds of the Puerto Ricans 1973, Mira, Mira, Mira, Museum of the City of New York 1974, Ten Japanese Artists, 1975; Legacy of James Vanderzee, 1977; Sacred Artifacts: Objects of Devotion, 1982; Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent, 1985; Repulsion: Aesthetics of the Grotesque, 1987; Foreign Affairs: Conflicts in the Global Village, 1988; Dia De Los Muertos, 1988; Prisoners of Image: Ethnic and Gender Stereotyping, 1989; Mon Reve: Haiti after the Duvaliers, 1989; Artists of Conscience, 1992; Peoples Choice: Komar & Melamid, 1994; Expansion Arts, I, II, III, 1995 - 1998; (Mickey) Mouse: An American Icon, 1998; The Artists as Patron, 1999; Honeymoon Series by Yoshio Itagaki, 2000; Between the Real and the Unreal: Recent works by Simen Johan, 2000, Genochoice an installation by Virgil Wong, 2000.

I think about the in - between place of objects, like textiles, that are categorized as artifacts rather than art works.

While the move is less radical than routine (by now we've all seen paintings brought in to function as artifacts, arranged in concert with other art or art - like objects), it effectively releases Louis» work from its unimaginative role as illustration for Clement Greenberg, opening the work for new meanings.

An acclaimed conceptual artist, Wilson is known for his «institutional interventions,» specifically the ways in which he creates new exhibition contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections through his re-adaptation of wall labels, sound and lighting, as well as his non-traditional pairings of objects.

It functioned as an eclectic multi-disciplinary museum, showcasing a vast collection of taxidermies, archaeological artifacts, botany, arts and crafts, Judaica, etc., a collection which served primarily as a source of inspiration and practical knowledge for the students.

With the introduction of the use of industrial artifacts in art, movements such as Cubism, Dada and Surrealism as well as techniques such as collage and artforms such as cinema and the rise of reproduction as a means of creating artworks.

He views his practice as an exploration of painting as an artifact of how life is lived; and the notion of art as a nexus at which nature, culture, and self come together.

And while these artists» practices are formally linked by their «challeng [ing] the notion of the canvas as a flat surface,» the exhibition's strongest assertion is that there is no singular Puerto Rican aesthetic — a still important point of resistance within a long lineage of Eurocentric museums» limiting our collective understanding of «non-Western art» by naming it as something distinct («primitive,» «craft,» «artifact») from the trajectory of art history otherwise taught in schools.

This body of work plays with the idea of art as an ongoing conversation with posterity in which artifacts of the past are painted over, yet traces of the original art remain — and using the cave - dweller as a metaphor for the fundamental human condition: forever shrouded in darkness and uncertainty, yet determined to leave our own visions upon the walls of the cave.

With the introduction of the use of industrial artifacts in art and techniques such as collage, avant - garde movements such as Cubism, Dada and Surrealism questioned the nature and value of art.

As paintings burn and statues tumble, it is not difficult to imaging the audience of the films included reveling in fine art disaster: the media for the masses depicting destruction of elitist artifacts.

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Wilson will give public talks in Atlanta at 7 p.m., Feb. 22 at SCAD Atlanta, fourth floor, Building C, 1600 Peachtree St.; and in Savannah at 7 p.m., Feb. 23, Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St.. A Whitney Museum of American Art board of trustees member and a MacArthur Foundation «genius grant» awardee, Wilson is known for his «institutional interventions» in which he creates new exhibition contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections through his re-adaptation of wall labels, sound and lighting, as well as his non-traditional pairings of objecArt board of trustees member and a MacArthur Foundation «genius grant» awardee, Wilson is known for his «institutional interventions» in which he creates new exhibition contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections through his re-adaptation of wall labels, sound and lighting, as well as his non-traditional pairings of objecart and artifacts found in museum collections through his re-adaptation of wall labels, sound and lighting, as well as his non-traditional pairings of objects.

I use titles to address the function of the works as contemporary artifacts, rather than «art objects,» revealing how they may be used in spiritual and healing practices and by whom.