Sentences with phrase «as rebus»

«It's right here, in this street that I find these obsolete objects or these materials stripped of value, choosing them because they show a certain potential then I redefine them, as rebus for which it is necessary to decode the socio - historical mean».

Draw a picture of the return / enter key as a rebus symbol for ENTER, or draw the control key and the S key as a rebus symbol for SAVE (if, indeed, that's how you «save» in your word processing program!).

Not exact matches

Rankin released a stand - alone, Doors Open [read our review], in 2010, but 2011's novel introduces a new hero that could be as compelling as Inspector Rebus himself.

The question is: Can Rebus take part in an honest in - depth investigation without awakening the skeletons in his closet, thereby risking not only his job but his freedom as well?

But in 2012, Rebus returned as a cold case investigator, and it took him next to no time to run afoul of Malcolm Fox.

They are as different as chalk and cheese, but a master storyteller of Rankin's caliber can draw in his audience, making them sympathize (and identify) in equal parts with the hard - charging Rebus and the taciturn Fox, all the while not missing a beat in the plotting, the setting, the characters and the ever - present battle between good and evil.

Ian Rankin, author of the bestselling Rebus novels, and Alexander McCall - Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies» Detective Agency and other series of novels, have also frequented The Elephant House, as well as many others throughout the years.

Perhaps it was the vast canvas expanse of «Rebus» in my peripheral vision that brought to mind Butler's use of fabric as an independent element, or perhaps it was something deeper; like Rauschenberg's Combines, there is something simultaneously serene and mad about these paintings.

One painting, Rebus, makes the riddle explicit, as if art and language are themselves exhausted.

When one comes to a wrapped typewriter and telephone books from Christo, one has to remember that Man Ray left his bulkier wrapping as The Riddle / The Rebus / The Enigma.

A choice subject considering Struth's rebus of late — to depict what the artist describes as «the processes of imagination and fantasy.»

Using pictograms and symbols to represent syllabic sound parts of a word, a rebus can be decoded through disregarding the concept behind the pictograms, so as to only focus on the sounds of their defining names.

The viewer can read them, in a sense, as you would read an intellectually ambitious comic book or a rebus, an illustrated text in which the illustrations are the text.

In the 1990s, this practice was reflexively attuned to the institutional context (Fred Wilson, Mark Dion), but in the past decade it has taken a more automatist form, subordinating legible or didactic connections between works to the imperative of individual sensibility, as for example in Mark Wallinger's «The Russian Linesman» (2009), Vik Muniz's «Rebus» (2009), or Grayson Perry's phenomenally popular «The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman» (2011).

When Rebus entered administration the implications could be just as grave for its clients as typically they stand to lose, on average, # 100,000 if their cases miss the six - year limitation cut off.