Sentences with phrase «as ethnographic objects»
The collection, amassed entirely through donations, includes artworks from the past three centuries as well as ethnographic objects such as helmets, masks and weapons from Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
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Beginning with the acquisition of ethnographic curiosities around 1796, the collection has grown to nearly 2,000 objects that reflect all regions of the African continent and diaspora, and represent canonical and historical art forms and styles as well as modern and contemporary works in a variety of media.
For a show at the Hammer Museum in L.A. last year, she took obscure ethnographic objects from the collection of the Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A., all of which had been categorized as «unidentified» — including textile scraps and broken pottery — things that had effectively been deemed originless and valueless, divorced from their history and the history of those who made them.
Counter to this are works that use materials in a conceptual manner, as in the woven sink or wax and human hair sculptures of Robert Gober, or Untitled, 2004, a witty and cryptic ethnographic rock - and - hair object by David Hammons.
It was also the first American museum to present African objects as art rather than ethnographic data, and in 1923 it organized one of the largest exhibitions of African art anywhere.
The Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents A Sign of Autumn — Vincent Vulsma a solo - exhibition on view 15 October — 27 November 2011, By employing strategies of spatio - temporal montage, Vulsma brings together objects and patterns taken from their contexts in ethnographic collections and the canons of modernist design and photography, deliberately moving back and forth along the lines between what is classified as commodity, art or ethnographic object.
In a young city such as Los Angeles, archaeology can take many forms: Small's idiosyncratic museology, Gala Porras - Kim's reappraisal of unattributed objects from the ethnographic Fowler Museum or even the curatorial work of Moshayedi and Walker in excavating little - known art from Los Angeles's recent past.