Sentences with phrase «as precious objects»

The re-emergence of the book as precious object.

Macel's selections oddly privilege the book as a precious object, rather than one intended for active study.

The enormous importance given to a work of art as a precious object which is advertised and known in connection with its price is bound to affect the consciousness of our culture.

Not exact matches

My husband and I spent our first few hours in Collata making formal presentations to the village officers, requesting permission to study two rare and precious objects that the community has guarded for centuries — bunches of twisted and colored cords known as khipus.

«By picking up the gravitational waves associated with these events, we will be able to access precious information that was previously hidden, such as whether the collision of a star and a black hole has ignited the burst and roughly how massive these objects were before the impact,» explained Dr Ohme, who has focused his research on predicting the exact shape of the gravitational wave signals scientists are expecting to see.

Particularly fascinating are the household objects and jewellery carved from precious Kauri Amber which once belonged to local families, as well as the extraordinary wealth of information about the Kauri trees themselves, so important to the early settlement of New Zealand.

He has also used sculpture to question «things the mind already knows», as he has put it, casting torches, lightbulbs, ale cans and objects from his studio in bronze, wittily reformulating everyday objects as precious works of art.

The exhibition features more than 500 archaeological objects and works from Mexico and the United States, including jewelry, works of precious metals, and household as well as ceremonial artifacts.

This exhibition continues artist Daniel Arsham's ongoing project Fictional Archaeologies, in which he creates replicas of everyday objects — such as basketballs and cameras — in precious and semi-precious stones.

Also included is a work by Gimhongsok, from Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim in Seoul; A Star (2011) is one of a series of sculptures entitled «Ordinary Objects» that appropriate everyday objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious Objects» that appropriate everyday objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious metals.

The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting of the gallery space to pull objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets of jute, etc — out of their utilitarian context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete objects, or things in and of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the social status of the person who might own such an object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style of living.

Works included speak to innovation, craft, history and science, as well the use of artistic materials — clay, paint, found objects, and precious metals — and the way in which they are employed in the making of artworks.

The art of Monte Albán had given us the freedom to see things detached from their use, as pure materials, worth being turned into precious objects.

But instead of precious keepsakes, Kelley upsets expectations of sentimentality because the objects presented were collected, not as keepsakes, but as artist's materials.

«Meziat shares the ability of the best hyperrealists to render ordinary objects in such exquisite detail as to make each so precious that we look at it in a different, more appreciative manner, transcending actuality,» notes Virginia Miller.

Objects from the surrounding neighborhood and the artist's private life were incorporated in her Cells, such as steel shelves from the studio's prior use as a garment factory (Articulated Lair, 1986) and a water tank taken from its rooftop (Precious Liquids, 1992).

Wylie presents a pixelated montage of image / objects that feel precious, others that suggest a «work in progress», and other still with an ambiguous identity as «art object» or production byproduct.

Works included speak to innovation, craft, history and science, as well the use of artistic materials — clay, paint, found objects and precious metals — and the ways in which they are employed in the making of artworks.

Conceptualism was, ultimately, art about art, a subversive movement meant as critique to a commercial ethos tethered to precious art object wrought by the hand of singular creative geniuses.

The exhibition, on view in Cleveland from October 17, 2010, to January 17, 2011, will provide American audiences with an unparalleled opportunity to see about 100 extraordinary works of late antique, Byzantine, and Western medieval art, including precious metalwork objects, paintings, sculptures, and illuminated manuscripts, drawn from public and private collections as well as church treasuries across the United States and Europe.

Witkin, who is director of Boston's venerable Barbara Krakow Gallery, demonstrates a knack for organizing space and displaying objects as precious

This piece utilizes iron wires as its medium, reappropriating these mundane connective tools by elevating their utility from the anonymous materials of mass production to the precious status of rarefied art objects.

Cheap aluminum kettles and tiffin boxes, decorative wall tapestry and textiles, mostly collected from markets in Cirebon, are either hung on the walls or are placed on wooden plinths as if in a museum, transforming every day objects into precious items.

What we are left with is a series of abstract feelings forcefully made figurative — small precious objects that are catalysts for further images that we will never be able to visualise as they do not exist but in (y) our memory.