Sentences with phrase «as works of art»

In 2000, he launched headfirst into the arts by founding thedramaloft, an incubator for performing and visuals arts, which in 2007 - 2009 exhibited fashion photography as works of art and engaged fashion designers in costume design.

[8] Marclay has occasionally cut and re-joined different LP records; when played on a turntable, these re-assembled records will combine snippets of different music in quick succession along with clicks or pops from the seams [11]-- typical of noise music — and when the original LPs were made of differently - colored vinyl, the reassembled LPs can themselves be considered as works of art.

Mark Wallinger's State Britain installation at Tate Britain was a rare example of a poised and poetic response to the curtailing of civil liberties that have taken place during the Iraq war, and is one of a number of more oblique responses to contemporary events that drag the discussion into the realm of art without compromising their efficacy as works of art (Alfredo Jaar «s and An - My Lê's works operate on similar levels).

For Conceptual artists, Duchamp proved that art is not defined by the qualities of particular objects, but by the discourse surrounding them as works of art — discourse generated by artists, critics, and art historians, and by museums, galleries, and art publications.

His videos are a mix of hip hop, technology, and social media and possess the same energy as his works of art.

Even for pieces that can stand alone as works of art, it is difficult to know whether and how they relate to an artist's oeuvre unless one is already familiar with the artist.

They were not originally intended as works of art.

Koons, Jeff (b. 1955) Neo-Pop sculptor who uses mass - produced consumerist objects as works of art.

The artist presents objects as works of art, strategically manipulating the items while still adhering to their intended aesthetic.

The controversial works of the YBAs triggered a major criticism of the validity of «objets trouvés» as works of art.

Through his playful use of these materials, Murphy resurrects and alters ``... their connotative and physical powers» to critically examine the relationship between the use of traditional materials and the identification of sculpture as works of art.

In their visual resonance, the drawings are outstanding as works of art themselves and provide an intimate view into the playful musings that eventually resulted in huge projects requiring vast amounts of labor and materials.

These documents are often exhibited as works of art, although the artists have rarely accepted such documents as a sufficient record of their work.

The Dada movement was very inspirational for them (a link to the article about the Dada will be seen here as soon as it will be written), as they used to take «ready - made» objects (see the article on Marcel Duchamp and the definition of ready - made here) to give them new lives as works of art.

This exhibition brings together historical ephemera from this dark period in U.S. history, as well as works of art and performance that reflect on the issue of internment.

Gabriel Dawe's exhibition title implies the organizational notion at work in the show by installing, and including as works of art, the remnants of his temporary thread sculptures after they have been taken down.

A MECHANIC whose customised cars have been exhibited as works of art has been nominated for the Turner Prize.

As his career progressed the gap between his sketch book experiments and his finished paintings narrowed till he was exhibiting works that his contemporaries could hardly accept as works of art at all.»

Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the exhibition brought together artists from Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria and America with an extraordinary selection of works that functioned on two levels — as utilitarian objects and as works of art.

Invented in secret in the privacy of Oiticica's New York loft in the early 1970s, they were not shown as works of art until 1992, twelve years after Oiticica's death, when the first and third in the series — CC1 Trashiscapes and CC3 Maileryn — were exhibited as part of the first traveling retrospective of the artist's work.3 Prior to that exhibition, Oiticica's New York sojourn was little analyzed due to the perceived paucity of his artistic production between the years 1970 and 1978.4 The 1992 presentation of the Cosmococas was revelatory in this regard: not only did these quasi-cinemas demonstrate the continuity and conceptual elaboration of key aesthetic concerns within Oiticica's work (the vertiginous passage from painterly to narcotic «pigment» in service of the sensorial is surely the most striking of these animating threads), they indicated the artist's pointed engagement with the avant - garde artistic culture of New York.

Jannis Kounellis brought the idea of «natural materials» to a whole next level: he used actual living beings as works of art.

In counterpoint, groups of multi-headed animals, figures with hands raised, and seated nudes derived from the Nayarit visual lexicon appear on mantels, in reference to Stafford's claim that prior to their acquisition by LACMA as works of art, the ceramics had served as decorations.

That definitely seems to be the case with Sam Droege's macro bee photographs that capture so much detail they have been heralded as works of art in their own right.

1926 witnessed an extraordinary legal case when custom officials refused to exempt Brancusi's sculptures from duties as works of art.

Arte Povera had its pinnacle in the 1970's when found objects were utilized and elevated as works of art.

On view November 10, 2013 through January 19, 2014, the exhibition highlights the tremendous depth and breadth of the museum's collection and includes photographs made as works of art as well as advertising images, social documents, and more.

In 1977, while working with large - format 20 - by - 24 inch and 40 - by - 80 inch Polaroid cameras, Close began to value his photographic maquettes as works of art in their own right, rather than as the basis to his painting.

In 1993, artists Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin took over a disused shop in London's East End and, with other artists friends including Damien Hirst, sold T - shirts, mugs and other customized items as works of art.

Functional objects, such as his infamous sculpture Fountain (1917), were divorced from their utilitarian purpose and designated — as opposed to made — by Duchamp as works of art.

Take a look for yourself, and see how you and your family can too be displayed as works of art!

Some of these photographs were made as documents; others as works of art.

Download: (PDF)(MS Word) Decorative Arts: Antique furniture as works of art.

The main premise is to deconstruct and examine the construct of curatorial practices as a new social framework by extending exhibition prosthetics as works of art.

There is certainly a resemblance of appearance, of certain technical devices, but Rauschenberg has seen something in them, has seen the Dadaist objects as the works of art they have tried not to be, and by concretizing what he has seen, and repeating it, new meanings and values come into being.

And that's not even considering their value as works of art, an appraisal that will have its most fulsome expression to date in Koon's long - anticipated career survey opening at the Whitney Museum this week — the first time that the artist's extremely diverse and challenging series will all be displayed in the same place at the same time.

The effect, which has made them among the most influential artists of their generation in Europe, is the creation of exhibitions conceived as works of art unto themselves.

Drawn from a collection of photojournalism and documentary photography, many of the images have appeared in the press — but here they are presented as works of art in their right.

Rozendaal first rose to prominence when he created websites that functioned solely as works of art.

In one weird, hyphenated word, NOW - ISM insists that the works in it are both of the moment — particular to the circumstances in which they were made and attuned to the digital phase of the Information Age as it hurtles us through the first decade and a half of the twenty - first century — and outside of time: unshackled by the constraints of context and the restrictions of history because, as works of art, they are fully present in the moment and available to be intimately engaged by innumerable viewers, over and over again, in perpetuity.

Tools and materials were arranged as carefully as works of art.

21c erases the boundaries found in a traditional museum, with curated exhibitions installed in dedicated galleries, as well as works of art featured in unexpected spaces.

This exhibition reveals another aspect of medieval beauty, embroidery, and asks us to admire ecclesiastical robes and other centuries - old textiles as works of art.

At Theaster Gates's «But to Be a Poor Race,» his inaugural show at Regen Projects, historical facts and figures are reincarnated as works of art.

Friends and colleagues were invited into a Düsseldorf department store to view the artists seated on living - room furniture from the store's inventory, placed on pedestals as works of art.

James» images in black and white declare their subjects as works of art that have become integrated into the surrounding landscape.

This idea of pet beds as works of art is an integral part of P.L.A.Y.'s approach.

Under both ERISA and IRS Codes, there are only two types of investments excluded: Life Insurance Contracts and Collectibles such as works of art, rugs, jewelry etc..

That top - of - the - line Burmester audio system might be the best in the biz, the sounds washing over your ears in a perfect sonic bath, the pierced metal speaker grilles passing as works of art.

McDormand has the array of the human experience inside her and she brings that sensitivity, observational detail and intelligence to her work, carving out distinct, memorable characters as works of art.

Here, he creates a mood that leaves us vaguely uncomfortable from its bizarre opening credits with obese women exhibited as works of art in an exhibition, onward.