Sentences with phrase «encyclopaedic collections»

This relationship to traditional often unfashionable materials and processes make the encyclopaedic collections at the National Museum Wales particularly fascinating for Büttner.

Overlapping with this exhibition will be one curated by the film director Wes Anderson and his wife, the set and costume designer Juman Malouf, who have picked out objects from across the KHM's encyclopaedic collections (11 September 2018 — 20 January 2019).

Situated in New Britain, a small manufacturing town, the museum has an encyclopaedic collection which traces the entire development of American art.

The large - scale abstract work, Untitled (1971), will join the museum's encyclopaedic collection.

Wit, meticulous craft, and surprising juxtapositions of meaning are hallmarks in Hammond's work in which she incorporates an encyclopaedic collection of images — from the past and present, history and fiction — to explore the fluidity of meaning as images shift, re-occur and re-associate, weaving new connections in the mind and eye.

Not exact matches

This exceptional collection does not aspire to present an encyclopaedic overview of international contemporary art.

Highlights of an American Art collection described as «virtually encyclopaedic» included Edward Hopper's Cape Ann Granite, painted in the summer of 1928 ($ 8,412,500); Georgia O'Keeffe's Near Abiquiu, New Mexico ($ 8,412,500); and Milton Avery's Woman with Rebozo ($ 2,532,500).

These regal compilations of art on paper were generally encyclopaedic in scope and served as the precursors to public museum collections.

On a surface of 50,000 square metres, the museum houses an «encyclopaedic» permanent collection composed of different sections: Archaeology, Jewish art, European classic art, Impressionism, Modern art, design and architecture, all represented at the highest level.

It is not a historical collection tracing a chronological development and it does not explore specific artistic movements or aspire to present an encyclopaedic overview of international art today.

The collection includes a music box, an encyclopaedic tower made from words and even a surreal video that features a man fighting a kangaroo.