Sentences with phrase «ethnographic objects by»

Many ethnographic objects by unknown artists are included in the exhibition.

The collection is comprised of a diverse, encyclopedic group of fine art and ethnographic objects by international makers and represents styles and time periods from pre-history to the present.

Not exact matches

The Chapman brothers» work ranges from sculptures of grotesque genetic perversions of pre-pubescent girls to 3 - D recreations of Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War etchings, Nazi atrocities and faux - ethnographic sculptures inspired by African fetish objects to McDonald's packaging.

But these are his most significant years, and Prima Materia does tell a story, one less involved with the alchemical interests the show's title suggests, or the ethnographic influences implied by the accompanying selection of objects (Hopi kachina dolls, Yup» ik masks), and more concerning the effect on an established practitioner of the turn from abstract Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism in postwar American art.

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.

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.