Sentences with phrase «ethnological collections»

Taking finds in ethnological museums as a starting point, he distinguishes between two different concepts of repair: the patched vessels, statuettes and writing tablets in the ethnological collections very openly display their joints and clamps, and with them their histories as objects.

My interest in masquerade drew me to a lot of ethnological collections and so - called «primitive» art when creating these works — stark expressions and minimal information forming a face - like image — and this, along with an interest in the German expressionists, helped to inform my process.

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«Ethnological data collection such as ours, including the collection of terms in the local vernacular, can open new avenues of research about variations in ecology, fauna and flora,» they conclude.

Highlights of the installation include the diptych slide projection Dispossession (2013), which explores Attia's research on the Vatican's collection of ethnological artifacts; Artificial Nature (2014), a floor sculpture constructed of many antique prosthetic legs; and a work composed of two large - scale reproductions of historical paintings depicting Catholic masses, Émile Jean - Horace Vernet's The First Mass in Kabylia (1854) and Victor Meirelles's The First Mass in Brazil (1861).