Sentences with phrase «exchange value of painting»

A third work features painted images of coins flooded with or sliding in pools of paint, likening the commerce and exchange value of painting to a material action.

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... Worth in dollars is only an exchange value, like the sale value of a painting or the copyright of a poem.

A similar impetus motivated David Novros to work in fresco, creating a physical unity between painting and site that negated the work of art's exchange value.

It's impossible to avoid discussions about the crisis in which Europe is mired, and one is taken back to the roots of old exchange values (one goat for two sacks of flour, a car for a painting, diamonds for love).

The signature of the artist, traditionally the valued hallmark of authority and provenance, recurs throughout «Who What When Where How and Why», emerging from the canvases of Turk's Pollock paintings; the abstract expressionist artist's paint splatters exchanged for innumerable «Gavin Turk» signatures.

By reducing paintings to mere signs of themselves, McCollum turned the gallery and the museum setting into a kind of theater, highlighting the drama of presenting, displaying, buying and selling, exchanging, photographing, assessing, criticising, choosing, and writing about the works; the object - paintings at the center of the action were purposely rendered moot, in order to turn one's attention to the supplementary devices and social practices that, in the end, bestow the value on the work.