Sentences with phrase «functions as an artifact»

While the move is less radical than routine (by now we've all seen paintings brought in to function as artifacts, arranged in concert with other art or art - like objects), it effectively releases Louis» work from its unimaginative role as illustration for Clement Greenberg, opening the work for new meanings.

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Escudos mimicked the stone artifacts in metal form and religious function in order to make the presence of the Christian divine - painted on escudos as the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception - comprehensibely analogous to the way in which some pre-Columbian divinities had been traditionally experienced.

Through paint, pixel, word, and fabric she creates work that functions as a bridge between the hypothetical and the physical, objects operate as artifacts of personal - as - political discovery formulated within a landscape balancing between nihilism and mysticism.

It functioned as an eclectic multi-disciplinary museum, showcasing a vast collection of taxidermies, archaeological artifacts, botany, arts and crafts, Judaica, etc., a collection which served primarily as a source of inspiration and practical knowledge for the students.

In a collection of marks, fictitious landmasses and found maps, charts, images and documents, the marks coexist with traces of remembered movements, invented sites, pseudo-science and shifted cartographic conventions that function as image and artifact.

I use titles to address the function of the works as contemporary artifacts, rather than «art objects,» revealing how they may be used in spiritual and healing practices and by whom.

Specially conceived with the Sant «Antonin space in mind, S.A.C.R.E.D will also function as a dialogue between the artist and the existing Baroque architecture and its religious artifacts, offering an immediate sense of the drama of an event that underlines the contradictory development of China.

Not only does our detritus function as cultural artifact, but what we discard or sweep up alludes to fundamental limitations of our own human faculties.

The paintings function as meditative artifacts of a geological time, evoking natural processes of growth or decay.

Derived from the figure and mythic narratives, Hadzi's sculpture references antiquity and classical artifacts — abstracted anatomical forms, columnar and other architectural elements, helmets, weaponry and body armor function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.

A deeply personal artifact, as well as a once common apparatus in the production of pictures, the sculpture is the newest work in Ross - Ho's ongoing series of fabricated objects, and functions as key to the logic of the surrounding elements in the show.

Precisely because art can function as multiple things at once - as an object for discourse, an artifact, and a commodity - it is both simultaneously elusive and specific: a soft target.

By focusing on the forms of production and materiality, Chang is able to call attention to the unique potential of the photographic image to function simultaneously as commodity, artifact for cultural significance and object for philosophical investigation.

Allowing pop - cultural artifacts to function as «information,» as opposed to «form,» Baldessari's works represented a radical departure from, and often a direct critique of, the modernist sensibility that dominated painting for decades.