Sentences with phrase «historical cabinet of curiosities»
The historical cabinet of curiosities remains a good emblem of that process.»
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The Artist's Museum locates these diverse works within a cultural moment and artistic impulse bookended by the historical cabinet of curiosities and 20th century image libraries, and our current era of the hyperlink and circulation of digital images.
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In her recent solo exhibition, A History of the World at London's Herrick Gallery, the room was transformed into an exquisite cabinet of curiosities full of treasures and trinkets, presented in both a historical and anthropological manner.
These objects, which are loaded with personal and historical meaning, contribute to the overall suggestion of the exhibition — that is it is a post-colonial cabinet of curiosity.