Sentences with phrase «history as an artifact»

It is tempting to dismiss this piece of history as an artifact of a dark age, and yet the struggle of Semmelweis is eerily prescient.

Treating history as an artifact of individual experience, Pepe Mar traces a personal narrative in Patchwork Patty (2017).

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A baseball wasn't an artifact before 9/11, yet we recognize a baseball taken from the wreckage as a part of the history.

Just because you might not believe the contents, and I don't, that doesn't undermine the importance of the bible as a historical artifact or the influence of the King James Bible on world history.

And just as families select artifacts that suggest past happiness in order to soften the blows inflicted by actions of family members in less happy times, congregational histories can create illusions: authors might relate in two sentences the experience of an unhappy pastorate that led to two decades of misery — and distort the whole story by dwelling on the beauty of the old sanctuary, hence suggesting general happiness.

Although some see this as an understandable response to the history of artifacts being illicitly exported, others complain that it is devastating for archaeological science.

When comparing the history of hydrological changes in the region with artifacts from the Middle Stone Age, the researchers discovered a «striking correspondence between the archaeological record of South Africa and the timing of the abrupt climate change» as seen in the marine core, the study states.

Wilkerson sees his film, no less than his family, as caught up with these cultural artifacts in the continuing movement of history — a history in which you might decide to be a liberal (if you're content to congratulate yourself) or, as a better choice, a radical.

Guided by a museum educator, students analyze maps, photographs, artifacts, posters, speeches, and songs as they explore the chronologies, strategies, motivations, and outcomes behind these fascinating chapters of WWII history.

Tunes from each decade of car history play while you stroll past automotive artifacts such as a 1967 Corvette Stingray and a 1939 Chevrolet «Woody» Wagon.

It's a window into history as well: bodies preserved in peat bogs and glaciers allow for a look into life thousands of years ago, as do artifacts buried with the dead.

The monumental 1991 discovery of the mid-eighteenth-century African Burial Ground under the streets of Manhattan has uncovered the skeletal remains and artifacts of more than 400 graves as well as the history of the enslaved people whose voices had been lost.

His discovery of his father's letters from the Pacific gave him an unusual basis for exploring new aspects of World War II history, as he scoured the National Archives and even visited the Pacific battle sites where his father fought; there, he found the artifacts and people his father had known and written about.

History shows that the earliest written explanations of exhibits on display date back as far as 530 BCE, when clay cylinders in different languages were used to accompany the artifacts in the Ennigaldi - Nanna's museum of Ancient Ur.

After years of study and research as a Barkeologist (one who studies canine history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains), Indiana was certain that he was close to finding the lost Bark.

For history buffs and those interested in Native American artifacts, you can enjoy a large collection at the End of the Trail Museum as well as a fine collection of basketry at the Del Norte County Historical Society Main Museum.

Its strange name (its meaning still debated) is appropriate, given The Rock's unique history as a federal penitentiary, but as our guide noted, some of the island's truly unique artifacts are its gardens and the stories behind them.

Mexico City's National Anthropology Museum is a great place for those interested in Mesoamerican culture and history, as it has the largest collection of Mesoamerican artifacts in the world.

Rated second on the island on Tripadvisor only after Masala Bay, the Pink Plantation house is, as the name suggests, an old plantation house that is full of history, charm, and old artifacts with a perfect hilltop location and view (hey, they had the choice of spots!)

What To Do The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru as a huge collection of artifacts and even mummies from Peru's ancient cultures.

[As a guest GSW article, professor and exhibit advisor Stephen Jacobs was nice enough to fill us in on the opening of a dedicated video game exhibit in New York state at the Strong Museum Of Play, including a host of excellent resources and archives from the history of gaming, from arcade machines to historical artifacts and beyond.]

When viewing the game - as - artifact, we look at the update as a change in the game's history across various platforms, preserved in each title.

Using artifacts, photographs, audio and visual presentations, as well as interactive components that seek to tell the entire story of activism in the five boroughs, Activist New York presents the passions and conflicts that underlie the city's history of agitation.

Hegarty's work poses as artifacts of known history gone awry, envisioning an alternative world order of poetic justice.

French philosopher Paul Valéry cautioned towards the susceptibility of history and its utility as an artifact of retrospection:

Belief in and awe for the land, time and history as strata, nutrients and microbes, lifelines, chemical artifacts.

Calderón's interest lies not only in birds of prey, but also in the objects associated with falconry: custom artifacts that reflect their maker, as well as the history of each bird.

Bole's work at CCAD is an immersive installation that connects her fascination with the artifacts and photographs of the American Antebellum era — what Greil Marcus described as ``... the old, weird America...» — with her immediate experience pertaining to her own lineage; a history steeped in a faded Victorian culture for which Bole is the dedicated and even obsessed archivist.

And while these artists» practices are formally linked by their «challeng [ing] the notion of the canvas as a flat surface,» the exhibition's strongest assertion is that there is no singular Puerto Rican aesthetic — a still important point of resistance within a long lineage of Eurocentric museums» limiting our collective understanding of «non-Western art» by naming it as something distinct («primitive,» «craft,» «artifact») from the trajectory of art history otherwise taught in schools.

Over 33,000 artifacts are currently in the museums collection and will fill the framework of a known history with the story of African Americans as it continues to be told.

In this site - specific installation, the artist uses archeology and her perceptions of historic artifacts as a conceptual launching point to investigate the perpetually enigmatic elements of memory, time, and history.

The project pursues Beier and Lund's interest in cultural heritage, authorship, ownership and mediation: Calling... fills gaps in history with objects that can be understood as makeshift props or conservation models for an utopian archive of everything, or as artifacts in a growing museum of destruction, loss and entropy.

«Shaped by personal history, Spaysky attempts to reconcile off - the - shelf consumer product as talisman or personal artifact.

The collections spans from mass production objects, such as the cookie jars collected by Andy Warhol's, to the rarest artifacts, like Arman's African artworks and samurai armor; from image collections, such as Dr. Lakra's record covers or Sol LeWitt's Japanese prints, modernist photographs and music scores, to specimens appropriate for natural history cabinet, like Damien Hist's taxidermy and medical models.

There are obvious references to Abstract Expressionism in works such as The Fence (Lake Kickapoo, Texas) and Untitled (Reaper Drone), as well as specific references to the history of photography in the works Time study (Predator; Indian Springs, NV) and Artifacts (Anasazi Cliff Dwellings, Canyon de Chelly).

Part of the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland (MAGNI), the Ulster Museum is located in the Botanical Gardens in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and features exhibits from its collections of Fine and Applied Art, Archaeology, Ethnography, Industrial Archaeology, Local History, Botany, Zoology and Geology, as well as artworks and artifacts salvaged from the Spanish Armada.

Moreover, if Genzken's work exemplifies an older model of bricolage, in which found elements are treated as raw materials whose histories are incidental, then the more prevalent strategy since the 1990s has been to maintain the cultural integrity of the reused artifact — to invoke and sustain its history, connotations, and moods.

In ancient Egypt, there was recycling done by the scarab beetles which they considered sacred, as the histories of Art (through the transmission of scarab - beetle symbols and artifacts through Minoan and Grecian cultures) and the histories of writing systems illustrate.

History tells us that all such elitist developed societal artifacts are ultimately doomed and eventually go on to fail, often spectacularly but sadly, usually involving great suffering and sacrifice by those at the bottom who never ever were asked as to whether this is what they want or would accept.