The pieces often
include obscure text as well - a technique that adds additional texture, as well as a human element to the otherwise nonrepresentational paintings.
Not exact matches
It requires 166 pages in translation in the Sacred Books of the East,
including extensive footnotes designed to explain the more
obscure references in the
text.
One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These
include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical
texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long -
obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.
While many of Pettibon's works
include legible
text with varying
obscure and implicit messages, others remain abstract, or purely figurative.
These textual explorations are complemented by extensive documentation of related projects, both historical and contemporary, by artists, architects, and performance artists,
including Coughing Piece, a never - before released 1961 audio work by Yoko Ono; an
obscure audio work by Nauman from 1969; projects by Suzanne Lacy, a leading figure in the development of conceptual practice and public art; and an experimental
text by Jane Rendell on psychic architectures.
Davis notes some of the same things that are the basis of Jerry Saltz» criticism of the show,
including the reliance on the insular language of academia in the wall
text and catalogue, linking to another
text on Artnet that he coauthored with Caroline Goldstein, which is a crib sheet for terms such as «the undercommons» that Saltz derided as
obscure and elitist.
If I am writing a paper which
includes some aspect which is not my forte, I do not dig up some
obscure report written by wanna - be experts in the field in question, I either go to the appropriate
text (written by experts in said field), or I seek out a seminal paper in the scientific literature.
Pages may
include excessive notes and highlighting, but the
text is not
obscured or unreadable.