The intricate textile sculptures of Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, Pepe Mar, and Shinique Smith affect organismic dreamscapes and irrupt the habit of, as Maurizio Lazzarato writes, partitioning assemblages
into subjects and objects.
More thoughts from the Criticwire Network: «Carol» Criticwire Average: A A.O. Scott, The New York Times Mutual attraction may be central to our notion of love, but it is a curiously rare occurrence in art, which tends to split desire
into subject and object.
An elegant visual pun, the choice to develop a flag
into the subject and object of his artwork is also significant.
Not exact matches
And from There You Shall Seek by Joseph Soloveitchik Ktav, 230 pages, $ 29.50 Near the end of Courage to Be, Paul Tillich writes: «God as a
subject makes me
into an
object which is nothing more than an
object.
In the New Testament, beginning with Jesus himself, the projection of personal destinies
into the future world plainly accentuated the importance of the individual
and made souls the
objects of solicitude
and the
subjects of salvation.
In this way Aristotle avoids the predicament whereby the immanence of the
object collapses
into a physical qualification of the
subject and the transcendence of the
object is nothing more than the complete externality of the cause.
To begin with, I think we must admit that when Whitehead speaks of the
subject being constituted of its
objects and the cause passing
into the effect, he means, at least in part, that the
objects / causes are reproduced by way of likeness insofar as the
subject / effect assumes the same forms.
From the lived togetherness of I
and It, philosophy abstracts the I
into a
subject which can do nothing but observe
and reflect
and the It
into a passive
object of thought.
In my case the
subject has struck a new path
and is not at all conscious of the duality of his act; in him life is not split
into an
object and subject, or
into acting
and acted.
A prehension is not so much a relation as a relating, or transition, which carries the
object into the makeup of the
subject.1 White - head's «feelings» are not states, but» «vectors»; for they feel what is there
and transform it
into what is here» (Process
and Reality 133).2 He was writing a theoretical transcript of the fact that you feel this moment of experience to be your very own, yet derived from a world without.
There are differences, finally, as to the relation between
subject and object: whether the
object is known through dialectical or analytical reasoning, scientific method, phenomenological insight
into essence, or some form of direct intuition.
The «word» may be identified with
subject -
object, or I - It, knowledge while it remains indirect
and symbolic, but it is itself the channel
and expression of I - Thou knowing when it is taken up
into real dialogue.
Rather, in the unity of the proposition, actual entities assume the form of «logical
subjects»
and eternal
objects are transformed
into the «predicative pattern.»
In Feuerbach's own words: «Man — this is the mystery of religion — projects his being
into objectivity,
and then again makes himself an
object to this projected image of himself thus converted
into a
subject.»
It is thus the nature of every occasion of experience to be first a
subject constituting itself through the prehension of past events
and relevant possibilities
and then an
object which enters
into the constitution of subsequent events.
By focusing on the
subject — the ontological identity of the
object we worship
and the names we use to set it apart — we enter
into an area of common understanding
and broad consensus.
In a strand of really distinct actual entities, these would necessarily stand in a
subject -
object relationship to one another, so that the entity that perishes
and is objectified is a different entity than that which is coming
into being.
The distinction between individual actual entities
and their groupings
into different types of societies prepares us to understand Whitehead's creative contribution to the question of the
subject -
object schema, so much criticized in recent philosophy.
By mid eighteenth century in New Haven, William Livingston rephrased a «Puritan principle» to read «The civil Power hath no jurisdiction over the Sentiments or Opinions of the
subject, till such Opinions break out
into Actions prejudicial to the Community,
and then it is not the Opinion but the Action that is the
Object of our Punishment.
But, as a material
object, the body could expectantly take the form of stimuli «
into account» «only if we introduce the phenomenal body beside the objective one, if we make a knowing - body of it,
and if, in short, we substitute for consciousness [as Descartes conceived it], as the
subject of perception, existence or being in the world through a body» (PP 309).
This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood
and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a
subject to being an
object to which others have a right;
and sexual identity, which rather than being a natural given would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted
into the elimination of differences.
This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood
and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a
subject to being an
object to which others have a right;
and sexual identity as a natural given, which would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted
into the elimination of differences.
We would have A + B + C, where A is the negative, B is a causative verb (in Hebrew, «lead» = «to cause to go,» as in Psalm 23) with affixes for second - person singular
subject and third - person plural
object,
and C is «
into - temptation.»
In their experiments, the Tübingen researchers placed test
subjects at a computer screen
and into a virtual maze, where they had to find hidden
objects.
Some, of course, will
object on principle to the mere act of turning events such as the Iraq War
and the 9/11 attacks — two of Greengrass's previous
subjects —
into pulse - pounding thrills in the first place, arguing that he's exploiting real - world trauma for the sake of shallow entertainment.
The use of pronouns often seeps
into the lessons in a number of different aspects:
Subject pronouns are discussed when forming
and conjugating sentences in the various tenses,
object pronouns are introduced through questions words such as «who» or by a discussion of transitive
and intransitive verbs, possessive pronouns
and adjectives also get thrown
into the mix by discussing the question word «whose», or when pointing out how the possessive adjective modifies the noun.
Powerful pre-assessment has the potential to address a worrisome phenomenon reported in a growing body of literature (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 1999; Gardner, 1991): A sizeable number of students come
into school with misconceptions about
subject matter (thinking that a heavier
object will drop faster than a lighter one, for example)
and about themselves as learners (assuming that they can't
and never will be able to draw, for example).
Into Me / Out of Me brings together explorations
and visualizations of these three processes, which deal with the inner
and outer surfaces,
and the
objects and subjects of the physical exchange between the human body
and the material world.
Drawing her
subject matter from nature
and often incorporating found
objects into her pictures, Warren's compositions are richly textured
and boldly gestural.
Thinking of the photographs in this series as observations of overlooked or forgotten details
and remnants of daily existence, Letinsky ultimately transforms this refuse
into a
subject worthy of close study -
objects of real beauty.
«Though the works effectively resist the hype around 3 - D modeling, they also comment upon the
objects they depict: By
subjecting them to an algorithm's gaze, Valla's works transform the originals from the unitary, transcendent
objects of our contemplation
into provisional artifacts whose reception is necessarily conditioned by discourses
and technologies alike.»
In exploring the realm of editions as
objects, often referred to as multiples — artists have extended their practice
and subject matter
into materials as varied as aluminum, lead, bronze
and glass.
Fantastic
and exotic representational
subjects sourced from
objects found in nature such as dried plant detritus, (leaves, pods, twigs, etc...) are ruminated over, then transformed
into bronzes
and paintings in this most recent solo exhibit of Kat's work.
A Stroll through the Worlds of Animals
and Men» Jacob von Uexkull (1957) / EXTRACT:» We are easily deluded
into assuming that the relationship between a foreign
subject and the
objects in his world exists on the same spatial
and temporal plane as our own relations with the
objects in our human world.
Sarah Lucas Eating a Banana (Revisited), 1990 — 2017 Giclée print 36 × 48 in (91.4 × 121.9 cm) Edition of 25, 5 APs Copyright the artist Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London Although she was first associated with the punkish Young British Artists of the 1990s, Lucas's sculptures
and photographs also engage the legacy of Surrealism by cleverly transforming found
objects and everyday materials like cigarettes, fruits,
and vegetables
into absurd
and confrontational tableaux that address
subjects like death, sex, gender,
and religion.
Like most of Marshall's
subjects, she looks directly back at the viewer
and, in doing so, is transformed from the
object of our gaze
into a fellow spectator.
Then, for example, something I proposed was to take all of the work of Matisse from their three galleries
and bring them
into the new building,
and instead present three women painters who all deal with the body, like Matisse, but not as a
subject, as an
object.
Or is she trying to secure the entwinement between old
and new by laboriously weaving her
subject matter
into delicate physical
objects?
Today, visitors to group shows are as likely to encounter spaces in which
objects are to be read
and understood by human
subjects, as they are to walk
into spaces in which their presence (as just another
object among other
objects) is negligible.
Often blurring the boundaries between media, genre,
and subject (photography
and sculpture; portraiture
and landscape; realism
and fantasy), he challenges the parameters of art making, calling
into question the value
and significance of the art
object itself.
Because the two artists involved, Jonas Wood
and Shio Kusaka, are husband
and wife, the exhibition «Still Life with Pots» offers insights
into their visual dance, their evolving repartee of
subject and object, perceiver
and perceived.
Alexa Meade is a Los Angeles based artist that paints on the surfaces of live human
subjects, found
objects,
and architectural spaces in a way that optically compresses 3D space
into a 2D plane when photographed.
Frequently pairing readymades with alternately fabricated
and hand - crafted
objects, the work consistently interrogates modes of display, transforming the act of presentation
into a
subject unto itself.
Through a process that begins with casting, these found
objects are moulded
into forms that look oddly familiar
and yet not, then cast in stainless steel,
and finally
subjected to intense polishing.
* Like above, the concept of materiality is currently
subject to a shift from thinking of
objects as mere static entities to understanding them as events in a continuum, moving within different networks
and always on their way to be transformed
into something else.
Pop artists cared little about creating unique art
objects; they preferred to borrow their
subject matter
and techniques from the mass media, often transforming widely familiar photographs, icons,
and styles
into ironic visual artifacts.
Recent group shows include From an
Object Into an Active
Subject, Alexander's Garage, Brooklyn, NY; Triplication, Sushi Bar Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Noise, ETAA Studio, Seoul, South Korea; Electric Swing, Ruf XXX, Seoul, South Korea; Cicada Screen, The Java Project, Brooklyn, NY; Leopardi Giacomo III, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, NY; Triskaidekaphobia, Parade Ground Gallery, NYC; Optic Nerve 14, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami;
and Providence & Co., Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY.
His videos often take as their
subject the human face, fragmenting
and distorting its physiognomy,
and thus the legibility of expression, by projecting it onto inanimate
objects or embedding it
into his sculptures.
The six vibrant
and highly detailed tapestries presented here bear the influence both of early Renaissance painting
and of William Hogarth's «modern moral
subjects,» literally weaving characters, incidents
and objects from Perry's research
into a modern - day version of Hogarth's famous A Rake's Progress.
From Louise Bourgeois's massive, brown member, Fillette (Sweeter Version)(1968 — 99), a dangling sculpture that seems to rot in real time; to Lynda Benglis's photographic depictions of the ambiguous boundaries between gender / sexuality identification in Secret 3 (1974); to EJ Hauser's gestural shrine
and Whitman's brilliance, Big Whitman (2012), each artist has adopted the male body as their
subject, immortalizing them
into objects married with sweeping sentiments.