Sentences with phrase «like objecthood»

Once the dominant expression of both the historical and the neo-avant-garde, but now pursued only by a select few, the mode feels locked into an endless repetition of long - tired tropes like objecthood, flatness, and material specificity.

Not exact matches

Based on her recent installation at MOCA North Miami last year, it's clear that Henke likes making works that are in proximity to, but don't quite fit, standard notions of objecthood.

Thomson's sculpture is a constellation image taken from a book encased in resin, preserving its objecthood, alongside a drawing made of simple star images in photo - luminescent ink which become illuminated in darkness, much like our experience of the cosmos viewed from Earth.

The artists in this exhibition produce works that explore the multi-faceted characteristics of the word «hood» in some fashion: a slang term for a Black neighborhood; a suffix in cultural theory concepts like «objecthood,» «personhood,» «negrohood;» and Trayvon Martin's hoodie, which, along with his being an objectified young Black male, served as a signifier in an act of radical injustice.

James Casebere's 2016 photograph, Yellow Overhang with Patio, also expresses a sense of objecthood, but in this case the built space looks fake, like a painted backdrop of a movie set.

Veering in the opposite direction of objecthood, Le Va, using materials like felt, dust, and shattered glass, began making process - based compositions on the floor.

Furthermore, despite some formalist success stories like Frank Stella's Shaped Canvas genre, which proclaimed the «objecthood» of the picture, by 1973, the formalism of such styles as Colour Field Painting was soon replaced by the Anti-Formalism of movements like Pop Art and Minimalism.

My point is that the «defeat of objecthood» — and therefore the achievement of abstraction, which is the same as the achievement of pictorial quality — is never secure but always unstable, and this instability expresses the fact that the defeat of objecthood (and therefore the achievement of abstraction) is not and can not be a quality that is predicated (once and for all) of things in the world (like color, shape, weight and so on).