Sentences with phrase «literal objecthood»

Earlier Robin wrote about «a tensioned reconciliation» in sculpture between «the illusions of physicality with its literal objecthood.»

Paired with sculpture's «literal objecthood» «illusions of physicality» loses its «Shakespearean» / obscure / big - number - of - syllables tone.

Not exact matches

Three - dimensionality in sculpture in the way we are now thinking about it and attempting to achieve it is new, unexplored territory in the history of art; and I repeat the point that it has no connection with the appropriation of literal three - dimensions by painters, collagers and assemblers, or indeed the frontal pictorialism of Picasso, Smith or Caro, or the objecthood of Minimalism..

When viewed in the same galleries as Donald Judd's works, the show should remind us that mid - century painting was also capable of attaining a kind of objecthood — one both literal and figural.