Sentences with phrase «monuments of»

Madeline and her friends from college had long planned a tour of the pyramids and monuments of Egypt.

Will our great monuments of information in the form of written communication amaze and puzzle future scholars?

Monuments of Nothingness has an uncertain vision of the structured grid.

Robert Smithson, The Fountain Monument — Bird's Eye View [illustrated above] Detail of Monuments of Passaic, 1967 Six photographs and a cut Photostat map Total size: 16.55 x 133.39 in.

The selection of works focuses on the artist's landscape painting which, utilising the monuments of the road, is rooted in a collective American experience.

Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party (1974 — 79) is one of the best - known monuments of the movement.

Merely a film that covers the windows of the chapel, it fills the space with rainbows, falling atop one of the most beautiful gothic monuments of Gothic sculpture in Milan, the Arca di San Pietro Martire by Giovanni di Balduccio (1336).

Monuments of Kerala.

Looming above them are the architectural monuments of an alien civilization simultaneously suggesting the ancient and futuristic.

MONUMENTS OF IRISH CULTURE For a list of national sites of cultural, historical, architectural or artistic significance, see: Architectural Monuments Ireland and Archeological Monuments Ireland.

It is, whatever it is, one of the most powerful monuments of 1960s pop art.

SMITHSON, 1967 Smithson, Robert, «A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey (1967)», in: Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, ed.

«A utopia minus a bottom, a place where the machines are idle, and the sun has turned to glass -LSB-...]» - Robert Smithson, «A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic», Artforum, October 1967.

Although today he is little known, David produced some of the most iconic portraits and ambitious public monuments of the Romantic era.

In 1968, he became conservationist architect for the Department for the Preservation of Monuments of the canton of Graubünden.

Overdubbed by the sound of plummeting water, the narrator starts to read from Robert Smithson's A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey (1967), describing «six large pipes» on the bank, «flooding the river with liquid smoke».

Photo from «Monuments of Passaic» (1967 / printed 2013), taken by Smithson in downtown Passaic.

It was the monochrome monuments of the idea and quite fitting for the occasion really.

From 2011 Paolo Canevari begins the «Monuments of the Memory» series; a research based upon the traditional mediums of painting, sculpture and drawing.

These grand backdrops are legacy monuments of the older plutocracy, left as a democratic inheritance, belittling the imagination and attainments of the present - day.01 percent.

The Figurative Pollock examines the different phases in Pollock's early work: his training in his teacher Thomas Hart Benton's Regionalism as well as his study of the monuments of art history — El Greco, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and the masters of Italian Baroque.

That's the idea behind Monuments to Us, a group show which opened this weekend at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where 10 artworks serve as monuments of personal history.

One such illustrated piece, «A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey», published in a 1967 issue of Artforum, was a tongue - in - cheek guide to such highlights as a sandbox and industrial piping.

But forget the monuments of famous names for a minute.

Photo from «Monuments of Passaic» (1967 / printed 2013), taken by Smithson outside the Passaic High School football stadium.

Each one of them an ethereal elegant structure of black yarn, like monuments of transcendental meditation or rather the ghostly exoskeletons of columns, they highlight the absence of volume.

The selection of works focuses on the artist's landscape painting which, utilising the monuments of the road, is rooted in a collective American experience... Using carefully chosen iconography and repeated signs, the works ask questions about the American psyche in a modern, changing America.

She is specifically drawn to Greek icons, amulets, and the many monuments of Washington, D.C..

The larger monolithic sculptures quote the monuments of Stonehenge whilst also looking to the modernist sculpture of Barbara Hepworth.

From the historic monuments of the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, to the cypress lined stretches of the 101, to the cultural icons of beach life like the VW Bus and the classic Woody surf - mobile, Jon Francis gets outside and paints it all.

Widely popular, the show included more than 200 artists who created site - specific proposals for the preservation of these monuments of Russia's political history.

There, «Islamic Monuments of India» (2/9 — 13) was an exhibition of photographs by Benoy K. Behl and Abhinav Atris, while «The Lord Buddha Through Contemporary Eyes» (8/21 — 26) showcased paintings by Sri Lankan artists selected from open - call submissions.

One can only hope, based on what we've seen here, that the project is revived; who can guess what untold treasures lie undiscovered once one departs from the prevailing discourse and familiar monuments of a movement about which, it now seems, we know precious little.

As a woman creating in a time where many people of our nation fight to keep monuments of men erected as a symbol of oppression and control, I am motivated to help spread a message to uplift and heal.

Alison Saar's life - size dark - bronze sculpture with a glass - covered belly that lights up from the glow of fireflies at nighttime distantly resembles ancient monuments of fertility goddesses.

The earliest painting in the exhibition, Moran's The Road to Acoma (1902), portrays a natural geological wonder meant to rival the man - made monuments of the old world.

Teresa Margolles, whose gilded fragment of a building destroyed in a catastrophic earthquake comments on commemoration and monuments of grief.

Fifty years on, I retrace Robert Smithson's journey to his home town of Passaic, New Jersey, in search of the monuments of our time.

This exhibition reveals the broad scale of Ross» work from the large, free - standing, colorful metal sculptures whose simple forms evoke the totemic monuments of an ancient world to the smaller lyrical wall reliefs composed of wood veneers that create a visual extravaganza when placed next to one another.»

Having looked back at some of the monuments of literary history, the second section takes its charge from the epigraph, «Institutions can not prevent what they can not imagine», and looks forward to the political praxis of the 21st - century's digital future.

Finally, the Islandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson arranges three monuments of marble along one of the farms paths.

No one could accuse Smithson, the author of A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, of idealizing nature.

This much, especially the passion part, is demonstrated by «Josef Albers in Mexico,» a quietly stunning exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum that contrasts Albers's little - known photographs of the great Mesoamerican monuments of Mexico with his glowing abstract paintings.

Archaeology is an important touchstone for the artist, referencing the raw landscapes of her native Karachi to Robert Smithson's Monuments of Passaic and the post-industrial cities of upstate New York, where she now resides.

The majesty, clarity, and despair of industrial America for Charles Sheeler or Charles Demuth, however, lay years away — not to mention Robert Smithson and his «tour of the monuments of Passaic.»

Fifty years on, Ellen Mara De Wachter retraces Robert Smithson's journey to his home town of Passaic, New Jersey, in search of the monuments of his time

And the third painting in the series Excavation at Night (1908) though unfortunately over-varnished, particularly damaging for a very dark painting, but at the same time the shiny blackness of large areas of the work served to reinforce the connection I made between Bellows» choice and treatment of this subject and Robert Smithson «s observations on entropy in his 1967 essay «A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey.»

A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey, 1989 Portfolio of five prints, numbered 1 - 5 Line engraving on Kitikata paper Each print 16 x 20 inches Edition of 50 Publisher: Pace Editions Edition Schellmann Printer: The Spring Street Workshop

There is a frontal area where five large paintings from 1980 are displayed, and around the central staircase there will be four cells with four cenotaphs — sculptures I am showing for the first time, which I made this year in Rajasthan — commemorative monuments of my nostalgia for India.

The conversation will engage contemporary artists Titus Kaphar, Karyn Olivier, and Dan Borelli in an animated conversation that will touch on recent debates about the preservation of monuments of historic figures and the tactics taken by the panelist artists to reclaim public space.