Sentences with phrase «objects as artifacts»

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- «The scholarly community will need to see the full report and images of the artifacts to make a judgment in regard to the interpretation of these objects as coins,» Steven Ortiz, associate professor of archaeology and biblical backgrounds at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, said.

Its curators» decisions to display particular objects, such as the Artifact, in the Museum are not state actions to which Constitutional protections apply.»

Accordingly, Whitehead might have been completely correct in relation to psychogenesis if he considered the object perception of reality as the result of human practice, that is, of the understandable association with artifacts and particularly with machines.

And even if archeologists did find some artifacts in the desert, they would not automatically as - sume it is the corroboration of the exodus, because the Jews had with them Egyptian objects.

Other researchers such as Bengtson and Budd (2004) offer evidence that Vernanimalcula may be a taphonomic artifact produced by growth of phosphate within a spherical object such as an acritarch.

More New Releases: «In the Fade,» starring Diane Kruger as a woman seeking vengeance for the death of her husband and son after a bomb attack; «Nostalgia,» a mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives, starring Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener, John Ortiz, Nick Offerman, James Le Gros, and Bruce Dern; and «Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell,» with Michael Gross once again returning as Burt Gummer and combating Graboids and Ass - Blasters.

The online exhibit includes original artifacts and art objects, original documents, and reproductions of historic documents and images from the New York Historical Society as well as other repositories.

What will remain in book form will be books as objects of art, books as historical artifacts, books as keepsakes, books as collectibles, books as study guides, books as old friends, and, most important of all, books as non-electronic objects that won't crash, run out of battery power, go on the fritz, blow up, overheat, or generally do anything except be available to you any time you have enough available light to read.

«I think the Chozo artifacts and some of the other objects that appear through the franchise, probably some of that is inspired by the Egyptian cultures as other ancient civilizations.

It is the one and only supplier of magic artifacts and objects, as well as rare potions to all of the known magical worlds.

Discover a mysterious artifact as you explore the mystical galleon in Ancient Spirits: Columbus» Legacy and solve a mystical puzzle that transcends time in this fun and exciting Hidden Object game.

While certain collectors might covet it as an artifact, given its newfound notoriety, in Danziger's mind the piece would class as a «decorative object» rather than as an artwork by Richard Prince.

The Parallax View explores the idea of observation as conflict: conflict between mind and object; analysis and fleeting insight; continuity and fragmentation; object and artifact; inner and outer.

Ritual objects for domestic use such as reliquary boxes, chalices and bowls captured in lush black and white, cease to hold their original practical meaning as one now encounters them: behind glass, as artifacts in museums.

Won by the terrific Helen Marten, who split the winnings with her fellow contenders, the Hepworth sculpture prize exhibition (ends 19 February) ranges from Phyllida Barlow's rough - and - tumble slanted stage, with its cavernous undercroft, to David Medalla's delicate foam fountains, from Steven Claydon's mobile phone masts disguised as trees and rafts of fabricated tribal artifacts, to Marten's complex syntax games with objects and images.

Swallow seems to choose his objects and method of working with these ideas in mind, both as a comment on our seeming need for the dream and demise that science fiction allows for as well as our need to experience, make, and possess art objects it as if we were pre-creating artifacts of our own time.

The second form of intervention is a freezing of the object's (d) evolution as cultural artifacts: they become frozen indifferent states of object - hood, from recognizable to wholly mutated.

Meta - narratives, pop and subculture artifacts, religious iconography and a wide breadth of literary references are all present in his multifaceted installations, as well as allusions to art historical antecedents ranging from Basquiat's urban poetry to Sir Howard Hodgkin's abstract paintings as sculptural objects to Jonathan Meese's theatrical symbolism.

In many ways, her work can be understood as following a conceptual artistic tradition inherited from Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Douglas Huebler of pointing at the ironic and content - laden artifacts of our media age rather than creating new objects.

The exhibition features more than 500 archaeological objects and works from Mexico and the United States, including jewelry, works of precious metals, and household as well as ceremonial artifacts.

Calderón's interest lies not only in birds of prey, but also in the objects associated with falconry: custom artifacts that reflect their maker, as well as the history of each bird.

«In this exhibit, Dettmer continues his investigation of the book as both artifact and object - a kind of intersection of sculpture, information technology, poetic text and historical tract.

Through paint, pixel, word, and fabric she creates work that functions as a bridge between the hypothetical and the physical, objects operate as artifacts of personal - as - political discovery formulated within a landscape balancing between nihilism and mysticism.

May 28 — August 1, 2010 Social Skin - the third in a biennial series of exhibitions collaboratively curated by VCUarts Museum Studies students - included an eclectic mix of artworks and objects that present, explore, and delight in the body as cultural artifact.

Stewart Watson (Baltimore, MD) Stewart Watson creates site specific sculptural installations that are informed and inspired by genealogy and by furnishings that have been preserved by her family as important artifacts, regardless of those object's usefulness or beauty.

Exhibitions include Dos Mundos: Worlds of the Puerto Ricans 1973, Mira, Mira, Mira, Museum of the City of New York 1974, Ten Japanese Artists, 1975; Legacy of James Vanderzee, 1977; Sacred Artifacts: Objects of Devotion, 1982; Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent, 1985; Repulsion: Aesthetics of the Grotesque, 1987; Foreign Affairs: Conflicts in the Global Village, 1988; Dia De Los Muertos, 1988; Prisoners of Image: Ethnic and Gender Stereotyping, 1989; Mon Reve: Haiti after the Duvaliers, 1989; Artists of Conscience, 1992; Peoples Choice: Komar & Melamid, 1994; Expansion Arts, I, II, III, 1995 - 1998; (Mickey) Mouse: An American Icon, 1998; The Artists as Patron, 1999; Honeymoon Series by Yoshio Itagaki, 2000; Between the Real and the Unreal: Recent works by Simen Johan, 2000, Genochoice an installation by Virgil Wong, 2000.

Reut Avisar's multidisciplinary practice deals with culturally loaded, symbolic artifacts, objects and folk craft as they appear in tourism culture and its different manifestations.

I think about the in - between place of objects, like textiles, that are categorized as artifacts rather than art works.

While the move is less radical than routine (by now we've all seen paintings brought in to function as artifacts, arranged in concert with other art or art - like objects), it effectively releases Louis» work from its unimaginative role as illustration for Clement Greenberg, opening the work for new meanings.

An acclaimed conceptual artist, Wilson is known for his «institutional interventions,» specifically the ways in which he creates new exhibition contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections through his re-adaptation of wall labels, sound and lighting, as well as his non-traditional pairings of objects.

This is the second panel in a three - part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool.

«Yeah, yeah, art as object, art as spectacle, art as abjection, art as artifact, art as this culture or that culture, old media or new media, gendered or neutered, formal or political, pre-this or post-that, blah, blah, blah.

Pulling from populist sources such as religious iconography, advertising, artifacts and videogames, he builds absurdist, yet compelling, 3D environments and objects.

Its display blurs, as it should, firm lines between artworks and artifacts, giving both equal significance as objects of our moral attention.

Wilson will give public talks in Atlanta at 7 p.m., Feb. 22 at SCAD Atlanta, fourth floor, Building C, 1600 Peachtree St.; and in Savannah at 7 p.m., Feb. 23, Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St.. A Whitney Museum of American Art board of trustees member and a MacArthur Foundation «genius grant» awardee, Wilson is known for his «institutional interventions» in which he creates new exhibition contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections through his re-adaptation of wall labels, sound and lighting, as well as his non-traditional pairings of objects.

I use titles to address the function of the works as contemporary artifacts, rather than «art objects,» revealing how they may be used in spiritual and healing practices and by whom.

Collier's work can be understood as following a conceptual artistic tradition inherited from Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Douglas Huebler, as they too worked with content - laden artifacts of our media age rather than creating new objects.

Farther into the future, Yackulic imagines the urns as archaeological findings — foreseeing the uncovered artifacts as memorializing objects, evidence of the modes of exchange in which they took part.

While the thread that weaves the myriad interdisciplinary artifacts on view in both iterations of Common Time is, of course, Cunningham's dance work, many of the objects within the exhibitions have the remarkable capacity to double as compelling, self - reliant artworks in their own right.

In this case, the technique wasn't employed as a weak rhetorical device, but rather as a necessarily informative one, which I will recreate here: a skeuomorph is an «Object or feature that imitates the design of a similar artifact made from another material,» according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Permanent collection includes a wide range of artifacts, Judaica, Jewish ritual and ethno - graphical objects, as well as haggadah illuminated manuscripts, painting, collage, ceramics and Jewish craftwork.

The project pursues Beier and Lund's interest in cultural heritage, authorship, ownership and mediation: Calling... fills gaps in history with objects that can be understood as makeshift props or conservation models for an utopian archive of everything, or as artifacts in a growing museum of destruction, loss and entropy.

Ericsson constructs his work using traditional art materials such as canvas, bronze, photography, and clay as well as video, found objects, and artifacts taken from his family archives.

As has frequently been noted, Sehgal seeks to make art without producing any physical artifact of the events that he stages in galleries and museums as a gesture against what he sees as the excessive proliferation of objects in the worlAs has frequently been noted, Sehgal seeks to make art without producing any physical artifact of the events that he stages in galleries and museums as a gesture against what he sees as the excessive proliferation of objects in the worlas a gesture against what he sees as the excessive proliferation of objects in the worlas the excessive proliferation of objects in the world.

The eighty Ektachromes that comprise Baumgarten's slide projection Unsettled Objects (1968 — 69) show artifacts at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, displayed much as they were when it was opened to the public in 1874.

Presenting themselves as possible artifacts or specimens, the objects she creates are gadgets, adornments or trophies that Debra collects.

The exhibition, which will now travel to Aspen, was restrained and ebullient, with selections from a few salient series tracing an evolution in his use of specific materials as hand - and - machine - tools, wood, bone, fabric, and hair in witty, emotional objects recalling old - timey toys, ritual charms and artifacts, totems of social experience, and items of ordinary household magic.

Each speaks a radically different language of form, and the show aims to put these visual artifacts in dialogue — as a nod to the lifetimes that objects take on beyond the factory and artist's studio.

De Wit's ceramic fragments double as both raw archeological objects and architectural artifact, where found ceramics are re-cast and hand painted, alongside the artist's own fabricated shards.

The work draws upon the traditions of landscape painting and natural science illustration, and incorporates the visual language of maps, diagrams, and artifacts, as a way of exploring our connection — many times via objects — to specific places and occurrences.