Much of our language refers to
objects as the subjects of sentences and then to their attributes or actions.
Because of this transmutation the experience is sometimes said to be devoid of object, but it is more proper to say that it is an experience of
object as subject and subject as object, in which the two are felt as a contrast within oneness, each the manifestation of the other.
Cubist artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque rejected linear perspective and distorted the shape of the objects they painted, but still took
objects as their subject.
This iconoclastic gesture destroyed the vessel as a container, and conceptually transformed
the object as subject.»
The artist's own printmaking also takes everyday
objects as subject matter and combines boldly defined outline with vivid colouring, an approach which the artist also applies to his own self - image: the defined, linear drawing style combined with complete freedom and openness in the choice of colours.
OBJECT AS SUBJECT: The Lehigh University Art Galleries Teaching Collection MAIN GALLERY, ZOELLNER ARTS CENTER & THE GALLERY AT RAUCH BUSINESS CENTER August 26, 2015 — May 27, 2016
Event:
Object as Subject Gallery Talk with Nicholas Sawicki, Assistant Professor of Art History, and LUAG Director / Chief Curator Ricardo Viera.
Odilon Redon, 1840 - 1916, The Potted Geranium, c. 1865, Oil on Canvas (On display as part of
Object As Subject, Main Gallery, August 26, 2105 — May 27, 2016)
Ordinary as Extraordinary /
Object as Subject, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas Multiples, Davis / McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Using banal
objects as subjects for his paintings and prints, Dine displayed a growing sense of self - awareness.
Duchamp and the hothouse atmosphere of the Black Mountain College inspired the inclusion of everyday
objects as a subject and as a material.
Objects as subjects, or subjects as objects.
Serra's transitive verb - list from the 1960s envisions sculptural
objects as subjects of action in space — to fold, to roll, to prop.
Not exact matches
The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein
subjects are given an
object and asked to come up with
as many uses for it
as they can.
According to Paul Greenberg, adopt they must for buyers want to be «
subjects of an experience» and not an «
object of a sale»
as Greenberg eloquently states.
It requires attentiveness to the
subject as subject, not merely
object; to the integrity of craft; to form
as well content.
He pointed out how, because of the dominant reductionist view of human nature, scientists are increasingly tempted to treat the human individual
as «an
object to be investigated, measured and experimented upon» rather than
as an «irreducible
subject».
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.
Now this would be a valid argument if one understood the self in terms of individual autonomy, so that one's understanding of one's self
as subject would be quite distinct from ones understanding of the cosmic or historical situation one confronted
as object.
One can see here the connection between the internal relation between eternal
objects, and the fact that from the standpoint of the prehending occasion, its datum,
as a logical
subject placed within a functional context, is internally related to it.
We are not to think of
subjects or
objects that act or are acted upon but of activities
as such.
-LSB-...] charity is placed
as a key link: divine charity works through human action,
as a theological virtue -LSB-...] Man is not considered only
as the
object of a process, but
as the
subject of this process.
God does in fact treat us
as subjects — that is
as those having their own agency — but many preach a gospel in which we have been reduced to
objects forced to live life in according to some divinely mapped - out and pre-ordained «plan», or to be the at the mercy of divine manipulation.
He is both the
subject and
object of our confidence, and
as generations of saints who have come before us have testified in word and in deed, he is sufficient.
(PR 271) Actual entities or actual occasions are
subjects insofar
as they are present and
objects only insofar
as they are past.
One is the view that what defines an inquiry
as «theology» is that it employs the distinctive methods or disciplines required by its peculiar
object or
subject matter.
Given the standard Enlightenment view of the world
as composed of human
subjects and nonhuman
objects, this dualism of humans and commodities seems appropriate.
Not only do many (
as objects) flow into one (
subject), but one (
as object) flows into many (
subjects).
Looked at that way, the essential content of revelation, or perhaps the very nature of God (whatever is the ultimate «
subject matter» or «
object» of the inquiry) dictates certain methods and movements of thought which, if followed, denominate the inquiry
as «theology.»
Perhaps «rule» or, better, the active participle «ruling» would come nearest to the original, but constant reference to the «ruling of God» would be both clumsy and
subject to the facetiousness of reading the genitive
as a genitive of
object!
Neither prehension nor intentionality describes the exclusive agency of a self - contained
subject, nor the exclusive agency of an
object as strict realists such
as Brentano would have seen it.
Even though scientific theories may have folk - theories
as their origin and folk - theories may have to serve
as reliable guides to a given
subject in the absence of a developed scientific theory, when truth is the primary concern and time is no
object, folk - theories are usually superseded by their scientific counterparts.
6 In a conformal feeling, an eternal
object already ingressed
as characterizing the subjective form of an individual objectification given for a nascent occasion is reingressed
as a character of the subjective form of the nascent
subject's prehension of that objectification (PR 476, 364, 78).
As Emmanuel Levinas states: «Intentionality is not the way in which a
subject tries to make contact with an
object that exists beside it.
Both prehension and intentionality describe the relationship of a
subject and an
object in such a way
as to overcome this
subject -
object split.
the claim can be illustrated more complexly
as follows: My present
subject (actual entity) and contemporaneous actual entities in the physical
object do not constitute a nexus.
Thus a human experience is not to be understood
as a
subject encountering an
object.
We saw that for Farley theological inquiry is defined
as precisely theological by the nature of its
subject matter (or «
object» of inquiry)-- namely, faith - within - its - situations.
Even in the case of the objectification of a single actual entity, that
subject is objectified
as object, and not
as subject.
True, for Aristotle the
object is present in the sentient
subject not in its entirety but with respect to some aspect, e.g.,
as red.
There is activity, therefore, not only on the side of the
subject but on the side of the
object as well.
That is, the form is received in matter
as it is in any physical change, but also the form is received without matter, that is, it is possessed in disassociation from the sentient's material constitution.3 In virtue of this second mode of reception, the sensible thing is something more than an agent; it becomes an
object for an experiencing
subject — though this is not, of course, how Aristotle expressed it.
The physical prehension
as conformal feeling, we have said, reproduces the
object by assuming the subjective form of one of its prehensions, but
as vector it is, and remains throughout the «life» of the
subject, an essential relation to that individual
object as other,
as there and then.
As long as the poor remain objects of volunteer trips rather than joint subjects in a common enterprise of faith, it's never going to be missio
As long
as the poor remain objects of volunteer trips rather than joint subjects in a common enterprise of faith, it's never going to be missio
as the poor remain
objects of volunteer trips rather than joint
subjects in a common enterprise of faith, it's never going to be mission.
Although
objects and
subjects differ in many ways, both were conceived
as beings.
There are similarities between the two accounts of perception,
as we have already indicated: perception has
as its
object an individual; it introduces the
object within the percipient; it comes about through the causal efficacy of the
object; and it presupposes the transmission of form from
object to
subject.
At the basic levels, indeed, the
subject is, and must be, also patient, and thus the
object is also experienced
as agent.
Whereas the activity of the
subject is a fulfillment and perfecting of the
subject, and thus an end in itself, the activity of the sensible
object is an «acting upon» and,
as such, presupposes a passive factor that is acted upon and thereby changed.
The
object exerts its causal influence not by acting upon the
subject, but solely
as being inert, stubborn fact exacting conformity.
Whitehead took the
subject -
object structure
as general and fundamental and interpreted causal efficacy in terms of it.