Sentences with phrase «objects documenting the history»

The items view fall into four categories: «Fabulous Views» (works evoking Long Island's landscape), «Nice Threads» (textiles and clothing), «Kid Stuff» (childhood items), and «On the Road» (objects documenting the history of transportation).

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Rachel Foss, lead curator of Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty at the British Library, says: «These objects and documents are the tangible evidence of a living history that is fragmented, punctuated by gaps and still evolving.

Kristine Stiles is Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and has contributed to numerous books, including Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object (1997), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists» Writings (1996) and Phaidon's Paul McCarthy (1995).

The installation activated the Project Space at Blue Star as a history museum, community center, and classroom by employing a collaborative approach that brings forward diverse and complex histories through photographs, maps, art objects, personal stories, and political documents.

He pointed out that exhibitions are not collected nor have they been documented with the consistency and depth that historical research requires, leaving in obscurity the work and imagination of curators who absorbed the lore of their elders and informally passed on their accumulated expertise to the succeeding generation: Only by comprehending those genealogies can we understand how some objects rather than others entered into conventional art history.

ANNANDALE - ON - HUDSON, NY, May 11, 2016 — Imponderable is an extensive research project, exhibition, film, and publication that investigates the personal collection of American artist Tony Oursler, a remarkable trove of more than 2,500 photographs, documents, publications, and unique objects, tracking a social, spiritual, and intellectual history of the paranormal dating back to the early eighteenth century.

The history of performance art as a manifestation of radical shifts in social thought and artistic practice is well documented in publications like Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949 - 1979 by Paul Schimmel, Greenwich Village 1963: Avant - Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body by Sally Banes, as well as Performance: Live Art Since 1960 (1998) by RoseLee Goldberg and her seminal book from 1979, Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present.

His installations express a number of urgent concerns related to cultural identity, politics, and history, and deftly intermingle autobiography with larger cultural narratives, allowing poetic new connotations to emerge through the staging of meticulously selected images, objects, and documents.

Neil Beloufa's solo exhibition L'Ennemi de mon ennemi is a curation of works, historical documents, war museum artifacts, and found objects that assemble a telling of history and explore the lingering ambiguity of perspective.

«Imponderable» is a combination of a 90 - minute film with a exhibition of «findings» culled from Tony Oursler's extensive research (and personal collection) representing a trove of over 2,500 photographs, documents, publications and unique objects that track a social, spiritual, and intellectual history dating to the early 18th century.

Since its founding in 2000, MOCA GA has been collecting archives that document this history and now houses a treasure trove of over 150,000 objects available for research and study by students, scholars, and the community.

Also on view through October 30 is Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive, the first - ever public view of Oursler's exhaustive personal collection of objects and documents relating to the history of the occult and spiritualism.

While NMAAHC has been heralded for its object - based storytelling, documenting African American history from slavery to civil rights through the Presidency of Barack Obama, and exploring important cultural moments, it also celebrates visual art.

Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945 — 1980 explores the relationship between artistic practices and LGBTQ histories through artworks, objects, and archival documents culled from the collections at ONE Archives

It is also an important artistic document of how a woman artist identified, or did not, with the history of image - making, and with being the object of the gaze while rarely doing the making — or the gazing back, for that matter.

London, England About Blog The Underpinnings Museum is the first extensive online museum dedicated to showcasing and documenting the history of lingerie, through an exquisite selection of historical and contemporary objects.