Sentences with phrase «of aesthetic objects»

It's a pleasure to sort through the various threads connecting Heslin's work to the history of art, economy and the creation of aesthetic objects.

The artist hopes to collect and share images taken by viewers to consider the circulation and recycling of public information and how it affects the production of aesthetic objects.

Tilman creates a range of aesthetic objects, including paintings, drawings, prints, three - dimensional wall hangings, floor objects, floor - wall objects, and built environments.

The installation as reliquary illuminates the sacred attributes of the aesthetic object.

Beshty's work draws upon, subverts, and redefines traditional artistic categories to create an artistic practice built upon material qualities of the aesthetic object and its often contradictory uses.

Two key sculptures of the exhibition «Transsexualis», housed in a private gym room that looks and feels like a meat locker and «Repressia» a wrestling mat in flesh color, frame this seminal exhibition that examines masculinity, sexual fetishes, gender ambiguousness, the malleability of sculpture and the value of the aesthetic object.

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That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

But despite its pixilated aesthetic, the game — in which the core objective is not destruction but the creation of new materials and objects — is beloved by children and serious gamers alike.

We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

The sense of beauty is a positive response growing out of a relationship of the person to the aesthetic object.

It is apparent in an art which is capable of turning even Campbell soup - cans into objects of artistic representation (Warhol), or in a music which discovers aesthetic value in common noises and in listening to silence (Cage), or in a photography which captures the beauty of doorknobs and cracked walls, driftwood and wrinkled faces.

Beauty is felt when there is some congruence between the aesthetic object and the observer's pattern of sense perception and related responses.

This is primarily because it has proven to be a powerful aid in the effort to avoid dealing with works of art or literature as products of the human spirit: aesthetic objects that move us with their intricately wrought beauty, humor, and insight.

That is, as an aesthetic object which finds completeness in performance but which is brought into the liturgical frame in order to be broken by a different, but related «language of actions, a language of sounds».

So for Dewey the major aesthetic task is empirical; it is to discern properly the aesthetic quality of the external object.26

Each actual entity is, viewed from this perspective, a process of emerging definiteness where the process is the decision whereby the essence of each and every eternal object is either included or excluded from positive aesthetic feeling — is either positively or negatively prehended, to use the terminology of Process and Reality.

Nevertheless, Sherburne, his colleagues, and even the particular Whitehead of Process and Reality, in their devotion to rationalizing the meaning of the world, including the world of art objects, fail to appreciate the aesthetic power of the experienced world.

Concern for an object, whether that be desire for possession, aesthetic appreciation, or even a will for its benefit, placed a person at the mercy of forces he could not control.

In aesthetic admiration, there was no attempt either to gain possession of the object for the subject or to surrender the subject to the possession of the object.

in the absence of restraints On his choice of aesthetic problems and of his methods of solving them, but even more in his power of constructing aesthetic objects that add to the values of life.

The vibration and rhythm of these enduring objects is explained by the category of reversion, which is in turn explained in terms of Whitehead's aesthetic principles.

Is there a greater aesthetic value in participatory experiencing «in accordance with the natures of things» than in a mode of experiencing which involves the active construal and perhaps even domination of the experienced object?

Doing a long series of arithmetical calculations or working all day entering data at a computer terminal may result in almost total «an - aesthesia,» while proving a new mathematical theorem or writing a complex computer program may bring about intense involvement and the enjoyment of vivid immediate experience.8 «Aesthetic» experience in the more usual sense of tile term can also y ~ ry fi - om trivial to highly intense, even when it relates to a single object; one is reminded of the cliche situation in which one member of a couple listens in rapture to a concert while the other writhes in boredom.

Once again, it seems that the very aesthetic emphasis which Hall shares with Whitehead involves the idea that the values of the subject enter into its experience of the object.

Above all, aesthetic value implies the transformation of contradictions into contrasts that arouse a fullness and intensity of feeling, a sense of beauty, in those who experience the aesthetic object.

More generally, gender stereotypes are used to justify women's unlikelihood to speak up: the general perception of women as instruments whose function is primordially to be used, as passive sexual objects than as active subjects, as bodies and faces that should be looked at and evaluated on the basis of demanding aesthetic criteria, as sacrificial mothers or as empathetic persons mainly attuned to other's people needs, is not very compatible with an assertive form of communication.

According to Kenneth J. McNamara, they were probably the first objects collected for purely aesthetic reasons by ancestors to Homo sapiens, and provide a tangible record of an early and enduring obsession.

The collaborators compiled and modified a list of 109 visual features that can be used to assess the aesthetic appeal of an image, such as the relative size, color, and distribution of discernable objects within the image, as well as texture and color intensity.

Because of her, and with her, I am able — by moments — to move out of my own natural larval state and experience movies not just as deliverers of entertainment, conveyors of meaning, or objects of aesthetic contemplation, but as pure fields of emotional and sensory intensity, almost like rooms to which one can return.»

In large part, the outcry over «Cat Person» came because it's about a young woman, and it still feels novel when young women are allowed to be the objects of serious literary and aesthetic interest in the way that young men get to be in your Catcher in the Ryes and your Boyhoods.

«Object in the sense that, when viewed from different angles, in varying moods, it reveals more and more of itself, other emotions and, for a film overrun with aesthetic objects, deepened ideas.»

It's hard for me to imagine how the dominant, non-formalist form of film studies, with its systemic handicap of abstaining from value judgment and not being able to treat the film as an independent aesthetic object capable of producing an infinite variety of affects, can be terribly instructive for the enterprise of film criticism, which necessarily calls for a hierarchy of values on the part of the practitioner and his / her acknowledgement being a sentient, unique subject capable of being transformed by the film.

When Niemeyer showed some of his present students examples of past Engagement Trees, the pure novelty and aesthetic of the object excited students.

Take a look at any number of aesthetic and well - engineered household objects, such as Crest Standup Squeeze Dispenser Toothpaste, Post-it ® Super Sticky Notes, the Thermos Nissan Intak Hydration Water Bottle with Meter, or Under Armour's Storm Swacket.

As an aesthetic object, though, it simply can't measure up to what Battista «Pinin» Farina did at the peak of his powers sixty years ago.

(You might think of this as embroidery's take on industrial - style furnishings, where objects previously considered to be strictly functional take on an aesthetic appeal.)

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects.

New York, NY About Blog This blog is dedicated to exploring and cultivating contemporary aesthetic interpretations of the book as an art object, while preserving the traditional practices of the art of the book.

All of the menus in Mercury Hg are slick and well presented and most objects in the game world have the same aesthetic appeal.

Schneider undermined the idea of the artwork as a fixed aesthetic object, and also as a fungible commodity.

Pairing an original sense of humor and wit with a controlled minimalist aesthetic, Feher accentuated and exploited the physical characteristics of his chosen material - form, color, texture and weight - to alter our understanding and appreciation these simple objects, thus also altering our world view.

Hanging from ceilings and walls but also from freestanding objects like sawhorses, Gilliam's «drapes» left the wall behind to create physical environments that redefined the conceptual and aesthetic boundaries of abstract painting.

1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, LA (catalog) The Junk Aesthetic: Assemblage of the 1950s and Early 1960s, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County Branch, Stamford, CT (catalog) Rezoning (Bill Bissett, George Herms, Jess and Al Neil), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC (catalog) Poetic Objects, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (catalog)

A guide to the generation of artists that led American art away from the dogmas of Abstract Expressionism to the more freewheeling, object - besotted aesthetic of the 1960s.

Thus transformed into powerful aesthetic objects, these junkyard relics yet retain some of their original, non-abstract identity.

Olga de Amaral transforms two - dimensional textiles into luminous three - dimensional objects by combinung diverse materials, including fiber, gesso, acrylic and precious metals, to make works of unique aesthetic power.

Evoking the rebellious post-Pop aesthetic of New York, Laska often incorporates recycled waste materials and found objects into her paintings, sometimes reworking parts of earlier canvases entirely.

The philosophy of kintsukuroi treats cracks as fundamental parts of an object, noting that value lies in accepting change and underscoring the aesthetic qualities of imperfection and use rather than disguising flaws.

Through this layering of image, scent, and sound, Ulman's Stock Images of War generates an aesthetic language that blurs the distinction between the artist's personal experience and the objects of study.

Adel Abdessemed: The Pulitzer Prize - winning icon of Vietnam War atrocity — one of photojournalism's decisive moments, a snapped shot seen around the world — now an aesthetic object in prehistoric dentine.