Sentences with phrase «of ethnographic objects»

1999 «The World Imagines,» Clarksville - Montgomery County Museum, Clarksville, TN, an exhibition of ethnographic objects from all over the world, on loan from the Cheekwood Museum and local collections; co-curated, with Janelle Strandburg (on the museum staff).

A group of ethnographic objects and documentation from the twelve indigenous communities of the Venezuelan Orinoco River basin

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The museum preserves, maintains, and interprets the artifacts in situ of the Neolithic habitation site of ancient Filipinos and houses the ethnographic and natural history objects of the province.

The show explores the history of the youth subcultures of the San San International (a parallel universe) through a mise - en - scène of objects, architectural environments and a 30 - minute faux - ethnographic science fiction film, presented in the artist's signature labyrinth of immersive interiors.

The Chapman brothers» work ranges from sculptures of grotesque genetic perversions of pre-pubescent girls to 3 - D recreations of Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War etchings, Nazi atrocities and faux - ethnographic sculptures inspired by African fetish objects to McDonald's packaging.

Scenario in the Shade explores the history of youth subcultures of the San San International through a mise - en - scène of objects, architectural environments, and a 30 minute faux - ethnographic science fiction film, presented in the artist's signature labyrinth of immersive interiors.

But these are his most significant years, and Prima Materia does tell a story, one less involved with the alchemical interests the show's title suggests, or the ethnographic influences implied by the accompanying selection of objects (Hopi kachina dolls, Yup» ik masks), and more concerning the effect on an established practitioner of the turn from abstract Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism in postwar American art.

Beginning with the acquisition of ethnographic curiosities around 1796, the collection has grown to nearly 2,000 objects that reflect all regions of the African continent and diaspora, and represent canonical and historical art forms and styles as well as modern and contemporary works in a variety of media.

There are five areas of deep focus within the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros: modernist geometric abstraction from Latin America; artworks and documentation of traveler artists who explored and worked in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries; ethnographic objects from and documentation of twelve of the indigenous tribes from the Orinoco river basin in Venezuela's state of Amazonas; material culture from Latin America's colonial era; and contemporary art from Latin America and beyond.

The collection is comprised of a diverse, encyclopedic group of fine art and ethnographic objects by international makers and represents styles and time periods from pre-history to the present.

For a show at the Hammer Museum in L.A. last year, she took obscure ethnographic objects from the collection of the Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A., all of which had been categorized as «unidentified» — including textile scraps and broken pottery — things that had effectively been deemed originless and valueless, divorced from their history and the history of those who made them.

The Museo Correr just across Piazza San Marco from the Doge's Palace covers the art and history of the city through various works of art, sculptures, fabrics, books, furniture and ethnographic objects.

Counter to this are works that use materials in a conceptual manner, as in the woven sink or wax and human hair sculptures of Robert Gober, or Untitled, 2004, a witty and cryptic ethnographic rock - and - hair object by David Hammons.

Between 1968 and 1970, Baumgarten undertook a systematic photographic study of how several European ethnographic museums frame the viewer's perception through the manner in which their objects are displayed.

It was also the first American museum to present African objects as art rather than ethnographic data, and in 1923 it organized one of the largest exhibitions of African art anywhere.

The Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents A Sign of Autumn — Vincent Vulsma a solo - exhibition on view 15 October — 27 November 2011, By employing strategies of spatio - temporal montage, Vulsma brings together objects and patterns taken from their contexts in ethnographic collections and the canons of modernist design and photography, deliberately moving back and forth along the lines between what is classified as commodity, art or ethnographic object.

His current installation, Oak Effect, at the Bloomberg Space, London, sees the gallery transformed into a fantastical showroom window housing a collection of ethnographic and design objects from the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums Collection, displayed within a framework comprised of dining tables, worktops and nesting tables.

In a young city such as Los Angeles, archaeology can take many forms: Small's idiosyncratic museology, Gala Porras - Kim's reappraisal of unattributed objects from the ethnographic Fowler Museum or even the curatorial work of Moshayedi and Walker in excavating little - known art from Los Angeles's recent past.