Sentences with phrase «real objects of desire»

In recent years, major brands have transformed these versatile pieces into real objects of desire.

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What makes a desire into a real prayer of petition is the entertainment of that desire chiefly within the consciousness of the tentativeness and inevitable imperfection of the object of desire.

Constructing a fictitious narrative from real - world encounters and frequently spectacular images, Xu turns the story of a young man attempting to relocate his object of desire into a cogent analysis of postmodern identity and digitally mediated communication.

First cast in bronze and subsequently chrome - plated, Sarah Staton's Post-Pop Hamburger is cartoon - like in its simplicity, at once an object of real desire whilst, being hollow and lumpen in its demeanour, simultaneously displaying its inherent obsolescence.

Most of the artists break from a reliance on technological intervention, creating objects of fixation and desire: Catherine Murphy's details of textured fabric on the seat of a chair, or Ron Mueck's strikingly «real» sculpture - down to the last hair and pore - of human subjects.

Made to function (physically and conceptually) outside of the commercial gallery system, and thus a critique of the value of art and commercial real estate, Open House represents Matta - Clark's career - long desire to create a new way of seeing through the transformation of discarded objects into new works of art.