Sentences with phrase «status as an artwork»

In constructing traps and lures, Rantanen explicates his interest in duplicitous objects; the sculptures are, in this respect, self - reflexive, drawing skeptical attention to their own status as artworks — a designation which, while superficially arbitrary, enacts an intrinsic transformation upon the cultural and monetary value of its subjects.

But they also point to something about the distinction between fashion and fine art photography, having had their surfaces disrupted by the insertion of aluminium tubes, which emphasise their «objectness» and their status as artworks.

The «test pieces» make Berkeley a key point on the map of future Hesse scholarship, «but their status as artworks is questionable,» Sussman said, because Hesse's own judgment of them will never be known.

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Some of Britain's town halls include astonishing designs and artworks which befits their status as the civic institutions at the heart of some the world's largest industrial cities.

Stand Off isn't nearly as good as either of those films, but it is better than the artwork and straight - to - video status implies.

It looked like a take - off of the enjoyable Monster Strike [Free], had some nice - looking artwork, and its status as a Final Fantasy 15 spin - off, the first playable non-demo anything based on Final Fantasy 15, lulled me into thinking it was going to be of a certain level of quality.

Women had many obstacles to face in terms of recognition: their artwork was often relegated to merely «craft» or «handiwork» status; they had difficulty getting the schooling and training they needed for fine arts; they often did not receive credit for the work they did, with much of it attributed to their husbands or male counterparts, as in the case of Judith Leyster; and there were social restrictions as to what was accepted as women's subject matter.

But whereas Duchamp's readymades, such as his famous urinal, questioned the artwork's privileged status as a handmade object, the new generation places art within the context of capitalist economy.

Spoerri did not consider the act of making the work to be the work, maintaining the status of the object as the final artwork.

This functions as a token which can be traded on the Ethereum blockchain and changes the status of the artwork to a form of currency — or a representation of itself — which circles back to the initial question of embodiment: are the works in fact the works?

The sculpture's reliance on a separate and inert supplement seems an appropriate gesture to denote infirmity, but also as a clear signifier of «Artwork» status.

The artworks in this show burlesque common strategies of evoking authenticity, using intimacy and self - revelation as methods for unmasking the constructedness of status quo identity.

The deft placement of Holliday's footage in an exhibition space, not as an artwork necessarily, but with Holliday given the status of an artist, asked us to reconsider how we ascribe agency in documents of violence.

Through this process of détournement, the artist questions the informational status of an artwork, as well as the possibility of narrating history.

The Affichistes Pioneers of new realism, early pop artists, street art trailblazers — on their rambles through postwar Paris, the artists who would become known as the Affichistes collected fragments of the weathered and tattered posters, they came across that were often peeling and several layers deep, carried them back to their studios and created original artworks from them, in doing so elevating this ubiquitous aspect of everyday urban life to the status of a fine art.

This process of instrumentalization represents a status change for artworks that many critics have viewed as a demotion, with the serious art — by such figures as Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, Adrian Piper, and Hito Steyerl — mocked by and subordinated to commercial imagery.

The status of the photograph as an artwork, and the status of the artwork as a photograph, are today widely recognized issues — but when James Casebere began making stage - set - like maquettes as the subjects for photographs in the mid-1970s, he was producing a new kind of fusion and a new kind of fiction.

There are two basic types of «word art»: (1) First, artworks that include words or phrases because of their ideological meaning, iconic status or significance as advertising copy.

Lavier seeks to elevate the everyday object to the status of an artwork as he explores the complex relationship between the mundane and the artistic.

To scrutinize them for clues as to which is which is to get ensnared by the how, the technical agility at play, and to relegate the artwork to the status of solvable puzzle.

He often takes his curatorial projects as source materials, moving between the status of a document and an artwork, as a generative platform to mediate shifts of consciousness.

We consider it mainly in connection with the history of artistic practice in the 20th and 21st centuries, when the expansion of industrial media and technologies incorporates within itself an interrogation of the new conditions of the production, distribution and status of the artwork as a commodity subject to market mechanisms.

These large - scale «posters» — at the same time conservative, modernist artworks and knowing commentaries on the commerce of art making — enjoyed a status as rarified art objects that culled from sources as far ranging as the Bauhaus, vintage fashion magazines, travel posters, and fabric designs.