Sentences with phrase «symbolic value of art»

Since the mid-1960s, American conceptualist Elaine Sturtevant (born 1930) has been using her multidisciplinary practice to mercilessly interrogate the commercial and symbolic value of art and the male - driven art world.

Not exact matches

Constructing work from materials such as lottery tickets, trophies, travel posters, romance novels, art fair booths, and art shipping crates, Ghost of a Dream transforms these items, supposedly drained of their use - value, into sculpture, video, and two - dimensional meditations on material and symbolic value.

It was, writes African - American art specialist Halima Taha, the first major work of an African - American artist brought into the US's symbolic center of power and domestic values.

The distributed sharing economy now seems to show us that the property speculation that broke the markets in 2007 — 08 was actually no small matter at all, but actually a profound antimatter made out of regimes of visuality and visibility that are so sophisticated that we need technologies developed in the contemporary arts to untangle the meshing of their symbolic, informational, and economic values.

But a good audience thinks about the cultural and symbolic value of this exchange where we can locate the truly elevating, transformative potential of art — the combustion chamber for emotional esthetic experience.

Laid bare is what the museum typically tries its hardest to conceal from us as viewers — its own hand in the production of aura and symbolic value around works of art.