Sentences with phrase «turned facsimiles»

Although the technology for transmitting printed images and texts over distance dates from the nineteenth century — a machine by Scottish mechanic Alexander Bain patented in 1843 — it was the introduction of the modern fax through commercially available machines in the 1970s that turned facsimiles into a ubiquitous communications medium for international business.

Not exact matches

This was not easy, as the purchase of a car with an XM radio years before had turned me into a reasonable facsimile of a sports talk radio addict.

The name translates as «our flayed lord,» and the sculpture depicts him dressed in an oddly bobbled tunic — the clay facsimile, it turns out, of a human skin turned inside out.

The younger Jean Louise — the Scout whom we met in Mockingbird — is described as «an overalled, fractious, gun - slinging creature», who has now turned into «a reasonable facsimile of a human being».

Tiny Racers takes the stunt racing gameplay and moves the camera to a top - down view, turning Grand Theft Auto V's online circuits into a throwback facsimile of Death Rally or Micro Machines.

With each turn, selected works will be replaced by printed facsimiles that document their previous iteration, which then provide a backdrop for the new installation.

The designers have deftly turned their hand to this somewhat conceptual framework, reinforcing the ideas of facsimiles of facsimiles through clever typographic overlays and abstractions of the images contained within.

By exposing the formal construction of his works — paintings of facsimile paintings reproduced on film and in turn photographed from a computer screen — Tuymans at once creates a trompe l'oeil effect in which all media appear simulated, while also exaggerating their technical differences.