Sentences with phrase «unique aesthetic object»

In 1977, his deceptively simple act of re-photographing advertising images from The New York Times Magazine and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new, critical approach to making art — one that questioned notions of originality and the privileged status of the unique aesthetic object.

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It's hard for me to imagine how the dominant, non-formalist form of film studies, with its systemic handicap of abstaining from value judgment and not being able to treat the film as an independent aesthetic object capable of producing an infinite variety of affects, can be terribly instructive for the enterprise of film criticism, which necessarily calls for a hierarchy of values on the part of the practitioner and his / her acknowledgement being a sentient, unique subject capable of being transformed by the film.

Olga de Amaral transforms two - dimensional textiles into luminous three - dimensional objects by combinung diverse materials, including fiber, gesso, acrylic and precious metals, to make works of unique aesthetic power.

As a unique figure in this important history, Audrey Flack has broken through numerous barriers — personal, political, technical, and aesthetic — ranging from feminism in art to heightening our awareness of intimate objects in relation to history and the present.