Sentences with phrase «utilitarian objects for»

Traditionally painted by the women of the tribes, parfleche were made as utilitarian objects for the Native Americans themselves to carry things like clothes, tools, food, and medicine on horseback — and as souvenirs sold to European Americans touring the West.

One of the school's objectives was to design and produce unique utilitarian objects for use in daily modern life.

Not exact matches

From utilitarian processes to the final appearance of designed objects ranging from jewelry to spare machine parts, get ready for a patent land grab of 3 - D intellectual property.

Mingei was an influential part of an international Arts and Crafts movement that responded to the mechanization of industrial production with a complex respect for low culture, folk produced utilitarian objects of daily usage, and mass produced objects of simple and beautiful design.

His work is untimely in the best sense, infused with nostalgia for an age (part historical, part mythical) when utilitarian objects were not just finely made but had a sacred aura.

Named for a genre of North American folk art in which everyday utilitarian objects such as vases are coated with a claylike substance and then embedded with small objects including shells, beads and buttons, Kelley's Memory Ware series consists both of wall - hung works (known as Memory Ware Flats) and freestanding pieces.

Whether clay tablets, utilitarian vessels, artifacts of decorative adornment, or objects for sheer aesthetic reward, ceramic works have contributed to material culture.

«The New - York Historical Society explores how shoes have transcended their utilitarian purpose to become representations of culture — coveted as objects of desire, designed with artistic consideration, and expressing complicated meanings of femininity, power, and aspiration for women and men alike.

With a solo show at L.A.'s Hammer Museum under his belt, the Seattle - born artist shows large - scale objects that balance architecture, sculpture, and installation; surveillance and the utilitarian design demands of the American West are strong undercurrents throughout the work, on view for the artist's first show with the gallery in Paris.

What appears to be a utilitarian object meant for functionality is a poetic sculptural gesture, and what looks to be the seductive swath of glitter reveals itself to be corporeal fluid hardened in a new form.

The Art Center first exhibited her work in 1987 as part of a three - person exhibition also organized by Richard Born who then described her tapestries as «simultaneously utilitarian objects and works of independent beauty intended both for use and appreciation at the same time.»

The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting of the gallery space to pull objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets of jute, etc — out of their utilitarian context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete objects, or things in and of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the social status of the person who might own such an object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style of living.

Without today's increasingly active craft - oriented community, products that we take for granted, such as numerous utilitarian objects built from handmade tools, rather than via machine or sweatshop, would have disappeared.

An architect and designer who specialized in shop and restaurant interiors, which are by nature ephemeral, and furniture and utilitarian objects, Kuramata brought a lyrical dreaminess to his work that proves infectious even after the unreality of Japan's «bubble economy» for which it was created has long since burst.

As for the transformation part, «Circumstance» shakes up spacial expectations by morphing the museum into a maze of intersecting installations, where craft, found, utilitarian, historical design, and everyday objects sit beside works of art.

The works create an intriguing tension around the questions of using so much material for these nonfunctional objects that masquerade in the form of almost utilitarian objects.

Duchamp himself had contributed to the movement, largely by depicting what he called «ready - mades,» (utilitarian articles such as snow shovels and bottle racks) signing the resulting pictures, and presenting the result as objects of art rather than objects made for everyday use.

The abstraction of the consumer object has been achieved through the spectacular effects of advertising, display, and presentation strategies that are directed more at motivating the viewer's desire for consumption than at demonstrating the utilitarian properties of the object.

He has done for solar panels what he did for electric cars: turned what were ugly and utilitarian into true objects of desire.