This photograph did a lot to popularise its subject, and can almost be seen as a collaborative artwork: the formidable object the artist holds, her feather fur coat and her extraordinary smiling features conspire with Mapplethorpe's intensely charged monochrome.
Far more formidable objects have been collected privately by a New York couple and will be seen in "Glories of the Past: Ancient Art From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection" (at the Metropolitan Museum of Art starting Friday and running through Jan . 27.
All the same, the Decca set is a formidable and gorgeous object.
(The NMC label has just released a group of long-unheard radio and theatre scores, including Britten's sly, cabaret-tinged music for W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's 1936 play, "The Ascent of F6"). All the same, the Decca set is a formidable and gorgeous object.
Furthermore, modeling the aerodynamic forces that act on low altitude satellites is a formidable task, especially for objects of a complex shape and unknown attitude evolution.
Due to the false edge extensions inherent in data from triangulation scanners, this particular object poses a formidable challenge, yet the volumetric method behaves robustly where the zippering method fails catastrophically.
The great wave of decolonization that swept through Asia and Africa following WW2 had struck, at the tip of Africa, a formidable anomaly, if not an immovable object: a regional superpower with a modern industrial economy, a ferocious race-based police state, and a large, well-armed and deeply rooted white minority.
Under their leadership, it grew from a one-room museum with a collection of 184 objects, and deeply in debt, to a formidable institution with many masterpieces among its 4,000 objects.
Ethologically, voices are the second major channel via which we identify other people, while perceptually, individual voices (like faces) present the brain with a formidable problem of precise differentiation and identification within a class of complex sensory objects.
Proving a drone's ability to spot and avoid collisions with humans and objects (trees, powerlines, each other) – especially in more populated areas – remains a formidable challenge.
