It was a striking and brave acknowledgment of the material world.
Despite acknowledgment of raw material differences and intra-assemblage variability, whether variability in backed piece form reflects functional, economic, or stylistic variation has a paucity of empirical support.
When artist and archivist Kameelah Janan Rasheed was 12 years old, she started incessantly collecting fragments of bark, letters, and other objects as what she remembers as, "a material acknowledgment of my existence".
Proper acknowledgments of other work have been given, quotation marks are used for verbatim copying of material, and permission has been secured for material that is copyrighted, if necessary.
With that said, and with the acknowledgment that this lengthy anthology offers quite an uneven array of material, "The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith" is a fascinating artifact, and a difficult book to put down.
Such work disregards the sense of value acknowledgment that is implicit in architectural conservation and neglects the importance of material conservation.
Together, these paintings convey what was innovative about Magritte's art: its acknowledgment of the inherent bizarreness of the material world, and its insistence, far in advance of Conceptualism, that art was a world of its own, a world of ideas.
Kersa district health office also deserves acknowledgment for its material assistance.
And his new "Barack," is, press materials say, an acknowledgment of the people who have helped him in his move to New York.
Whatever his motive, MacLean's choice seems to be tacit acknowledgment of a film's power to supplant its literary source material in the popular imagination.
The e-mail message is a blunt acknowledgment of what often appeared in the fine print of Goldman's marketing materials.
