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".
And his new "Barack," is, press materials say, an acknowledgment of the people who have helped him in his move to New York.
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.
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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.
He delivers seamless, nearly three-hour sets of solo works and material by the Beatles, Wings and the Fireman, occasionally veering into the saccharine in sly acknowledgment of his "Silly Love Songs" puppy-dog persona.
Linkages between landscapes and human well-being are tied to specific features of the material environment but, likewise, practices and experiences play an important role in the creation and acknowledgment of such values.
In 2006, in acknowledgment of the "wealth of influences adopted by the Bungie team", a list of Bungie employees' favorite science fiction material was published on the company's website.
