In a world overrun with entertainment options, these activities have the potential to foster people's attachment to the arts.
It is partly this attachment to Russian folk art that separates Tatlin and his constructivist colleagues from the western avant gardes, on which they also drew.
Surely Laumann is inviting viewers to question our modern attachment to objects and to art itself.
But even corporate art curators (Ms. Trombly was a pioneer of the discipline) who subspecialize in art-as-product licensing arrangements -- like Fabergé egg knockoffs incarnated as evening bags with four-figure price tags -- probably develop sentimental attachments to the art they catalog, display, lecture on and, if they're theme dressers, wear.
According to this approach, our attachment to a work of art depends on our understanding of its artistic and historical background, which offsets any difficulty we may have perceiving it.
One suspects hyperbole here, for Porter's attachment to real things in art was philosophically profound: subjects and themes were not chosen merely as vehicles for formal exploration but had personal associations, as Justin Spring, also the author of books on Wolf Kahn and Jackson Pollock, frequently shows in detail.
Fraught with unresolved dreamlike narratives and psychosexual tensions, these works draw on the Surreal, the Gothic and the Victorian and also reflect the Quays' deep attachment to the literature, graphic arts, animation and music of Eastern Europe, which they have cultivated since their art-school days.
Attach concentrator attachment to blow drier.
He shared their attachment to nature and helped promote the art of Cole and Durand, founders of the Hudson River School.
