Sentence examples for commonplace object from inspiring English sources

They weren't cogitating, recollecting, differentiating; they were seeing a commonplace object.

Peter Sarsgaard, who was the surly bad guy in "Boys Don't Cry," is physically a more commonplace object, with a boyish handsome smile and tousled dark hair.

But any replica of a commonplace object could have done this; and it was Danto, not Warhol, who provided the intellectual/aesthetic excitement by formulating and developing a brilliant answer to the question.

By selecting mass-produced, commonplace objects, Duchamp attempted to destroy the notion of the uniqueness of the art object.

For example, audible sound waves have wavelengths of about one metre, which easily diffract around commonplace objects.

Mr. Gober, whose career spans two decades, is a sculptor known for hand-crafted, psychologically potent transformations of commonplace objects.

Over time Ms. Childs's approach has shifted; while her early pieces relied on dialogue and commonplace objects, she later stripped them of such gimmicks.

He was compared at the time to the feckless Charles Dickens character Wilkins Micawber (in David Copperfield) and moreover was merchandised on commonplace objects in a 20th-century manner.

It provided a major basis for the Pop art movement of the 1950s and '60s, which took as its subject matter commonplace objects from popular culture.

These commonplace objects — widely used and rarely spoken of, often seen but infrequently displayed — are icons of far more than the phallus.

HUGO GUINNESS, the London-born artist who makes Brooklyn his home, is known for his black-and-white lino-cut prints of commonplace objects.