In an email to THUMP, Loudpvck say that "Traffic"—their new collaboration with the Montreal duo Botnek was conceived in order "to figure out how to break the most speakers possible with one song".
One evening's casualty was "The Clearing (Composition With Nine Figures)," conceived in 1950, a bronze consisting of nine gaunt female figures on a rectangular base.
The iconic Marlboro man figure was conceived in 1954 to promote filtered cigarettes among men, which were considered feminine and had only been marketed at women previously.
Henry Moore's monumental bronze "Reclining Figure: Festival" conceived in 1951 and cast in an edition of five plus one artist's proof illustrates what buyers are prepared to target at any cost in today's market.
Two smiling figures, originally conceived in 1857 and 1863 by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, were carved in marble in 1873.
An extraordinary sideboard conceived in 1969 by Paul Evans, a leading figure in the American Craft Movement of the 1970s, is one of the great works from that period.
Their figures are merely life size but conceived in a transcendently sophisticated, courtly style.
Part artwork, part memorial, part journalistic campaign, it was conceived in defiant riposte to the authorities who refused to release clear figures.
Five per cent more babies are conceived in Valentine's week than in an average week, according to NHS figures analysed for the first time.
When we controlled for seasonality using quarterly indicators, 87.6% of the infants exposed in the third trimester were conceived in Q1 (January March), and 94.8% of those exposed in the second trimester were conceived in Q2 (April–June) (Table 1, Figure 2).
