The more than 250 objects on view include examples of one of the firm's specialties, micromosaics: minuscule, highly labor-intensive mosaic insets on gold that depicted classical, religious and other motifs; carved gems like cameos and intaglios, and stagey productions of shimmering gems in ornate, drop-dead settings for its really privileged clients.
Hermann's "spare and literal" prose "achieves a fullness that seems almost magically spun out of the dead air of her settings," Melanie Rehak wrote here in 2002.
A random sequence of scenes, trivial or tragic, viatic or static, fantastic or familiar, featuring more or less plausible events patched up with grotesque details, and recasting dead people in new settings".
In spite of all this emptiness, Hermann's writing, which is spare and literal (at least in Margot Bettauer Dembo's engaging translation), achieves a fullness that seems almost magically spun out of the dead air of her settings; she's a master at capturing what teems beneath placid surfaces -- what Wallace Stevens once referred to as "the nothing that is".
Survey participants (N = 2701) rated photographs of forest settings with dead wood digitally removed substantially higher than the corresponding original non-edited photographs.
Khaki: Good for dead foliage and desert settings.
Gates and instrument settings were set according to forward and side scatter characteristics, and populations were gated to exclude dead or clumped cells.
Is it too much to imagine that that Dead Man Running's London and Manchester settings might be custom-designed to meet the requirements of two aspiring young thesps by the names of Cole and Ferdinand?
I don't know if her intended target was my Nikon, but she hit it dead on and disabled my ISO settings.
By integrating the thermal comfort model, the control actions of TCLs are driven by the calculated comfort level of the occupants instead of thermostats settings and indoor temperature dead-band.
Mickey Strider photographs himself as a dead body in a multitude of dramatic settings, from the profound to the profane.
