In order to restrict VARA's reach, the Act was limited to preventing destruction of works of art that had attained a "recognized stature". 17 U.S.C. sec.
The crime novelist Patricia Cornwell's purchase and destruction of works by the British artist Walter Sickert in pursuit of her theory that the disturbing early-20th century painter of music hall audiences and seedy interiors was Jack the Ripper nauseated many, me included.
We don't advocate the destruction of working gadgets, but when they're broken, go nuts, like the guy in the video above.
The result is often iconoclasm - the destruction of works of art - which Mary believes can lead on to new forms of creativity.
The proposal is a Trojan horse: It appears to be a gift, in the form of middle class tax relief, but would, if enacted, lead to the destruction of working Americans' fundamental economic security.
He has no apparent sympathy for the working class borrowers induced by fraudulent lenders and brokers to borrow money to buy homes (at the peak of the bubble) that they could never afford to repay -- and the inevitable destruction of working class wealth.
It turned out that "Dialled" was an oddly perfect hymn to the humdrum self-destruction of working a shit job, and the potential for self-reinvention that rolls round at clocking off time.
My work also foregrounds the ephemerality of memory through the destruction of the work, from which only the photograph survives.
shall have the right... to prevent any destruction of a work of recognized stature, and any intentional or grossly negligent destruction of that work is a violation of that right". 17 U.S.C. sec.
