On the same floor, Matt Hoyt's three-dimensional compositions of diminutive objects arranged on wooden planes are both drawing and sculpture.
Such diminutive objects are the newest, and most baldly irreverent, expressions of a wave of Christian marketing that has overtaken mainstream outlets like Wal-Mart and Kmart.
Calling attention to the ritual function of these diminutive objects makes a crucial point about Egyptian art as a whole, one that illustrates the gap between how we see it now and how its makers saw it then.
With 5 gyroscopes, 2 tilt sensors, dual redundant motors and 10 microprocessors, the transporter, which can travel at up to 12.5 miles an hour, is a diminutive object of envy in an age of Hummers and Lincoln Navigators.
Among Rizk's breathtaking ceramics and celadons included at the Armory, one diminutive object is worth the price of admission alone a subtly painted ivory model for a carpet (1736-1795), undoubtedly from the imperial palace.
The science of black holes excels at superlatives, with the simple reason that nothing is ever diminutive about these objects except their girth.
After half an hour of climbing, we look behind and observe that the truck and trailer have taken on the diminutive, toylike quality of objects seen from an airplane.
For how else but by brandishing such large objects can a diminutive toddler get his father's or mother's attention?
As she discovered, after writing The House on Mango Street primarily in English, "the syntax, the sensibility, the diminutives, the way of looking at inanimate objects" were all characteristic of Spanish.
Calling themselves, for obvious reasons, the Doll Family, the Schneiders cheerfully exploited their diminutive proportions to baffle their audiences: Were they still objects, brought to life?
Analogue Books 39 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH1 2QB, 0131-220 0601 Run by husband and wife Russell and Julie Ferguson, this diminutive shop concentrates on art and design books, displayed like objects in a gallery rather than overwhelming rows of spines.
