Like Mies, who preferred the term "building art"to architecture, Moneo embraces material construction as architecture's basic fact.
Embracing material from all the fronts of the war alongside the words of those who took part to answer the hunger for information and knowledge about these most brutalising events.
But if everybody's laughing -- even soccer moms at the multiplex -- what boundaries do you have to push to achieve a cult film, which appeals to an audience hip enough to embrace material that offends others?
A few Internet properties have been optioned for television and film, but entertainment executives have been slow to embrace material that is often produced by unknowns, whose content may be inappropriate by mainstream standards and whose fan base is still tiny by a television yardstick.
Its topics include art, literature, theater, music, philosophy, theology, and history, and it embraces material objects as well as texts; women as well as men; merchants, workers, and audiences as well as patrons; Jews and Muslims as well as Christians.
The Library's Islamica Collections embrace materials from North Africa.
These series of small works embrace materials as diverse as coffee cans, urethane foam and paper bags.
He became a key figure of the vibrant post-war New York art scene, a sculptor who eschewed the abstract expressionist love of paint and canvas to embrace materials including car parts.
"Peter did his best with this material and obviously audiences have embraced this material to the tune of billions of dollars by going and seeing it again and again and becoming mildly obsessed with it," Mortensen said at the time.
I know there are For Colored Girls fans who are wondering, "Why the hell is he doing For Colored Girls?" but I really really embraced the material and listened to the stories and the cast I think is going to blow people away.
And now the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington is showing "Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-72," an exhibition of the group of Italian artists who shunned the polished art object and embraced ordinary materials.
