Sentence examples for ephemeral materials from inspiring English sources

Metro Pictures provided a nearly 40-year retrospective of the local hero B. Wurtz, whose delicate assemblies of ephemeral materials just say no, with wonderful poetry, to the costly materiality and outsize scale of so much contemporary art.

In this entertaining video, the artists have recorded a series of staged and carefully timed chain reactions using ephemeral materials.

Although Mr. Oiticica's main work at the time was utopian, Mondrian-inspired abstract painting, he also experimented with ephemeral materials and tactile forms.

As a sculptor, I work with ephemeral materials such as live plants, water, and wind; I construct sprawling compositions with ambiguous beginnings and endings.

Atmospheric effects achieved with lighting, diaphanous or ephemeral materials or lasers, and fiber-optic cables lend the museum a runway glamour.

Ms. Liddell has always been interested in making the most of fragile, ephemeral materials, with colored string and thread, wire and especially paper high on the list.

Erasmus was a best-selling author, as was Luther, but ephemeral material supplied the main business of the early publishing industry.

Despite being considered a fragile or ephemeral material, good-quality paper that receives proper handling and environmental stability has been known to survive for over one thousand years.

This is due not so much to the changes ensuing from contact decisive as they have been as to the preservation of otherwise ephemeral material by Western collectors and researchers.

There is inevitably a more than customary built-in obsolescence to a book that studies largely ephemeral material about a culture and society that is constantly and rapidly changing.

All of these artists are represented in the current roundup, although the show's real interest lies in humbler, more ephemeral material — posters, news releases and photographs of the huge group shows for which Exit Art became well known — that provides the month-to-month, year-to-year record of the gallery's life over changing times.