Agalmatophilia is the sexual attraction to a statue, doll, or other figurative object.
Yet the changability of these artworks, whether they be representations of objects, figurative art, or portraits either of well-known icons or others, highlights the plasticity of the building blocks, which can be taken apart and rebuilt, and the way we create and model icons, ourselves and objects in our ever-changing society".
Though they can appear compellingly fragile, figurative puppetry and nonfigurative-object theater are robust media for formal abstraction.
This upcoming show is of small works that are object-like, figurative, almost clay-like.
Pointing to "Figure" (catalog No. 34), a small staff-like figure adorned with figurative carvings and feathers, Dr. Clark said: "This is an object that would be used by a diviner, a ritual specialist, a person who had knowledge of medicines and the supernatural world.
Considering their literal and figurative positions atop pedestals, historical objects in museums, films, or books can seem like infallible sources of knowledge.
Because Islam discouraged figurative imagery, the small geometric object of dark opaque glass with red and green wavy threads of color is not easy to distinguish as a chess piece (possibly a pawn).
Its wearer is what traditionally makes the difference here, turning an inanimate pimped-out object into the figurative crown that it is.
"No Hotel," the new opera by the multidisciplinary cabal Object Collection, lays its figurative cards on the table in relatively short order.
