The cheerful Cappello lamp, which mixes formal materials (a marble base) and informal ones (a molded paper shade), is designed for intimate tasks.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is running an experimental two-semester MOOC, known as Change 11, a free-floating forum that exists more in the online postings and response of the students — only two of whom are getting Georgia Tech credit — than in the formal materials assigned by a rotation of professors.
He used theories of mass communication and social behaviour to analyze art, as opposed to using purely formal, material bases of analysis.
But the grandiose ambitions of the paintings in the show remain incompletely fulfilled because imperatives of speed and spontaneity required by subway painting override the kind of focused decision-making about formal, material and representational aspects that studio painting needs.
Unlike the exquisite examples of automobile or furniture design collected by the Museum of Modern Art, or the gorgeous motorcycles displayed at the Guggenheim in 1998, there is very little esthetic gratification -- formal, material or technical -- to be found here.
Brooke Davis Anderson, the museum's curator of contemporary art, has selected from the permanent collection some 60 works in which formal, material and procedural elements are asserted with particular vigor.
While the corporate world endlessly self mythologises, less formal material is available relating to the history of hacker culture, which is explored through "twelve organisational moments around hardware" presented in vitrines designed for hard-drive stacks.
The causes [aitia] in question are the four Aristotelian causes: formal, material, efficient, and final.
As an Aristotelian, Avicenna establishes formal, material, efficient and final causes.
In Aristotle's terms, in asking these questions we are seeking knowledge of the statue's four causes (aitia): the formal, material, efficient, and final.
We often find in Aristotle and in the literature influenced by him an enumeration of four types of cause: formal, material, efficient and final.
