Sentence examples for material histories from inspiring English sources

And such is the purest validation of the metaphysical worth of stuff — decluttering is virtuous, sure, but ridding ourselves of material histories can feel like dismantling our own skeletons, bone by bone.

But their tea chests containing household items had false bottoms under which was propaganda material – histories of the South African Communist party's role in the anti-apartheid struggle and a comic book explaining how to resist the regime, by force if necessary.

By weaving theoretical insights through the socionatural history of British Columbia, I demonstrate how a gramscian sensibility pushes us to take seriously the relationality of socionatural processes and the embededdness of concepts in material histories.

Coolidge deftly compresses social, scientific, aesthetic and material histories into otherwise banal pictures.

I'm interested in how material histories conform or clash both away from keyboard and on the net.

Each artwork includes the phrase "I Want…" carved into the surface of the canvas, and then surrounded by material histories collected by Rosen.

Mr. Laib continues the attempt to overcome material history with matters of the spirit.

These paintings are dismal rafts, laden with their own material history - embodiments, perhaps, of what WG Sebald called a Natural History of Destruction.

But Mr. Sack, who is associate director of the Material History of American Religion Project, based at Vanderbilt University's Divinity School, has more than teasing in mind.

As I suggested, today and earlier this week, regarding "Meek's Cutoff," the narrow representation of material history serves a programmatic view of political art.

The members of the far right who throng together on the Internet are flailing for material history to orient themselves around, in search of an "authentic" racialized self.