"Many people consider the memorandum to be a compromise agreement, because the original Chinese government request asked for an import ban that included nearly all archaeological material, works of art or other objects made before the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911," said Dan Monroe, director of the Peabody Essex.
To conceive art as the craft of emotional stimulation or arousal whether for the sake of amusement or magic is to regard the material work of art as the intended means towards a preconceived end.
The template of cause-and-effect, and of a dualism of material and expressive content (on the subtractive model), and the construal of the material work of art as a means to the production of a separately-identifiable intangible, experiential end, are all out of place here.
Our suppliers joined in the hunt, but the raw materials worked for only about half of our products.
This paper presents a comparison between two different analytical procedures based on GC-MS for the analysis of saccharide materials in works-of-art.
Artists turn thrown-away materials into works of art.
Through Sept. 9. "Making the Most of It," activity turning thrown-away materials into works of art.
Obviously, such a procedure excludes the possibility of direct, personal expression through the handling of the materials; thus, works of this kind usually have the same anonymous, impersonal quality as architecture and industrial design.
He hopes to inspire people to have fun with trash, and encourage the use of recycled materials in works of art.
Since the late 1980s, when it was generally agreed that microorganisms played a considerable role in the preservation of art objects and historical buildings, significant effort was applied to ascertaining the biodiversity in the component materials of works of art.
