Taking a cue from the practice of most ethnographical museums, the exhibition does not deal with its objects purely on aesthetic terms, but puts them in a context, here the highly particularized one of southwestern Indian belief.
Such units would be in some respect "hard" conventional objects (as opposed to "soft" conventional objects, purely stemming from the focus and interest of human minds): such units would still impact and emerge from the ecological and genetic processes mentioned by Ford Doolittle, even if no human investigators was around to study them.
Purely verbal audiovisual stimuli were simultaneously presented spoken and written object names, purely nonverbal stimuli were photographs of objects simultaneously presented with naturally occurring object sounds.
"If an object is purely aesthetic it will be protected by copyright, but if the object does something, it is not the kind of thing that can be protected".
"If an object is purely aesthetic it will be protected by copyright, but if the object does something, it is not the kind of thing that can be protected," he said in the interview.
Frequently, the particular form of this mistake is to think that an attitude towards the subject-matter embodied in a work is rightly taken as the object of purely aesthetic criticism.
Although this characterization of abstract objects is purely negative indicating what such objects are not in the context of mathematics it captures the crucial features the objects in questions are supposed to have.
Works of art are, Langer says, "presentational symbols" whose relation to their objects is purely morphological.
Their idea is to show the beauty to be found in objects of purely mechanical manufacture, such as sauce pans, and electric-light switches, etc.
THE ERNIE EFFECT While the rubber-toy business boomed in the final decades of the 19th century, most objects were purely functional (like chew toys) or pretty unattractive.
