He began it this way: Ten years ago, or thereabouts, there arose among certain artists of the younger generation a strongly held conviction that art, in order to remain spiritually uncontaminated by the evils of a wicked society, must henceforth take only the most perishable forms.
Its purest, most innocent expression — but also its most vulnerable and perishable — is the attachment formed between children and the toys we buy them.
In May 2001, near Nola, Italian archaeologists using the technique of filling every cavity with plaster or substitute compound recovered some remarkably well-preserved forms of perishable objects, such as fence rails, a bucket and especially in the vicinity thousands of human footprints pointing into the Apennines to the north.
Giving does not always having to be financial, it can be in the form of perishables or clothing.
This, after all, was an essential function of art: to preserve fleeting pleasures, to give permanent form to the perishable.
When Britain began levying VAT in 1973, the Channel Islands – a "crown dependency", which is independent from the UK and has stayed outside the EU – were allowed to pre-pay VAT because fresh flowers and cream imports were perishable and filling in customs forms would catastrophically delay their entry.
Some assets transported in a containerized form by vessels are perishable in nature.
In the seafood industry, where inventory is perishable, reverse auctions have been the most popular form of bidding at major markets from Seattle to Sydney, Wan said.
To provide certainty and permanence to his vision of the universe, he argued that all physical objects are perishable replicas that spring from unchanging, eternal, perfect forms (Green 1973).
