With its accessible texts, her work disputes the traditional notion of art as a rarefied object, and though some critics are put off by Holzer's prosy presentations, she is indisputably an art-world star.
Similarly, an analysis of the concept, say, of existence "cannot consist just in acts of contemplating a rarefied object, withdrawn, like a coin in a museum, from its native commercial transactions" (1962b, 185).
Lacking any interest in the fetish of photography as rarefied object, his images were processed in high street chemists, cheaply and with little thought.
Only a person of significant standing could afford to own rarefied objects like these.
These are rarefied objects for the cognoscenti — like the Italian antique dealer who bought a book with its number corresponding to his wife's date of birth.
For example, the finest automotive pieces are now commanding prices on a par with the most rarefied objects in any other collecting field.
It's one of the wonders of the exhibition that the word can be applied to a collection of grand and rarefied objects that make an incredibly vivid history lesson.
The latest, and most precious, effort to fashion beauty from the barrel of a gun comes by way of the society jeweler James de Givenchy and his collaborators at Fonderie 47, a company in New York that uses mangled steel from weapons seized in African war zones to create jewels and rarefied objects.
This rarefied aura created for the objects is amplified by their subjects.
In this rarefied company, Nauru stands out.
