Works by 20th-century artists from Georgia O'Keeffe to Bruce Nauman attest to the influence of these objects but rarely equal their seamless unity of material, technique and expression.
Our designs will advance the concept of the unity of people, materials and environment which function as a greater whole.
It does this by revealing the overriding unity of visual material in most African cultures, the seamless progression from objects of physical adornment to those of mundane use to those of spiritual worship.
A gnostic and alchemical symbol, Ouroboros expresses the unity of all things, material and spiritual, which never disappear but perpetually change form in an eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation.
The result of this analysis is a conception of the work of art as an ideal of homogeneous unity of form and material.
It is easy to see how this hylomorphic analysis explains the unity of a substantial material particular, since neither the matter nor the form of such a particular is by itself a single material individual, and it is only when they are taken together that they constitute such an individual.
Another key idea embodied in the design of the temple is the unity of spiritual with material, and service with worship.
But to make such distinctions requires a sensitive understanding of a building as an artistic unity, not as a set of materials.
His goal has always been an outlandish if not off-putting unity of method, meaning and material.
Presenting yet another somewhat outlandish unity of method, meaning and material, they are part Mondrian, part Ellsworth Kelly, part Americana and, briefly, part hobby kit -- until their elegance and idiosyncratic bravura sinks in.
