As his work addressed less controversial subjects, Zhang often received the support of the Chinese government.
Gormley said the work addressed a simple question: where does the human project fit inside the bigger question of the planet's future?
Mr. Serra's defenders did not help the cause by saying that the work addressed the condition of alienation in modern society.
"Anita Steckel was a visionary artist whose work addressed issues of gender, pleasure and sexual politics well before the founding of the women's art movement," he said.
It was a quietly powerful story narrated by a Lebanese woman translator; the work addressed war, art, and the life of women in Lebanese culture.
Yet his silences loom large in a work addressed to the general reader, and make one question whether it will ever be possible for Nietzsche to be released from the history that he inherited and helped to shape.
Fouchier said his work addressed a crucial question of basic science: "Scientists didn't really know what makes any virus airborne in mammals so we were really in the dark.
He then read aloud a poem that was written to commemorate the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who died while storming Berlin in 1945 – a moving work addressed to young German women.
A more extensive use of Mesopotamian celestial omens is attested by the fragments of a book written in Greek in the 2nd century bc and claimed as a work addressed to a King Nechepso by the priest Petosiris.
Although much of his work addressed his personal angst in highly stylized self-portraits, he also alluded to African American historical figures, including jazz musicians, sports personalities, and writers.
Danh Vo's work addressed community identity as well, as seen in We the People (2010 13), for which he commissioned a full-scale copper replica, in fragments, of Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi's iconic Liberty Enlightening the World that he simultaneously installed at sites spanning the globe.
