Word: conceptions
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...Therein lies the potential problem with the OneSeason concept. The market is totally dependent on the fluctuating passions of a group of people willing to play a game. An invisible share of Peyton Manning has no underlying value. "This is the ultimate 'beauty contest' market," says Raymond Sauer, a sports economist at Clemson University. "If there are no fundamentals backing it up, something like relative productivity among a pool of athletes, the market will ultimately collapse. It just seems like a very odd game to play, and to set up in the first place...
...Salad Days’ because I noticed I have an interest in conjuring memory in my pieces,” Hook says. “Our culture seems to want to pinpoint an era of time. I feel like there’s a tragedy in that concept. Both humor and tragedy in that concept...
...Chinese readers could interpret the concept of an unreadable language as the mythos of a lost history,” Gu noted in an interview with Art Journal, “while non-Chinese readers could interpret it as a misunderstanding of an ‘exotic’ culture...
...Bull Market in which 70 percent of all collectors of contemporary Chinese art have suddenly appeared over the past three years. It is as if somewhere in between the end of the Cultural Revolution and now, the Chinese artistic community drove up to Lookout Point with that nebulous concept called “art commerce” and gave it up on the first date...
...elevate the value of the imagery. Davis says that this frame is meant to comment on conformity within society. “Consumer culture has people so framed because the particular thing we want is first made but then sold to us in a particular context—a concept then chosen by the company...