Word: objectional
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Against this bleak picture, Andre's face looms with its stylized series of commands: Buy. Obey. The verbs' object is, of course, left blank. In the end, it seems, what we have bought into is not the product or the image at all but the movement--a movement which, ironically, consists exactly of those who have bought into the image. Postmodern cynics might even say we have bought into buying itself. Caveat emptor...
...their ability to decide between Bush and Gore (and, in a few cases, between Gore and Buchanan) has made them the object of both national affection and hatred...
...these artists, rather than their different local impetuses. Whether in South Korea or Argentina, these conceptual artists sought to broaden the scope of what art is and could be. Their work is characterized by intense political, social and economic engagement, by a running critique on the commodification of art objects and by the involvement of the audience. Whether in performance art, mail art, language art or manipulation of found objects, these artists saw their work as vehicles for dissent, stand-ins for forbidden speech and catalysts for thought. This is, in itself, another major problem with Global Conceptualism: the contradiction...
...commanding presence to a slow first act. Aside from a clever rendition of the classic "Hey Big Spender,"-a ballet bar has never been corrupted so well-the pace of the first act does not get going until Perwin arrives and provides Flader's Charity with an object for her romantic frustrations...
...author and the object of his affections SUDDENLY, IT'S 2000. AFTER 15 YEARS, the band I've been leading breaks up. But by a stroke of luck, a friend has recently bequeathed me an old ZB Custom pedal steel, and I figure, what better time to tackle my old nemesis. It turns out my gift guitar was abused as a young instrument, and I send it to Nashville to be worked on by veteran steel repairman Mike Cass, a classic tinkerer in the Bud Isaacs mode, who has a few extra metal rods custom-made for me for what...