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  • Transience, it would seem, was and is part and parcel of textual experience.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2009

  • At 33 Portland Place, All Visual Arts 'exhibition entitled "Vanitas: The Transience of Earthly Pleasures" examines contemporary takes on the idea of the "memento mori" and includes, among others, the Chapman Brothers, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, and Paul Fryer.

    ARTINFO: ARTINFO UK's Guide to Frieze Week 2010 ARTINFO 2010

  • Transience, it would seem, was and is part and parcel of textual experience.

    A Digital Codex Mary Kate Hurley 2009

  • At 33 Portland Place, All Visual Arts' exhibition entitled "Vanitas: The Transience of Earthly Pleasures" examines contemporary takes on the idea of the "memento mori" and includes, among others, the Chapman Brothers, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, and Paul Fryer.

    ARTINFO: ARTINFO UK's Guide to Frieze Week 2010 ARTINFO 2010

  • That cataclysm, as he put it in “Transience,” an essay published in 1916, “brought our instincts to the surface, unleashed within us the evil spirits that we thought had been tamed by centuries of education.”

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • As Doctor Freud would put it, Transience value is scarcity value in time.

    Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010

  • Transience might be a pain in the arse, but at least it it's a transient pain in the arse.

    Imaginary People Fathorse 2009

  • "Beauty and Transience — Still-Lifes from the Netherlands in the State Museum Schwerin" presents 60 examples of Dutch 17th - and 18th-century still lifes, featuring work by Jan van Huysum, Pieter Claesz, Isaak Soreau and others.

    Time Off Europe Calendar 2008

  • He's written an interesting book about what might have taken place one summer between the three of them that led Freud to write his essay On Transience.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007

  • Not Quite Sure: Transience, Technology, and Intimacy skip to main

    Transience, Technology, and Intimacy Becca 2007

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