objecthood

When I make works from light boxes, or old plastic bottles with lights inside, I hope the illumination suspends their objecthood to some degree, and makes the viewer see them a little differently – see them as colours before seeing them as objects, he has explained.

Next generation turns its back on Emin and Hirst's conceptual artworks 2011

Romantic conceptions of subjectivity, objecthood, and aesthetic form — all oriented around the axis of poetological research.

Club Monad 2008

Kubovy and Van Valkenburg (2001, 2003) define objecthood in terms of figure-ground segregation, which requires perceptual grouping.

Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009

But just as Stein in more interested in the word “typewriter” rather than the object in space in her To Do, so in Tender Buttons is she less interested in the objecthood of things than in the linguistic potentiality of a thing brought into narrative flow.

Gertrude Stein greenintegerblog 2008

What this means is that the effectivity of Equiano's text lies in its power to make the reader experience objecthood.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

Necessary forms of thought such as causality and objecthood would thereby be distinguished from constraints embedded in reality, such as the determinism that was a pronounced feature of Christian Wolff's metaphysical system, derived from Leibniz, and a materialism hinted at by Gassendi and Locke.

Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008

Frege emphasized that singular term usage is in indicator of objecthood, and Quine stressed that we are ontologically committed to that over which we quantify.

Types and Tokens Wetzel, Linda 2006

And even when the films are written or directed by men, these characters radiate such self-possession-and the actresses playing them give such bravura performances-as to turn upside-down any notion of oppression or objecthood.

Bad Women Make Me Feel Good 2002

It's a tricky endeavor, trying to highlight objecthood and aesthetics while also highlighting connections of tradition, ritual, or motif across geographic and temporal thresholds.

The Seattle Times 2011

The smile becomes a branded logo, disinctions between subjecthood and objecthood no longer clear.

The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy 2009