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- noun The state of being an
object
Etymologies
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Examples
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Knoebel, investigating the imageless areas between materiality, objectness, and arrangement, worked with unpainted fiberboard.
Hello Blinky Palermo 2008
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Knoebel, investigating the imageless areas between materiality, objectness, and arrangement, worked with unpainted fiberboard.
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Heidegger suggests that the "thingness of things" (167) remains remote from us as long as we conceive of things as objects: "the thingly character of the thing does not consist in its being a represented object, nor can it be defined in any way in terms of objectness, the over-againstness, of the object."
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For here beingness is claimed as ousia, idea; and following these, the objectness is claimed as condition for the possibility of the object.
Archive 2007-03-01 enowning 2007
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I was always interested in the difference between pictoriality and objectness.
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Minimalism in general was not about finish and surface (yes, call it what it is), but about objectness, even when that objectness is expressed by store-bought fluorescent lights and was in part defined by the light emitted as well as the fixtures and tubes.
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And from this it follows that the proper being of any object, its "objectness in-itself", is always in excess of any of its manifestations to another object.
Larval Subjects . 2010
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Both Knoebel and Palermo were exploring art’s essential objectness, the importance of spatial arrangement, and dynamic installation strategy.
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Both Knoebel and Palermo were exploring art’s essential objectness, the importance of spatial arrangement, and dynamic installation strategy.
Hello Blinky Palermo 2008
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As far as I’m concerned, the concept of passive “objectness” fails to capture the Marilyn effect.
All The Available Light Yona Zeldis McDonough 2002
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