objecthood

Examples

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• "At this point in the text, Evelina seems to have triumphed over her perpetual status of objecthood through the assumption of conscious thinking about herself in time."

  Academic text (2018)

• Park especially sees Evelina as inevitably bound to a status of objecthood as she is obliged to follow the conditions of patriarchy (148).

  Academic text (2018)

• In the one, apparently accepted by Fried, the artwork becomes subject-constituting because its objecthood breaks down; it becomes literally part, an extension, of the subject's identity.

  Academic text (1994)

• If you look for an abstraction in the pure form of an idea, if you look for a method of rescuing women from their own objecthood, you will not find it in the world of dirty objects, which is really just the world.

  Blog text (34)

• A woman need not consider herself other than an object, but rather, instead of rescuing herself from the objecthood inscribed upon her by culture, heroically fighting ideas in the clouds, she may find freedom in the low world of things, in making love to things.

  Blog text (34)

• Fried's essay on "Art and Objecthood," first published in 1967, is a critique of a tendency in Minimal art towards "corrupted or perverted" modes of representation which he associates with "theatricality."

  Academic text (1993)

• In art theory, objecthood refers to how an artwork can be perceived solely as an object rather than a narrative or a subject.

• Understanding objecthood is crucial for grasping the complexities of identity and representation in modern art.

Synonyms

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• Literature

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The basic quality that makes something feel like a single object

stresses being an entity in contrast to being a person or subject

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