Assemblage

Created in 1958, Sky Cathedral, a piece of assemblage art constructed by Louise Nevelson (1899-1988). As it was created in the 1950s, this piece of art falls into the contemporary period, which stretches all the way from post-war to the modern day. Regarded as one of the most successful female sculptures of the 20th century, Nevelson was born in Russia, however, at of 6, Nevelson and her family moved to America, where she would pursuit her art career. In her early days, Nevelson aspired to become an artist already, and by 1932, she joined a school of art in Germany, and became fascinated with Cubism (an art style involving heavy emphasis on simple geometrical shapes and interlocking surfaces), which became adherent in many of her pieces of…

This article discussed how any archaeologist can treat house-floor assemblages at any site like the Pompeii systemic inventories. Schiffer points out that archaeologists need to make a difference on how they decide to deal with cultural artifacts that were found in archaeological sites. Schiffer’s point was to establish why there are many reasons why an artifact might be found where it is. He also wants to demonstrate and explain why de facto assemblages are depleting. Michael Schiffer states…

preemption model, species assemblages are unstable. The dominance preemption model supposes that the first species to invade the communities of relatively few species where a single environmental factor is of dominating importance. Only a few species are fit to survive in such a habitat so they are numerically dominant. Both cold-temperature communities and polluted communities fit this profile, so we are not surprised to see limited species richness in such situations. Fits of data…

Here, multiplicities of any kind form and make an assemblage of collective agencies to create a super structure. Here assemblages make relations between stratas in a rhizome network possible. For Deleuze and Guattari “becoming-minoritarian” (106), employing variable minority elements to connect and conjugate them, leads to the creation of a specific, novel, and autonomous becoming. The creation of a somebody and not a nobody within the masses is not orderly, but always multiple as an…

ceramic production sites is rare to find. It is more fruitful to use indirect methods when evaluating ceramic production. Indirect methods usually evaluate technological aspects, like petrographic understanding the physical makeup of the clay matrix and NAA analysis that characterizes the chemical aspects of ceramic pastes. Specialization and standardization studies within a ceramic assemblage can reveal a great deal about the organization of production. Looking at the organization of ceramic…

symbol on her. There are twenty-five windows within her crown that visitors used to be about to get a view out of, however since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 the crown and the torch have been closed to the public. Lady liberty has a tablet in her left hand which reads July 4th, 1776 in roman numerals. The date on the tablet stands for independence. At the statues feet are broken chains that represent breaking free from servitude. Servitude is otherwise known as the state of being…

Exceptional monitoring efforts have established a shift from Arctic to Subarctic climate regime within the last decade (Grebmeier et al. 2006). Building on the existing 30-year record of direct observations on the water column and benthic macrofauna, I will extend this record back to the last glacial maximum using geologically young fossil material (<10,000 years old), including both skeletal death assemblages accumulating in the seabed, and recently buried fossils from sedimentary cores.…

I have choose to do the second option for this prompt and write a new essay about how Robertson’s theories relate to Malcolm X and Gees concepts. The main points i would like to talk about are how her theories of Transfer, Assemblage, and Remix tie into and go against that of which Gee has proposed and to the story of Malcolm X. Transfer as Robertson puts it is using past knowledge and putting it to use in a new situation(pg-187). Gee talks about many key aspects of writing such as Mushfake,…

when “texts refer to other texts and in fact rely on them for meaning”. Intertext is found virtually everywhere and has existed as long as writing has. The idea of using connections between other texts in order to interpret the meaning of something adds credibility and strength to arguments. Porter makes this connection by also stating that “All texts are interdependent: We understand a text only insofar as we understand its precursors”. This means that the assumptions that we make about a piece…

Maclean’s methodology is collective and abstract, with his construction of assemblage and found objects as a repository of collective memory. He recreates living, human stories with nature in these constructions. In Leviathan Elegy, the ship-like assemblage is accompanied by small round images that show abstract portrays of human figures bowing, engaged in some forms of rituals, and numerous columns. Therefore, the human relationship with the natural world is revealed in Leviathan Elegy in terms…