object of study

At least until recently, the project was largely left to philosophers, who often were only marginally better than others at clarifying their object of study.

For a few multiculturalist years our smaller, adventurous art spaces experimented with bringing spirituality into their premises, not just as an object of study but as an active practice, a way to think about what art is, or can be.

He continued: “When we observed how the responses changed in autumn 2019, and that young people themselves were mentioning Greta Thunberg and the importance of addressing climate and nature issues, we thought this would be an interesting object of study.”

Often the camera’s object of study is not a person but a landscape, or traces that people who have passed through that landscape left behind: a pair of glasses, a backpack, a footprint, a cellphone — objects getting bleached in the sun or covered over by windswept dirt.

For some like Masters, the storm was an object of study, promising insights into everything from the adequacy of building codes to the fate of sand dunes during storms.