object of art

“The object of art is to stretch out to the ultimate realities through the medium of beauty. The duty of the composer is to find the mot juste. It does not matter if this word has been said a thousand times before as long as it is the right thing to say at that moment.”

Some countries wanted to see Germany return artefacts and art works and Mr Garsha argues that it was Milner's description of the skull as a "craniological curiosity" that allowed it to be seen as an object of art.

“A book itself is an object of art, from its binding to its font,” Young said at a dedication ceremony Friday.

Intermittently, though, it is an incisive meditation on age and youth, the female body as an object of art and desire, the easy power of nubile beauty and what’s left when that goes away.

Calling for a repeal, she said, “If J. P. Morgan or any other public-spirited citizen gives a single object of art to the Metropolitan Museum in New York or any other public institution he or they should be examined by a commission in lunacy.”