Multiples - Sculpture + Identity - Oakland Campus - Guides at University of Pittsburgh

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Arts, Modern --21st century.
Multiple art --Exhibitions
Sculpture, Modern--21st Century

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Terms and Concept Essays

"Multiples" (Oxford Companion to Western Art)
A definition of the term from the Oxford Companion of Western Art, outlining the historical trajectory of the term within contemporary art movements.
Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: The Artist and 3D Printer
An exploration of computational sculpture, objects that are shaped by computational processes.
Autographic art / Allographic art distinction
An ontological division proposed by Goodman in order to explain the difference between works of art that are notational and those that are not.

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Sculpture + Identity - Oakland Campus: Multiples