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primordial
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primordial
Biology of or relating to an early stage of development


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Nevertheless, like the watercolor-paper portraits, the subjects he has chosen to render as tapestries--from the thick, cottony lightness of his dark, imploding storm clouds, as different from Ruscha's text/cloud as his faces are from Close's physiognomies, to the monumental heaviness of his two tragic rhinoceroses, their penned-up primordiality inextricable from their confined physical weight--garner their affect and their significance from the patently tactile stuff of which they are made.
Time and materials: Carol Armstrong on Craigie Horsfield and tapestry by Armstrong, Carol / Artforum International
The latter is not primordiality inherited from the past but is a set of rules created by the new cultural elites and based on class, race, or gender.
Acts of destruction by Savchenko, Andrew / Modern Age
It is useful to recall here Heidegger's elementary reminder that dis-closedness always and with equal primordiality pertains to the entirety of being-in-the-world, that existential interpretation is characteristically circular, and that locative adverbs offer a signification that may be primarily existential rather than nominal or categorical.
The dis-closure of Huckleberry Finn. Natura Naturata vs. Lumen ... by Semrau, Janusz / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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