inscription v. description

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Inscription; To mark a surface with words, characters, etc., especially in a durable or conspicuous way (Geometry) To draw or delineate one figure within another figure so that the inner lies entirely within the boundary of the outer, touching it at as many points as possible "The true inscription cannot be thought of apart from that whereon it stands." - Gotthold Lessing

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Inscription; To mark a surface with words, characters, etc., especially in a durable or conspicuous way

(Geometry) To draw or delineate one figure within

another figure so that the inner lies entirely within the boundary of the outer, touching it at as many points as

possible

"The true inscription cannot be thought of apart from that whereon it stands." - Gotthold Lessing

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Marcel Duchamp

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Banksy

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Tarin Towers

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Bruce Nauman

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DavidNielsen

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Karen Justis

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Meg Hitchcock

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Glenn Ligon

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Betty Levy

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Jane Tong

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Miriam Londono

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Lesley Dill

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Description: Depiction or account of ;

representation or delineation by elaboration

"Objective description" - the artist/writer regards himself as a kind of

camera

"Impressionistic description “- focuses on the mood or feeling the object evokes in the observer rather than upon the object itself

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Illustrations for Ciecro’s Aratea 9th C France

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Illustrations for Ciecro’s Aratea 9th C France

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Lee Trites

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Lorna Simpson

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Robert Mars

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Glenn Hirsch

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Ellie Wilder

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Barbara Kruger

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Squeak C arnwath

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Cate White