Concept is the soul of video art, that is why an electronic copier can be deemed to be an art object.

观念是影像艺术的灵魂，这是何以一件电子复制品具有艺术含义的关键。

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It has no any logical meaning or practical purpose, just stands in one of numerous Russian villages as an art object, made of wood as everything other around it.

它就像一座木桥从山坡上探向另一端，却突然半途断了。它没有任何逻辑意义或实际意义，只是作为一种艺术品矗立在众多俄罗斯村庄中的一个村庄里，全部用木头做成。

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"But I'm trying to make money from my art?!", you object.

“但是，我只是想从我的艺术品中赚钱？ ！”你反对道。

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The first sentence of your passage: "There is no art but one delivered to mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object."

你们篇子上的第一句话：，“只有一种艺术,当它传播到人间时,不带有自然的痕迹“

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Usually viewers are the ones that look at art, but what we are trying to do is reinvert the viewing perspective so it's the art object that is doing the viewing.

WSJ: Public Arts Projects Twist the City's Skyline

On a slightly smaller scale, there's the huge Siemens breaker I saw at the Bonneville Power Administration. (If you're thinking of buying one as an art object, ask your dealer for a Siemens 72.5 kV SF6 sulfur hexafluoride power circuit breaker).

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The work, an interactive multi-media installation incorporating audio, fine art photography and object sculpture, is on show at the The Briggait Gallery, Glasgow from 27 February to 22nd March 2013 having been shown in scaled down form at HMP Barlinnie last year.

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