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"palimpsest" Definitions
  1. an ancient document from which some or all of the original text has been removed and replaced by a new text
  2. (formal) something that has many different layers of meaning or detail

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RED BANK "Palimpsest," works by Manda Gorsegner and Robert O'Connor.
Still, the portrait accrues meaning when viewed as a palimpsest.
RED BANK "PALIMPSEST," works by Manda Gorsegner and Robert O'Connor. Feb.
Bach's compositions are but the initial layer of his aural palimpsest.
Scarred repeatedly, it is a kind of palimpsest of French history.
Like the other works in the exhibition, "Luncheon Painting" is a palimpsest.
In retrospect, the new maps of 1919 were something of a palimpsest.
A palimpsest is the faint influence of the past on a present iteration.
I tear off two more pages until it becomes a palimpsest of nothing.
It's a palimpsest of people, places, and changing attitudes, all colliding in real time.
Levy is fond of the word palimpsest, which appears in the first paragraph of the preface and several times throughout the book, but palimpsest — something reused or altered but still bearing outlines of its earlier form — is not quite how the book reads.
By a playful amalgam of semiotics with scatology, Twombly redevised history painting into palimpsest poop.
By this playful amalgam of semiotics with scatology, Twombly redevised history painting into palimpsest poop.
Inadvertently, a history of the gallery has been revealed, the room functioning as a palimpsest.
I wanted to shake people's shoulders and scream, Everything in the world is a palimpsest, motherfuckers!
Like the establishment itself, Tuxedo's menu is a palimpsest, revealing both the past and the present.
The effect isn't that of a palimpsest, where the overlays indicate a history of afterthoughts and erasures.
Wilson's is original by virtue of being primarily an investigation into the extraordinary "palimpsest" of his mind.
Faint lines visible in the bottom layer appear and disappear like the palimpsest of an underlying historical city.
"Jimmy Corrigan," Ware's 2000 breakthrough, was an Oedipal saga of patrimony as failure, with Chicago as gorgeous palimpsest.
This panorama emphasizes the visual ambiguities of the palimpsest-city, an assemblage of varied architectural styles and periods.
Thinking aloud with an amazing energy of mind, he rolled out before us the palimpsest of the historical present.
Instead, it output an amalgam of green images, creating a sort of blown out palimpsest of images—or memories.
What remains is a palimpsest of culture and history, as layered as a cross section of the earth itself.
It is a palimpsest upon the wall, a reminder of former glory and a bequest for a better future.
There was Lemonade (2016), a palimpsest of Beyoncé's heartbreak and allusions to both familial and historical depictions of black womanhood.
The palimpsest changed hands many times over the centuries and became its own little moldy ecosystem, which further damaged the writing.
His extraordinary palimpsest includes a magical "traveler's notebook" and a poem whose aura "travels just ahead of the traveler," lighting the way.
Rather than being told where to go and how to move through space, one is sent tunneling through the palimpsest of history.
Spread out over the length of a wall, Harsono's sepia-toned digital prints, combined with the spectral drawings, make his palimpsest come alive.
Their world may be opening up and the skies all aglow, but the ambition theme, lurking beneath like a palimpsest, tells viewers another story.
We looked out over the Mets district, a palimpsest of red tile and concrete housing blocks behind which the Acropolis rises like a revelation.
A young Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing by then relatively established Willem de Kooning and declared the palimpsest to be his own creative work.
The gold, blue, black, yellow, orange, white, purple, and red vinyl stripes overlaid upon each other form a colorful palimpsest of sports field boundary lines.
In Inheritance From Mother, the lines between past and present blur; the East is transposed like a palimpsest over West; and life shades into literature.
People treat her like a sexual palimpsest, her beauty and vulnerability making her instantaneously attractive to men who project their fantasies and desires onto her.
Each project has been its own experiment — a palimpsest of texts ("Sidewalks") or a collaboration with readers in serial format ("The Story of My Teeth").
He's spent the past four years traveling around Europe and beyond shooting the photos in Palimpsest, the ongoing series he calls the work of a lifetime.
Researchers have even discovered a palimpsest of a manuscript of Archimedes' principles that had been erased and overwritten with the text of a Christian prayer book.
Marvel's newest Netflix show, The Defenders, brings together four series—Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil, and Iron Fist—into a motley palimpsest of butt-kicking misfits.
Perhaps the most famous example of the field's potential was when it was applied to the Archimedes Palimpsest, a gorgeous parchment codex with an extraordinary history.
So Blight's biography, particularly in its early pages, is necessarily a kind of palimpsest: he dives back and forth beneath Douglass's texts, sifting and sorting and weaving.
It's a reminder that history doesn't belong to any single group of people, and nor is it static; it is a palimpsest, and all of us its authors.
The Apse's imagery (if we can call it that) — like "Fluence" — has a boundless, palimpsest-like, and explosive quality that requires visual stamina, but it is not fully abstract.
In my fraught early teens the kachina doll became a palimpsest onto which I transcribed alternate versions of my family life; a small treasure that represented a happier memory.
Instead, the Italians have learned that every building, every structure, is a palimpsest, and that their lives within it, superannuated or brief, contribute another layer to its long narrative.
He also began his "Transparencies"—palimpsest-like pictures made by overlaying images, a trope that was revived in the sixties, to sensational effect, by the German artist Sigmar Polke.
Some proposals for a two-state solution have looked to the pre-1967 borders as a palimpsest over which the lines of a new Palestinian state might be sketched.
The former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles boss, whose 2015 palimpsest on the need for consolidation shook the car industry, must be blessing from above the automaker's talks with European rival Renault.
The exhibition at Invisible Exports, Cheap Suitcase, reflects on how the body is a record of a singular life, but also a random palimpsest of whatever genetic heritage one has.
These lines and rings showed the landscape to be a palimpsest, the page of a book written and erased and rewritten over and over, a mess of crosshatches and scribbles.
The comics I read as a kid were an unstuck-in-time palimpsest, in which kids with '70s haircuts and '50s lifestyles tooled around in Archie Andrews's '20s-era jalopy.
Perhaps Facebook no longer fully understands its own tangle of algorithms—the code, all sixty million lines of it, is a palimpsest, where engineers add layer upon layer of new commands.
But as a doorway, it swings both ways: it's a record of a body's experience of a singular life, but it's also a random palimpsest of whatever genetic heritage one has.
While this may be due more to the difficulties of tracking down original prints than anything else, it does seem to add one more facet to the programs' interests in palimpsest.
Scholars have suspected for decades that it is a palimpsest, but the new report proves that the surviving registers of still-vivid scenes were illustrated on pages already filled with drawings.
" To that point, the palimpsest turned out to contain ideas by Archimedes that had not survived in any other documents, including an entirely new treatise called "The Method of Mechanical Theorems.
While most readers will not notice every edit, each article is a palimpsest of added or deleted nuggets, often several in a single day, which are archived under the "view history" tab.
In that sense, says Gauger, the Problem Glyphs are a kind of digital palimpsest, imbued with an energy and a history that far transcends both ordinary digital drawings, and "ordinary" magical glyphs.
The city was a palimpsest of his achievements: its schools for the poor, its magnificent parks, its grand civic buildings, its whirring workshops and clanking factories full of confident, well-fed workers.
The unfettered license that male writers have enjoyed when it comes to holding up every stain in the sheets as a palimpsest of their smarting, solipsistic souls is due for an overhaul.
Justice For All achieves many things at once: it reveals that an "authentic" national identity is really a complex palimpsest of different cultures and histories, often centered around a proverbial Silk Road.
Rather, she creates her images by building up a palimpsest of subatomic decay patterns: the straight, curvilinear, and spiraling paths of these tiniest of particles, which scientists study using accelerators and electronic detectors.
The (usually) clearly designed APIs and libraries of the host operating system have been replaced by a ghastly and constantly evolving collection of libraries and web frameworks, a palimpsest of code and hope.
A new renovation—by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, in collaboration with Gensler—is more an architecture of palimpsest, an attempt to bring the unruly whole into line, the ghosts of its previous iterations lurking.
"The darkness turned London into a palimpsest," Paul reflects: That knot of boisterous young men by the crush barriers, they were probably soldiers home from Dunkirk, or just possibly stragglers from Boudicca's army.
In making the past present, her ever-growing hoard of cards taught her that she lives in a palimpsest of a city, layers of past streetscapes poking out from beneath the current ones.
Throughout Square Octagon Circle she plays with two complex concepts: the palimpsest — a page from a manuscript from which the text has been removed so it can be used for another document — and intertextuality.
She took the canvas off the stretcher bars and cut it into strips, which she wove back into the original surface, inventing a palimpsest, an irreversible document of subversively reckoning with the history of art.
So there was a palimpsest quality to watching "The Kritik," the ghost of my younger self right there with me to hear the play's exhilaratingly impassioned, many-layered challenge to critics, delivered with unusual sympathy.
Also, as part of the special grouping of Platform artists at the Armory Fair, Sarah Cain, Jeffrey Gibson, and Amalia Pica each offered some dimension of color, patterning, decoration, appropriation, and palimpsest to their imagery.
The fact that the tearing-and-revealing palimpsest seen here was created by the action of passersby, before Villeglé came along, is crucial to his interest in a public and anonymous aesthetics of the street.
"The Importance of Being Earnest" functions as a palimpsest for "Travesties," in much the same way that "Hamlet" does for "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," the 1966 play with which Mr. Stoppard first made his name.
The Austrian castle they live in with their children is both a puzzle and a palimpsest: The first of its 52 rooms were built in the 12th century; Alfred's family has inhabited it since the 19th.
Post-Brexit referendum, it is clear that Britain's decision to leave the EU will be a legal, economic, and constitutional palimpsest over an already dysfunctional Northern Ireland, the full effects of which no one can predict.
"Books without Words" includes the beautiful newspaper and printed ephemera collage book The Corona Palimpsest (1996) by Ligorano/Reese alongside drafts and a final copy of Jen Bervin's pages of typewritten weaving patterns, Draft Notation (2014).
The analogy I like to use is that of a palimpsest, a which is a term used in medieval scholarship of a parchment that was written on and scraped on so it could be reused and reinked.
Otherwise, masculinity will remain what it is now in virtually all gender debates: a mystique, a something-nothing open to an endless palimpsest of interpretations and no substance, reduced in the end to the silliness of stereotypes.
At the microscopic level, because cash is so highly trafficked, it becomes a sort of palimpsest that records all the hands and back pockets and piggy banks it has passed through, accreting a kind of monetary microbiome.
You can see a palimpsest of that history in the area of Nashville recently rebranded as 323 South, which is less of a neighborhood and more of a long street lined with shops catering to young people with money.
Levy's book is more like a reverse palimpsest, where what's farthest away — the palazzo's Renaissance origin story and early years — is most powerful and distinct, while what's newest — Fascist Florence, American expatriate artists — feels less solid or historically lasting.
Her paintings, by the Brooklyn artist Alyssa Monks, are striking, and as Alexis Soloski detailed in this article, they fit the story — Elizabeth found herself caught by an image of a faceless, nearly formless figure, like a human palimpsest.
In 22004, he was the subject of the solo exhibition Palimpsesto Canibal/Cannibal Palimpsest, which opened at Artium in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the Basque Country, Spain, and ended in the Canary Islands at the Centro Atlantico de Arte Contemporaneo.
As a result, it has evolved into a culturally distinct palimpsest; repeatedly pillaged and colonized, now an independent nation (and stalwart EU member) it has aspects of culture, language, architecture and landscape familiar to Bulgarians and Britons, to Israelis and Italians.
Mr. Muresan, who's taking part in next month's Venice Biennale, makes allusive "palimpsest" drawings, for which he copies every image from a book of Holbein paintings, or from an issue of Artforum magazine, into dense webs of images and information.
Investigations began in the 1950s under the leadership of Mexican archaeologist Alfonso Caso, who actually scraped away the white gesso of one page to uncover underlying images, but he halted investigations as he believed the palimpsest was no longer recoverable.
We see ours as a palimpsest of succeeding nows, like wheatpasted posters blithely and unendingly covering up yesterday's posters on boarded-up storefronts, while they measure theirs in workweeks or lunar months or fiscal years or a relentless thud of falling decades.
The area is a sea-level palimpsest of wetland and plains, all damp grass and grassy water, much of it as flat as the Serengeti — which made it possible for them to see the animal coming from across a vast, but still alarming, distance.
Art exploring feminism and colonial legacies, or works that reveal the artist's process and hand reify the notion of a palimpsest, turning "The Bride" and the modernist era it convincingly expressed into the flat surface the eight artists use as the "hinge" for their work.
Then to the refurbished muqata'a, the official residence of the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to illustrate how the building works as a "palimpsest of 80 years of colonial and now neocolonial rule," designed to create the impression of a state without the substance.
The exhibition will present it not as a shrine but as a palimpsest, as full of meaning as it is of bloodshed, with explanations not only of the battle but of the painting's own past—including the long stretch in which white and black viewing hours were segregated.
The first records of the castle begin in 1163, but the structure is a palimpsest of a near-millennium of architectural trends: The worn limestone of the Renaissance-style stairway dates from 1577 and the bedrooms, with their Flemish tapestries and four-poster beds, from the late 18th century.
Many of the book's best passages explore the collapsing of time — decaying leaves become "a synaptic palimpsest" — and from the old songs Mark and Cassie cover to the new names they take, the hybridization of past and present permeates the novel, complicating any division between "us" and "them."
That most recent episode takes what the TV writer John Rogers calls the Evil Speech of Evil—the "Republic Serial Villain monologue" that even Adrian Veidt derides as Oxymandias in the original comic—and turns it into a palimpsest of white resentments and the misperception of unfairness, whether economic or romantic.
In "Born on the First of January" (2013), Alejandro Campins's apocalyptic landscape, the romance of the ruin — here, a camp in Minas de Frío (Sierra Maestra), a recruitment ground for the army — is awful and sublime; a palimpsest of the past, its atmospheric colors are those of the revolution, faded and metaphysical.
With so many balancing and compromise factors in play, the make-up of the next Commission is always complex and hard to predict, and arguably more so this time around, given wider shifts in the European political landscape — including ongoing ructions caused by the UK's vote for Brexit — adding extra layers to the usual palimpsest.
Between two domed bazaars, where locals now hock handicrafts of variable quality and authenticity, we visited the Maghok-i-Attar, Central Asia's oldest mosque and a palimpsest of Bukharan religious history: a 16th-century reconstruction of a ninth-century mosque built atop the remains of a fifth-century Zoroastrian fire temple, which was itself built on top of an earlier Buddhist temple.
Shepard's aim in "Foreign-Returned" is not to write over Gallant's story, as in a palimpsest, but to write alongside it; to tilt the lens to take in the people kept offstage at the time Gallant's story was set, like the Pakistani sociologists, mentioned only in passing, who supplant Peter and Sheilah as guests at their wealthy white friends' summer home, or the Muslim refugee child who appears, weeping, on their friends' Christmas card.
Some popular desserts that have European origins are now thought of as wholly Filipino: wobbly leche flan, custard under a gooey drape of caramel; Sans Rival, a dacquoise-like palimpsest of cashews, meringue and buttercream, which the chef Nora Daza served in the 1970s at her Paris restaurant Aux Iles Philippines to the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Simone de Beauvoir; and mango royale, a crema de fruta turned icebox cake, with layers of cream and mangos teetering on overripe.
Turnover is always high in the content-moderation department at the world's most popular search engine, yet it does tend to cause a bit of a fuss when someone has a nervous breakdown or theatrically quits with a tirade about the disgusting ubiquity of injustice and how he will not sit on his tushy and wipe clean this corporate palimpsest of evil one second longer (though someone once opted to direct his rage into an incredibly foul letter to the C.E.O. that went viral).
Large and medium-sized canvases in varying stages of completion covered most of the wall space in the studio, a long, windowless room that was once an auto-body shop, and the floor was a palimpsest of rags, used paper palettes, brushes, metal tubs filled with defunct tubes of Old Holland oil paint, colored pencils and broken charcoal sticks, cans of solvent, spavined art books, pages torn from magazines, bundled work clothes stiff with paint, paper towels, a prelapsarian boom box, empty Roach Motel cartons, and other debris.

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