Example Sentences

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I had goose bumps hearing Williams’s fracturing and recontextualization of it.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2022

The designers also often choose artists as inspiration, and this time it was Oppenheim, whose work they said served as “a central point of reference for the collection’s recontextualization of traditional codes of dress.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2022

Both Beck and Marclay have relied heavily on the recontextualization of samples, and tend to question received norms about how music should be made and distributed.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019

Moreover, in their composition, they hark back to a number of art-making traditions, including collage and appropriation, the wholesale harvesting and recontextualization of existing images, made famous by the artists of the Pictures Generation of the late 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2016

But the immediate repurposing and recontextualization of the media that we're all paying attention to has basically become a crucial part of how we consume that media in the first place.

From The Verge • Aug. 5, 2016