But the city also has the American Visionary Art Museum, a museum that celebrates the work of self-taught individuals.

VOA: special.2011.03.07

The butterfly is the perfect work of art because it is both a representation and alive. It has eyes on its wings.

这只蝴蝶是一个完美的艺术作品,因为它不但是画像，也是,鲜活的，它的翅膀上有眼睛。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The work of art arises from a background of other works and through association with them.

艺术作品源于对其背景下,其他作品的理解和联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In February, Fairey was arrested as he arrived at a party to celebrate an exhibit of his work at The Institute of Contemporary Art,Boston.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

So in a sense it tells you this work of art is of a piece with what you already know; it's familiar in those ways, and you shouldn't be afraid of it.

在某种程度上,这告诉了你这件艺术作品,其实是你早已认识的东西;,你已经通过那些方式了解了它，不用怕它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She was the first woman hired by the government to create a work of art.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

And that I think may be a little bit - - that's a metaphor in itself - that may be a little bit much to ask of a work of art.

但我认为这个要求,我说的本身也是一个比喻-,对于一个艺术作品来说有些太多了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In two thousand nine, Fairey was arrested as he arrived at a party to celebrate an exhibit of his work at the Institute of Contemporary Art,Boston.

VOA: special.2011.01.19

Welles presented it. He'll say no. It's a work of art. I find it exhilarating. So if you are an artist, you can always have an happy life dedicating yourself to your art.

威尔斯这般表达，他将对之说不,这只是个艺术活，我觉得它令人愉快,因此如果你是个艺术家，你就总能拥有,快乐的生活，全身心地投入到艺术中去。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Under his expert hands, paper of almost any type, stiffness or thickness can be turned into a work of art.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

So, so far the American landscape is already a work of art, already part of a European memory. Then something else happens: "But gradually the models of those elementary rusticities became stranger and stranger to the eye, the nearer I came to know them.

至此关于美国景色的回忆已经是一件艺术品了，已经包含一部分欧洲记忆，之后发生了一些事：,然而渐渐地，我越熟悉那些田园风光的基本模式,越看它们越觉得陌生。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There is so much interest in the book that Professor Ruffin says his new class is already at work on a follow-up book that will include creative writing by inmates and various kinds of art work as well.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

接下来我们说了，这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That's not what Welles wanted He wanted to examine the myth of the past, even the rest of being a little nostalgic about the whole stuff, and to build the work of art, so we can live with that.

这不是威尔斯想要做的,他想检验过去之谜，甚至对这一切,和创作艺术作品，有一点怀念,所以我们可以生活在他的艺术里。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选