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demiurge

The supernatural maker of the world who is subordinate to the Supreme Being or God. The term comes from the ancient Greek philosopher Plato's myth in the Timaeus about the divine creation of the universe. Plato's demiurge copies the Forms on to the receptacle of space-time or womb of becoming.
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The sense of swirling--a demiurgic maelstrom--informs all the sculptures here, even the implicitly figural; the vaguely nauseating, excitingly exotic, mottled jungle greenness of Green Early Forms, 2003, suggests it could have come out of some primordial ooze.
Tony Cragg: Marian Goodman Gallery by Kuspit, Donald / Artforum International
This demiurgic fantasy pervades the Fourth Georgic, but while this exchange can be depicted in narrative, it can never be wholly accounted for or systematized.
Placement, gender, pedagogy: Virgil's fourth Georgic in print * by Wallace, Andrew / Renaissance Quarterly
Even in his first solo show, ten years ago, the potential creative energy of something so formless and insignificant was developed in a full-bodied way, showing a demiurgic dexterity that fully exploited the range of references and enigmas, questions and answers, that the manipulation and distribution of such a material can offer.
PAOLO CANEVARI by Codognato, Mario / Artforum International
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