Through fragmenting her body by hiding behind furniture, using reflective surfaces such as mirrors to conceal herself, or by simply cropping the image, she dissects the human figure emphasising isolated body parts.
Not exact matches
While this attempt at emancipation
through negation may not lead far with respect to the
body - social, I will try it here in describing the three research programs in terms of the «No» each of them says to one of the basic strands of the reductionism syndrome: to the dualism that spawned it, to the «nothing - but» of its monism, and to the
fragmenting sort of mathematical conceptualization it one - sidedly encourages.
This «
through and
through» path indicates that the bullet was probably not of the variety designed to expand or break into smaller
fragments once inside the
body, which would have caused a much severer injury.
Dying cells in a tumor (upper left) or damaged tissue release DNA
fragments that course
through blood and that contain markers that point to their origin in the
body.
Crouching Woman (1906 - 1908), Meditation without arms (after 1900), Torso of a Young Woman with Arched Back (1909): these masterpieces demonstrate Rodin's experimental nature in large - format plaster sculptures and convey his sensual depiction of the female
body through raw,
fragmented forms.
Many artists in this display question a sense of physical cohesion by duplicating and modifying
bodies, or evoking the figure
through uncannily
fragmenting body parts and shapes.
Spanning the late «40s
through the early «60s, these works examine Abstraction based upon oblique evocations of the
fragmented body and the influence of the unconscious, with seriality and repetition emerging as essential idioms of a new sculptural language.
The human
body, he says, is important in architecture: «Architecture is done for the human being, so the human can be present
through a
fragment like this.»
The horses, along with
fragmented body parts (heads, eyes, and hands) are almost totemic, like primitive symbols, and serve as formal elements
through which Rothenberg investigated the meaning, mechanics, and essence of painting.
While the works may suggest functionality
through the medium of ceramics and their resemblance to the
body or objects such as vases, the vulnerability of these joined ceramic
fragments celebrate the idea of productive failure.
Placed alongside the museum's curated display of archival artifacts, two vitrines each contain a
fragmented body formed
through the careful selection and placement of items both artificial (like a pair of underwear) and natural (nail clippings, a severed foot) sourced from both Milner's and Warhol's own archives.
As all four artists became immersed in dance and performance, the
body itself entered Johns» work, at first as
fragments, but more recently the whole
body appeared as a shadow or silhouette flitting
through his lithographs and etchings.
Another related exhibition,
Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian
Fragments and Amulets, organized by Associate Curator Ekaterina Barbash, is on view
through October 2, 2011.
Through a wide variety of artistic practices and artists (from Claude Cahun to LaToya Ruby Frazier, from Gilbert & George to Cindy Sherman, and from Alighiero Boetti to Maurizio Cattelan) coming from different cultures and backgrounds, generations and experiences, it reflects on the contrast between different approaches: melancholy and vanity, ironic games played with identity and political autobiography, existential rumination and the
body as sculpture, effigy or
fragment, and its symbolical representation.
Spanning the late 1940s
through the early 1960s, these works examine abstraction based upon oblique evocations of the
fragmented body and the influence of the unconscious, with seriality and repetition emerging as essential idioms of a new sculptural language.
In the Falling Men series, Johnson uses his signature materials of white ceramic tile, red oak flooring, mirror
fragments, and black soap and wax to depict inverted figures falling
through the air that can be read as flying heroes or chalk outlines of deceased
bodies from crime scenes.
Both the reflecting surface on the wall and the elongated floor sculpture evoke a
body through fragments, allusions, and lacunae.
This
fragment of a statement to CBS was offered up as proof by would - be detractors that Hogg was not actually on campus during the shooting, that he was at home and had to ride his bicycle with a camera
through three ghoulish miles to play his part and take photographs of dead
bodies after the fact.