Sentences with phrase «western modes of representation»

She often strips her subjects of their original contexts, working with — while often transgressing and deconstructing — traditional Western modes of representation.

Not exact matches

While Pablo Picasso and fellow Cubists combined archaic Western forms and appropriated exotica to shatter inherited modes of representation, today ubiquitous computing and the digital image explosion create an intersection of the physical and the virtual, and in doing so, have decentered the locus of artistic praxis.

Satrapi takes a very different approach from those of Shaw and Sikander: instead of subverting the formal structures of an Islamic mode of representation, she appropriates the visual language of the Western comic strip.