Sentences with word «abjectness»

By choosing a medium that is typically associated with wealth and power to portray dystopian scenes of everyday life, Taylor creates a tension between the luxurious connotations of the material and a certain abjectness of the subject matter.
By working in the medium of marquetry, typically associated with wealth and power, to portray dystopian scenes of everyday life, Taylor creates tension between the luxurious connotations of the material and a certain abjectness in subject matter.
Taylor creates tension between the luxurious connotations of the material and a certain abjectness in subject matter.
However, some themes have been consistent in her work including a fascination with the beauty and abjectness of the body; the marriage of kitsch and decoration to an ambiguous organic abstraction; and a very personal and idiosyncratic approach to feminism and formalism.
By turns lewd and lyrical, punning and paradoxical, her art continues to deal with sex, death, abjectness and notion of Englishness.
There's a poignant disparity between the abjectness of Schwitters's own death in the Lake District — without money and despised by his neighbours — and this work inspired by it, which belongs very much within the lucrative comfort zone of current, official contemporary art.
The sculptures are meant to hit the viewer over the head with their abjectness, unable to house any hopes and aspirations, these ruined structures stand as silent sentinels to unfulfilled dreams and human flaws.
But the audacity of their abjectness is just as difficult to ignore.
Nengudi's work operates as an African American Arte Povera in which mundane materials are invested with the experiences of common people, their abjectness an echo of disenfranchisement and poverty.
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