Sentences with phrase «abjectness in»

Taylor creates tension between the luxurious connotations of the material and a certain abjectness in 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.

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Thus the question of women's equality — in art as in any other realm — devolves not upon the relative benevolence or ill - will of individual men, nor the self - confidence or abjectness of individual women, but rather on the very nature of our institutional structures themselves and the view of reality which they impose on the human beings who are part of them.

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.