Sentences with word «aestheticization»

In his essay «Elio's Education,» scholar D. A. Miller has placed it on a continuum of Mainstream Gay Movies (or MGMs) with Maurice (1987), Brokeback, and even Moonlight (2016) for its alleged aestheticization of gay male sexuality: in other words its elevation and exaltation of same - sex desire for its beauty, with the implicit goal of erotically neutering and normalizing it for straight audiences.

The look is gorgeous, of course, but seldom has so much aestheticization served so much heartlessness.

Their frontal orientation accords with the surface aestheticization tendencies of our visual culture.

In this blog post Curator in Residence Gabrielle Moser reflects on the act of publicly performing research, the possible aestheticization of curatorial practice and her ongoing open curatorial studio.

The imagery, act, and aestheticization of deconstruction play an important part in contemporary art, especially in process - oriented works that focus on materiality.

They contribute to an aestheticization of the urban space and reveal a new form of beauty associated with the town, now a valid artistic material.

However, Hulusi complicates the easily consumable, romanticized imagery with political reality through an artistic intervention, disrupting the uncritical digestion of the images and the logic of their aestheticization.

Blair McLaughlin is a British contemporary artist whose figurative paintings focus on the cultural differences in our consumption of violence and the aestheticization of violence in popular culture and media.

Robert Rauschenberg toys with the aestheticization of base materials, framing and hanging clay like a painting.

Arlene Dávila, an anthropologist who studies the ways in which U.S. Latinx and Latin American art is marginalized within the global art world, particularly within the market, said in an email, «The fact that any arts organization is patronizing or in any way endorsing the aestheticization of violence against migrants is abhorrent.

I'm reminded of the «Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting» exhibition at the Tate Britain, where a section grouping together landscape paintings evinced something like this shift, albeit one more explicitly political and colonial, and with its own specific «moralizing narrative of conquest,» and aestheticization of power.

Vasell's process can be characterized as an aestheticization of temperament.

Chetrit's four half - nudes are an objectification and aestheticization of the artist's own body, ostensibly revealing much more of herself than what she has taken from her subjects on the street.

Obsessed with its own failure and escaping the aestheticization of it, the space ends up failing to fail, instead treating its admission of this failure to be radical or institutional as semantic currency in the «project space» conversation and its relationship to issues in Portland and across the nation's cities like the housing crisis, gentrification, and white supremacy.

Berry Patten uses video, sculpture, photography and communal experiences to explore the aestheticization of everyday objects and tropes of popular culture, touching on memories and feelings as well as notions of aspirational living.

The event was also a welcome reception for the next resident artist, LaToya Ruby Frazier, a Braddock native whose annotated photographs chronicling UPMC's withdrawal from Braddock and Levi's aestheticization of the city's blight are currently featured in the Whitney Biennial.