Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic landscape of»

To wit, the jarring sound of car alarms erupted now and then from the apocalyptic landscape of Paul Chan's animation My Birds... Trash... the Future (2004).

As Alma's power swells out of control, Special Forces Sgt. Michael Becket and his squad must battle through an apocalyptic landscape of shattered buildings and buckled streets in search of clues for how to destroy her.

The director and his screenwriter paint with a broad brush in visualizing WikiLeaks» world of digital secret sharing, frequently portraying Assange and Berg in a barren, apocalyptic landscape of desks and computers.

Meanwhile James Cohan has the quiet attention of Mark Dion in his studio, the apocalyptic landscapes of Alexis Rockman, mappings from Pierre Huyghe, a limp reindeer from Carsten Höller, wildlife reduced to their weight in abstract marble from David Brooks, a kitchen turned inside out from Alison Elizabeth Taylor, a forest of future books by Katie Paterson, the decorative excess of Fred Tomaselli, an apple after Alfred Stieglitz from Erin Shirreff, and the romantic Modernism of Charles Burchfield.

Not exact matches

Schwartz offers several ways of dealing with the paradox of choice, and unlike some would - be Jeremiahs he does not drag the reader through an endlessly bleak landscape before finishing on a note of half - hearted hope or apocalyptic despair.

Critics Consensus: The palpable terror and visceral thrills continue in the third season of The Walking Dead, along with a deeper sense of the people who inhabit its apocalyptic landscape.

In a visually sumptuous journey through the master's imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power plant meltdown smothers a seaside landscape in radioactive fumes.

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life.

Anchored by Charlize Theron's emotionally raw performance as the fearless Imperator Furiosa, the movie flips the grim «one sad bro - dude wanders the scorched landscape» script of most apocalyptic narratives, instead presenting a vision of a fallen world where equality is still achievable through collaboration, trust, and heaps of scrap metal.

However, as The Death Cure effectively concludes the last film franchise that was born of the popularity of The Hunger Games, it doesn't provide any real incentive to revive the narrow genre of dystopian YA - based sci - fi that has a future as bleak as the apocalyptic landscapes they depict.

Navigating this barren, apocalyptic landscape is Honoka, a jill - of - all - trades who uses her powers to keep her friends from The Third's deadly grasp.

In development since the 2012 Global Game Jam, you control an amorphous organism across an apocalyptic landscape, battling swarms of mutant creatures.

While Dandara is not the first game to utilize unconventional methods of traversing a level, Long Hat House seamlessly integrates this bizarre mode of transportation into the rotating landscape of a well designed post - apocalyptic world.

And instead of deploying apocalyptic images of landfills overwhelmed by waste or melting ice caps swallowed by the sea, artists are finding new, conceptual ways to depict landscape.

Bunkley designs his work using digital 3D modeling, video, and image editing program emphasizing majestic landscapes, human revelry, and an oblique sense of apocalyptic anxiety tempered with whimsy and irony.

In the latter, Rose presented two videos that explored human perception through gauzy shots of modernist architecture (Philip Johnson's Glass House), apocalyptic hail storms, and history - laden landscapes.

In response, we constructed and photographed sets illustrating this contradiction, taking inspiration from art historical traditions of 19th century sublime landscape painting and pop culture apocalyptic film.

His lurid fantasy landscapes painted on stock - market listings draw contemporary analogies between the state of the planet and industrial capitalism, but their dramatic geography originates in the New World vistas of the Hudson River School, just as their apocalyptic storm clouds derive from John Martin.

Power Lines is a nightmarish, apocalyptic vision, combining military and industrial imagery with glimpses of an incongruous utopia in a disquiet and unnatural landscape.

Upstream Gallery presents Apocalyptic Landscapes: Visions of a post-apocalyptic world.

The radical transformation of the landscape in the early industrial era is powerfully evoked in Victorian images of factories ablaze at night, shown alongside an apocalyptic painting by John Martin.

The radical transformation of the landscape in the early industrial era is powerfully evoked in Victorian images of factories ablaze at night, shown alongside John Martin's apocalyptic The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (1852).

The Black Sea's Undersong imagines an apocalyptic, subterranean landscape that evokes a terrible and sublime beauty of the kind described by philosopher Edmund Burke, who wrote, «Whatever is qualified to cause terror is a foundation capable of the sublime.»

Richardson is fascinated by the ways we connect with landscape; within her deeply layered practice, she draws on narrative devices used in science fiction and B - movie horror films, as well as nineteenth - century landscape painting, with particular interest in the apocalyptic conjurings of John Martin (British, 1789 - 1854).

Composed entirely of scenes lacking people from 120 apocalyptic movies, it is an ambient film of silent landscapes, seething seas, glowing moons, and panoramic rubble.

It is conceived as a single panoramic landscape that tells an apocalyptic tale of catastrophe and renewal.

One depicts St. Sebastian, while the other is an apocalyptic scene inserted into a dense wooded landscape painted in a style reminiscent of 16th century Dutch painting.

Provoking «political catharsis,» a term selected by Reyes, the immersive artwork aims to distill the horrors of the American political landscape into the form of a haunted house, inviting visitors to navigate a maze of near apocalyptic torments from climate change to pandemic gun violence to GMOs.

Rudnick presents Wells» southwestern landscapes as inhabiting a queer space expressive of his sexuality and an apocalyptic post-World War II terrain haunted by Los Alamos...» — Donna M. Cassidy, author of Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation

Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories: One of Japan's most respected photographers - an apocalyptic landscape visionary - received an electrifying introduction to Americans at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

One of the great exponents of Romanticism, the 19th century English painter, illustrator and mezzotint engraver John Martin, achieved huge popular acclaim with his history painting (more accurately, historical landscape painting) featuring melodramatic scenes of apocalyptic events taken from the Bible and other mythological sources.

Some works incorporate stylistic devices and subject matters that seem dated, passé or quasi-extinct; others capture traumatic moments of the historical past; some are recreations of previous works, creating the sensation that they are pursued by a lost or distant original; there are ghostly images and morbid symbols of the past as ruins and apocalyptic landscapes; and, finally, there are creations that analyze the role that archives play in collective memory and personal obsession.