Sentences with phrase «art as a genre»

The art historian Hal Foster's 2004 essay «The Archival Impulse» defined archival art as a genre that «make [s] historical information, often lost or displaced, physically present.

Indira Cesarine: When I launched The Untitled Space gallery, one of my initiatives was to emphasize contemporary female artists and feminist art as a genre.

When I launched The Untitled Space gallery, one of my initiatives was to emphasize contemporary female artists and feminist art as a genre.

Video art as a genre was established in the 1960s and 70s when the earliest portable video cameras were introduced and the technology was made available to the general public.

A major contributor to the inception of conceptual art as a genre, Broodthaers holds a significant place in the historical narrative of contemporary art.

Subsequently, Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor) painting was made and abstract art as a genre was born.

Not exact matches

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

Besançon first earned his reputation as a historian of Soviet politics and of Russian nationalism (toward both of which he entertains understandably dim views), and he thinks that the Russian nationalists of the nineteenth century, among their other sins, killed the genre of icon «painting when they began to praise the icon's superiority over Western art.

In his study of Goethe's epic Hermann und Dorothea Humboldt discusses the function of art as idealization by means of the imagination, the concept of artistic objectivity and artistic truth, the difference between classical and modern poetry, and finally, the epic as the genre of humanitas (Humanität).

But art mirrors culture and, currently, the United States» most lucrative, popular artistic output is a genre that began as fanciful depiction of fighting Nazis, and has been dedicated to the notion that good people can fight back against wickedness ever since.

Examples of this «trick of the eye» art, or trompe l'oeil as it commonly known, date back to Graeco - Roman times, but it wasn't until the Renaissance, when painters mastered the art of perspective drawing, that the genre flourished.

Berlin, Deutschland About Blog The blogI discovered street photography as an exiting and versatile genre of art.

Following its premiere in Toronto's Platform strand, «Beast» should enjoy broad festival play thanks to its canny art - horror balance — it's a film as suitable for midnight berths as it is for less genre - inclined programs.

As an experiment in genre mixing, an art - house curiosity, a new way of handling the grand theme of adolescence, and an example of the inherent powers a film score can possess; yes, it's really great.

«Schrader works in a stately, dark - toned style that's far more compelling than the frenetic genre hash of his last two films, «Dying of the Light» (2014) and «Dog Eat Dog (2016),» Variety opined in a review, coming into «First Reformed» as a summation of Schrader's work: «Paul Schrader pours all his obsessions, from Robert Bresson to pulp violence, into a grindhouse art film you can't stop watching.»

Although the summer of 2015 has proven to be a largely disappointing season in terms of cinematic achievements for the most part, one definite bright spot has been the gradual reemergence of feature animation as a viable art form after a few years in which the genre has been largely dominated by increasingly formulaic and largely forgettable works that have done little more than fatten up the bottom lines of the studios behind them.

But Dave Kehr's Reader capsule, written some time later, is probably more judicious: «Not just another genre rehash (cf Farewell, My Lovely; The Long Goodbye; Gumshoe), but a genuinely ingratiating private - eye update with Art Carney as a middle - aged Marlowe trying to find out who killed his partner.

David Cronenberg entered this kind of genre territory with The Brood (1979, not to be confused with John Frankenheimer's Prophecy, promoted as heavily around the same time) with Art Hindle as a man investigating how his ill wife (Samantha Eggar) is being treated by an unusual doctor (Oliver Reed) for her problems, but the result is that it may be unleashing her Id monsters and possibly something even more terrifying none of them could ever expect.

Already widely cited and used in courses in film studies, film genre, and art and avant garde film, this updated edition situates «Transcendental Style», forty - five years later, as part of a larger movement in post-war cinema, the Slow Cinema movement.

One such example is Blade & Soul, which, like many of China's already established MMOs, takes its art style from the Chinese martial arts fantasy genre known as Wuxia.

Daggers, however, is director Zhang Yimou's follow - up to the callowly beautiful Hero and, like that movie and a number of others (Ashes of Time, Bride with the White Hair, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill, Zatoichi, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, and, in a way, Goodbye Dragon Inn), it belongs to a martial arts / art - house genre of films by hip young directors upgrading genres they loved as teenagers - «martial arts plus.»

The Assassin will mark Hou's first endeavor into the martial arts genre, as his career up until this point has been largely been composed of contemplative minimalist dramas.

The martial arts plus movie, like the Spaghetti Western, the neo-noir and the collected works of Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers exists as not as a genre in itself but as a response to, subversion of or homage to a previously established genre.

Weepies have never enjoyed a lofty reputation, since the genre is seen as emotionally manipulative (as if that weren't the point of most art) and associated with girls and women.

It might be disguised as an art house film, but have no illusions, Under the Skin is a seminal entry in the sci - fi genre, setting a new standard of excellence and positioning itself to be the topic of discussion for decades to come.

ichael Schultz's powerful melodrama «Woman, Thou Art Loosed» renews an important tradition of African - American filmmaking: the movie as revivalist sermon, a genre epitomized by Spencer Williams's magnificent «Blood of Jesus» of 1941.

Based on the play by Michel Marc Bouchard, this seems to be more of a genre - led entry, a «psychological thriller» that, on paper, nods to «Festen» and Patricia Highsmith, and an experiment that Dolan has described as his «most satisfying journey through this form of art,» with the filmmaker leading the mostly unknown cast himself.

Perhaps in 28 years, as the effects go from stunning in 2010 to dated, people will look back and wonder why anyone would be entertained by a such a film, but for today, it delivers on action, effects, solid choreography, art design, and should hold the interest of the genre fans for which it is intended.

# 42 «THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED» (Jacques Audiard, 2005) The longstanding marriage of French art and American genre enjoyed a particularly happy anniversary with Audiard's sleek, sexy, but hard - as - nails reworking of James Toback's «Fingers.»

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The art of mask - making is a prehistoric tradition that dates back at least as far as the Upper Paleolithic era, but it took 30,000 years and the invention of the slasher genre for it to really come into its own.

Set up as a separate entity in 1990, with its first «official» production the Anthony Minghella - directed romance Truly Madly Deeply, starring Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, BBC Films has had a hand in more than 250 films in a wide variety of formats and genres: from popular TV spin - offs such as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie and In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward II.

It took decades of work from genre masters to build up horror's reputation as an art form.

It's the sort of movie Edgar Wright was born to make, so in line with his strengths as an action comedy director and fine purveyor of the genre arts.

It may not have sounded like much on the surface (another reason why it probably didn't do very well with audiences or most critics) but legendary director Hill (the man behind such classics as «The Warriors,» «48 HRS» and «Streets of Fire») brought both his impeccable technical gifts and a genuine sense of personal style to the proceedings that elevated the material to something that came far closer to what one might refer to as «art» than one might rightly expect from a genre picture these days.

A side - scrolling 2D platformer with a unique art - style, it's oft - mentioned in the same breath as Limbo, as both share genre and hail from the same era, and both are considered to be games which helped jumpstart the indie boom.

The game also contains a wealth of content that will keep most lovers of this genre busy for hours upon hours as they explore this wondrous world about sacrifice and either the good or the dark arts.

A range of genres are included such as fine art, mixed media, photography and ceramics.

Once they have the format down ~ they come up with a genre and a storyline as well as characters ~ conflicts ~ settingsandthemes — all the elements that we teach during reading / language arts instruction.

Teachers can use the slim paperbacks (under 150 pages) in the social studies classroom because of the content and / or in the language arts classroom as a new form in the genre of memoir.

Data plan rates apply Gracenote identifies the music collection on the driver's USB device, MP3 player or smart phone and presents information such as artist name, genres and album cover art on the MyLink screen.

The theme could be looked at as a genre or perhaps a subgenre of novels about art / romance.

You can do this by choosing different art styles, title fonts, and «extras» like quotes or bestseller status, etc. for each genre, but keep an element such as your author name consistent from book to book.

The Kindle Owners» Lending Library offers access to a wide array of categories and genres in fiction and non-fiction, and includes popular titles such as Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, The Big Short and Liars» Poker by Michael Lewis, TheHunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen — plus award - winning books such as The Finkler Question and Guns, Germs, and Steel, memoirs such as Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, and motivational books like The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

While some online writing groups may be specific to a genre or to traditional versus self - publishing, as a whole these virtual forums serve to bolster the art, not to play favorites to one type of writing or publishing.

Most books just have cover art, but there are many genres such as autobiographies that have dozens.

Blurb, who began as a limited print company who specialized in niche books like professional portfolios before expanding into genres like indie cookbooks and art books, announced today that it has a host of new features for authors, including free ISBN numbers, direct to Amazon distribution for print, and a new tool called BookWright that lets authors upload without having to have the expertise to submit files through Adobe's InDesign.

Translating fiction is just as much an art as writing fiction and just as individual (some translators might be good for one genre, but not so fitting for another, just like writers).

At the same time, Gibbons» art redefines the potential of the superhero genre, as (to choose but one example) in chapter 5, «Fearful Symmetry,» where the first half is an exact compositional and color reflection of the second half.

A brief (if incomplete) lesson on punk rock music: First, as is true with the birth of most genres of anything (music, art, architecture, etc) pinpointing the beginning is tough, if not impossible.