Sentences with phrase «as phantasmagoria»

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At the instant something appears possible, and then a new possibility makes its appearance, at last this phantasmagoria moves so rapidly that it is as if everything were possible — and this is precisely the last moment, when the individual becomes for himself a mirage.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

An «ocean» composed of a single layer of molecules; an intricate depiction of an HIV particle as a study in orange and gray; a phantasmagoria of fungi; a video tracing the long - distance travels of items dumped in the trash in Seattle: The four first - place winners in this year's International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge grab your attention and draw you into unseen worlds in very different ways.

Columbus continues to delight in the phantasmagoria of the magical details (like the Whomping Willow) but, sadly, this film marks the final appearance of the late great Richard Harris as the paternal Headmaster Dumbledore.

But even as more people choose the phantasmagoria of the screen over the contemplative pleasures of the page, there's a parallel phenomenon sweeping the country: collective graphomania.

Barlow says more indie games should use video, as independent developers have the freedom from lots of the constraints he thinks doomed the full - motion video (FMV) game genre on computers in the 1990s — games like Phantasmagoria and Night Trap starred real actors, but struggled for viability because of their relatively high budgets and a mixed reception to the kind of play experiences that game with them.

Huey sources her paintings from historic images, advertisements, postcards and photographs, and curator Jess Frost has included a selection of both found and created materials as well as collages that reference the process Huey uses in creating her phantasmagorias.

The 12 artists in Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence — Christian Boltanski, Jim Campbell, Michel Delacroix, Laurent Grasso, Jeppe Hein, William Kentridge, Rafael Lozano - Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Oscar Muñoz, Julie Nord, Rosângela Rennó and Regina Silveira — draw on forms of representation associated with phantasmagoria and reframe them around contemporary notions of absence and loss, using spectral effects and immaterial media such as shadows, fog, miPhantasmagoria: Specters of Absence — Christian Boltanski, Jim Campbell, Michel Delacroix, Laurent Grasso, Jeppe Hein, William Kentridge, Rafael Lozano - Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Oscar Muñoz, Julie Nord, Rosângela Rennó and Regina Silveira — draw on forms of representation associated with phantasmagoria and reframe them around contemporary notions of absence and loss, using spectral effects and immaterial media such as shadows, fog, miphantasmagoria and reframe them around contemporary notions of absence and loss, using spectral effects and immaterial media such as shadows, fog, mist and breath.

While this main installation recalls an ongoing body of research into the 18th - century phantasmagoria shows of Jean - Gaspard Robertson — as first seen in Oursler's iconic piece, The Influence Machine (2002) commissioned by Artangel and restaged at Tate Modern in 2013 — another new series situates these reconfigured faces squarely in the context of the 21st century.

Ranging from the festive to the ironic, they show a fascination with perceptual ambiguities and the macabre, often with visual trickery inspired by the 18th — and 19th - century stage spectacle known as the «phantasmagoria.»

Headlined «How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality,» the dense, scabrous cartoon phantasmagoria features floating heads of the various players, from a leering Joannou and a grinning Koons, to dealer Gavin Brown (pictured saying «OK, I admit that the New Museum does look a little bit like my bitch, but it is all based on merit»), as well as bloggers like James Wagner and Green, and a saintly caricature of New Museum founder Marcia Tucker.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions, such as Children's Films, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver and International Project Space, Birmingham (2012); Phantasmagoria, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (2012); The Problem of Nothing, Hayaka ARTI, Istanbul (2011) and Geschmacksverstärker, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt (2010).

We're a long way from the paintings that Ofili was making in the 1990s, when he had a studio in King's Cross and translated the surrounding sleaze into an urban phantasmagoria of larger - than - life innocents and villains in paintings such as Foxy Roxy and Pimpin» Ain't Easy (But It Sure Is Fun).

The painting fuses iconographies as divergent as those of Slayer album covers, the gilded art history of Caspar David Friedrich and the factory - made phantasmagoria of the Disney studios.