Sentences with phrase «as abjection»

For once, in an art world that worships the casual gestural sketch, these are predominantly complex, skilful and ideas - based drawings, weaving witty, disturbing or powerful fantasies about aesthetics as well as abjection.

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A neighbor takes her to the hospital and she returns hours later with her wrists wrapped as dazzling white emblems of her abjection.

Set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him.

But Hershman Leeson's avant - garde technologism is cut with camp, horror, and feminized abjection, undergirding an eerie feeling that interactivity is as much about capture and control as it is about activation and agency.

Viewing F. T. Marinetti's 1909 «Futurist Manifesto» as a precursor to hip - hop artist the Notorious B.I.G.'s «Machine Gun Funk,» the phrase «Ruffneck Constructivists» evokes thuggishness as an expression of abjection.

Her paintings and sculptures may be knocked - about as well as knockabout, but there is a great deal of personal abjection in them.

These hybrid, sometimes monstrous forms speak to the artist's recurring interest in physical and psychological transformation, as well as pageantry, perversion, and abjection.

The tense ambiguity lingering in that expression provides an appropriate metaphor for Michaël's work, characterized as it is by subtle symmetries of stunning beauty and disturbing abjection, humor and despair, strength and fragility.

It features marble and bronze sculptures that represent the abjection of human bodies sustained during armed conflict and torture, as well as the rebellious attitude of the victims who defiantly stand up for their rights.

Seen as a whole, Runaways channels feelings of abjection, strength, freedom, and empowerment.

Showing new paintings and sculptures, the works will draw from «the clinical as a structural and social form of abjection.»

Two silk - screened posters — advertising pieces by Otto Muehl — and seven deliciously goofy kid - style images by Dieter Roth show Wool to be less of a painter and more of a designer of sassy graphics in which Midwestern cleverness rubs shoulders with Eurotrash abjection and both are passed off as urbane sophistication.

By turns brutal and elegiac, lewd and lyrical, Lucas's art has continued to confront such «big themes» as sex, death and abjection.

Hijikata situated butoh as an outlaw, literary, and surrealist dance form, drawing on themes of death, criminality, abjection, and corporeality.

As Weber writes in the catalogue, the painting alludes to Jasper Johns but also, in its abjection, to Mike Kelley's Janitorial Banner (1984); some observers at the time seized on it as a «feminist gesture.&raquAs Weber writes in the catalogue, the painting alludes to Jasper Johns but also, in its abjection, to Mike Kelley's Janitorial Banner (1984); some observers at the time seized on it as a «feminist gesture.&raquas a «feminist gesture.»

Abu Ghraib and the US government's domestic abuses come to mind, as do all the numerous abjections endured by those reduced to bare life, cast out by the state as its projected Others.

In fact there's a good deal of abjection in «Like Life,» as if the curators» aim was as much to shock, disconcert, and repel — gratuitously — as it was to illuminate a byway of sculptural history.

Long before slackers and Gen X-ers embraced the emblems of kitsch and abjection, they were wielded by artists as proof of rebellion against the constraints of art - historical tradition.

That same year, there were two other exhibitions that examined ideas of failure and abjection — this category of «loser art» as it was called, which was beginning to emerge — Just Pathetic at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles and Work?