Sentences with phrase «as voyeuristic»

While some critics have interpreted his work as voyeuristic or sensational in its depiction of Margaret Thatcher - era poverty, Billingham insists his motivation is to recreate faithfully a world he witnessed.

The window as a framing device is an integral motif for Genzken, not just as a voyeuristic element as with Windscreen 2 (2008)-- where a cracked car windscreen protrudes from the gallery wall, lending the audience a fractured view of a framed image of an anonymous nude male and female embracing — but as an architectural framework.

Built upon the foundations of heritage documentary, intimately composed engagements with the lens act as an empathetic observation of Northern Britain, and stand as a voyeuristic argument for its contributions to contemporary expression.

Departing from the WPA / social realist style of portraying poor people, which can be perceived as voyeuristic and patronizing, Douglas's energetic drawings showed respect and affection.

But Hitch was also recognized for «Psycho,» his innovative experiment in terror, as well as the voyeuristic tour - de-force «Rear Window.»

Not exact matches

Finally, at least regarding this personal attack, what you represent as blood lust and voyeuristic glee strikes me as something more akin to a mass catharsis regarding not just Tony Jones, but also several other leading figures in the Emergent movement.

But we do not watch because we «enjoy» chaos, as if we get some voyeuristic pleasure out of it.

Why does something gain value merely because it is rare and authentic — the odd voyeuristic pleasure that comes from seeing on display the salt and pepper shakers from the mess kit George Washington may have clutched as he crossed the Delaware?

Voyeuristic workouts do not have the same benefits as real workouts unless eye - abs count.

And no matter what I came to the store to get, I always seem to find myself in the beauty department, strolling the aisles to see what's new and what people are picking up (yes, it's a bit voyeuristic, but it's helpful for my job as a beauty editor).

Glazer has made a ferociously original thriller that feels like a stealth gender study, starring a moonlighting Hollywood celebrity as both object and source of a voyeuristic gaze.

But because he never bothered to come up with a credible sensible storyline, this flashback - driven snuff flick comes off as just a voyeuristic excuse to watch people die in different ways.

Its bouts of lurid violence and voyeuristic sex feel as if they've been dragged in from somewhere trashier

On the other hand, its bouts of lurid violence and voyeuristic sex feel as if they've been dragged in from somewhere trashier, like the Taken films or something with Sylvester Stallone in it.Jennifer plays Dominika Egorova, formerly a star dancer at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet who is forced to quit after a bone - crunching onstage collision.

Sex is a metaphor for every transaction, and we watch as DiCaprio repeatedly acts out his consummation of the deal in rooms full of voyeuristic traders, while some poor schnook on the other end of the line happily gets the shaft.

These scenes are not voyeuristic exercises in cruelty as they function instead as confronting representations of the true impact of violence, especially when fuelled by the type of extreme paranoid misogyny that possesses Affleck's character.

Sean Penn's fifth film as director, a romantic drama starring Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem, would likely be worth checking out even if it wasn't for the voyeuristic thrill of seeing Penn and Theron on the red carpet less than a year after their relationship broke up.

If only the movie had the same level of distaste with the exhibitionist Players as it does for the voyeuristic Watchers, it might have been on to something.

Keira initially turned down the role and then only agreed to do it as long as the scenes weren't sexy or voyeuristic.

As a result Birdman feels especially voyeuristic.

The book offers readers rare — and almost startlingly voyeuristic — insight into the mind of 30 - something Brooklynite Nate as he adjusts from being a struggling freelance writer to having a six - figure book deal and as he fickly — and somewhat obliviously — navigates the urban dating scene.

Reading about the abuse that others have endured, especially abuse that they suffered as children at the hands of a near - evil parent, is rarely an enjoyable voyeuristic pastime.

Just as cinema manages to satisfy our innate love of voyeuristic access, so too do the paintings offer us views onto private lives that both frustrate and satisfy.

Flowers guide the viewer's eye across the surface, as the artist offers a voyeuristic view of decadence.

As viewers, we are treated to voyeuristic depictions of vivid patterns, contrasting against the brightly coloured umbrellas of commuters passing by, occasional scuffs and road markings cutting through the sharp painted lines.

Eliminating himself as subject, he steps behind the camera lending a voyeuristic eye to his evocative images.

Imhof built glass partitions between rooms and a raised glass floor throughout, which adds a frisson of danger while allowing voyeuristic scrutiny of the performers crawling among the transparent panes, as if they were another species on view.

Chow's intricately rendered graphite drawing and collages provide a voyeuristic glimpse through windows, doors, and other architectural elements as though one were looking onto a film set or store window display.

Within the theme of Rooms, the early cut «drawings» of Gordon Matta - Clark from the 1970s resonate alongside the voyeuristic perspective of the Holes series by Hubbard / Birchler from the 1990s, as each group of images offers uncharacteristic views through architecture from unusual points of view.

Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Op Art and Futurism act as visual cues, pointing to the opulent, the grotesque, and most recently the voyeuristic narrative in the work.

Yet as we walk through, we start to feel voyeuristic: these are snapshots of someone's life and we're spying on uninhabited rooms.

Actually Jukkala's work was conceived as a small show, but it requires you to peek into the space — a voyeuristic act for which, in this instance, you are welcomed

There is a voyeuristic aspect to Senior's work as viewers become self - consciously aware of the action of their own gaze.

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Mitchell recently abandoned that moniker, and her work has taken a material turn, incorporating painting, installation, found objects, and assemblage that nonetheless retain the participatory, voyeuristic quality of her performance work — most likely owing to her use of tactile, unsettlingly inviting materials such as large, thin, powdery sheets of rubber.

There appears to be no subversively voyeuristic or intrusive intent, as her contemporaries Philip Lorca diCorcia and Richard Prince have demonstrated.

The exhibited paintings offer a vivid and unmistakably voyeuristic perspective of naked, male opponents fighting amidst a recurring scene of a lone tree, a dog as witness, and a bright, yellow sun held in a lavender sky.

Alternatively, some pictures assume a more voyeuristic, cinematic feel, such as Lee Friedlander's New York City, 1966, in which the photographer's foreboding shadow appears, unbeknownst to his subject, on the back of her fur coat.

The image suggests the existence of a voyeuristic third party as an internal part of the narrative of the painting itself, as well as the essential presence of a viewer in the equation of artist, art object, and viewer — this would, if intentional, give the painting a quiet self awareness, and a slight conceptual lean?

Omer Fast's new exhibition at the Chinatown branch of James Cohan Gallery, August, revels in the power of the Western imagination to utilize non-white cultures as a way to role play and «time travel» into playgrounds for voyeuristic pleasure - seeking that reinforce Western modernity's sense of superiority.

Of course there will always be the over-the-top displays — garden porn — as it is known because everyone has their voyeuristic side.

The paper compares the aquarium's educational cruise to other «toxic tours» of polluted inner - city areas in New York's South Bronx; Oakland, California; and Chicago, as well as «reality tours» of slums in Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, and Johannesburg, which are increasingly popular among visitors seeking a glimpse of what lies behind the glossy photos in tourism brochures — but also controversial for promoting what some call a voyeuristic approach to poverty.

Deep Dive member Joanna Harmon, who played the character of Faith in OpenMind, describes it as the difference between giving an audience agency to explore a story world from a voyeuristic point of view, and the specific feeling that the story itself is responding to a participant's actions.

It included everything from what posts they liked to their comments on others» photos, and was generally seen as both a guilty pleasure and eerily voyeuristic.