Sentences with phrase «atomized world»

In Chagall, we may more reasonably look for moving power, symbols of transcendence, perhaps reasons of the heart, gestures of hope — or despair — for a fractured, atomized world.

The young face a more atomized world than did Americans fifty years ago, but even in young people's support for free college, we see their hopes of entering a world with steadier employment and more stable families.

The experience was a bit bewildering at first, since the studio is a laboratory where the artist has more than a dozen «experiments» going simultaneously: a giant firefly contraption takes up a swing - set zone; materials for an upcoming performance are laid out on every surface of the seating and sofa zone; fish tanks surround a computer zone and provide the staging ground for an oceanic corral project; dozens of human arm forms, cast in a Black Power salute and cast in gold, are lined up along a wall, in preparation for a huge installation in Washington, D.C. this fall; a 3 - D printer is on pause as it creates Lilliputian figures for who - knows - what; and everywhere are various staging grounds of plastic models which will eventually be sprayed in gold and mounted on pins, to create Kaino's now - signature six - foot - tall, glittering gold pin drawings that suggest atomized worlds.

Not exact matches

c the growth, though the interaction and ever - increasing concentration of individual viewpoints, of a faculty of common vision penetrating beyond the continuous and static world of popular conception into a fantastic but still manageable world of atomized energy.

Instead of banding together to reach the outside world, Soderbergh's characters pull away from each other in terror, sealing themselves up in their homes in a spooky mirror image of our atomized online society.

It's a beautiful performance: art slowly atomizing into the world, disappearing and then regenerating, unable ever to be lost or destroyed.

At Van Doren Waxter, Jackie Saccoccio's latest abstractions effervesce more than ever with dots and carefully directed drips, suggesting windows onto worlds of atomized color.