Sentences with phrase «became totemic»

Making the connection created a dangerous new context for the story - it became a totemic part of the struggle between the government and the media.

And then it comes to represent culture and art, it becomes totemic.

I don't like the word «iconic», so let's say that he's become totemic — a totem for everything Modernism set out to be.

Not exact matches

The isolated lamb in Hirst's Away from the Flock 1994 has become fully as totemic a symbol of his artistic identity as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living from three years before.

Their strong relationship to nature is evident through the use of a natural material like clay manipulated in order to become nature again, but in this case nature has become fetishised as in the lava trees» totemic presence.

Shown across five monitors, the work seeks to create an alternate reality in which five totemic entities recite an eerily subjective poem.A second piece of work utilises the cables from each of the five monitors, so that they become an integral part of a large black and white paper collage displayed on the other side of the wall, questioning what is the back, what is the front, and what the subject is?

In the 1980s he became known worldwide for paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms.

Untitled, c. 1954 - 59, contains all the requisite elements of what had become by 1948 a set form: isolated sections delineated like irregular puzzle pieces, in this instance offset by an abstracted totemic figure.

I think part of the problem with the hockey stick is that it has been used so heavily by the IPCC and others that it has become rather totemic for both sides of this debate.

These results are bound to stir up interest beyond the scientific community, since the «hockey stick» shape of previous reconstructions has become so totemic (although just about everyone agrees that there is no need for this «totemising».

These results are bound to stir up interest beyond the scientific community, since the «hockey stick» shape of previous reconstructions has become so totemic (although just about everyone agrees that there is no need for this «totemising»).