Sentences with phrase «between fetishism»

In his accompanying text, Crimp addressed the theoretical and thematic issues in this new work — the interplay between fetishism and desire, beauty and romanticism, as well as media representations of the post-Vietnam age.

Not exact matches

As Americans in a pluralistic society, however, we must create a milieu for moral decision - making that is somewhere between value conferred by intention or relation alone, and the abstract mystical fetishism that deifies the substance of human life in and of itself.

More in the posing of questions than in any kind of resolutions or consequences, the pleasures of The Final Countdown also lie in the performances of Sheen (still doing voice - over work for Apocalypse Now between camera set - ups) and Douglas, as well as the delicious «what if» of a time - travel scenario married to a particular breed of unfettered patriotism and military fetishism.

Fetishism, parody, and various registers of violence propel Revenge, which mines the free - floating hostility existing between genders.

Unlike more recent attempts to frame the personal collecting habits of an artist as a manic embodiment of commodity fetishism in the era of high capitalism, this exhibition asks viewers to reflect upon the correspondences between artist and acquisition and the complicated relationship that contemporary art exposes between taste, influence, and popular culture.

Standing between three to four feet tall, these hyper - adorned figures exude both fetishism and beauty.

The sculptures poignantly drew a comparison between western material fantasies and the fetishism of the «other» in settler society.

At many places in that text, Debord makes the case that through understanding the ways our media culture obscures social relations between people in favour of the simplistic relation of consumer and commodity, it is possible to upset the balance of commodity fetishism associated with late capitalism.

As such, the art of Thilo Heinzmann can also be seen to engage with notions of aesthetic and conceptual fetishism — developing a visual language which makes eloquent the beguiling tension and resolution between sensory and visual phenomena.

«My work explores the relationship between consumerist fetishism and the emerging recycling culture within the visual arts,» says Jobbins.