Sentences with phrase «commentary on the art»

At this point one can barely make out the faded letters spelling out «postmodernism» on the dusty sign that precariously dangles from a rusty nail above the central mineshaft of academic commentary on the arts.

To situate Mapplethorpe, et al., within the ranks of Catholicism requires Heartney to stretch terms such as «Catholic» and «sacramental» into forms devoid of theological meaning, and Heartney's tendentious commentary on art requires from the reader a measure of generosity that the author never extends to her ideological foes.

ArtsATL supports Atlanta's growth as a vibrant, progressive city by being the definitive voice for comprehensive coverage and thoughtful commentary on the arts.

The script (written by Guest and actor Jim Piddock, who also has a role as a retired mascot) fails to deliver the comedic commentary on the art of mascotry that this ridiculous activity provides.

Part documentary, part farce, Taxi is a sterling commentary on art's ability to transcend social and political constraints and a fascinating rumination on theft.

ArtsATL supports Atlanta's growth as a vibrant, progressive city by being the definitive voice for comprehensive coverage and thoughtful commentary on the arts.

Our previous entry highlighted Rolf Potts» sophomore book that weaves his personal tales of adventures on the road with commentary on the art of storytelling.

Seeing Mimi Lauter's work for the first time brought home to me how rare it is to see contemporary painting whose substance is rich and full - bodied but possibly inchoate, rather than style, topicality, or an arm's - length commentary on art history.

This time, the scene becomes even more of a private affair, perhaps a commentary on the art market and the artist's fame.

Continuing on from his last series, «Everybody's A Critic,» a wonderfully caustic commentary on the art world, Lyle resumes his humorous yet bitter critique by reimagining what well known artists might be doing today if they had not risen though through the art world ranks.

They are dialogues with society and commentaries on art history that often reference political issues, mixing high and low cultural values.

Highly coloured, richly textured works invested in questions of the body, ethnicity and sexuality, Byam Shaw's paintings and Yinka Shonibare's sculptural pieces offer a telling commentary on art in London before and after Modernism.

Crumb also offsets the bawdy images with breathless pseudo-high-falutin'texts which send up the artist's own desires, academic commentaries on art, and how the media present women.

Dapper Bruce's drawings always are always laden with text: remembrances to friends and relatives who died in the storm, shout outs to dead celebrities, commentary on his art career, and blunt political criticism.

Susan Rosenbaum and Ori Soltes Present Reconstructing Ben: Social Commentary on the Art of Benjamin Abramowitz, a W.P.A. artist at 19 who recently passed in 2011.

As much a commentary on art as culture, Hirsig layers meaning and materials into the paint by adding collaged images and fabrics: fractal - like detailing gives way to soft brushstrokes interrupted by heavy spills of paint out of which an explosion of color and texture emerges.

As much a commentary on art as culture, Hirsig layers meaning and materials into the...

A collection of readings, thoughts, and commentary on the arts, history, and culture, every post is packed with quotes, attributions, and links — both to her own previous posts as well as other sources where readers can purchase the book being quoted or read more deeply about a subject.

Enormous cherry still lifes and loony faces, macabre chorus lines of legs, hapless - looking Ku Klux Klan figures: These paintings deliver a sardonic commentary on art, art - making, politics and life that never goes out of style.

Fraser's wide - ranging oeuvre — performances, videos and texts — consists not only of incisive analyses but also critical, at times also humorous, commentaries on the art business.

Susan Rosenbaum and Ori Soltes Present Reconstructing Ben: Social Commentary on the Art of Benjamin Abramowitz

In the triad of his collages, which are commentaries on the art world (1940s), the performative series of slides on the formal constellation of the world of art, religion, nature, and architecture (from the late 1950s), and these ultimate paintings (beginning in 1960), he opened a path towards Minimalist and Conceptual art.

Along with a sampling of short plays, visual essays, poetry and fiction by never - before - published authors, issues contain new installments of two series: «Modern Artifacts,» for which undiscovered treasures from The Museum of Modern Art Archives are reproduced in facsimile, and «Guarded Opinions,» which features museum guards» commentaries on the art they oversee.

Even in its abstractness, it has a touch of chutzpah, a quality that subsequent generations of artists adopted and evolved into irreverence, self - awareness and topical meta - commentary on art and contemporary life.

American artist Donald Judd became an important figure, often producing commentaries on the art that he and other Minimalist artists were making.

ArtsATL supports Atlanta's growth as a vibrant, progressive city by being the definitive voice for comprehensive coverage and thoughtful commentary on the arts.

ArtsATL supports Atlanta's growth as a vibrant, progressive city by being the definitive voice for comprehensive coverage and thoughtful commentary on the arts.

Not exact matches

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In an important commentary on Newman's work, Rosenberg concluded that painting was for Newman a way of «practicing» the sublime, not of «conveying» it («Meaning and Abstract Art,» the New Yorker [January 1, 19721, p. 46)

She lived on in oral tradition; it was then that her image expanded and deepened; but in almost no surviving art and few theological commentaries does she even appear.

• The Journal of the American Medical Association usually has on its cover a reproduction of a work of fine art, with a commentary by Dr. M. Therese Southgate.

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About Blog A blog that includes Sculpture, Works on Paper, Digital Prints, Wood Sculpture, Photograhy, Contemporary Art, Writing, Political and Social Commentary.

On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor, Days of Heaven rates: Movie: Excellent Video: Excellent Sound: Excellent Supplements: Commentary with editor Billy Weber, art director Jack Fisk, costume designer Patricia Norris, casting director Dianne Crittenden; audio interview with Richard Gere; video interviews with Haskell Wexler, John Bailey, Sam Shepard; essay by Adrian Martin and a reprinted chapter from Néstor Almendros» autobiography Packaging: Keep case Reviewed: October 23, 2007

Less effective as a portrait of Allende than it is as a commentary on the documentary medium itself - art as a means of resuscitating history.

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

It took too many people too long to fall in love with a stylized rom - com martial arts adventure that appropriates video game language to provide commentary on how relationships evolve, but Scott Pilgrim vs. the World has rightfully become recognized as a one - of - a-kind pop masterpiece.

Recent years have seen a new level of black art that's intertwined sociopolitical commentary with high - caliber artistry: from Beyoncé's Lemonade and Kendrick Lamar's DAMN to Atlanta and Queen Sugar, there's been a renewed focus on telling stories that broaden and sharpen the range of black narratives.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the indie comedy hit «Napoleon Dynamite» with writer - director Jared Hess and star Jon Heder participating in a live commentary screening and conversation on Monday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Bing Theatre on the LACMA -LSB-...]

With three different audio commentaries leading the pack, the disc also includes a backseat interview with stars John Cho and Kal Penn, a sound effects featurette entitled «The Art of the Fart,» eight short interviews with supporting cast members, a short featurette on the making of the CG - based Land of Burgers, eight deleted scenes and the film's theatrical trailer.

«Design» (14 mins., SD) Concept art for the characters gets montaged, 3 - D visualizations put Woody, et al on those virtual turntables that have absolutely no practical application for non-personnel, and Eggleston introduces and provides commentary for a not - uninteresting section on simply «color» that examines / rationalizes tonal shifts in the movie's palette.

What makes this one worth buying is the new commentary with Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman, as well as the original poem and concept art the film was based on, read by Christopher Lee.

The scholarly coverage and detailed analysis of select sequences from films, television and new media art, plus extensive commentary on scholarly film criticism and theory, together packed into its 216 primary pages is quite remarkable.

We may see Earl listening to Martin Scorsese's audio commentary on The Red Shoes, but we never buy him as an art film lover or as someone with anything in common with Greg.

Of course, this easily could have been expanded into the two - disc set that the film deserves, had there been an audio commentary, a presentation of each «Pooh» featurette in its original form, a more extensive art gallery, a featurette on the theme park attractions, a longer making - of documentary, and an additional audio option.

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Extras: Audio commentary with film producer and historian Bruce Block; new appreciation of the film and select scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp; «The Flawed Couple,» a new video essay by filmmaker David Cairns on the collaborations between Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon; «Billy Wilder ABC,» an overview by David Cairns on the life and career of the filmmaker, covering his films, collaborators and more; new interview with actress Hope Holiday; «Inside the Apartment,» a half - hour «making - of» featurette from 2007 including interviews with Shirley MacLaine, executive producer Walter Mirisch, and others; «Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon,» an archive profile of the actor from 2007; original screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (BD - ROM content); theatrical trailer; special collector's packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick; collector's 150 - page hardcover book featuring new writing by Neil Sinyard, Kat Ellinger, Travis Crawford and Heather Hyche, generously illustrated with rare stills and behind - the - scenes imagery.

The Art and Form with Michael Westmore - Staccato: A Composer's Notebook with Bill Conti - The Ring of Truth - Behind the Scenes with John Avildsen - Tribute to Burgess Meredith - Tribute to James Crabe - Video Commentary with Sylvester Stallone - Sylvester Stallone on Dinah!

Extras: New interviews with actors Linda Blair, Peter Barton, Vincent Van Patten, Suki Goodwin, Kevin Brophy and Jenny Neumann; commentary with Blair, director Tom DeSimone, prodcuers Irwin Yablans and Bruce Cohn Curtis; original theatrical trailer & TV spots; new interview with DeSimone; new interview with Curtis; new interview with writer Randolph Feldman; new «Anatomy of the Death Scenes» with DeSimone, Feldman, make - up artist Pam Peitzman, art director Steven G. Legler and special effects artist John Eggett; new «On Location at the Kimberly Crest House» with DeSimone; new «Gothic Design in Hell Night» with Steven G. Legler; original radio spot; photo gallery featuring rare, never - before - seen stills.

Anyone who's ever had the pleasure of listening to a Ric Meyers commentary track on a martial - arts DVD knows how entertaining and informative the man can be, relating anecdotes, analysis, observation, and historical context in the voice of an enthusiast, not a pedant.