Sentences with phrase «contemporary political allegory»

Not exact matches

Three years after Russia's preeminent contemporary auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev scored a nomination for his muscular political allegory «Leviathan,» he returns to the race with «Loveless,» a similarly sprawling, sobering study of social and familial dysfunction in his country.

He explores contemporary social and political issues through allegory, symbolism, and the human figure.

The film suggests how allegory and metaphor were once used to condition and control human social behavior and how this condition is extended in contemporary political rhetoric.

The artist has created an installation based on childhood recollections of playing on the monkey bars and trips to the zoo that he sees as appropriate allegories for our contemporary political nadir.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.