Sentences with phrase «creates phantasmagoria»

Huey sources her paintings from historic images, advertisements, postcards and photographs, and curator Jess Frost has included a selection of both found and created materials as well as collages that reference the process Huey uses in creating her phantasmagorias.

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Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

Phantasmagoria is a mixed media painting and photography series by CecilBoyd, created in a true collaboration between painter Will Boyd and photographer Hubert Cecil.

At least if you think of the power of advertising and promotion, what Walter Benjamin calls «phantasmagoria» — a world of illusions created by the mass media, in which modern people find models for their everyday behaviour but also their attitudes and prejudices, and even their deepest beliefs.

In approaching The Arcades Project (Harvard University Press) for the first time in earnest I explored Benjamin's use of «phantasmagoria,» traced it back through letters with Adorno, to Marx, to the 17th - century illusionistic «theatre of phantasmagoria,» and developed an essay about illusions created on social media for a journal tasked with addressing the rise of authoritarian populism around the globe.

Influenced by Joseph Beuys, the American «bad painting» movement, punk rock and popular culture, tattoos, advertising, trash aesthetic, and more, Bouthillette has created a mischievous and irreverent phantasmagoria of sights and sounds.

Phantasmagoria is a collection of works created by a talented group of New Mexican high school students.