Sentences with phrase «cultural allusions»

Following the template of every animated Fox show, Napoleon Dynamite is laden with cultural allusions for a savvy audience used to devouring pop culture.

There was a strange and irresolvable tension between these parched reliquaries and the abundant cultural allusions packed into their titles — Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty), Ararat, Fitzcarraldo.

Having searched high and lowbrow, Rick Santorum has finally found a cultural allusion he can work with.

All this, plus numerous pop - cultural allusions (Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Frozen, Basic Instinct, the Bourne films, MatthewMcConaughey and Sabrina The Teenage Witch all get namechecks), could, in less able hands, become tiresome.

To be highly proficient in Brooksian English — the language of privilege — requires mastery over not just an alphabet and rules of grammar, but also an enormous range of assumed knowledge, historical references, and cultural allusions that are commonly held by members of a speech community.

Like the photographic and sculptural works in Accumulations, Number Sixteen reveals a complex network of accumulated inspirations, cultural allusions and visceral histories.

Her thrillingly reckless paintings, full of gestural edge, humor and pop - cultural allusion, present a kind of two - dimensional precedent for the deftly coarse sculptures of Rachel Harrison, or an American counterpart to Martin Kippenberger.

They were unafraid to explore gesture, improvisation, relational compositions, allusions to figuration and landscape, as well as art historical and cultural allusions, high and low.

While there seems to be a sense of play among the myriad references, the cultural allusions to the racial, class, and hierarchical issues that exist in South Texas become transparent.

However you interpret these complex wax creations, Kapoor's show is worth seeing for its combination of technical mastery and a unique tapestry of cultural allusions.