Sentences with phrase «cultural nihilism»

declares the headline of a 1970 review in the New York Times bemoaning «the cultural nihilism of Conceptual Art» in spite of its ability to keep «scoring points... [in] an art scene poisoned by the market mentality.»

Hitler further declares a «merciless war against spiritual, political, and cultural nihilism.»

Not exact matches

What Trump said in Warsaw was keyed to a very different threat, that of a velvet nihilism, a disposition of cultural and moral disarmament that can not rouse itself to affirm or defend much of anything.

On the ethical and cultural side, they need to help the public as a whole to understand that the nihilism permeating contemporary life is the inevitable consequence of apostasy.

Both nihilism and cultural relativism leave the individual apparently free to do as he pleases without referring to moral values but actually in terrible insecurity until he can find something more than himself that is of value.

It is through those cases, after all, that the radical individualism and nihilism he decries have entered the nation's cultural and constitutional bloodstream.

It's a film from whose nihilism I would've recoiled just a few years ago, but now I see that as perhaps the definitive trend of the first six years of this brave new world (first five after 9/11, the inciting event of this love affair with apocalyptic cultural reset) and not entirely divorced from our reality besides.

Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the cultural climate in another real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.

's cultural history — its most trenchant moments come in the skeleton of the misapprehension of the tenets of nihilism that ironically informs the Tao of Dude.

It seems symptomatic of a broader reorientation in the pop - cultural landscape of early»90s Britain, away from the plaid - shirt nihilism of Generation X, towards a confident levity and engagement with a more localized pop sensibility — a loss of interest in the US as locus of artistic innovation.

2012 «Light Darkness and Shadow: Art and the Meaning of Life», Huffpost Culture, 11 December «Review: Tim Noble & Sue Webster Nihilistic Optimistic, Blain Southern», Kentish Towner, 6 November Mark Sinclair, «Nihilism, optimism and bedtime tales», Creative Review, 1 November Martin Coomer, «Tim Noble and Sue Webster: Nihilistic Optimistic», TimeOut: London, 29 October «Where to buy... Tim Noble and Sue Webster», The Week, 27 October Amy Dawson, «Art Review», The Metro, 24 October Rachel Campbell - Johnston, «Exhibitions: Critic» s Choice», The Times, 20 October Lia Chavez, «A Glimpse at Splitting, Multiplying Universes: Frieze London 2012 Highlights», Huffpost Arts & Culture, 17 October «Arts Agenda: The cultural highlights you have to see», I Newspaper, 16 October «Tim Noble and Sue Webster exhibition: We and Our Shadows», Evening Standard, 16 October Rob Alderson, «Amazing Silhouette Sculptures by Tim Noble and Sue Webster on show in London», It» s Nice That, 16 October Waldemar Januszczak, «Magic Lurks in the Shadows», The Sunday Times, 14 October Emma O'Kelly, «Nihilistic Optimistic by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Blain Southern Gallery», Wallpaper, 10 October Colin Gleadell, «The best anti-Frieze in London», The Daily Telegraph, 9 October Jon Savage, «Frieze Week: Tim Noble & Sue Webster», Dazed Digital, 8 October Kate Kellaway, «Interview with Tim Noble & Sue Webster», The Observer, 7 October Rachel Campbell - Johnston, «Critics Choice», The Times, 6 October Lynn Barber, «The Dark Arts», The Sunday Times, 30 September Charlotte Cripps, «Bringing art to the Charts», The Independent, 29 September «Modern Life is Rubbish», The Art Newspaper, October John B. Henderson, «Chess», The Scotsman, 18 September Tim Walker, «Observations: Chess is the name of the game in a new London show», The Independent, 4 September Liz Stinson, «Artists Turn Junk Into Amazing Silhouettes», Wired, 6 July «Tim and Sue», Hunger, Summer «Tim Noble, Sue Webster and David Adjaye in Coversation with Louisa Buck», Garage Mag Online, 25 May

His use of negation as a universal solvent of cultural values also recalls the work of novelist Michel Houellebecq, but with a less misanthropic flavor of nihilism.

An almost gleeful nihilism turns childlike adornment to a symbol for mass murder, cultural rot and the temporal decay of pictorial language.

The most radical thing an artist can do now, he claimed was «to paint with oils on canvas».2 A revival of painting by Collishaw and Hirst (who is included in Painting Now) indicates the significant cultural shift away from the gaudy consumerism and nihilism that artists of the 90s once championed.