Sentences with phrase «economy of gesture»

There's also a very specialized economy of gesture at work in the photos, with the mirror's reflective surface doubling halves of cow shit piles into wholes, multiplying pillars into a porch, and turning a touch into a hug.

Plenty of precursors, such as Robert Irwin's subtlest site - specific installations and Bruce Nauman's 1967 - 8 Dance or Exercises on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance), demarcate exhibition space through an economy of gesture.

For works that rely on such an economy of gesture, they nevertheless suggest an interrogative and antagonistic position, one that requires both artist and viewer to complete the unspoken partnership with each piece and to respond to the titular challenge: Where Were You?

The camera - savvy charisma, the economy of gesture that the great Western heroes manage, aren't written into the character or played by the actor cast as him.

The practice operates on the threshold of choreography and observation, of documentary modes and staged scenarios or performances - working with an economy of gestures to articulate relations orchestrated by and around the camera.

Not exact matches

The Chinese economy had been slowing for months, but the country's currency continued to appreciate as the PBoC sold billions of dollars to buoy the yuan's value — a gesture few seemed to appreciate.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked New York City commissioners to look for ways to cut costs in a gesture of fiscal moderation prompted by worries over the rocky world economy, drawing cautious praise from budget watchdogs.

The President - elect's team said the gesture formed part of measures to save what they call an ailing economy from further tumbling.

Mr Balls has previously mocked David Cameron over the state of the economy during Prime Minister's Questions by making «flatlining» gestures with his hands while the Conservative leader addressed the house.»

His spectacular frenzies of color and form become visual analogues of the very urban landscape from which he scavenged his materials — poetic visual kaleidoscopes of the communities and underground economies to which Bradford's inherently referential source material gestures, and the volatile emotional admixture of desires, concerns and vitality that make up the complex socio - economic layers of Bradford's worlds.»

With these gestures, Pierce points to the economy and speed of making as well as the institutional amnesia of recent artworks and scenarios just past.

Drawn to the poor and the unemployed, who were suffering from the collapse of the nation's economy, she began to notice and photograph how people's lives and feelings were translated into body gesture.

Once each painting's idiosyncratic subject is indexed in Katz's vocabulary — his economy of fluid gestures — out come the queasy «bad vibrations» of his quirky, unconventional artistry.

Using an economy of means and improvisational gestures, Emin's spidery ink beds foreground the process of looking, charting the artist's changing perception of herself.

He hopes it will cheer the nation and that the thumbs - up gesture will «become a self - fulfilling prophecy — that things considered «bad» such as the economy, the weather and society will benefit from a change of consensus towards positivity».

Like Saroyan, Cook tends to lean towards the minimal, favoring an approach centered on visible process, understated gesture, and economy of form.

This sourcing of material is a resonant gesture toward the excesses of consumer culture, while also achieving a Greenbergian economy of means in the creation of her colour fields.

Bringing a poetic yet critical sensibility to the international stage, her work revolves around subjects such as the global economy, commerce and transportation often based on the classic gesture of the ready - made that is uncovering how collective memory and sociopolitical imperatives can define cultural production.»