Sentences with phrase «empty cultural signifiers»

For Wachs, these ocular riddles allow for the calculated manipulation of seemingly empty cultural signifiers.

Not exact matches

So while New Image Painting may not change much in the tastes of an art market that prefers its signifiers empty and flexible, the fact remains that the exhibition's authors — its curators and, presumably, its artists — are taking the problems of the market seriously as a cultural force.

He creates and repurposes images, films, structures, and objects that are full of established cultural signifiers yet totally empty of empirical meaning to endow these seemingly known forms with new possibilities.