Sentences with phrase «epigones of»

There was also the epigones of Abstract Expressionism.

A bunch of ever - so - mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods....

Across the pond, Englishmen like John Mayall, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton were «60s epigones of African American music who could somehow mechanically reproduce the sound of the American south, but who apparently had no real idea of what they are playing in that their experience (even as working class whites in an English class system) was entirely alien to the modes and mores of the American south.

As he has beenreduced by Parkinson's disease to a dignified epigone of the beautiful athletehe once was, we resort to the recollections — the images, the stories, thevoice — that have become ingrained in our consciousness.

Saving Smith by reducing him to an epigone of Gonzales or Giacometti may have its insights, but it will not help people wondering exactly what happened in art between 1940 and 1965.

Ms. Yamaguchi is an heir of Tamara de Lempicka, epigone of Art Deco figuration.

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Now he is distressed that his academic epigones have extended deconstructionist theory to his socialist dream, and are not amenable to being converted to his messianic religion of America as the Redeemer Nation of limitless possibilities.

The Milwaukee jury's refusal to accept his argument that he was only exercising his artistic freedom simply highlighted the hypocrisy of the damned human race that so appalled Twain's Satan and such of his epigones as the late Lenny Bruce — whose scatological humor, as the late Ralph Gleason once pointed out in Rolling Stone, «challenged society at its very roots.»

Like Wagner, Nietzsche was capable of callow monstrosity in his thought and rhetoric, and certain of his epigones were as loathsome as Wagner's; indeed, the same Nazis who loved one usually loved the other.

I have to admit that when I have looked at some of Baldessari's pieces, I have had almost the same reaction, and even more insistently when I have been in the presence of the work of some of his most successful epigones like Richard Prince and the late Mike Kelley.