Sentences with phrase «evanescent body»
I hated Tinker Bell — her weakness, her sickening sweetness, her helplessness, her wispy, evanescent body (so different from my sturdy plump one), her pale hair, her plea to her audience to approve of her.
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Some, while admitting it to have a real existence, imagine that it sleeps in a state of insensibility from Death to the Judgment - day, when it will awake from its sleep; while others will sooner admit anything than its real existence, maintaining that it is merely a vital power which is derived from arterial spirit on the action of the lungs, and being unable to exist without body, perishes along with the body, and vanishes away and becomes evanescent till the period when the whole man shall be raised again.
«This body of work explores the idea of art as a natural and evanescent object, meant to represent a memory or reflect a specific moment in time.
This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.
But its evanescent spirit, together with its emphasis on the body and role - playing, does offer a brilliant platform from which to address and critique a narcissistic culture.
Sensual and fleshy yet nearly immaterial, the installation (which served as the illustration for the New York Times's Biennale review) expresses the young artist's preoccupation with the evanescent physicality of the body.