Sentences with phrase «failed utopias of»

rofile on cover artist Lee Bul, who looks to the failed utopias of the past to present a disturbing vision of the future.

While the failed utopias of the past would similarly return to haunt Lee's practice, it was initially her evocative visions of the future that made her one of the most prominent non-Western artists of an anxious age.

Reticula, part of Dario Escobar's «ultramoderno» project commenting on the failed utopia of modernism in Central America, 50 pool triangles made in Taiwan becomes a relief, and its composition follows a modern grid.

From the motor oil series as a commentary on the mid-century failed utopia of progress in Central America, to the recreation of ancient pigments and materials, Escobar uses abstraction as a ritual exercise to revisit the past.

Not exact matches

And past efforts at doing that — whether through the urban renewal of individual neighborhoods or the wholesale development of utopias — have invariably failed for that reason.

Historians do not have to be cynics but only historians, however, to show that all past envisionings of millennium, utopia, or primordium - projected - forward have been complex and have failed.

The kibbutzim version of utopia might not have played out quite the way that the founders envisioned, but it didn't completely fail.

FORD»S FAILED UTOPIA A finalist for the National Book Award, Greg Grandin's compelling Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City brings to vivid life an extraordinary chapter in the career of Henry Ford.

I hope we'll see more homages to crazed citizenry of my favorite failed utopia as BioShock 2 «s release date draws near.

Featuring a failed Art Deco utopia, bizarre diving suit - clad monsters and a story that twisted and looped around the player's assumptions, Bioshock introduced a new kind of action adventure game, loaded with meaning, style and adult themes.

Dystopia and anti-utopia are not interchangeable, and as terms describe parallel conditions which emerge from diametrically opposed motives: dystopia describes a deliberately oppressive society, built from its foundations as a structure of tyranny; while anti-utopia describes a more complex circumstance where the conditions for building utopia fail, and the results amount to those of a dystopian society.

Raised between Paris and San Francisco, the 31 - year - old Frenchman now lives in Berlin but spends more than half the year traveling, searching for inspiration and adventure in the form of destruction and decay — the remnants of failed utopias.

One of the most persistent themes in contemporary art since the early 1990s has been the proliferation of work that addresses «ruined modernity» and «failed utopias»: in other words, a type of art that reformats iconic examples of 20th - century architecture and design into painting, sculpture, photography, video, slide shows, archival installations, etc..

One of the most persistent themes in contemporary art since the early 1990s has been that of «ruined modernity» and «failed utopias».

Los Angeles - based photographer and multimedia artist Todd Baxter is the mastermind behind this series of images, entitled Project Astoria, which offer retro - futuristic scenes depicting a «failed late - 1960s attempt to colonise an Earth - like planet and transform it into a utopia».

In the Same River Twice delves into the correlation of the designed environment and failed utopias in order to examine the idea of the American Dream.

In the works included in the exhibition, twenty - eight artists express a varied fascination with city planning, failing modernity and its utopias, social and economic pressure, and the anonymity of everyday life and its worn - out routine.

The starting point of this exhibition was the 1918 painting by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, titled White on White, which Sussman interprets as beginning a chain of failed utopias including modernist abstraction, the Soviet Union, and the space race.

Bourriaud implicitly pits object - based art practices such as abstract painting — which he associates with the notion of (failed) utopias — against what he calls «microtopia,» a provisional, DIY, relational approach to art.

2006 Dead, Absent, and Fictitious, and End of Gays, Outfest, REDCAT, Los Angeles The Fantasy of Failed Utopias and a Girls Daydream, Kuenstlerhaus, Stuttgart National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Naeem Mohaiemen (2008 Visual Arts) is an artist and writer who uses essays, photography and film to explore histories of failed utopias.