Sentences with phrase «fascination with death»

In the early 1960s, her work reflected her fascination with the death of Marilyn Monroe and the launch of the Barbie doll.

Hirst's continued fascination with death is evident throughout and, using Picasso's Nature morte au crane et au pot as a starting point, part of the exhibition will present a contemporary wunderkammer — a series of memento mori reflecting a theme that recurs throughout the Murderme collection.

Gallery patrons were treated to an inspired performance by Redd's sister, Roxanna Walitzki all while gazing upon the beautiful works inspired by entropy, new growth, and our fascination with death and the tragic muse.

The expression of many artists» fascination with death has made its way into a variety of formats and -LSB-...]

This fascination with death was one of the family's first indications that Carl needed professional help.

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It also placed viewers in the middle of an event that is still an intense topic of fascination for the American public, with director Kathryn Bigelow calling the death of bin Laden «one of the great stories of our time.»

* psychic numbing as a diminished capacity for feeling death quilt felt by survivors death imprint as heightened vulnerability fascination with scenes of death a turning inward of anger in death / disaster renewal emerging from awareness of threats

A spellbinding fascination with scenes of death appeared, along with a loss of innocence of death and impaired mourning.

To be sure, the sources and manifestations of violence are complex But what do we make of competitiveness, the cult of winning, the armoring of emotions, the tendency to dichotomize reality, the abstraction from bodily concreteness and the exaggerated fear of death that is manifested in a morbid fascination with it?

They sense a fascination with the process of dying and the mysterious state of death.

A case can be made that, in their rejection of authoritative tradition, in their fascination with novel spiritualities and high - tech expertise, and in the assertion of a right to control their lives and deaths, the suicides of Heaven's Gate exemplify the «mainstream faith» of the Times» editorial page.

A fascination with large - scale history, the struggle with Marxism and fascism, and the need to seek justice for colonized peoples all seemed to make concern with individual death and afterlife seem selfish, narrow and unbiblically disembodied.

«I have to to say that your morbid fascination with the premature death of your own party leader is not really a subject for me, it is a subject for the chief whip.»

«Kate Plays Christine» makes for a twisty, unsettling probe into our fascination with transforming lives, and deaths, into digestible storytelling.

His strange home life indelibly affects him; death's looming presence leads to a fascination with the afterlife, and the possibility of communicating with the deceased.

Howard's main fascination with how these two men toy with fatalism via their sport, but the film never seems to take death all that serious, not unlike Hunt.

India (Mia Wasikowska) is an only child, who develops a fascination with funerals and death following his demise.

Profoundly magical, funny, unsettling, and gorgeous — a love letter to Los Angeles and provocative satire of America's fascination with itself, its cult of celebrity; a vision of the death of Old Hollywood.

The pair may have wanted to pay loving homage to the exploitation films they loved as youngsters but, as everyone quickly discovered, few filmgoers seemed to share their fascination with the genre, with the double - bill flopping in the US and Tarantino's stand - alone Death Proof being a box - office bust upon its belated UK release.

Similar to «Death Race 2000» from Paul Bartel and Roger Corman, «The Hunger Games» examines the media's fascination with bloody violence and vicarious emotion when there's nothing at stake for the viewer and interviewer.

My fascination with the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 began during a bout of genealogy, which found me paging through Philadelphia death certificates.

Using deceptively colloquial language and even humor, Shankar highlights our nearly universal fascination with violent death, a subject too often either sensationalized or pushed under the rug.

Few subjects have such intrinsic fascination to middle - grade kids (and everyone else, really) as the concept of death and the particulars of how humans deal with it.

Deeply anchored in tradition, Ross's radical and technologically advanced Mountain photographs are influenced by his fascination with Albert Bierstadt's and Frederic Church's iconic views of the American West, which he studied while at Yale University and which he has described as «my salvation from the certain death of a narrow aesthetic inheritance — namely Clement Greenberg's formalism and the Color Field tradition I was born into.»

Even before Warhol's near - fatal shooting at the hands of Valerie Solanas in 1968, his artistic practice had been underpinned by an obsessive fascination with sudden death.

Harris's fascination with Pollock matched his physical similarity, and his devotion assured a work of singular integrity, honoring the artist's achievement in abstract expressionism while acknowledging that Pollock was a tormented, manic - depressive alcoholic whose death at 44 (in a possibly suicidal car crash) also claimed the life of an innocent woman.

There was also a fascination with ideas of death and suffering, similarly to what Warhol did in his Disaster series.

The genesis of the work is Soth's fascination with the life of Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk who, prior to his death in 1968, lived for almost three decades at the remote Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky.

Dolphin continues his fascination with the shrines and mythologies built around iconic stars, their deaths and the places and objects that gain significance through their association with them.

His fascination culminated in an exhibition, «Kiefer Rodin,» timed to coincide with the centenary of Rodin's death in 1917.

Filled with vibrant illustrations, this stunning volume traces Thomas's development as an artist: her transition from figuration to abstraction, her fascination with the natural world and space exploration, and the mesmerizing mosaic - like paintings she completed before her death.

It explores his fascination with magic and sex twenty five years after his death, in the first and most complete film of its kind ever since.

He is keen to stress that Hirst's own work will not be on show: the gallery is specifically for the artist's 3,000 - strong collection to be «shared with the public», a haul that ranges from his YBA contemporaries to Jeff Koons and Richard Prince, along with pieces that «reflect his morbid fascination with anatomy and death».

FASCINATION WITH THE LIFE AND WORK of Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) has never really quelled since his death three decades ago.

Filled with vibrant illustrations, this volume traces Thomas's development as an artist: her transition from figuration to abstraction, her fascination with the natural world and space exploration, and the mosaic - like paintings she completed before her death.

Deeply anchored in tradition, Ross» radical and technologically advanced Mountain photographs are influenced by his fascination with Albert Bierstadt's and Frederic Church's iconic views of the American West, which he studied while at Yale University and which he has described as «my salvation from the certain death of a narrow aesthetic inheritance — namely Clement Greenberg's formalism and the Color Field tradition I was born into.»

Here we return to Warhol's enduring aesthetic — the artist's concerns with death are again suppressed by that of celebrity, as we leave behind Warhol's obsessive electric chairs, or car crashes, and swiftly return to the artist's fascination with the mass production of the image, repetition, and commercial cultural value.

But we soon return to celebrity friends such as Ingrid Bergman and Muhammad Ali, reminding the viewer of the artist's fascination and obsession with fame, and of Warhol's commissioned portraits spanning the 1970s right up to the year before his death — with the artist's wish for his «society portraits» to all hang together in a huge display at New York's Museum of Modern Art.