Sentences with phrase «flaneur in»

Often calling upon the districts of Miami and his own backyard, Guerrier examines the contemporary flaneur in an impending post-demographic age.

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Owing to a lull in the collegiate athletics calendar, I have travelled to both Argentina and Japan this month to speak, consult and generally flaneur around.

In the film, Cusack plays a drunken, penniless Edgar Allan Poe, who flaneurs and stumbles around 19th century Baltimore loudly extolling the virtues of his own writing and wooing a young lady of society (the comically named Alice Eve) while enraging her blustering father (Brendan Gleeson).

Expanding on — and more expediently dramatizing — the philosophy of monotony that characterizes his earlier film El Custodio, Moreno wanders the streets, apartments, and rural suburban roads around the Argentine metropolis by way of a scrawny flaneur protagonist, Boris (Esteban Bigliardi), who's ejected from his terminally bored girlfriend's loft in the daintily circuitous dialogue of the opening sequence.

The word flaneur sounds like a term for a connoisseur of flannel fabric but, in fact, the Oxford dictionary defines flaneur as «A man who saunters around observing society.»

I don't think we're essential to the city by any means — no guide is, and in fact we like the idea of people discarding all kinds of guides and just mooching around and discovering the city like the Parisian flaneurs, or the modern psychogegraphers.

Seriously, this game has the best crowds since Jet Set Radio Future, colourful dandies and wayward flaneurs, taking in the sights and ever - eager to be caught up in the middle of one of Kat's impromptu battles against invaders.

The story is lead by the protagonist, Traveller, who sees himself as a modern - day flaneur and extends his leisurely strolls to also experiencing the city by night in order to induce a greater intensity and anxiety of urban architecture.

Wilson is also a sort of California flaneur: in Los Angeles, one absorbs visual information through a car window as much as by walking.

This facile tactic — one artwork loosely related to the convolute, plus one text, then repeat — persists throughout the show: four photos of mannequins in shop windows by Lee Friedlander, each titled New York City and taken in the late aughts, illustrate «The Flaneur»; Mike Kelley's aluminum light fixture, modeled on his childhood home in Detroit and casting an ominous, unfriendly glow, serves as an inconsequential helpmeet to «Dream City and Dream House, Dreams of the Future, Anthropological Nihilism, Jung»; Good Hand Bad Hand (2010), Rodney Graham's photographic diptych mounted on lightboxes of a stone - faced man playing poker is used in concert with «Prostitution, Gambling.»

This injection of «naked» urbanism into the not - so - naked frame of the gallery suggested the stripped - down figure of the artist - as - flaneur - in - the - buff parading another form of sly institutional critique.

These painters also focused more on the street life accompanying the rise in industry; wandering flaneurs and isolated people in crowded city scenes were popular subjects in their modern art oil paintings.

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In the context of modernism, the flaneur is a wanderer of the city, who seeks to connect with the experiences of modernity and modern life.

Catherine Opie's «The Modernist» through February 17 Regen Projects, Los Angeles By Mario Vasquez A «flaneur» is defined in the dictionary as «an idle man about town.»

Say cheese» is not, one suspects, a phrase overused by flaneur photographer Beat Streull in his covert quest for fleeting facial expressions that reveal an urban state of mind.

Embodying the flaneur and his propensity for following a path without a destination in mind, Roden collected the things which Benjamin, and his subsequent enthusiasts, would describe as being «crushed underfoot» ¹ — forgotten, irrelevant, or unconsidered.

Gallery artist Kiel Johnson will have work included in the Torrance Art Museum «s upcoming group exhibition, «WATCHMEN — Surveillance and The Flaneur.»