Sentences with phrase «forms of nostalgia»

Serena Perrone employs various techniques ranging from printmaking and drawing to photography and writing to reflect on personal mythologies, examine differing forms of nostalgia, recount stories of destruction, regeneration, transition, enchantment and disenchantment, and capture images of the synchronistic and uncanny ways that magic and wonder are encountered in liminal spaces.

It is a form of nostalgia, a kind of pre-Raphaelite aesthetic that sees the Middle Ages as a kind of Eden.

I'm all for a rigorously selective form of nostalgia, and that kind of nostalgia, practiced by our most astute social critics, is less blinding than liberating.

This is as closest as we've gotten to classic, family - friendly Spielberg since the 1990s, and it's that specific form of nostalgia that plants its claws in me.

Obviously the confusion and bias that Michael has is caused by some form of nostalgia for paper books vs. the nearly infinite benefits of electronic devices that can present books on a touch screen.

For the latter, it seems at best a misplaced form of nostalgia.

Any form of nostalgia or general claims of «purity and idealism» would not interest him.

Not exact matches

All of this is true — but it obscures an important difference between the two forms of Boomer nostalgia.

Nostalgia for the old, monuments of spiritual aspiration, the worldwide revival of ancient religious forms, the power of orgiastic political movements of destruction, and the protest impulse that has driven artistic expression for more that a century all testify to the profound ambivalence with which the success of instrumental rationality has been greeted.»

Nostalgia for the religious traditions of rural and small - town America forms part of the appeal of popular evangelists from Billy Sunday to Billy Graham.

Her nostalgia for a «common or shared faith» in society is a longing for a very particular Christian faith and seems ill - informed about the many religions and forms of Christianity now shaping U.S. society.

In its degraded form, this gets reduced to a false nostalgia based on mythological readings of history.

Curiously, similar features characterize Protestant and Roman Catholic styles of worship, with some Roman Catholics showing as much nostalgia for 16th century forms as the most ardent Lutherans.

If there is one motif that is common to all forms of romanticism — and here I am speaking of romantic theory and not of the actual poetry of the so - called romantic poets — it is a nostalgia for the lost innocence of a primordial beginning and a yearning for an original and undifferentiated form of consciousness.

The former was the position of my youth, in the form of a sort of muscular Lutheranism, and (if nothing else) the nostalgias of middle age assure a lingering empathy.

Love and nostalgia are two of the most powerful forces in the universe — along with hunger, habit, gravity and your leg just before you stub your toe — and here they combine in the form of one still - really - very - good player.

So how exactly did this current nostalgia for the past — in the form of the paleo diet — begin?

Remember many years ago, back in the late 90s - early 2000s (pause for rush of nostalgia) when society convinced us that for something to fit right or be «fashionable», it had to be form - fitting?

Frankenheimer's later fame, and his oft - repeated nostalgia for live television, have designated him as the quintessential exponent of the form.

In making Revenant Kingdom, Level 5 has achieved an incredible feat by delivering a game that can generate feelings of nostalgia formed from other intellectual properties with its own new, different content that manages to stand on its own.

With its nostalgia - fueled warmth, slice of Americana and coming - of - age relatability, the show arrived fully formed and gave us one of the most iconic TV scenes ever: Kevin (Fred Savage) and Winnie's (Danica McKellar) first kiss.

For Gerwig, the hometown ennui would eventually take the form of aching nostalgia for Sacramento's winding rivers, nourishing farmland, sun - dappled streets, charming heritage houses and sweet neighborliness.

Even now, however, there is evidence of a return to nostalgia — just as Marvel's ever - expanding cinematic universe begins to court the more colourful aspects of its comic - book ancestry, Matthew Vaughn was all - too - happy to provide a similar tonic to a spy genre replete with Bournes and Bonds in the form of last month's Kingsmen: The Secret Service.

It carries an assured kind of natural nostalgia for an old form of animation.

Immediately after viewing Jurassic World I turned to my viewing partner, a look of disgust forming on my face, to discover that she and almost everyone else in the theater were high on some sort of flashy, merchandised, nostalgia - pandered fairy dust.

Sutter, a senior who is the self - proclaimed life of every party, actively performs this nostalgia even as his high school memories are still forming.

The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy's Risorgimento — when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic Italy.

Ostensibly a hybrid of an Adam Sandler lovable schlub vehicle with a kids» picture nostalgia piece, «Pixels» imagines that an alien invasion takes place in the form of vintage video game characters attacking major metropolises around the world.

It's these photos that are probably the highlights, if not for their nostalgia value then for the joy of seeing the cars in specifications we never became familiar with in the UK market - or in tuned form, with rarities like the Toyota 2000GT (based on the second - generation car) or Zagato's crazy VM180, whose styling must be seen to be believed.

For modern inhabitants of this island nation, consuming smoked and fermented foods is a form of cultural nostalgia, a celebration of the way things were.

The makers of The Legend of Legacy bring the classic JRPG back to form in The Alliance Alive, a new adventure that evokes the nostalgia of the JRPG greats by offering huge world - exploration, an intertwining story of 9 protagonists, and well - designed battle mechanics.

After releasing their critically acclaimed free - to - play take on the sci - fi shooter in the form of Tribes: Ascend, they also made the rest of the series freeware, so whether you want to dig into the latest edition or stroke nostalgia with the older titles, you only need give them a download, free of charge.

It's a shame then that as we near the release of Sonic Mania, a game that is looking to not just emulate past glories, but celebrates Sonic in his best and purest form, that there is, yet again, no word on any Sonic 3 nostalgia.

While there have been numerous ports and remakes of Double Dragon games in the past, including the recent Double Dragon Neon, the developers behind this latest version of the 2nd Double Dragon game have not had prior dealings with the two - player beat - em - up franchise, nor should they ever have had any business adapting the game to begin with; a South Korean developer known for their PC MMORPG series Ragnarok Online, game studio GRAVITY is responsible for this atrocity that has infested the Xbox Live Arcade marketplace on our collective nostalgia in the form of Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons.

Aside from inciting a rush of nostalgia, looking at Halo 2's original form deepened my appreciation for the richer colors, better lighting and insane amount of new details found in the Anniversary version.

In «Nostalgia», every board is set in black and white and is in the form of an old movie at a theatre.

Thimbleweed Park is a glorious return to form and heaps piles of puzzle - solving nostalgia on your agency desk.

After suddenly remembering that Monkey Island is a thing that exists and is liked by people who might be packing some combination of nostalgia and money, they shoehorned the poor Guybrush Threepwood (mighty pirate) into one of their particularly crappy Star Wars games (no, not the Kinect one), in form of a fucking hideously deformed character skin.

Nintendo was still riding the huge wave of nostalgia generated by Pokémon Go (and the 3DS Pokémon titles that followed), they had a stellar new console waiting in the wings, and a new president in the form of Tatsumi Kimishima who, while not being as public - facing as Iwata, seemed to be taking the company in a direction I approved of.

The objects made by Lins — a Bell telephone, a VKhUTEMAS model, a table built to the specifications set out by Enzo Mari in his open - source manual Autoprogettazione of 1974 — are at the same time models for some other form of artistic production: things beyond the categories of craft, art, design, sculpture, image, capitalist consumerism, or communist nostalgia.

Featuring exhibitions, a residency, curated events, and a publication, the project seeks to explore possibilities for a critical aesthetics and poetics of diaspora, approaching «nostalgia» as a vehicle for negotiating «place» in migration (against the «nostalgic» as a mode of representation); and spatial, oral and aural forms of «leisure» as processes of inscribing, translating and performing identity, memory, and territory.

, composed of doilies made by the artist's mother, grandmother and aunts arranged onto sky blue walls, was richly layered in form, history and nostalgia.

In particular, the installation Many Among the Many, composed of doilies made by the artist's mother, grandmother and aunts arranged onto sky blue walls, was richly layered in form, history and nostalgia.

The exhibition looks at various modes of cultural indoctrination found within contemporary video gaming and mainstream music, and also looks at the rise of nostalgia for older forms of entertainment, like A / V and VHS.

Amir H. Fallah's portraits and installations are composed collaboratively, using objects and textiles that participants deem significant, to develop an exploration of the ways that identities are formed out of emotional associations with - and nostalgia for - specific products, objects, and places.

Just as nostalgia is a cheapened form of memory, an extended attack on the past can be a cheapened form of rebellion.

Bare tendrils accumulate to form the skeletal structure of the original cloth, reminding us through nostalgia of what it was originally.

In his paintings, rough textures of stucco, cement, and dilapidated tile are peppered with street signage and resilient natural forms of greenery evoking familiarity with and even nostalgia for Angeleno neighborhoods.

Paul Smith attempts to jar notions of nostalgia and theatre through his groupings of signs, symbols and forms borrowed from the graphic arts, advertising, and from mechanical and musical languages.

Selected group exhibitions from recent years are Question the Wall Itself, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis US (2016); Anti-ageing, Performa 15, Swiss Institute, New York US; La Vie Moderne, Biennale de Lyon FR; Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin DE (all 2015); The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz AT; The Brancusi Effect, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna AT; The Reluctant Narrator, Berardo Museum, Lisbon PT; Nostalgia, Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow UK (all 2014); Møller, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow RU; Reading the Surface, David Zwirner, London UK; Decorum, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris FR; L'Image dans la sculpture, Centre Pompidou, Paris FR; When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit US; A House of Leaves.