Sentences with phrase «fragmentary body»

After the major survey exhibition held at Schaulager in 2007, the new show presents objects, installations, drawings, and replicas of objects from the domestic sphere such as washbasins, fireplaces, and drains, as well as fragmentary body parts bearing psychological, political, and religious connotations.

The exhibition will feature contemporary works in which classical forms receive provocative new expression — such as the fragmentary bodies by contemporary artist Marc Quinn — alongside more oblique or suggestive uses of ancient themes, such as Bruce Nauman's landmark video performance, Walk with Contrapposto (1968).

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The following facts support this belief: the participation of the churches in the theological conversations of the ecumenical movement, which perforce have had to find their common starting point and common vocabulary in biblical literature and theology; the growing body of specifically biblical theology, produced by the very vitality of fragmentary and monographic studies.

In Lynne Ramsay's fragmentary, ferociously beautiful You Were Never Really Here, the great shape - shifter Joaquin Phoenix balloons his body into a fearsome new form: a bulkiness every bit as convincing and psychologically revealing as the bony odd angles of The Master's Freddie Quell.

Feminism proposed two alternative sets of criteria between 1970 and 1990: in the 1970s, the first — in whose development Schapiro participated — challenged the formalist canon for its exclusion of so much political narrative, and even formal content and materiality, and proposed alternatives that looked to craft, costume, folk art, surrealism, the real, lived experience, and the body; the second, developed by deconstructionist feminism during the 1980s, challenged the first for its essentialism and looked back to aspects of modernism other than those promoted by Greenberg, namely the fragmentary, the filmic, the appropriational, and the disruptive aesthetics of Brechtian distantiation.

In both Lucas's sculptures and Yamashita's paintings, the body recurs in fragmentary, erotically suggestive and comedic forms.

For her Cyborg series (1997 - 2000), Lee drew inspiration from the machine aesthetic of early 20th - century Modernism, suspending fragmentary female bodies from the ceiling; another series of sinewy, chandelier - like works are draped in glass and acrylic beads, offering a more abstract counterpart to the figurative cyborgs.

Seth Cluett «Inward Turning Histories» Year: 2015/2017 Duration: 22»27 In his text The Practice of Everyday Life, DeCerteau writes «Places are fragmentary and inward - turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of the body.

The female body features more literally in a series of plaster sculptures of fragmentary pairs of legs which are gracefully animated through their combination with the ordinary domestic furniture that has featured since Lucas's earliest installations.