Sentences with phrase «frank depiction»

Gustave Courbet may have drawn on frank depictions of nudes and landscapes, and wars gave photography a greater urgency.

The enlisted are dealt a particularly frank depiction: they frequent strip clubs, widely indulge in illicit drugs, can't say no to a drink, and have hot tempers.

It can be displayed alongside his earlier black - and - white portraits of individuals and almost unbearably frank depictions of family groups, or with his serene, unpopulated New Pictures from Paradise jungle images of the 1990s, but each of these also deserves proper consideration.

Alice Neel's comically frank depiction of her unclothed self in all its corpulent, octogenarian splendor is a good example.

When photographer and film director Larry Clark published his first photobook in 1971, it wasn't Tulsa's frank depiction of drug - use, sexuality, and violence that caused a stir.

Given its Brooklyn setting and frank depiction of sex, the specter of becoming «the next Lena Dunham» shadows Desiree Akhavan, the 29 - year - old Iranian - American filmmaker behind «Appropriate Behavior.»

Yet somehow, despite the frank depiction of PTSD, the film is also more fun than almost anything else in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The final instalment in Noel Clarke's «hood» trilogy arrives 10 years after the first, 2006's Kidulthood, which earned praise and caused controversy with its frank depiction of drugs, guns and...

Fifty years after Guess Who's Coming to Dinner jolted moviegoers with its frank depiction of interracial romance, moviemakers still find potency in the topic, with new films Get Out and A United Kingdom exploring the ramifications of diverse love.

But I was surprised at the movie's daring, at its frank depiction of the Bush - like president as the clueless puppet of his staff.

Below Her Mouth attempts provocation and frank depictions of lesbian sex, but it forgets the emotion in its love story.

Five years later, her release from jail forces him to confront the past in this frank depiction of sexual abuse.

The candid diary entries in Minnie's pitch - perfect teen voice tell of her troubling sexual relationship with her mother's boyfriend and her subsequent spiral of destructive choices, which comes through in both her sometimes - ugly language and frank depictions of sex in her artwork.

One of the reasons Blankets often remains in the adult section is Thompson's frank depiction of nudity, but his appreciation for the human form is essential to both his growing interest in art and his disillusionment with Evangelical Christianity.

«[Commissario Guido Brunetti] is the perfect hero for Leon's minimal, almost lyrical writing style... As usual in Leon's novels, the frank depiction of the darker aspects of life in modern Venice sits right alongside some of the most enchanting descriptions of the city in contemporary fiction.»

Instead, her images are raw and candid in their frank depiction of a community devastated by the AIDS crisis.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., in 1989, canceled a Mapplethorpe retrospective that was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, fearing political backlash because of the exhibition's frank depictions of homosexual behavior.

«Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship» details around a dozen international episodes of erasure and exclusion over the past half century, in which the frank depiction of queer people and sexualities rubbed up against church, state, and individual bigotry, resulting in physically and psychologically violent acts of censorship.