Sentences with phrase «good simulacrum»

See also the discussion of the void in Mark Levy, Void in Art, Bramble Books, 2006, especially pp. 139 — 147, where Levy sees Reinhardt's black paintings as offering «a good simulacrum of the end stages of samadhi.»

Not exact matches

But there has to be a better way to escape the «dating apocalypse» than withdrawing into a Gattaca simulacrum predicated on pseudoscience.

Not the best video game version of pinball, but it is consistent at providing a realistic simulacrum of pinball.

It's an effective simulacrum, and so, in a way, is the movie, which pushes a feel - good, root - for - the - underdog vibe so sunny one might almost forget that 95 % of the young interns, who fear uncertain futures, will be shown the door.

Often dismissed as oppressively tasteful and aesthetically repressed, their best - known films (A Room with a View, Howards End, The Remains of the Day) were marked less by any singular cinematic vision than by the ability to marshal a team of talented craftsmen — costumers, hair stylists, set dressers, and location scouts — to create a prettily detailed simulacrum of the past.

Which isn't to say, of course, that video games have evolved to a point of such technical sophistication that gamers are living in some Baudrillardian fantasy; the dream of a Second Life simulacrum even better than the real thing never came to fruition, and maybe it never will.

Well, here it is... Ever since Clark Gregg's smooth, buttery Phil Coulson — agent of souped - up CIA simulacrum, SHIELD — rocked up at one of Tony Stark's endless round of self - congratulatory press conferences in 2008's Iron Man, attentive audiences have been teased with the prospect of the various frequencies of the Marvel Universe banding together for a superhero team - up smackdown in the form of Avengers Assemble.

They are set into a well - organized panel that can be of many finishes, from wood to metal to carbon fiber (or its simulacrum), but they're just over the top.

As for the fourth floor galleries at the Museum of Modern Art, they present a sanitized version of mid-century Manhattan — a simulacrum of Abstract Expressionist New York that fits all too well in a museum that in so many respects has become a simulacrum of itself.