Sentences with phrase «grotesque self»

This tale serves as inspiration for a new Frankfurt exhibition, which unpacks humanity's «grotesque self - optimisation and the ubiquitous pressure to achieve», and the lengths people and artists will go to to engage with this notion.

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My point is that those opposed to terminating a small group of cells, or even a larger fetus that is not even yet self - aware will base their opposition on the supposed views of some mythological creature that, according to their Iron Age Palestinian mythology, caused a grown adult to be tortured and killed in a grotesque, barbaric fashion.

When you have a combination of self regarding players, who play only for themselves and patently care nothing at all about the club that pays their grotesque wages, along with a totally weak and «avoid conflict with powerful characters at all cost» manager, the lack of will to do what needs doing is frightening.

Self indulgent grotesque and offensive rather like the author himself.

Diaz, for some reason, is repeatedly drawn to self - consciously grotesque little projects that usually don't accomplish much of anything at all, but make a huge mess while not accomplishing it.

Along the way we experience Jack's descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge - a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self - pity and psychopathic explanations.

by Walter Chaw Self - referential and self - satisfied, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a continual stream of grotesque sexual references, leering at scantily clad, foul - mouthed women, and enough broad swipes at mainstream cinema (while featuring a parade of celebrity cameos) that it ends up being a cross between «Beavis and Butthead», Cecil B. Demented, and a Bob Hope Christmas special, not to mention an endurance tSelf - referential and self - satisfied, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a continual stream of grotesque sexual references, leering at scantily clad, foul - mouthed women, and enough broad swipes at mainstream cinema (while featuring a parade of celebrity cameos) that it ends up being a cross between «Beavis and Butthead», Cecil B. Demented, and a Bob Hope Christmas special, not to mention an endurance tself - satisfied, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a continual stream of grotesque sexual references, leering at scantily clad, foul - mouthed women, and enough broad swipes at mainstream cinema (while featuring a parade of celebrity cameos) that it ends up being a cross between «Beavis and Butthead», Cecil B. Demented, and a Bob Hope Christmas special, not to mention an endurance test.

Alternately humorous and grotesque — and always surreal — the film mingles aspects of Burroughs's novel with incidents from the writer's own life, resulting in an evocative paranoid fantasy and a self - reflexive investigation into the mysteries of the creative process.

It's hard to get too critical with the plot as the game seems pretty self - aware, almost taking pride in being bad and grotesque at times.

Darren Aronofsky's preoccupation with paranoid, physically grotesque searches for meaning — a curious mix of deep - think and makeup effects that goes back to his black - and - white debut feature, Pi — grimly paints humanity as a species defined by obsessions, addictions, delusions, and self - destruction, its only prophets being madmen.

The message, which has all the subtlety of a slap to the face, is that girls can be just as grotesque, offensive and self - centered as guys.

Harry Crews» novels might sometimes be hard to read because they're filled with violence, blood sport and grotesque characters, but they shout out, «Pick me up and read me,» for they drive us to confront our often grotesque sense of self, the lies we tell ourselves to protect ourselves from harsh truths and the destruction of our society and the world around us under the banner of illusory values.

Highlights include Tschabalala Self, a Forbes «s 30 Under 30 alum who has been lauded for re-centering black sexuality, and queer figurative painter and MacArthur «genius» Nicole Eisenman, whose works mix humor and the grotesque.

His graphic works of self - portraits, portraits of old lovers, and depictions of the human figure produce the same grotesque and expressive natures as those seen in his paintings.

The thread of subversive humor and self - awareness present in Ronay's work, although playfully grotesque, is immediately relatable.

This companion volume to the artist's largest exhibition to date is a feast taken from countless visual documents of Kelley's early formation, such as his involvement with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters (DAM), which also featured Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara (born Lynn Rovner) in 1973 while Kelly and Shaw were students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; early performative sculptures and objects; drawings; paintings; handmade dolls and stuffed animal sculptures; photography; videos; and endless inventive installations in various forms and shapes that explore and deal with the themes of self - destruction, repression, class relations, sexuality, religion, politics, and whatever else lies between the grotesque and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.

Whether grotesque or dramatic, each painting provokes a sense of wonder and self - reflection, making The 613 a book to be visited time and time again.

There are erotic grotesques from John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage, meditations on the muse by Elizabeth Peyton and Lucian Freud, «Repro - realistic» work from Neo Rauch and of course self - portraits by Philip Akkerman and Marcel Dzama, among others.

I was still too young to see that the earlier and magnificently frenetic and repellent paintings of women, which seemed excessively grotesque, like bashed dolls, were not really paintings of women so much as what happens to women: what men do to women and what women do to themselves in the hysteria of the pop performance world, fashion, eros and self - travesty, all plainly visible in Manhattan.

Her exuberant canvases depict grotesque, comic figures in acts of creativity or violence and frequently begin from imaginative premises, as in her «Self Eaters» (2004) or «Tourette's» series (2010).

There is the grotesque in artworks such as Intestine, a long segment that obviously represents excrements, made by Kiki Smith, who also shows two wax figures depicted in self - satisfactory, masturbatory practices (Mother / Child), or in Paul McCarthy's sculpture of pigs with human faces, copulating in an orgy.

De Jong's grotesque figures, often inspired by art historical subjects, are an unorthodox means of spotlighting issues of morality and self - destruction.