Sentences with word «iconoclastic»

This project marks the first time builders have employed robotics, which had been considered too inflexible for use in iconoclastic architecture, so extensively on a permanent building, says Johannes Baumann, co-founder of the Association for Robots in Architecture.

Similar to Jeff Wall, Ness's photographs often reference famous images of Western art with iconoclastic intent, as Ness stages the scenes with gay models.

Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art (Unrated) Counter-culture documentary about a cadre of iconoclastic artists who plied their trade in the Sixties and Seventies on the deserts of the American Southwest.

His work has been described variously as a precursor to Pop art, Minimalism, process art, Conceptualism, and performance, testifying to the revolutionary effects that his cross-disciplinary and iconoclastic approach had on the field of American art in the postwar period.

The Subaru Outback stands for iconoclastic value, while the Nissan Murano and Lexus RX express futurism.

Yet they are not as iconoclastic as they might appear.

Climb further and these familiar, conventional images give way to the bold, iconoclastic works of the post-Tian» anmen Chinese avant - garde.

Lynch (Unrated) Bio-pic presents an intimate portrait of David Lynch, iconoclastic director of such unorthodox adventures as Eraserhead, Mulholland Dr., Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet.

For more than a decade, Travis Jeppesen has been regarded as one of the more iconoclastic practitioners of literary art criticism in his essays, reviews, and hybrid texts.

The New York space is dedicated to curated exhibitions both historic and contemporary, which cast a unique and often iconoclastic view on the work of established artists or artists whose works have been somewhat overlooked.

For her latest project, she's teamed up with the producer Colin MacCabe and director Christopher Roth to create four video portraits detailing the life of the influential, iconoclastic British writer John Berger, famous for his seminal book and BBC series Ways of Seeing.

Thus idolized, dogma was broken by iconoclastic movements that returned to expressive modes in the periods of reformation.

The Original of Laura is a contemporary painting exhibition, and is an extended body of work that uses the «iconoclastic gesture» as its central theme.

married Tibor Kalman and collaborated at iconoclastic yet successful design studio.

So, one is - can you try to convey how iconoclastic it was go to the Royal Society and say that light was particles in a time where it seems likely the general belief among the people who actually had some power there was the opposite?

After being attached to a number of actors, directors, and producers, this long - gestating biography of one of Mexico's most prominent, iconoclastic painters reaches the screen under the guiding hand of producer / star Salma Hayek.

Steven Shainberg, celebrated iconoclastic filmmaker behind SECRETARY and FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS has returned to the director's chair with his first full - on genre work, which we are thrilled to be unveiling to the world.

After the 1940s, Chicago's elite, feeling somewhat provincial in comparison with their eastern cousins, embraced the latest and often iconoclastic fashions in art.

At the same time, in a playful or iconoclastic way, he rechannels his traditional motifs, methods and materials into a critique, overt or covert, of the Chinese political system.

As a general principle, artist - curated exhibitions can be untidy and idiosyncratic in ways that museums and the market abhor, and this can make them interesting, disorienting, dissonant — even iconoclastic in the best instances.

From its diffusely structured narrative to its innovative cinematography, this radical western is a showcase for Robert Altman's iconoclastic style.

Not surprisingly, it's also a world unlike any seen on celluloid before, a testament to the power of perversely funny, iconoclastic filmmaking at its finest.

April 21, 2011 • Iconoclastic singer - songwriter PJ Harvey is making four U.S. stops in support of her recent album.

In the 1950s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists and poets gathered together in San Francisco.

Bergerie exemplifies Joan Mitchell's style and iconoclastic vision — a striking reminder of why she remains one of the most influential and acclaimed artists of her generation.

In that way, the show is also an interesting lesson in the politics of the art market and its ability to incorporate even the most iconoclastic artwork.

Basquiat's iconoclastic oeuvre revolves around the human figure.

Other highlights include Paul Kos's and William Leavitt's playful and irreverent forms of Conceptual art; diverse interpretations of Pop art by American painter Allan D'Arcangelo, British filmmaker and collage artist Jeff Keen, the Spanish photographer and object maker Darío Villalba; and new and iconoclastic forms of expression in the postwar period by Japanese artists Kazuyo Kinoshita, Atsuko Tanaka, Keiji Uematsu, and Eiji Uematsu.

Discover artists that share Ruscha's iconoclastic spirit, his adoration for the open road, and his ever critical text - based practice.

Robert Smithson (1938 - 73), the internationally renowned pioneer of the earthworks movement who is best known for his earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970), is considered one of the most iconoclastic artists of the 20th century.

One of the most original sculptors, Robert Arneson (1930 — 1992) reinvented American figurative ceramics through the integration of sculpture and painting in his large - scale, often satirical, and even iconoclastic pieces.

His irreverent combinations of musical styles soon earned him a reputation as a wholly original composer and he became the favorite of iconoclastic film - makers.

But Faces Places is exactly that: an arthouse triumph that speaks to so many universal concerns in wonderfully iconoclastic fashion, while telling its subjects» stories with compassion.

Young British Artists Jake and Dinos Chapman create iconoclastic sculptures, prints, and installations that examine contemporary politics, religion, and morality with searing wit.

It was a silly spat, but many saw it as emblematic of a larger cultural rift between Wired — whose iconoclastic magazine routinely gave the finger to everything «old» and Manhattan related — and its lead underwriter, the very embodiment of the New York establishment.

Also of great interest are the sections devoted to Willoughby Sharp and Virginia Dwan, who both contributed to the movement by supporting it; Sharp through his short - lived, iconoclastic magazine Avalanche; and Dwan through her galleries in Los Angeles and New York, particularly through her direct financial support of Smithson and Michael Heizer (she was an heir to the 3M fortune).

Had either exhibition focused on a specific historical moment (iconoclastic destruction of religious images in the 16th and 17th centuries in the first; the Romantic period in the second), they'd have made sense.

Over the past five decades, Goldin has created a body of work so iconoclastic and powerful that she has spawned generations of artists who follow in her footsteps, from Juergen Teller to Wolfgang Tillmans and Corinne Day.

It is, in an obvious sense, religious; it at least tries to be clear and rational; it is both respectful of tradition and yet iconoclastic.

Unlike later, more iconoclastic Protestants, Luther endorsed painted images insofar as they encouraged piety — and German painters, above all Lucas Cranach the Elder, produced brilliant narrative tableaux that jibed with Luther's preaching.

Painter Peter Saul's iconoclastic paintings parody various aspects of contemporary American life, from politics to sex to violence.

Strong and iconoclastic opinions are expected in opinion pieces and can enhance open scientific debate.

Comfortable in my own skin, iconoclastic liberal arts major.

Karen and Beryl are two strong, iconoclastic women drawn to the same unobtainable man.