Sentences with phrase «ironic title»

«Lucky You» may well have the most ironic title of any of the summer's releases, having found itself from scheduled release date to scheduled release date.

By the 1990s, Ruscha was creating larger paintings of light projected into empty rooms, some with ironic titles such as An Exhibition of Gasoline Powered Engines (1993).

To these otherwise nonimagistic works, Boyer applied enigmatic, often ironic titles which give his highly intuitive personal statements about Aboriginal experience an ideological, historical and political charge.

(What must Lasch have thought when Haven in a Heartless World, with its heavily ironic title, was repeatedly labeled a sentimental tract on the family?)

In this self - reflexive and ironic title sequence, Forman literally disrupts the apparent seamlessness of sound, text and image, and in the process examines the indeterminable moment, where things begin and end, when outside becomes inside.

I probably learned most from the four rooms for Robert Ryman, beginning with small gestural work and his first in white, one even with the text of its not entirely ironic title, The Paradoxical Absolute.

In addition, Fischli and Weiss gave each work a poetic, often ironic title based on its appearance: a vertical assemblage involving a bottle, a carrot, and a spatula, all held together by a piece of cord, is called The Roped Mountaineers; a bottle and metal vice form the base of an almost impossibly cantilevered construction, with a tea kettle, a trowel, and a feather duster reaching end - to - end out into space, in As Far As It Goes.

Like his other films, this one is told in chapters, usually with ironic titles: «Chapter 1, Last Ride to Red Rock» or «Chapter 5, Four Passengers».

The ironic title, originally bestowed in criticism of the radical policies pursued by local Labour politicians, was in fact happily embraced by those it was intended to denigrate, including Michie, whose lifelong commitment to the pursuit of socialism never wavered.

The Logan brothers — whose family's streak for misfortune gives the film its ironic title — recruit incarcerated safe - cracker Joe Bang (Craig) for the job, and breaking him out of prison ends up as one more spoke on this plan's spinning wheel.

THE MARTIAN is an ironic title for a movie which pays unabashed tribute to the best and most deeply human in all of us, the will to survive, the scope of our intelligence, the consciousness of ourselves as simultaneously significant and minute in the universe.

But her presence in «Life's a Breeze,» presumably an ironic title, can not save the movie from being little more than a sitcom that you might find on commercial TV or, to be magnanimous, on a cable station like HBO.

Compañeros (Blue Underground, Blu - ray) is an ironic title, but then as a spaghetti western — a genre steeped in mercenaries and con men and double crosses — it would have to be.

The film focuses on travelling salesman Ray Kroc (a terrifically committed Michael Keaton), the «founder» referred to in the film's ironic title.

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Her latest novel, Second Honeymoon (an ironic title), opens with the somewhat histrionic Edie surveying the empty room of her son, the last of her children to leave home, taking his mother's identity with him.

The ironic titles, however, and futuristic overtones, cinematic scale and multiple sightlines suggest a vertigo or lifting off, as if her subjects are no longer on familiar territory.

The Confrontation of 1978 has an ironic title given the surrounding white oval, like a barrier to car bombs.

Stephan Balleux Oh You Pretty Things Patrick Painter March 31 - May 12, 2018 Oh You Pretty Things is an ironic title.

The Promise of Loss — an ironic title indeed — marks a different approach from most of the exhibitions of Iranian art that were shown in New York during the summer of 2009.

Under the ironic title MACHO, Teller, a photographer whose practice makes the debate about the boundaries between art and fashion obsolete, will be showing a highly introspective body of work.

The latest Metro Pictures exhibition, «Bad Conscience,» may seem to have an ironic title, given that the exhibition's curator, the artist and writer John Miller, has organized a show of his friends, associates, and collaborators.

This policy framing device is alluded to through the ironic title Belvedere (from Italian for fair view), a reference to the Renaissance practice of using an architectural device to frame and order the natural environment.

And, in the ironic titling of these works, how does your summoning of «liberation» and «imagination» resonate against the lived experiences of these slain black men?

«House and Garden» is the ironic title of Bay Area painter Deborah Oropallo's latest show at Wirtz.