Sentences with phrase «kitsch tchotchkes»

Like the paintings, the sculptures fuse together different traditions and techniques, ranging from 17th - century French Chinoiserie to mass - produced kitsch tchotchkes to the molten forms of Peter Voulkos's sculptures.

Like the paintings, the sculptures fuse together different traditions and techniques, ranging from 17th Century French Chinoiserie to mass - produced kitsch tchotchkes to the molten forms of Peter Voulkos's sculptures.

One was that, in 1988, he unveiled his «Banality» series of sculptures — diving face - first into the aesthetic realms of kitsch tchotchkes and making unsettling monuments to subjects like Michael Jackson and his monkey and greeting - card pap (as in a appropriated image of a couple holding puppies on a park bench that led to a successful and lucrative lawsuit).

Not exact matches

Their adventures take them to visit various tchotchke shops in the city to visit the living kitsch therein to make inquiries, including a mildly amusing sequence involving an army of angry maneki - neko.

Installed wonder - cabinet style in a shelf - lined gallery, the items range from art to artifact to tchotchkes; leap across cultures; and trickle from high to low, where racial stereotypes and kitsch frequently take over.

There is a purposeful «Chinatown» aesthetic in Huynh's paintings, alluding to kitsch souvenirs that tourists purchase and commoditization of eastern icons into tchotchkes.