Sentences with phrase «making contemporary works»

But the bawdy, flip - the - bird rapes, seductions, decapitations, and bloody sides of flayed beef portrayed in the genre scenes, still lifes, and portraits that Curiger pulled from basement archives made contemporary works like R. Crumb's irascible cartoons, Maurizio Cattelan's rear - view female crucifixion, and Nathalie Djurberg's mutilated claymates look positively tame.

Faith Ringgold, 87, was at the center of that history, produced work that reflects the American race and gender narrative, and continues to thrive making contemporary work today.

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This makes the work «inherently difficult to collect,» explains Jonathan Shaughnessy, an associate curator of contemporary art at the National Gallery of Canada, «but not impossible.»

«They felt strongly that free admission was the best way to make great works of contemporary art accessible to all,» said a spokesman for the couple, who own works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jean - Michel Basquiat and Cindy Sherman.

At an age when most of his contemporaries are working on their golf swings (if they can still make it around 18 holes), Jim Pattison continues building his $ 8.4 - billion business empire, which includes media holdings, automotive sales and grocery stores.

In her work as a church historian Roberta C.Bondi has sought to make the wisdom of the early church and the insights of monastic spirituality available to contemporary Christians.

In The Word Incarnate (Harper and Row, and Nisbet, 1959) I sought to give an account of this development and make sense out of it, but in a contemporary process idiom; and in Christology Reconsidered (SCM, 1970) I worked it over with a more extended and consistent use of that process conceptuality.

Let us continue to examine the nature of the synoptic tradition by considering the results of the work of the scholar who has probably done more than any other to make available to contemporary scholarship historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus, Joachim Jeremias of Gottingen, whom we are proud to acknowledge as our teacher.

I have retraced and reviewed these conversations, and attempted to assess their contribution to our contemporary understanding of process metaphysics, in a number of other works (e.g., The Rehabilitation of Whitehead, «The Compositional History of Whitehead's Writings,» «Outside the Camp: Recent Work in Whitehead's Philosophy»), which help contextualize historically the many contributions Ford has made in over 100 scholarly articles published during the past three decades.

Marina Kitchen's contemporary design, lounge atmosphere, and cozy and private seating arrangements make it the perfect place for guests to dine, work, gather with groups, and play.

But another approach is to work from the present backwards; to look at how humans make decisions regarding things like mating and parental care; to model, from an adaptive standpoint, the decision making that humans make in contemporary environments; and to try to get a fix on the nature of reasoning involved.

Ian McEwan, Peter Ackroyd, Barry Unsworth, Russell Hoban and other major «literary» contemporary writers all make use of SF tropes in their work.

He and his colleagues argue that today's better understanding of the pace of evolution, human adaptability and the way the mind works all suggest that, contrary to cartoon stereotypes, modern humans are not just primitive savages struggling to make psychological sense of an alien contemporary world.

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Malick is employing his usual style of montage and voice - over narration but in a new, contemporary setting that makes Wonder feel like his most vital work in years.

Sayles» emergence out of genre cinema has prompted critics to make comparisons between his work and that of mainstream contemporaries, or to evoke legendary generic templates.

The sexuality might be a little less subtextual (though there's nothing explicit here), but the testy, shifting power plays in the relationship between Tom and Frances, which serves as the heart of the film, bring to mind a contemporary update of Highsmith's work, albeit seen through Dolan's lens, making it of a piece with his earlier films, particularly once Sarah (Evelyne Brochu), the co-worker posing as the late Guillaume's girlfriend, arrives on the scene to complicate things further.

From the outset, «The Meyerowitz Stories» is loosely organized around Harold's quest for professional recognition, a desire made worse by the success of his own contemporaries (Judd Hirsch appears throughout the film as a genial fellow sculptor who has made it) and the looming sale of his apartment including many of his works.

An art world upstart, provocative and elusive artist Maurizio Cattelan made his career on playful and subversive works that send up the artistic establishment, until a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2011 finally solidified his place in the contemporary art canon.

Yet Sturges is clearly due for a reappraisal, if only to consider what it is that makes him appealing to so many contemporary filmmakers — John Carpenter, P.T. Anderson and Lawrence Kasdan, to name three, have all professed admiration of his work and acknowledged its influence on their own styles.

The use of actors like Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman, who are not known as period actors, as well as anachronistic music, sounds like an ill - conceived attempt to make the story feel contemporary, but it actually works.

With «The Intern,» Meyers has made another bright, contemporary American comedy with a lot on its mind — and works hard to make it look effortless.

As the causes and the results of the riot are debated, the footage never breaks to a traditional interview, keeping us immersed in this time in America, all the while pulling stark contemporary parallels in which makes this work quite timely.

It's glib, and the rest of the essay doesn't read like that, making me wonder if this is something Kalat truly believes, or if he's merely wrestling with the same disconnect he identifies contemporary critics of Franju's work wrestling with: namely, how could a serious artist be working in the horror genre?

But while Haigh, thirty - seven when he made Weekend, worked his way up the ranks of British cinema — he was an assistant to Ismail Merchant and worked as an assistant editor with Ridley Scott — his sensibility has more in common with the realist tendencies of the contemporary American independent scene, in particular the naturalistic intimacy and political intent of filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt and Ramin Bahrani.

Mazda is working toward the realization of better real - world safety features for its vehicles by studying contemporary social and traffic environments and strives to make the Mazda vehicles of the future even safer for its customers.

The look of the car hasn't been radically changed in the years since it was first introduced, but evolutionary changes have been made here and there to keep the styling contemporary, and it has worked quite well.

«With traditional format books, it would be up to a year before we would be able to publish essays or articles relating to a contemporary event, whereas the En Debate series allows us to make works with immediate relevance immediately available,» she says.

Part history, part activist manual, that book, which remains in print 20 years later, typifies most of Hoose's work: solid information is tied to contemporary and historical events through stories that make the reader care.

Though the novels are quite different — the first is a contemporary murder - mystery; the second, a literary work centered on a 1930s artist colony — both are debuts that made waves when they were published in Australia, and both tell distinctly Australian stories.

And finally, in one of the definitional works of contemporary YA lit, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, a teen character makes a body - related decision that may or may not make a difference to their ultimate fate, but definitely makes a difference to how they choose to face it.

All the beautiful accommodation units in this hotel are welcoming and comfortable and has been essentially designed with all contemporary appliances to make even a work or leisure trip as relaxing as possible.

All bedrooms have custom made king or twin beds with silk doonas and mohair throws, Tasmanian art work and occasional seating; all oversize local marble bathrooms have heated floors, luxury amenities and contemporary baths.

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Sleek, contemporary design and natural light make your room a haven for work or relaxation.

With large man - made lakes and 64 contemporary towers, Jumeirah Lakes Tower has become one of Dubai's fastest growing new districts with more than 50,000 people working and living in the area and 6,500 companies using it as a business base.

Well - appointed rooms including mini bar — tea / coffee making facilities included, work desk with high speed broadband, in - room safe, LCD TV with Foxtel, ironing facilities and en - suite bathroom finished in contemporary floor to ceiling granite.

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Arguing that this kind of conscious practice — which now constitutes the avant - garde of the computer game medium — can inspire new working methods for designers, Flanagan offers a model for designing that will encourage the subversion of popular gaming tropes through new styles of game making, and proposes a theory of alternate game design that focuses on the reworking of contemporary popular game practices.

My hope is that Capcom will learn from the work of its contemporaries who have crafted ways for making players graduate past the beginner stage, rather than taking the easy way out.

Opening: Survival Research Laboratories at Marlborough Contemporary As more and more artists make work about the internet, the art world has started looking to the technology sphere for new additions to art history.

Unlike many contemporary artists who have made their impression with giant - size works created, perhaps, to fill vast galleries, Tuttle established his presence by thinking small, often in miniature, and then hanging his work very high or very low — or just very Tuttle.

Contemporary artists have made work depicting graphic sexual acts, damaging property, injuring their own bodies, or paying others to alter theirs.

Coronation of Sesostris (2000), a work made of ten panels, sold for around $ 10 million to French luxury - goods billionaire François Pinault for his contemporary - art foundation in France.

The death of Cy Twombly today is a shock, not only because he was one of the greatest living painters but because he was a contemporary - continuing, until the last, to make and show new work.

His work reconciles contemporary design with timeless aesthetics and it's important to him that each piece is designed and made to the highest quality, and will continue to be functional and beautiful for many decades to come.

Applications are now invited from contemporary craft designer - makers and artists working in ceramics, jewellery, interior textiles, fashion design, print - making, wood, lighting, furniture and product design, glass, metal and basket - making, before the 18th April 2017.

The portraits at the Frick varied widely in formality and speed of execution, ranging from quick and expressive drawings and oil sketches to full - length canvases made in Van Dyck's capacity as court painter to Charles I. Works in the first category can look unnervingly contemporary, particularly the sensitive and precocious self - portraits that appeal, anachronistically, to our obsession with «authenticity.»

5 Storr, whose essay is full of perceptive comments about Drexler's work (as when he notes how the «vernacular» quality of her colors evokes «sideshow signage») is certainly correct in making the connection between Drexler and her abstract contemporaries, but we shouldn't let the existence of such strong affinities (whether with Pop or with abstract styles) distract us from the distinctive qualities of Drexler's art, especially when it comes to materials and process.