Sentences with phrase «meditation on civilization»
Ironically, while Cole invented American painting's meditation on civilization and the wilderness, he could hardly have imagined America as something of an international empire.
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The Lost City of Z: Director James Gray turns the story of real - life British explorer Percy Fawcett — and his repeatedly thwarted attempts to discover an advanced civilization in the Amazon jungle — into a meditation not just on colonialism, but on an entire culture's inability to see past the assumptions built into labels.
In addition to the tie for screenplay, they awarded a «Palme d'Or Spéciale» to the veteran filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard, whose «The Image Book» was the most abrasive and adventurous thing in Cannes by several light years — another of his dense, synapse - frying meditations on the decay of language, imagery and civilization as we know it.