Sentences with phrase «meditation on comic»
The box that accompanies the display is a carefully curated meditation on comic book culture and costume.
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Peter Bradshaw: A deadpan black comic insight into mafia violence, and a Greeneian meditation on the spiritual lives of those intelligent, middle - management types sucked into its web of fear
From Oscar and Emmy winner Alan Ball, and starring Oscar and Golden Globe winner Tim Robbins and Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Holly Hunter, the show is a provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present - day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia, and their sole biological child — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
Unlike Anderson's previous comic meditation on romantic fate, Next Stop Wonderland, one is given convincing reasons why these two could, indeed, be destined to be together, as Sam often insists.
There is much meditation, often comic or witty, on illness, aging, and dying in Alison Lurie's The Last Resort, a...
In Izaak, 2008, a meditation on stereotypes, tradition and taboo, Ben - Tor uses field recordings, puppetry, pornography, and select subtitles to force the viewer to make sense of the variously awkward comic vignettes.
On one hand Jones looks to Buddhist practices and meditation as a source of energy in the creation of his work yet everywhere we look we see Wolverine masks and Black Flag logos (originally designed by Raymond Pettibon in the late 70's) which conjure a kind of brash male ego enterprise (the rocker, the comic book character) The use of these two archetypal symbols feel earnest.
From Ken Kagami come 24 bleakly hilarious ink - on - paper meditations on the relationship between Charles M. Schulz's classic comic - strip characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
These visually opulent, technically ambitious sculptures, along with videos and large - scale installations, rework the imagery and mythology of the popular American comic book superhero Superman in a meditation on loss, power, and memory.
Only Philip Guston's «Pit II,» a comic - style meditation on death with shoes coming out of a pit» from 1976, the Sherman photograph and Alfonzo's painting were made before 1999.