Sentences with word «mythologizing»

Here, Teller was engaging in his own Beuysian mythologizing of self: teller means «plate» in German.

At Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Walker will present three new video works, which draw on her own experience in the Mississippi Delta, «a region mythologized in song and popular culture but tragically depressing.»

The vaccine itself became as mythologized as the bug, such that even today many Americans believe that treatment requires some twenty (or is it thirty?)

With a keen sense of the power of sports and a genius for mythologizing athletes to help sell sneakers, Nike bestrides the world of sport like a marketing colossus

History is not neat and tidy, however much we wish it could be, and «Olympic Pride, American Prejudice» is more than adept at getting to the truth about perhaps the most mythologized event of the modern Olympic movement.

Saint Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (c. 270 - 343) was a real person who is now mythologized into Santa Claus, an obese old man who miraculously keeps track of the moral character of children, travels around the Earth on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, visits millions of houses in one night without opening any door or window, and leaves presents for millions of children.

It's a moment mythologized by many a young adult novel and Hollywood movie — the moment you lose your virginity.

The supernatural compositions of Bas's past are here expanded into grand mythologizing narratives, taking on the weight and scale of 19th - century history painting.

Despite this, European footballers have commemorated the Christmas Truce in their own way, while the British and German military have even held a centenary football match to celebrate the much - mythologized event.

The story of 8 Mile isn't far removed from Eminem's own self - mythologized life — a Jerry Springer - style saga out of Detroit — but the unslakable anger is gone.

The images are «related to the history of black jockeys, the Great Migration, divining, and Young's own mythologizing of his great - grandfather» and «investigate structures of knowledge production, systems that inform belief and the illusiveness of meaning.»

Up until the release of Hyrule Warriors, the massive warfare franchise focused on mythologized historical battles or anime series sharing the same breezy view of human conflict.

One part of Johns's career that was not mythologized until recently was his relationship with Robert Rauschenberg — his collaborator, his studio mate, his first great critic, and his lover, though even today museums and books are sometimes loath to say so.

@Doc Vestibule «History easily becomes mythologized» @Lisa «Not just ancient history either.

Ligon appreciates, idolizes, even mythologizes Pryor.

Some of his works include narration, as in his 2007 video Ghost Story, which focuses on a road by a river, alluding to the troubled histories and future possibilities of the oft - mythologized landscape.

While earlier films mythologize legend, and do so in fascinating manners — Touch of Zen's ghost story elements for example — The Hidden Sword takes advantage of an already established genre, thus reducing the power of its reach.

That's not to say that writer - director Philip Kaufman, adapting Tom Wolfe's 1979 book, doesn't occasionally puncture such mythologizing.

Christmas might be the most heavily mythologized thing of all time.

Americans mythologize economic competition, but it's actually the opposite of capitalism.

2018-04-08 14:22 Americans mythologize economic competition, but it's actually the opposite of capitalism.

In his Cristin Tierney show, recent digital projects that reconstruct arid landscapes will look at how the American Midwest gets mythologized.

While earlier films mythologize legend, and do so in fascinating...

But add a history of racism — both insidious and blatantly overt — and the achievements of the 21 African American women in Magnetic Fields add some serious grit to the much mythologized heroics of Life's portrait of the 17 men topped off by the rather lonely figure of Hedda Sterne.

Leslie Lyons and J.B. Wilson draw inspiration from this art historical oddity, creating sublimated print tiles that both reference the «Unswept Floor» as well figurative tile works which «remove the trappings of mythologizing human behavior and return to a place of rational accounting and purification.»

The title of the exhibition, the phonetic spelling of Iconocalsm, alludes to the manner in which Andrews project takes apart and upends methods of categorising, presenting and mythologizing cultural histories.

Scharf's psychedelia counters Basquiat's eerie self mythologizing.

We can easily envision Francis of Assisi in that idyllic, medieval Umbrian hilltop town and mythologize about what really happened back in his day.

Is that no more than an unnecessary mythologizing of an ontological proposition?

But consider this, the vast majority of the Hebrew Bible is a retro telling of mythologized Jewish history which basically says, «Look, we lost this war because we disobeyed God.

Or to make the same point, our ancestors mythologized their history (nothing wrong with that; that's the way you spell out its meaning), and then we have very often literalized their mythology.

«On Dc - Mythologizing Whitehead's Actual Entity.»

Despite all that Hollywood has done to mythologize exorcisms, he still believes in the power of this rite, a power born not of fear, but of faith.

The story quotes the study My Daddy's Name is Donor by Elizabeth Marquardt, who wrote for «On the Square» an article titled The Kids Are Not All Right, a take - down of the recent movie's cheerful and utterly unrealistic mythologizing of sperm donation (the ultimate absent fathers).

Eventually, Reagan had a better sense of blue collar workers than liberal politicians like Walter Mondale and Mario Cuomo who were rhetorically dependent on heavily mythologized visions from the 1930s.

I don't think that it is merely a coincidence that as we have demythologized our religion in the Western Church the tendency to mythologize money has increased.

Ironically, it lies only a short distance from the newly mythologized hills of Visoko.

But one bird often mythologized for its wisdom may not be as brainy as we think.

Tamblyn tells BuzzFeed that she hopes «to elicit some fresh, challenging conversations and examinations of who we are as a society» by flipping the gender norms, and says the book is about «survivors of rape and the commodification, denigration, and manipulation of their stories by everyone from the American media to the judicial system,» as well as also being «a story about how we dangerously demonize and mythologize women.»

All that may sound overbaked, and the danger of such overt mythologizing is that it can drain a tale of realism or nuance.

In a hyperreal combination of live action and animation, an unhinged musician preoccupied with self - mythologizing daydreams struggles to release his first album after 15 years of recording songs alone.

With an unglamorous performance by Redford and a story that questioned white colonialism while mythologizing the man of nature, Jeremiah Johnson appealed to its 1972 audience and became one of the biggest hits of the year.

All the President's Men's masterstroke is how it rejects mythologizing the pivotal history behind it, appropriately forgoing a climax by closing on a simple telex furiously relaying messages.

Prefaced by the above text, Jon Krakauer's nonfiction bestseller Into the Wild mythologizes the plight of Chris McCandless, who spent the final two years of his life in exile from every relationship he had theretofore established, and in revocation of even the most basic amenities of comfort.

I've seen more than enough documentaries about extreme metal that mythologize violent, antisocial behavior; this one shows people using harsh, aggressive music to build a positive community.

A critic risks mythologizing a newcomer or a film with such descriptions.

Michelle Williams plays Emily, the most outspoken (yet frequently ignored) woman in a wagon train of three settler families who have hired mountain man (and possible self - mythologizing fabulist) Steven Meek (a brilliant Bruce Greenwood) to guide them through the treacherous Midwest.