Sentences with phrase «of a phallus»

Described by Yinka as «a piece that playfully explores gender stereotypes and power relations», it is a kaleidoscope in the shape of a phallus, with the body beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns Yinka is known for, and the head made of highly polished brass.

With a tip of his hat to Eric Miller, who brought the story to his attention, Volokh Conspiracy blogfather Eugene Volokh takes on the story of two Laramie, Wyo., men who are «facing obscenity charges for allegedly building a snow sculpture of a phallus in their front yard.»

The new Whitney Museum of American Art put Vietnam Garden, a 1967 antiwar drawing of phalluses as tombstones, with steel wool for pubic hair and American flags sticking out of the tips, in its acclaimed inaugural exhibition, now on view.

In 2008 New York feminist artist Judith Bernstein was having her first show in decades at Mitchell Algus Gallery, presenting her iconoclastic «Horizontal» series, large - scale drawings of phallus - like screws dating back to 1966.

Her notorious banana skirt, a string of fake bananas strung across her hips (she wears nothing else), is «a bold clutch of phalli strung like hunter's trophies around her slim, conquering waistline.»

Instead of murals of Edelweiss, in Bhutan they have murals of phalli, each delicately decorated with bows and ribbons... for in Buddhist Bhutan, the phallic symbol is one of good luck and prosperity.

We don't know much about phallus evolution (external genitalia generally don't mineralize, so the fossil record is of little help), but we can compare the expression of phallus genes from organism to organism.

The black community celebrates and reinforces male dominance, but it gets a little sketchy when the woman who is supposed to be «submissive» earns $ 100,000 and her husband, who because of right of his phallus, gets to call the shots, earns $ 0 - $ $ 30,000.

Thus, fans of that phallus philosophy will not be disappointed.

When Chang starts swinging his devilish sword — an implement that gets the lingering close - up treatment of a phallus in a porn film — limbs go flying, rib cages are split from top to bottom, and torrents of blood pour forth as victims moan.

If there are any stereotypical 19th - century Southern belles listening to the program, consider this a WELL, I NEVER ALERT: There is much talk of phalluses in this segment, mostly thanks to the strapping young Dante who stars in the new Devil May Cry.

[2] In Untitled, 1996, an innocuous grouping of cartoonish bunnies transitions into a writhing, overtly pornographic heap of phalluses.

Her earliest works, produced in the early 1960s, were inspired by the sex graffiti found in men's restrooms — imagery of phalluses and straightforward sexual writings.

Among the works on display is Judith Bernstein's Horizontal (1973), a monumental depiction of a phallus that caused a scandal when it was shown in a group exhibition in 1974.

Anticipating her later art — such as the well - known La Fillette (1968), a more literal representation of phallus, testicles, and labia — Labyrinthine Tower subverts the traditional concept of sculpture as erect form: it remains unclear whether its spiraling segments are rising toward full extension or sinking into flaccidity.

He told Mr. Serota that while early paintings made visual reference to ancient graffiti, his intentions were «more lyrical» and his inclusion of phalluses and female body parts were often just ways to evoke male and female presences in the work.

Artist Barbara Wagner claims that Benglis shows that even with the appropriation of the phallus as a Freudian sign of power, it does not cover her female identity and still emphasizes a female inferiority.

Through the opening at the head of the phallus a distorted image of Sandro Botticelli's «Birth of Venus» can be seen.

Full Frontal liberates the literal organ from the concept of the phallus through play, vulnerability, violence, love, desire, fantasy and sex.

The exhibition couples images of the phallus — the socially approved symbol of male power — with images of the flesh — the often censored penis that our society carefully regulates.

In bringing many perspectives and subjectivities to the sexualized male body this exhibition questions a masculinity that upholds and is controlled by the idea of the phallus.

Of course, there also will be a report button in case someone draws a fence of phalluses around your house (for example), and the usual caveats of crowd - sourced content and moderation apply.

A kaleidoscope in the shape of a phallus, with the body beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns the artist is known for, and the head made of highly polished brass.

As with Yinka Shonibare's celebrated work on the Fourth Plinth, «Nelson's Ship in a Bottle», «Kaleidoscope» reclaims an object from a familiar British tradition and subverts it through the bold use of batik patterns and the transformation of the shape into that of a phallus.

It is a kaleidoscope in the shape of a phallus, with the body beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns the artist is known for, and the head made of highly polished brass.

Kaleidoscope is a new edition by Yinka Shonibare MBE that playfully explores gender stereotypes and power relations: a kaleidoscope in the shape of a phallus, with the body beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns the artist is known for, and the head made of highly polished brass.

«Kaleidoscope» is a multiple by Yinka Shonibare MBE that playfully explores gender stereotypes and power relations: a kaleidoscope in the shape of a phallus, with the body beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns the artist is known for, and the head made of highly polished brass.

As with Shonibare's celebrated work on the Fourth Plinth, «Nelson's Ship in a Bottle», «Kaleidoscope» reclaims an object from a familiar British tradition and subverts it through the bold use of batik patterns and by transforming the shape into that of a phallus.

Kaleidoscope is an edition by Yinka Shonibare MBE that playfully explores gender stereotypes and power relations: a kaleidoscope in the shape of a phallus, with the body beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns the artist is known for, and the head made of highly polished brass.

But then they subvert that act — in the case of World (no. 1), 2003, by morphing the calligraphy into the shape of a phallus, an image abhorrent to practicing Muslims.

Yinka Shonibare MBE's Kaleidoscope playfully explores gender stereotypes and power relations: a kaleidoscope in the shape of a phallus, with the body beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns the artist is known for, and the head made of highly polished brass.