Sentences with phrase «of ironic detachment»

When later art slips in, it mostly dates from a flurry of the ironic detachment nearly twenty years ago.

«I've found that in working this way — with this bodily, physical experience of landscape — it's possible to be both engaged in the idea of an empathetic response to what's going on while at the same time having this sort of ironic detachment,» says Seattle - based artist Vaughn Bell, who built Personal Forest Floor (Portable Mountain), 2003 — 8.

How are we to achieve this unlikely combination of ironic detachment and social commitment?

Not exact matches

We can not stand outside it with the scientific detachment of the modern or the ironic detachment of the postmodern.

I'm kidding, but only kind of, which is the best way to kid, because I can both inform you about WWE Fastlane as planned while also hiding behind ironic detachment as often as I have to.

And so, unable to fundamentally change the world we live in, we've retreated into what one of my characters calls an «ironic hipster detachment that masks an abyss of emptiness.»

Bujold glows as the obsessed, martyrlike Antigone; Weaver brings passion to Creon's mixture of reason and tyranny; and Stacy Keach (Fat City) plays the narrating Chorus with a weary, ironic detachment.

Critics have seemingly cooled on Tarantino's pop culture patchwork technique over the years, mistaking cleverness for ironic detachment and his singularly innovative mode of theory - to - practice film geekery for plagiaristic slapdash kitsch just as Tarantino is reaching personal heights as an auteur, and it begs the question: did Shakespeare have to deal with cooler - than - thou backlash from his detractors?

She is lovely, but not plastic, with a superb sense of comedy, and a range from righteous indignation to ironic detachment to vulnerable heartbreak is sublime.

American Smart Cinema considers how reference, quotation and ironic detachment define the sensibility of the cycle.

Perkins outlines the key components of the cycle, namely: ironic detachment, a blank and apathetic tone, an episodic structure (as opposed to traditional act - based structure), strong musicality, wry sarcasm, economy of storytelling and an overwhelming focus on the abstract idea of family.

Despite all its ironic detachment --» The Cabin in the Woods» has tons of laughs, some truly jaw - dropping moments and a couple scenes of unexpected poignancy that make it more than a parody movie.

Told mostly from the male point of view, Fatal Attraction does build Alex as a credible character, but Lyne makes films that feel like Douglas Sirk films done without the ironic detachment that makes them work.

Thankfully, other artists know how to unite a cartoon's poles of expression and ironic detachment.

When the world looks like it's falling apart, though, perhaps ironic detachment will begin to look less like an antidote to chauvinism and more like a banal evil, unequipped to fight the pricks of history.

Rauschenberg and John's were already, by the mid-50s, pushing back against the overheated dominance of gestural painting by infusing its tropes with ironic detachment.