Sentences with phrase «of mythmaking»

Walker's objective as a «storyteller» is to examine the destructive affects of mythmaking and of art.

Delve into a group of artists» explorations of the fate of mythmaking in contemporary society through their use of digital techniques.

Through an installation of new sculptures, video, and photographs, Tommy Hartung extends his investigation of mythmaking and storytelling tied to powers of surveillance, wealth, and politics.

«It was a place charged in ways that engendered mythmaking from its inception,» she said, «and a lot of that mythmaking was self - generated.»

In a body of work created specifically for his Rose exhibition, Tommy Hartung (b. 1979) extends his investigation of mythmaking and storytelling tied to powers of surveillance, wealth, and politics.

It is fitting that Matthew Barney, an artist so enamoured with heady conflations of mythmaking and physiological mutation, should have a retrospective of his drawings across the way from an exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest tales of transfiguration around — the Holy Eucharist.

Simultaneously whimsical and sinister, Lerma's project re-imagines the layers of mythmaking in Ponce de León's tale and positions them as metaphors for deflating heroic painting.

Dassin and Wilder are involved in a perverse sort of mythmaking — fed by the artifice of classic theatre for Dassin, and for Wilder, more, the hysterical artifice of musical theatre, reclaiming the state of whore to the state of Madonna in what feels like a mania for order in a world without it.

It's hard to imagine many filmmakers capable of walking this line and not succumbing to the temptations of mythmaking and monumentalism, but anyone who saw 2001's Bloody Sunday would know that English docudrama director Paul Greengrass belongs to the select group of individuals up to the task.

On the surface Creed or Straight Outta Compton might not seem like typical «Oscar - bait,» but both were Hollywood success stories through and through, with the kind of mythmaking the Academy recognizes all the time.

The danger that attends every project of mythmaking is that the new myth will create new forms of idolatry.

«It would be an act of mythmaking.

Not exact matches

Despite academic pretensions of rational discourse and objective standards, mythmaking is alive and well in American colleges and universities.

There is no shortage of contemporary mythmaking seeking to prop up confidence in the idol of progress.

by «love» I mean I'm fascinated / inspired by all the different things that overlap in Breezewood: pre-colonial American history; geology (the geologic history of PA is fascinating and the highways around Breezewood sport some absurdly amazing roadcuts); and highways in general (American mythmaking, all that good shit).

This history of the US is not reducible to a neo-classical textbook, (or anyone else's ideological mythmaking).

It's an inspired use of the tune, originally recorded by Nancy Sinatra in 1967 as a complement to Bond mythmaking at the peak of his appeal, when he was the quintessence of male wish fulfillment.

Over-indulgent and melodramatic, as is the nature of artistic mythmaking, The Golden Age will beguile and repel in equal measure.

So, like millions of other sports fans, he pins his dreams on a mythmaking athlete.

Hollywood Reporter writer Todd McCarthy called Donovan «a sort - of Atticus Finch of the north» and Variety writer Peter Debruge wrote of the film, «[Spielberg]'s mythmaking approach makes for great Capra-esque entertainment, [though] younger audiences may find it terribly old - fashioned.»

For Roland Emmerich, it meant moving on from the delirium of «2012» (and the b.s. mythmaking of «Anonymous») to the eerie futurism of «Singularity.»

But most surprising of all is just how entertaining the film is, despite almost comical levels of self - aggrandizing mythmaking.

«Man of Steel: Inside the Legendary World of Superman» starts off looking into the «Modern - Day Mythmaking» of the film including a look at the new suit.

Set in the Indiana backwoods where Abraham Lincoln (newcomer Braydon Denney) lived as a child, The Better Angels takes a demonstrably Malickian approach to American mythmaking, locating the core of the 16th American president's eminent integrity in his hardscrabble upbringing.

«This latest incarnation of the great American Western finds its truth in the tangled roots of our own mythmaking.»

Whatever apocalyptic associations its title may generate, «Captain America: Civil War» turns out to be an infinitely smarter piece of multiplex mythmaking, blessed as it is with a new villain (played with unnerving subtlety by Daniel Bruhl) who has more on his mind than blowing human civilization to smithereens.

Mythmaking has long been a staple of American movies.

For an introduction, the actor uses a humorous bit of production history to frame the film as a profound work of alternative mythmaking as well as a prescient vision of a privatized future.

Because she's not an actress, because she's not part of the cultural consciousness the way celebrities can be — with none of the attendant mythmaking — Rees» recognition has been more lowkey.

Because Cody's puts on full displays the problems of the poverty mythmaking in which he and other traditionalists engage.

The latest exercise in mythmaking is a Time article titled, «Teachers Make Less Than Peers in Almost Any Other Job,» which draws on an international survey of teacher pay published by the OECD.

5 While distinguishing her art from the mythmaking of Rothko, Fine realized that some of her more successful paintings had a «kind of myth in them.»

American and Regional Art: Mythmaking & Truth - Telling is one of just four curatorial projects in North America recognized in the Exhibitions category.

For in her work, the new technology of photography became a vehicle for post-Romantic mythmaking — perhaps nowhere more so than in the enigmatic «photographic illustrations» she made for Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

She is the founder of the Pocho Research Society (PRS)(2002), a project that explores the elasticity of the artifact and the mythmaking aspects of «History» through conceptual, performative, social, and aesthetic strategies that result in multi-media installations, video, photographic work, social engagement, publications, and public interventions.

Kerry James Marshall's comic strip Dailies, from Rhythm Mastr, uses the medium to address the lack of black superheroes in 20th century mythmaking and explore what that means for the collective black imagination.

Based on diagrams used to identify emotional well - being Tasset's Mood Sculpture (2011) takes an iconic form, drawing out then clear relationship between the simple emoticons of the information age and totem - pole - styled mythmaking as it's existed since the dawn of culture.

I was already interested in performative sculpture; the artists Joseph Beuys, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, and Tetsumi Kudo, in particular, interested me because of their embrace of poetic mythmaking and their use of everyday materials.

I doubt Will could find any «ice age» nonsense even in entertainment publications, after the Science article debunked the idea — til the ozone - CFC debate came along and the mythmaking started about the competence of the climatologists, anyhow.

Exposé of Better Place's failed electric car scheme uncovers epic mythmaking and creative math