Sentences with phrase «of phalluses as»

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.

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Out of her own experience of diminishment by males, she unflinchingly wrote of «castrating God» and «cutting away the Supreme Phallus» 6 as an important part of the process of transforming the collective imagination.

Even the women likewise, who worshiped Cybele, dressed as men, were fitted with artificial phalli / dildos, and played the part of men in the temple prostitution.

It is evident as well that the spade could not have been associated with the phallus, nor agricultural work homologized to the sexual act before the discovery of agriculture.

The conclusion is that many of these noncoding regions of DNA should be more broadly categorized as «appendage enhancers» rather than «limb enhancers,» and snakes may have retained these noncoding DNA elements due to their role in phallus development.

To militarists and politicians, it (this national phallus) symbolized our might; to science fans, American discovery; to kids, fantastic space voyages; to NASA, a fat paycheck and national prominence; to the media, a feel - good, patriotic story to sell; and to the country as a whole, some combination of the above.

How to transform your phallus into a blazing cannon or wet your vagina into a enticingly smooth slithering passage once again as it was during the beginning of your relationship.

Bigelow will forever have my heart as the women responsible for one of my foundational films as a younger asshole, Near Dark, whose band of nomadic Midwestern vampires led me to her Two - Lane Blacktop homage The Loveless (the debut vehicle for Willem Dafoe); her fascinating phallus - play Blue Steel; and then forward into the years - ahead - of - its - time Strange Days.

In a way, it could be said that 40 Days and 40 Nights (a title that reimagines Christ's time in the desert being tested by Satan as the period of time a well - heeled young man spends not having sex) functions as an overt assertion that the male phallus is indeed the root of religion: horniness is next to godliness.

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.

There's Christian F. «Bigfoot» Bjornsen (Josh Brolin), a gruff and violence - prone detective who moonlights as a struggling actor and has a subconscious habit of eating phallus - shaped food.

One encounters Louise Bourgeois without her marble phallus as she leaves an epic Picasso retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, «Forty Years of His Art,» and can not paint again for two months.

Gumby, Superman, Joan Crawford, Babe Ruth, Jesus Christ, the Bible, Felix the Cat, as well as pictures of a swinging light bulb, a locomotive, a baseball player, a starburst, and a shadowy phallus appear and reappear throughout the artist's installation.

As if from the lens of a psychedelic dream, the painter stumbles upon the bodily realities of queer life: here a phallus or a raised rear - end, there a languid back or gleaming face in repose, moments of flesh that are cheerfully frank among the casual slices of life that populate Langberg's real and imagined world.

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.

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.

Shaped as a phallus, KALEIDOSCOPE «s body is beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns the artist is known for, and the head is made of highly polished brass.

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.

Much of Sarah Lucas's British pavilion was painted as cream yellow as her catalogue's tote bag and the macho, Franz Westian, pretzel - twisted bronze phallus with testicle sacs and legs that stood at the entrance and basically gave the finger to all comers.

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.

Powerful representations of sexuality, works such as Heretic (1944), in which a headless male torso sodomizes some kind of strange furry animal, or Marta (1940) and Passionate (1943), both showing nude women surrounded by multiple phalluses, were groundbreaking in their refusal to adapt themselves to contemporaneous discourses surrounding gender and sexuality.

Some compare them to architecture, or to ancient monuments, while others read them as phalluses and wombs, which, along with the pictures» somber palette, might suggest the cycle of life and death.

Described as «phallus - addicted» by her peers in the «70s, Renate Bertlmann's provocative art practice has historically made her the subject of criticism — despite her active participation in feminist discourse.

Described as «phallus - addicted» by her peers in the 1970s, Renate Bertlmann's provocative art practice has historically made her the subject of criticism - despite her active participation in feminist discourse.