Sentences with phrase «on contemporary life»

It is part of a collection that make up the writer's commentary on contemporary life.

But he suggests that, rather than serving as a comment on contemporary life, his work explores the fundamental function of images.

The four large Gilbert & Georges are characteristically gridded photographic compositions of their highly idiosyncratic and homoerotic take on contemporary life in London.

His is a reflection on contemporary life in the city — his materials and palette speak of buildings, street signs, construction sites.

T.S. Elliot's The Waste Land (1922) an epic reflection on metatextual narratives, has undoubtedly provided a plethora of influential meditations on contemporary life.

They meditate on contemporary life, but especially black life.

SITE Santa Fe opens the doors of its new building this October with Future Shock, a large - scale exhibition that articulates the profound impact of the acceleration of technological, social and structural change on contemporary life.

Emma Ridgway is a curator and creative educator who creates visual arts and interdisciplinary events to generate fresh perspectives on contemporary life.

Sometimes quirky, frequently disturbing, her reimagined art highlights the enduring significance of commercial and industrial products on contemporary life.

The ever - increasing impact of technology on contemporary life and art will be the subject of a major exhibition slated for next January at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the museum announced yesterday.

As she wrote in her 1941 essay Handweaving Today: Textile Work at Black Mountain College, «If handweaving is to regain actual influence on contemporary life, approved repetition has to be replaced with the adventure of new exploring.»

After relocating to the United States in 1986 on a fellowship from Fulbright College at the University of Arkansas, Ji found his voice as an artist who reinvents the system of symbolic structures found in classical Chinese painting to expose the dark side of industrial development on contemporary life.

Her work seeks intersections between history and subjectivity, investigating the nature and poetics of psychological «disorder,» the legacy of feminism, and the impact of recent social and political history on contemporary life and consciousness.

Masriad's paintings frequently depict superhuman figures whose narratives, while rooted in Indonesian cultural history, offer witty and often biting social commentary on contemporary life and global pop culture.

In another interesting take on contemporary life, Gertie must deal with the notion that what her father does for a living is «wrong.»

Using references from popular film and television, the work presents an idiosyncratic reflection on contemporary life, in which live action is combined with CGI animation — a technique frequently used in children's films with animal protagonists.

Created out of found imagery from magazines, the collages are surreal, witty meditations on contemporary life.

His sculptures crystallize and express the influence pop art and media culture have on our contemporary life.

NS: You have said that these paintings are not meant to be purely ironic like the way that Jeff Koons uses appropriated imagery for a sly commentary on contemporary life.

Working between painting, sculpture, video and installation, his practice can best be described as a somehow dark and nihilistic, yet humorous and absurd, take on contemporary life and the visual culture within it.

Taking its name from a global manufacturer of toilets, american standard presents a group of works that reflect on communal experience and activity, transforming everyday, recognisable objects into unexpected, often politically - charged commentaries on contemporary life.

consists of a simple plaque with text that is both a commentary on contemporary life and call to social action.

In his book, L'impérialisme postcolonial (2015), Joseph Tonda evokes the violence of the imaginary, which exerts itself on contemporary life by way of what he calls Eblouissements: stunning and being stunned.