Sentences with phrase «on image construction»

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The conventional image of the railway as a national project owes much to the appeal of Pierre Berton's books, which drew on its construction — with all the blood, sweat and scandal that went into it — as a metaphor for nation building, a physical extension of Confederation into western Canada.

Link building illicits the following image in my head: A construction worker laboring a brick of metal, wavering, up a set of stairs, slabbing some cement on the corners, nailing things, sweating profusely, eating from a lunch bin, hating his job, repeating, repeating, repeating.

Conversely the projected future is already exercising its influence on the present through these images, and by continuous interaction it is also affecting the construction of revised images of the future.

These two facts are closely related, and based on them the opposition to images is made explicit, as the irreconcilable contradiction of image and word is ascertained (but this conclusion is a later theological construction!).

Workers on a building under construction (Photo: Don Emmert for AFP / Getty Images)(Photo: Don Emmert for AFP / Getty Images)

That recognition is in no small part having a positive impact on constructions overall image and reputation.

The Scheme is concerned about any area of construction activity that may have a direct or indirect impact on the image of the industry as a whole.

Whilst two new NHS proton treatment centres are under construction in the UK that will provide state - of - the - art treatments, the proton imaging based on this prototype will enable the most accurate pre-treatment images of patients, improving on the imaging used today which is based on x-ray imaging.

This image reveals the construction of a section of the X-Mansion, along with the return of The Danger Room (seen on the top right of the photo) which was teased at the end of X-Men: Apocalypse.

Some even reflected on the notion that digital technologies do uniquely what other resources can not do; for example, the functionality of Fun With Construction to deconstruct an image of a 3D shape into separate plane shapes and then snap the faces back together to reform the shape.

The redesigned chassis features rugged body - on - frame construction, but also maintains the first - generation Armada's athletic image — just with added contemporary style.

Mesh material on a simple framework construction is used throughout the interior to convey a light, sophisticated image without being oppressive.

Lots of discussion about getting clean export from InDesign; image zoom on devices; page - list construction within InDesign; dealing with an InDesign book for EPUB export; spec» ing color in CSS.

Make your products more market - oriented XFlip Enterprise Software does serve to accelerate the construction of marketization of enterprises by adding the products with your company's website link, logo or image and so on.

As we can see from the images, the phone holder features flexible construction in order that you can easily adjust your smartphone on the holder for optimal viewing position, and the cell phone holder also supports both portrait and landscape viewing modes, while the universal clamp works well with a variety of devices including GPS devices, moreover, the suction cup allows you to securely fix the phone holder on the windshield.

We shot a 720p scene of construction on Manhattan's Upper West Side and found the images lacked vibrance and clarity.

«The crux was to explore how I could suspend race, and by extension identity, as an overlying component, and really focus on the construction of identity, particularly the construction of an image, and how often we as a society can fall into prescribed notions of individuals and groups of people as a whole,» she said.

The slideshow cycles through pairs of images presented on a pair of monitors, and these looping still photographs show the Hollywood icon self - consciously posing, reflecting, brooding, and generating a model for the construction of identity through images.

Gander is an inventive polymath, a creator of worlds and teller of tales, whose making takes forms as varied as a lecture series entirely based on «loose associations,» a nonlinear narrative of wildly disparate ideas and images found and collected by the artist; re-creations of children's tent - forts sculpted in marble; the construction of complex mechanisms to generate a gentle breeze that wafts through a gallery; a conveyer belt carrying sculptures that can only be seen through one window; or detailed designs for an art school that may never be realized.

Paolini's belief that a work of art is not just reflective of the «here and now» but is also resonant of earlier traditions, has led him to investigate art's relation to the past, creating intriguing installations deeply rooted in art history from the Renaissance to today - from plaster casts of classical sculptures shattered on the ground, to photographs of iconic paintings by Northern Italian Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Lotto, or inquiries into the construction of the image.

While Glenn Ligon focuses on the construction of «blackness» and «queerness» in his photographic rethinking of Robert Mapplethorpe's erotic images, Iñigo Manglano - Ovalle explores the notion of identity through the processes of genetic mapping in his DNA photographs.

Over and over again in the catalog, we read about Ligon's love for painting — de Kooning's Pirate (Untitled II)(1981) is a favorite, apparently — and how he, um, «opened up the semantic rules of identity and linguistic constructions between object - text and image - sign relations through the use of photography and text based on the appropriation of language, sign, text, and speech as material for his painting practice.»

As A.i.A. senior editor William S. Smith pointed out in his essay on Michael Heizer (whose 1970 installation Actual Size: Munich Rotary is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through April 10) our April issue, «Land art was photogenic out of necessity... images produced in tandem with the construction of giant earthworks could greatly expand the works» aesthetic and conceptual range.»

In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greater.

The new body of work plays on the construction of place through found images, tokens, maps, postcards and travel guides.

At its core, Ads Imitate Life highlights that ads do not, in fact, imitate life but have a very powerful impact on the construction of harmful identifications, compelling us to measure ourselves against images that can be over-generalising and, often, untrue.

A Window that Shows Me the Moon will include works on paper that include collage, drawing, painting, digital images, and constructions in a variety of materials.

Focusing on the actress's face to capture one intense emotion, Prager engages in the construction of images that are intentionally loaded, reflecting her fascination with and understanding of cinematic melodrama.New

Her paintings and drawings are complex meditations on pictorial surfaces, the multivalent layering of images, and societal constructions of gender.

The paintings and constructions are built on visual and symbolic associations, and the obscuring, deconstructing, and preserving of images in wax helps me to address a complex and shifting relationship between man, his biological roots, and the shaping of our natural environment».

The work on view will highlight the shifting of paradigms necessary to find beauty within imperfect gestures, the parallels between systemic ideas of perfection and modes of ideal image construction, and how the works on view engage with these possibilities.

Jaar describes the work as a theatre built for a single image «an invitation to reflect on the meaning of that image, on the construction of that image, on the history of that image and on the ultimate effect of that image on human beings around the world.»

The surface of the object under construction is built up over time and the image is the residue of travelling on this very surface.

Bopape focuses on the aspect of «a walk through the editing space», the space of the image, that has to do with the performed situation and it's visual construction.

The shallow depth of field images present curious constructions of maps made by the artist — maps which now take on different roles than those once dictated by their previous lives as simple geographical -LSB-.....]

The exhibition is structured in chapters whose themes are the man - eating outsider or non-human; the relationship with others and construction of an individual and group identity through a dual movement of incorporation and rejection; the body as an organism capable of transformation, and which feeds on and feeds others; eroticism and all - consuming passion; violence and horror; ritual and sacrifice; and images from childhood, derived from tales and legends.

In the work of Hito Steyerl (Munich, 1966) the construction of the text and the editing of the image expand the condition of the film essay, reflecting on and intervening in the systems through which information circulates and the presentation and representation of the artwork.

Through these techniques, Adams examines the force of popular culture and the media, on the perception and construction of self - image.

The focus of his equally emotional and analytical image worlds is set on the examination of lanscape and spacial construction in the image space.

You can see more images of the beautiful desk, and of Huang's design and construction process, in his gallery shared on imgur.

This archive is displayed together with two different architectural models of the Parliament building — one based on found images from the internet picturing the building before renovation, and the other based on the actual architectural drawings taken from the construction company which is in charge of the renovation.

These constructions are based on the image of the house as a metaphor for the human body or human cosmology.

Fia Backström's work focuses on the fabric of our co-existence with and construction of subjectivity through the social life of images.

During my training at the California College of Arts and Crafts, I began to create collage drawings that layered disparate images on top of one another; I now use oil paint in a similar way, starting with an abstract background and then adding more photorealistic details, allowing the work to dictate its own construction.

In both cases he has deployed the found object as a strategy to further investigate the constructed image, focusing on the «image» of urban racial construction and the site of its consumption.

The show, titled DCTs and Scenes from the Blackout, mixes together Douglas's ongoing practice of detailed, involved portraiture, staged scenes that incorporate both specific time frames / locations into a freewheeling riff on the construction of reality, and a body of work that uses computer algorithms to deconstruct the image.

Twice removed from reality, Partegàs's photographs document images appearing on vinyl barriers around construction sites, as well as a point where the fictional subsumes any trace of the real.

The artist is interested in reflection on the process of image construction.

Reflecting on Crimp's legacy, «PostPictures» includes seven artists from the United States who work with new media techniques and contemporary modes of image construction.

In the late - «60s, shortly before he died, I remember my father's excitement at finding and buying three gelatin silver prints from Margaret Bourke - White's series of images on the construction of Fort Peck Dam, near Billings, Montana.