Sentences with phrase «ostensible subject»

The clown - like formations, while recognizable, are deeply and willfully non-mimetic, non-representational; they illuminate the symbolic artifice of their ostensible subject matter, forcing us to question why they bothered us in the first place.

Its title refers to the ostensible subject, to the stretched canvas as an object and, through its pun, to the formalism that still ruled critical discourse in the mid -»60s.

They share the ostensible subject matter of color, as well as a loose - fitting stylistic rigor and an academic concern for the generative power of visual repetition.

The ostensible subject is what lies behind the surface of upscale, urban lives.

In the exhibition «A Horse with No Name» the ostensible subject matter is drawn, so to speak, from Martinez's immediate environment.

Abrahams» imagery — and his handling of it, especially in his innovative use of materials — is very much of his time, but he was able also to give the work an objective distance, in order to comment upon its ostensible subject.

Although different in form and ostensible subject matter, my works address the same overarching theme: they explore the role of historical circumstances, ideologies and cultural stereotypes in creation of personal and collective identities.

While the marketing of desire, seduction and sexual gratification is the ostensible subject of Tal R's latest depictions of sexshop facades, the Copenhagen - based painter's interest in the shops themselves goes no further than their surface and status as signs.

Even the ostensible subject is elusive.

While the ostensible subject is black men, the conversation that evolves in these pages is ultimately about the nature of living in a post-Obama, post-Ferguson, post-Voting Rights Act America.

This book features a series of photographic collaborations by Copley and Jaqueline Hyde wherein the ostensible subject — a painting by Copley, perfectly exposed and ready to be cropped for reproduction — also reveals a broader scene.

My personal feeling is that I alway respond to painting abstractly - not paying much attention to ostensible subject matter, but instead focusing on the space, line, form, and color - the language of painting.

Yau writes that «Gale's ostensible subject is the record of an encounter between her and someone else, whether it is a model or her own face, which she presumably uses a mirror to scrutinize.

The ostensible subject is icky but overdue: roadkill.

The ostensible subject is Christine Chubbuck, the Florida news reporter who shot and killed herself on live television in 1974, in what's considered the very first televised suicide.

The film's ostensible subject is Christine Chubbuck, a Florida news reporter who shot and killed herself during a live broadcast in 1974, in what's considered the first televised suicide.

And it's still the most energetic sex filmmaking, qua filmmaking, around: 2,800 setups, Meyer told an SFS preview audience, and they do go blazing past, so frenetically, and some of them downright dynamically, that anybody with camera - and cutting - sense is going to have a hard — make that a difficult — time keeping his mind on the ostensible subject.

Or at least that's its reputation: «This spooky film's ostensible subject... is merely a starting place for this mesmerizing horror movie,» wrote The Washington Post.

Shyamalan understands too well his own formula and with Signs, his third overtly supernatural film after The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he displays an unbecoming self - consciousness that renders his ostensible subject allegorical subtext, with his own favourite issues (the father / son dynamic, the comic book spirituality) the only reason for the film's existence.

The film's ostensible subject is the largely - unrecognised Republic of Abkhazia, which split from Georgia after a violent separatist war in 1992, as well as the title's eponymous Maxim Gvinjia, Abkhazia's former Minister for Foreign Affairs; the film's other subject is Baudelaire's wider questioning of national identity.

But maybe that feeling of change was most apparent because the movie went beyond its ostensible subject of race and the fight for emancipation.

This is a terrible, marketably violent film that sheds no light whatsoever on its ostensible subject matter or characters.

Its ambiguities, evasions and general lack of enthusiasm suggest that she was working out questions beyond or behind the ostensible subject of her book.

While the ostensible subjects of O peixe are the fish and fishermen depicted, the absence of language and text in the film generates a poignant ambiguity and invites a range of interpretations: one might feel empathy and grief in witnessing death, or heartened by an expression of solidarity with the natural world, or captivated by the peculiar sensuality of this animistic rite.

And while the ostensible subjects of many of the new paintings are flowers, their titles — Mourning, Spent, Blind — reflect Hume's thoughts of her.

Her ostensible subjects are unremarkable: a lineup of derelict greenhouses, the well - worked rock face of a quarry, the tangled undergrowth of her own garden.

Not exact matches

This isn't a humiliation comedy, or at least not one in which we're invited to laugh at the characters as they're being humiliated merely because they're hapless saps who don't deserve abuse yet who are nevertheless subjected to it for our ostensible amusement.

At 91, the Italian titan was rendered incapable of speaking and partly paralysed by a stroke, but nevertheless produced this essentially silent featurette, a woozy union of experience and perception that asks us to devote no less attention to a glass rolling across a restaurant floor than it does two lovers whose quarrelling is the only ostensible human subject matter.

Albers, of course, doesn't make it easy on the casual art fan — the extreme simplicity of his signature paintings and their ostensible lack of subject can be, admittedly, hard to get past.

The after - party has become a subject for Ojo due to its prevalence, proximity, and ostensible production of release and freedom.

My take is that you're just wanting something, anything, to do in our dotage to keep your mind occupied and lacking the mental prowess to do anything noteworthy in computer science you decided to dive into a controversial subject outside your ostensible expertise.