Sentences with phrase «phantasmagorias which»

Not exact matches

For De Palma, Obsession, Dressed to Kill, and Body Double are less the oft - accused rip - offs of previous Alfred Hitchcock films than rigorous reckonings with a burgeoning postmodern dilemma; not merely the «anxiety of influence,» to quote literary scholar Harold Bloom, but something more akin to outright agony, where questions of artistic lineage from the outside spool the proceedings within into a nightmarish phantasmagoria, the implications of which are still to be unraveled.

At least if you think of the power of advertising and promotion, what Walter Benjamin calls «phantasmagoria» — a world of illusions created by the mass media, in which modern people find models for their everyday behaviour but also their attitudes and prejudices, and even their deepest beliefs.

A «phantasmagoria» was a pre-cinematic theatrical show, devised in France in the late eighteenth century, which gained popularity throughout Europe in the nineteenth century.

Look for paintings that filter Abstract Expressionism through SoCal atmospherics and for drawings in which ribald phantasmagorias emerge from the liveliest of lines.

Mr. Wolfson teamed up with powerhouse gallerist David Zwirner to mount one of the most - talked - about exhibitions of 2014: A multimedia phantasmagoria that included an animatronic stripper (which now belongs to mega-collector Eli Broad), a bizarre cartoon / live footage mash - up projection and a suite of appropriated and collaged inkjet prints.

His abstract figuration had a look of phantasmagoria and already resembled those disembodied, astral eyes which later became a key theme in his painting.