Sentences with phrase «poetic conceit»

This exhibition is one of three James Lee Byars shows simultaneously on view this summer, alongside The Diamond Floor at Michael Werner Gallery, London and The Poetic Conceit and Other Works at VW (VeneKlasen / Werner), Berlin.

No one likes to be preached at or lectured to, even though Campbell wants the meaning of his works to be open ended, It for Others can seem more like an academic Powerpoint lecture than an artwork, even though I take its tone as an almost poetic conceit, an almost theatrical affectation.

Blanche was a poetic conceit.

It's the sort of poetic conceit that needs a filmmaker far more rapt and intuitive than Haynes, whose jeweler's precision keeps everything at an emotional remove.

For example, his theory of the round earth's compression of people as a leading factor in socialization appears to be more a poetic conceit than a serious scientific explanation.

Not exact matches

I see an anthropomorphic concept of God... that God / Universe / Nature acts in human ways... as either a conceited sin of pride or a poetic metaphoric description, that is in objective reality, almost impossible to ignore in any Western culture.

I guess the conceit is that this particular banker is more soulful and poetic than the author.

His apparent crude modesty of form belies the poetic intelligence of the works coming - to - be and sculptural conceits.