Sentences with phrase «political reading»

So he knows what makes a cracking political read.

At first the representation of private industry as the sexy bringers of world peace, while the government is portrayed as clueless meddlers, looks like the film will head in the same ultra conservative direction of the Transformers sequel but Iron Man 2 largely avoids traditional political readings by portraying nearly all characters, institutions and organisations as either highly flawed, misguided or up to no good.

Over the last several generations an earlier political reading of the City of God has given way to a more overtly theological interpretation.

Don't burn the books A scorching hot list of summer political reading selected by Mark Perryman A year ago as Labour sought to recover from the May General Election defeat halls were starting to fill up for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign rallies.

«It's very difficult to have escapist reading when you have to keep up with political reading,» continued Kudisch.

Mr. Hammons is a touchstone figure for Mr. Ligon, and for many other artists interested in making work that can accommodate political readings without being confined to them.

The artist, however, rails against an overt political reading in his work: «I think what I find quite sad is the idea of politics being pushed in as part of the content.

[4] Although Motherwell generally rejected political readings of his work, texts and references, such as his titles, he welcomed those interpretations — evoking ambiguity.

Ched Myers, Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1988).

However, in the context of the other works on show, a political reading of Holzer's plaque is more fitting; that rather than men, it is «The Man» that is the aggressor.

This is just one example of how in this exhibition the poetical / political readings of various works can be brought to the fore, and how by way of a theatrical staging they will activate each other and the space in which they are seen.

It readily evokes widely circulated images of dusty flags pulled from the Ground Zero rubble, and in the wake of the ongoing spectacle of the Trump presidency, political readings are within easy grasp.

There is no too - social or - political a read of Esparza's work, nor of his focus on collaboration.

Tanning refuted feminist or political readings of her work, in favour of a deeper psychological reading.

Using LED signage and ticker displays, as well as illuminated signs, as her material, Holzer enlarges and alters these signs and positions them in relation to other signs, images and architecture to create a critical and political reading of the messages they convey.

At the same time, it is wise not to press a political reading too deeply.

Looking at the titles of group exhibitions in which Hatoum was included at the time («The Interrupted Life,» «Shocks to the System: Social and Political Issues in Recent British Art,» «The Other Story: Asian, African and Caribbean Artists in Post-War Britain») indicates how her works» rigorous geometry and the reductive seriality of her cold, often charged materials yielded a social or political reading.