Sentences with word «simulacrum»

Dalí's fascination with food is echoed in simulacrums of cheese made by his contemporary Magritte and by the contemporary artist Robert Gober.

And it's to this that Newman's empty tomb, insofar as it stands as simulacrum of Christ's, bears witness.

«Every concept of God is a mere simulacrum, a false likeness, an idol: it could not reveal God himself.»

In the strange simulacrum of London there in the sewers, he barely has time to get oriented to the ersatz Picadilly Circus before he gets caught up in nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat population.

Which isn't to say, of course, that video games have evolved to a point of such technical sophistication that gamers are living in some Baudrillardian fantasy; the dream of a Second Life simulacrum even better than the real thing never came to fruition, and maybe it never will.

The great irony of The Thing - quel is that, as an imitation itself, it's a uniquely unconvincing simulacrum of the thing it's trying to ape.

Kodak illustrates celluloid's ability to produce «a near perfect simulacrum of our visual world» in a series of stunning images that reflect elusiveness through both the subject and medium of film.

See also the discussion of the void in Mark Levy, Void in Art, Bramble Books, 2006, especially pp. 139 — 147, where Levy sees Reinhardt's black paintings as offering «a good simulacrum of the end stages of samadhi.»

For Reinhardt, with his Menckenesque hatred of middle - brow culture and art - world can't, abstraction seems to have offered a way to transform the billboards and advertisements of the urban environment into an abstract simulacrum of the natural world.

In the absence of human interaction we cling to whatever dark simulacrum is available.

If fashion appeal is really all cities have to offer, there's no reason a developer - concocted simulacrum transplanted to a former cornfield can't satisfy the same need.

But McDougal is the odd one out, clinging as she does to her cloying simulacrum of «wholesomeness,» trying to will herself into a world in which Donald Trump would build her a golden cage, treat her kindly, and call her «Beautiful Karen» for all the rest of her days.

The greater weight of such redistribution in any modern simulacrum of debt cancellation is bound to evince strong opposition from those at the receiving end.

The sculpture of the resurrected Christ was a copy, apparently in plaster, of a nineteenth century Danish marble: that great highpoint of assimilated Christianity, made infamous by Kierkegaard, in its new world simulacrum.

In the little - seen Gamer, a young man shares responsibility for the actions of his video - game alter - ego» an avatar (played by Gerard Butler) who is employed to act out the youth's viral simulacrum in real - world situations where hedonistic consumers take on the identities and vices of video - game characters.

Perhaps the Anglican Church had everything except religion, with regard to which it offered only a socially useful simulacrum.

It is now quite clear that rodent models of infectious diseases, particularly their immunologic mechanisms, are poor simulacrums of human disease.

But there has to be a better way to escape the «dating apocalypse» than withdrawing into a Gattaca simulacrum predicated on pseudoscience.

Not the best video game version of pinball, but it is consistent at providing a realistic simulacrum of pinball.

Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, who has shot the majority of Spielberg's films since Schindler's List in 1993, appears to be working if not entirely with real light sources, then at least some incredible simulacrum thereof.

(In related news, Ted Cruz also liked a porn tweet about infidelity yesterday, because the hard right is a hollow simulacrum of an ideology based on fear - mongering and avarice.)

It's an effective simulacrum, and so, in a way, is the movie, which pushes a feel - good, root - for - the - underdog vibe so sunny one might almost forget that 95 % of the young interns, who fear uncertain futures, will be shown the door.

Claire is, in other words and in any way that matters, the microcosm of everything that's wrong with Elizabethtown: she's an android programmed to bestow idiosyncrasy like a Pez dispenser geeked at regular intervals — an artificial simulacrum of charm made more disturbing in that this Hall of Presidents ride is calibrated to spew platitudes on grief and new relationships instead of The Gettysburg Address.

Often dismissed as oppressively tasteful and aesthetically repressed, their best - known films (A Room with a View, Howards End, The Remains of the Day) were marked less by any singular cinematic vision than by the ability to marshal a team of talented craftsmen — costumers, hair stylists, set dressers, and location scouts — to create a prettily detailed simulacrum of the past.

The Social Network (Sony) Directed with typical technical fastidiousness and textural richness by David Fincher from a verbally dexterous script by Aaron Sorkin, this story of the creation of Facebook is less interested in how the website was created than in how a young, arrogant genius with no people skills managed to deconstruct and reconstruct the social experience as a web - based simulacrum: a club that even Mark Zuckerberg (or, rather, «Mark Zuckerberg») could thrive in.

Daniel Espinosa's Life itself proves mostly motion, floating its camera around a creditable simulacrum of the International Space Station and a starry crew of astronauts finding the intelligent lifeforms of Mars a touch too clever for comfort.

Eddie Mannix is the name of an actual studio functionary from those halcyon days, even if the Mannix here and there are and were two different quantities, but the rest of the star - studded cast are clever simulacrums and composites with credible but fake names.

Well, here it is... Ever since Clark Gregg's smooth, buttery Phil Coulson — agent of souped - up CIA simulacrum, SHIELD — rocked up at one of Tony Stark's endless round of self - congratulatory press conferences in 2008's Iron Man, attentive audiences have been teased with the prospect of the various frequencies of the Marvel Universe banding together for a superhero team - up smackdown in the form of Avengers Assemble.

And creative, interactive video games like the intriguing simulacrums of The Sims, the ingenious gene pools of Spore, and the avatars of Second Life have been around for quite a while.

The results might be a reasonable simulacrum of the real thing, or even mathematically superior.

The first Tesla Model S sedans had painted simulacrum of radiator grilles (happily gone now).

But once publishers start breaking ranks (as they are already doing) and major authors start to self - publish (as they are already doing), the illusion of e-books being a necessary simulacrum of printed books will start to dissipate.

It's either the US I live in, or a great simulacrum... I think Eddie would look awesome on my shelf next to the 360!

· Multiplayer Simulacrum is here!

There, just above the entrance, is a wonky simulacrum of the American flag, its skewed stars and stripes forming a somber effigy fluttering in the breeze.

So do Minimalism's industrial origins, as with crushed cardboard boxes or the dark wood simulacrum of a charred metal drum.

In contrast to younger painters like Joe Bradley or Oscar Murillo who merely ape a vapid simulacrum of abstract painting's vocabulary, Jensen incorporates a larger and deeper understanding of the history of his chosen style.

Highlights include American artist Jeff Koons Hon RA, whose figures for his 1980s «Banality» series were drawn from cheap tchotchkes; Frank Benson, whose Human Statue (Jessie)(2011) reproduces, using high - end digital technology, a stunning simulacrum of dancer and musician Jessie Gold; and newly elected Academician Rebecca Warren, known for her plaster figures filtered through other artists from Giacometti to cartoonist Robert Crumb.

In a departure from her 2012 — 13 show at Lehmann Maupin in New York, for which the artist projected the film in a side gallery removed from the «room within a gallery» installation that has become a recurring feature of her practice, here Thomas embeds the (now looped) film within a similarly immersive 1970s - era domestic simulacrum.

Her installations, sculptures and collages compose multiple simulacrums with discarded materials; such as, clothing, shoes, and ephemera.

Operating around the philosophy that there were already enough pictures in the world, the Pictures Generation artists employed appropriation as a means of exploring theoretical concepts of post-modern simulacrum and the notion that there was no true originality in art.

The work invites visitors inside to experience what the artist describes as a «sonic simulacrum» of architectural spaces and landscapes; interwoven is a layered narrative of modernity and historical memory emerging from the complex relationship between Korea and Japan in the 20th century.