Sentences with phrase «social critique»

Her work is a visceral response to personal and social critiques of gender, culture, and mass media imagery.

For some filmmakers today, all forms of dating, online or in person, are ripe for social critique.

Thus begins the incredibly talented mix that this film achieves between significant social critique, moving drama, and near - perfect comedy.

A handwritten letter in one case holds the key to the personal quest and social critique inherent in the project.

While museum regulars and market darlings (many of them men) rightly remain on the list, some lesser - known names, bolstered by practices that integrate art with social critique, have risen to the surface.

Allan Sekula's oeuvre, which includes texts and photographic series and projects, such as his book Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973 — 1983, ranks as one of the most influential expressions of social critique in contemporary photography.

Unfamiliar with symbolism - laden allegory, and without knowing how allegories function as social critiques, most students manage only a surface - level comprehension of the text, missing the opportunity to explore the larger ideas of human capability and culpability.

Despite minimal effort to throw thinly - veiled social critique into the mixer, Mom and Dad exists for one reason and one reason alone: to entertain.

Bifurcated into the colors of white on the first floor and black on the second floor, the exhibition continues the artist's formal inquiry into painting, abstraction, and performance with a discomforting social critique of American histories, injustices, and structures of power.

While those authors have done a better job of this kind of social critique through fantasy, this should not demerit The Black Witch in and of itself either, as it speaks very much to the contemporary reality within which it was published.

First trained in graphic design before taking up photography with Takeji Iwaniya, Moriyama moved to Tokyo in 1961 where he assisted photographer Eikoh Hosoe for three years and became familiar with the trenchant social critiques produced by photographer Shomei Tomatsu.

Marcus Mårtenson (b. 1972) is a Swedish artist whose Naïve paintings deliver an incisive social critique veiled in black humor.

Four progressive Berkeley students are introduced to what some politicians might call «the real America» in this sly social critique of a debut novel.

If its gameplay systems and available interactions are as bold and progressive as its attempt at political and social critique then this has every chance to push the series back to the top of the open - world pyramid.

Moving to Tokyo in 1961, he assisted photographer Eikoh Hosoe for three years and became familiar with the trenchant social critiques produced by photographer Shomei Tomatsu.

While Wurm considers humor an important tool in his work, there is always an underlying social critique of contemporary culture, particularly in response to the Capitalist influences and resulting societal pressures that the artist sees as contrary to our internal ideals.

Through her confident usage of found objects, personal memorabilia and derogatory images that evoke denied or distorted narratives, Saar developed a powerful social critique that challenges racial and sexist stereotypes deeply rooted in American culture.

Known for her satirical commentary on contemporary media culture and pioneering work in video performance art, Bag appears under various guises as a character in many of her video works, offering social critique on such topics as fashion, television, advertising, and the art world.

Childish's eccentric and often painful path to becoming an artist is documented in his poetry and fiction, which are the opposite of his painting: autobiographical and raw, anchored in the tradition of angry working - class social critique that created punk.

A conceptual artist who engages social critique, politics and humor, Josue Pellot explores his personal memories in Pellot Gonzalez Rios.

The photographs were all images of non-idealized landscapes, a mundane American vernacular — sprawling repetitive suburban areas, anonymous «strip» malls, one and two - story structures along highways, liminal urban areas — each bearing witness to a potential social critique.

That's why negative social critique — what Adorno called «the unalleviated consciousness of negativity» — isn't on my view a simple miserabilism, it's actually essential to keeping issues of oppression and disempowerment alive in democratic theory.

New Labour titles and social critiques dominate politicians» beachside reading choices this summer

No filmmaker has ever been as successful as Chaplin in tugging at our heartstrings while simultaneously leaving us helpless in laughter, and this gem finds him operating at the peak of his abilities, even throwing his usual social critique into the mix.

Anvari's war - time horror invokes memories of Del Torro's Pans Labyrinth while offering its own brand of mythic terror and allegorical social critique.

From Iranian director Babak Anvari comes Under the Shadow, a mesmerizing and terrifying horror film with great social critiques laced with terror.

Peele instead smashes those expectations with a sobering social critique that unnerves in both commentary and mind - bending terror.

A cold, unnerving social critique across classes in China.

Colin Farrell and his The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos reteam for another bonkers social critique with The Killing of a Sacred Deer, a pitch - black comedy of misery whose laughs spring forth from the mounting insanity of its story.

Still, what works in Happy Times is what has worked in this director's best work (Shanghai Triad, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum): mordant social critique so far removed from realism that its status as political allegory is as subtle as a neon sign and a crack to the noggin.

The scene of this on - the - nose social critique is established straight away by its disorienting opening sequence, wherein the camera stalks an ominously shadowed miscreant as Obama talks economic reform on the soundtrack, the sound and image interrupted by sudden cuts to title cards and credits.

There is no doubt that this film serves as a gritty social critique, and was one of the few truly introspectively critical films of the festival.

But South Korean visionary Bong Joon - ho juggles multiple tones and genres, stuffing a seriocomic family portrait down the gullet of a throwback kaiju movie, then dousing the whole thing in withering social critique.

Obviously a stab at the state of the sensationalist, entertainment first, state of modern cable news, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues might actually provide a valuable social critique, amongst its many, many, tasteless jokes.

What's perhaps remarkable about the movie is Peel's ability to balance cutting social critique with terrifying scares, the Armitage family creating an unsettling atmosphere that builds to an insanely intense final third that equals the finest horror B movies.

I Am Not a Witch feels like a remarkable discovery: part comedy, part social critique, part tragedy, and all bracingly original.

In the case of Elle, scathing social critique takes the shape of a frequently bleak and often vicious satire.

Hell, Get Out is probably the most perfectly crafted horror film I've seen in a couple of decades, and its genius - level subversiveness and political savvy also makes it a blistering social critique.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Erdrich's devoted readers will flock, of course, but so will a wider audience attracted by the bold apocalyptic theme, searing social critique, and high - adrenaline action.

In Maum's charming and funny mix of romantic comedy and acid social critique, trend - forecaster Sloane accepts a job at a showy tech firm, but instead of initiating luxury electronics, she finds herself advocating for less screen time and more human - to - human contact.

Rosler says, «I felt that the emergent pop painters also repeated those tropes but always denied any depth of social critique beyond an ironic wink.»

This practice helped ground his work in the provocative social critique that distinguished the Chicago Imagist group with which he is closely associated.

The works on view tease out the cartoon body, a ready - made form implicated as a sign of globalized capital and identity, and as such a tool for spirited social critique.

She is not interested, however, in feminist art that «places social critique or politics in the foreground,» acknowledging the feminine, emotional side to artists such as Mike Kelley or Matthew Barney, of whom she was an early collector.