Sentences with phrase «sociopolitical statements»

Black artists, in particular, have in the last half - decade made generation - defining pop music that makes sociopolitical statements, pushes boundaries, and propels music - in - general forward, with more conventional artists following behind.

Pusher more or less tracks with Refn's original movie, but also variously recalls Guy Ritchie's crime capers (though not as labyrinthine and outlandish), Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly (though not as steeped in sociopolitical statement) and many, many other similar works.

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For this Tuesday Evenings lecture, Vassell presents DARK ART: A New Conversation with Abstraction, in which she proposes that «a new and grittier form of abstraction permits us to theorize that a younger generation of painters, consciously or not, is producing ruggedly electric paintings that tell somber and vicious tales... making a statement on the sociopolitical inevitability of a world gone mad.»