Sentences with phrase «strictly formal studies»

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At times, Taylor's shifts between the literal and the abstract are uncomfortable, particularly when they appear as a strategy for avoiding or dismissing the real - life implications of symbols and objects, as in his strictly formal rendering of the Confederate flag in the lithograph Dixie (1990); his series of prints portraying items in Hawaii with a tinge of wanderlust - inspired exoticism, «Ten Common (Hawaiian Household) Objects» (1989); and two bodies of work showing his attempt to depict various African conceptions of multidimensional, nonlinear time: «Latin Studies» (1984 — 85), which includes the aforementioned Untitled (Latin Study), and «Wheel Studies» (1981 — 85).