Sentences with phrase «subverts preconceived notions»

Her artwork also plays with and subverts preconceived notions of Western art history by including portraits of her African family, material references to her Igbo tribe's customs, and images of Nigeria's British colonial past.

Their story is told in mostly flashback as Marston is interviewed (or more aptly, interrogated) by a psychologist (Connie Britton) and executives at National Periodicals, the publisher of Wonder Woman, which Marston used to subvert preconceived notions, put forth his pet theories of behavioral psychology, and occasionally tease the bondage, role play, and BDSM with which he, Elizabeth, and Olive experiment.