Sentences with phrase «takes as its subject»

It's this state of affairs that Corey Pein, an investigative reporter and regular contributor to The Baffler, takes as his subject in Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley.

Each was held in a congregation, was taught by a Candler faculty member and the church's pastor, and took as its subject matter an actual issue or topic in that congregation's life.

The field needs to have confidence in the things it takes as its subject matter.

In France, «the French Jews,» Louis Halphen and Bloch, were part of a new approach to the Middle Ages which, beginning in the 1920s, has taken as its subject not the heroes or the thought of the Middle Ages but the economy and social habits over the longue duree.

ALEXANDER takes as its subject one of the most colorful, larger - than - life people to have ever walked the planet and turned him into a petulant child with shockingly pedestrian family issues and a bad haircut.

Of course Terence Davies's first film based on the life of a historical figure would take as its subject someone who once began a poem: «I'm Nobody!

«Masters of Sex,» which premieres Sunday on Showtime, takes as its subject Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the authors of «Human Sexual Response,» «Human Sexual Inadequacy» and other medical potboilers of the 20th century.

They frequently took as their subject matter sexual violence against black women and lynching.

This much, at least, we know: Who Framed Roger Rabbit belongs to that category of slick and ironic and star - studded Hollywood film that takes as its subject Hollywood and moviemaking and life in Los Angeles, like A Star Is Born or Sunset Boulevard or Singin» in the Rain, like Barton Fink or Boogie Nights or The Player.

In Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Danielle Evans takes as her subject people in transition: adolescents, children split between divorced parents, college graduates drifting between partners and jobs.

Taking as its subject the very worst aspects of human nature - our propensity for crime, cruelty, and bloodshed - it shapes that disruptive material into order, wholeness, and meaning.

Provide a complete summary of the company that you took as a subject of your case study.

Diane Ackerman typically takes as her subjects some of the more beautiful, mesmerizing, and sigh - inducing things on this earth, training her poet's pen on the magic of our five senses (A Natural History of the Senses), the mysteries of the brain (An Alchemy of Mind, 2004), the majesty of her garden (Cultivating Delight, 2001), the ecstasy and transcendence of play, (Deep Play, 1999), the activates of animals (The Moon By Whale Light, 1991), and romantic love (A Natural History of Love, 1990).

In her first New York show since 2004 and her debut with Lori Bookstein Fine Art, Elena Sisto takes as her subject the predicaments of young women painters as they embark on their calling.

These artists create groupings or networks of forms that take as their subject aspects of bodies coming together — individually or socially — to emphasize their points of contact.

Shannon takes as his subject, and medium, the elemental forces of the universe that define the basis of our existence, and presents them on a scale perceptible to the human mind.

director follows the lives on and off camera, all with their own illusions, he takes as his subject the illusion that he is creating.

Frequently taking herself as subject, Wilson creates transgressive, avant - garde works that address political and social issues, teasing out complexity and nuance by infusing her work with playful gestures and humorous juxtapositions.

In the last Whitney Biennial a significant percentage of the works on view took as their subjects actual historical episodes or addressed earlier moments in the history of art.

Hirst unveiled a new series of «Fact» paintings, entitled «Love Paintings», which take as their subjects detailed stock photo images of butterflies.

The painting takes as its subject a detail from «The Void» (2000), Hirst's stainless - steel pill cabinet.

In these works, the Chicago - based painter takes as his subject matter words — to be specific, lines from the poetry of Blake, Dickinson, and (in the earlier painting) Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Francesca Woodman takes herself as subject in empty interiors, while Anne Collier leaves herself just outside the frame.

The Firestone gallery show overlaps with a larger retrospective of Shapiro's work on view at the National Academy Museum and School that begins with some of the Abstract Expressionist work but goes much further into the figurative work of the 1990s, which took as its subject matter women artists, Jewish identity, dance and her passion for dolls.

Les Redesseurs de Calavi (2011) takes as its subject a group of young men in the city of Abomey - Calavi — whether gangsters or righteous vigilantes is perhaps a matter of perspective — and the gym where they cultivate the physiques that give them their authority.

Slightly more conventional than Manetas's other work, the drawings seem to take as their subject adolescent female ennui.

In his School of Beauty School of Culture (2012), for instance, Marshall takes as his subject a south - side Chicago beauty parlor catering to black clientele.

This series takes as its subject the contemporary art market.

The first exhibition of the autumn season is a critically engaged survey show that takes as its subject the materiality of paint and its transformative potential.

In her recent work, exemplified by installations such as Notes on Currency (2012), The Engraved Plane (2012), and Grounds and Airs (2012), Vogt took as her subject the ritual use and exchange of objects, such as currency, and investigated the empathetic relationship between objects and people.

Like Krasner and Jackson Pollock, she split her time between Manhattan and Long Island, taking both as her subject.

I don't believe in subjectivity and, as part of a radical approach, I've taken myself as the subject of my art «as mirror of the universe».

The paintings, intended to be exact copies of photographs, variously took as their subject matter images from newspapers and science journals, or details from Hirst works.

The work takes as its subject a detail from another of Hirst's sculptures, «Adam and Eve (Banished from the Garden)» (1999).

Interested more generally in pop culture and pop culture nostalgia, Arcangel has taken as his subject other new media forms, including YouTube and blogs, using them to create works that explore their role in our cultural landscape.

Light, the one thing necessary to make a photograph, is taken as the subject of these photographs.

This is Family Pictures (2016), Steve Locke's contribution to the exhibition, a group show of works by artists of colour that takes as its subject uncomfortable conversations.

Taking as their subject matter commonplace objects such as paper bags, erasers, apple cores, and waiting rooms as well as ephemeral moments, such as afternoon naps, the featured artists create works that are startlingly realistic and frequently playful and surreal.

The paintings in Kristopher Benedict's «Tree Streets» take as their subject the suburban landscape and the artist's subjective experience of it.

But in L.A. he buckled down to the task of becoming a serious artist, working nights and weekends and taking as his subject the sun - drenched architecture of southern California.

Influenced by Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse, she took as her subject matter the cityscape outside her Greenwich Village penthouse apartment, interiors with still life objects and, after she began spending summers in Water Mill, N.Y., in the 1950s, the marshes and potato fields of eastern Long Island.

Whether recreating miraculous glass objects pictured in Renaissance paintings or modernized versions of non-extant glassware from documentary photographs, McElheny's work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass.

Each taking as their subjects the lives of a deceased creative individual and his personal belongings, their projects build meaningfully on the Whitney Biennial's recent history of both deceased artists and artist - curated «sub exhibitions,» notably from the 2012 edition the inclusion of George Kuchar (died, 2011); Robert Gober's presentation of work by Forrest Bess; Nick Mauss» curation of queer - oriented work culled from the museum collection; and also discursive contributions, such as Andrea Fraser's essay No Place Like Home.

Compact and affordable, this first monograph takes as its subject a small slice of Wood's oeuvre: sports portraiture.

takes as its subject the Bequest of Alexander Chalmers, a moribund public collection of art, established in 1927, obsolete by 1979.

Kolding's collages, which have been exhibited extensively throughout Europe, take as their subject the cultural collisions inadvertently set up by the contemporary city.

«Rebuilding the Empire Cinema» was the last of Auerbach's building - site series, which took as its subject London's post-war transformation following the destruction wrought by the Blitz.

His videos often take as their subject the human face, fragmenting and distorting its physiognomy, and thus the legibility of expression, by projecting it onto inanimate objects or embedding it into his sculptures.

What more can Fritsch do in this territory, where she takes as her subject things we do not know?

Isaac Julien is joined by Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University and author of the upcoming book Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media, for a discussion of Julien's prolific and diverse moving - image work, and its active migration from cinema screen to gallery installation in such recent works as Vagabondia (2000) and Baltimore (2003), both of which take as their subject the space of the museum; the immersive video installation Ten Thousand Waves, on view in the Museum's atrium through February 17; and his most recent installation, the seven - screen PLAYTIME.