Sentences with phrase «through allusions»

Having exhibited in Europe and the US, Hollowell's works often evoke bodily landscapes and sacred iconography through allusions to the human form, and in particular to women's bodies.

Often interactive, his installations engage the audience through allusions to popular culture, ultimately provoking consideration of historical actions, figures, narratives, andRead more

At the same time, theatrical conventions are signalled and subverted through allusions to the containing structures of the proscenium arch and wings, or to the formula of the tableau vivant.

Often interactive, his installations engage the audience through allusions to popular culture, ultimately provoking consideration of historical actions, figures, narratives, and texts.

Perhaps a different way of saying that, is that through these allusions to notions of tempo, phrasing, duration, repetition, etc., the show also explores the musicality of looking.

It gains much of its power through its allusions to the Psalms, as in «The water smooth ran like a hymn / And like a harp did hum.»

A 2009 article in The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias categorizes Velvet Goldmine as part of «the new cult canon,» saying that Haynes» «effort to access [Bowie] indirectly, through allusion and representation, pays more dividends than a straightforward biopic ever could.»

A recurrent subject in Plot, and in Broughan's work in general, is that process of understanding one place, one time — and, by extension, one state of being — is through an allusion to myriad alternatives.

This haunting sculpture functions as a central metaphor for tying together the cross-generational associations between these women sculptors through an allusion to the Greek mythology of Arachne, the truth - teller, who became the first Spider Goddess.

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A couple years ago, as I was reading through Scripture, I began to notice that there were numerous jokes, allusions, and euphemisms all over Scripture for the male sexual organ.

It may be that kerygmatic allusions to Jesus» humility, meekness, gentleness, love, forgiveness and obedience derive from historical memory of Jesus; but the «historical value» which such material may have is far from its kerygmatic meaning, which is more accurately stated by Bultmann, in language actually intended to state the significance of the pre-existence in the karygma: «That Jesus, the historical person, did this service for us, and that he did it not out of personal sympathy and loveableness, but rather by God acting in him, in that God established his love for us through Jesus dying for us sinners (Rom.

The language of these chapters is echoed with remarkable frequency all through the New Testament, either in direct quotation, or by way of allusion.

Seeming historical allusions have been variously identified with events in the history of the Middle East from the beginning of the Persian period down through the Maccabean Wars of the second century B.C. Happily, since the major thrust of Isaiah 24 - 27 is apocalyptic, the matter of date is not crucial.

And Sunday school gave us basic training in the value of allusion, at first by showing us how the New Testament refers to the Old, and then by getting us ready to see how the scripture still whispers through most of the literature of the Western world.

Aficionados of spaghetti westerns in general and Sergio Corbucci's movies in particular will relish the opportunities to pick through the easter eggs, which range from passing allusions (a cameo by original «Django» star Franco Nero, a saloon named for Corbucci's «Minnesota Clay») to subtler qualities funneled into the story's DNA.

You even get herded through quiz - style sequences; thankfully, these don't serve as roadblocks as much as they do fun allusions to games like Banjo - Kazooie.

Working through an enormous canon of cinematic influences in a far more satisfying way than Carax's glib offering (Gomes» titular allusion to Murnau is no coincidence), Melbourne's resplendent Forum Theatre proved a fittingly grand venue for Gomes» expansive vision: this film is a joy to watch.

The allusions to magic realism in both Long Weekend and Picnic at Hanging Rock work in this vein, evoking fear in their audience through the sense of a dangerous «otherness».

Most of my enjoyment of it comes primarily through the ingenious way they mix many different elements, from the fantasy realm of the movies, to the quasi-real (but still fantasy) realm of what's «real», and of course, the allusions to real - life people and movies.

Filtering his unique vision through a wealth of cinematic history, his movies are filled with endless references and allusions to other films.

Starring filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel) and Gabino Rodríguez (Greatest Hits), the film blends documentary and fiction, allusion and deconstruction, and questions on the future of film confronted through a cornucopia of filming formats.

Zhao makes his case largely through anecdote and allusion, but, given that most of the paeans to the Chinese miracle aren't all that reasoned or persuasive either, I'll make allowances.

While all media forms of games could communicate to one another through both inspiration and allusion (one game suggesting another, or one game referencing another), there was little authentic social interaction.

ohn Markham Beach is a superb translator, ensuring through footnotes that the reader has access to Gary's many historical allusions and plays on words that require dual language explanation; The Kites is a moving love story that is an ode to the power of optimism.

I appreciated the allusion to «Colombo,» because purposely dumb questions can reveal the honesty of the one being interviewed, and may reveal details that could not be gotten through a smart question.

It enters, too, with the breadth of allusions, through the Civil Rights era to the present.

Sound and music pervade the exhibition, physically or latently, through production or allusion.

This concatenation of elements runs right through Ofili's work, and his use of materials: the elephant dung - balls and words spelled out in coloured map - pins, the collaged photos and layers of resin, the glitter and stars and glow - in - the - dark paints, all of which evidence a cargo of metaphoric as well as physical allusions.

objective allusion, through the supremacy of colour and form that would allow us to experience the pure sensation and dynamic nature of the artwork.

Chalk drawings, wall carvings, and beautifully delicate works on paper intercede in time through sly allusions to overshadowed artists and writers, such as Sol Plaatje, the ANC organizer who translated Shakespeare into Tswana.

Tu m» synthesises the various means through which a painting may reflect reality: as allusion, impression, and as an object among other objects.

Such sources are not allusions — and certainly not illustrations — but provocations to Marden's hand, itineraries for the circulation of color, and the viewer's eye, through a picture.

Wheat's energetic «tapestries» — made by pushing paint through the back of mesh window screens — collide allusions to Egyptian relief sculptures and ancient Greek mythology.

Derived from a broad catalog of sources, such as experimental film, West German television and internet clips, the drawings blot from one to the next, or else move through mirroring, allusion, and metonymy into a loose, almost narrative cycle.

Comparison with Bontecou, and the material experimentations, tactility, and bodily allusions of Eva Hesse — an artist who likely became familiar with Burri through his presence in New York — demands revision of the emphasis on medical analogies which Burri himself disliked.

This body of work functions as a bridge between his Dada and Cubist predecessors, whom he idolized and paid homage to through the cultural allusions of his materials, and his Pop and Minimalist contemporaries exploring the ideas of seriality and commercialization.

Cliburn views the work as allusions to the physical world through the «subtle isolation of color and light».

Simmons often uses language or site - specific drawings of buildings, painted and then smeared in ways that evoke movement through time and space and call up allusions to history or cinema.

Allusions to the body are evoked through articles of clothing or the hand - blown Baccarat crystal that the artist makes into sexually suggestive forms.

Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions her work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations, which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of the most ordinary objects into something compelling and extraordinary.

In his depiction of this, Bas makes a gentle nod to Théodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa, 1818 - 19, although allusions to classical themes and genres are always viewed through the prism of his interpretations as an observer and an outsider — whether trying to follow in the footsteps of Lord Byron, or portraying punters or freshers, terms unknown to the artist before his Cambridge sojourn.

BHQF connects apocalyptic allusions with an investigation of appropriation through extreme repetition — nearly all of the works in the show are titled Isle of the Dead.

Mie Olise: «Allusions on Place,» through June 12; Barbara Davis Gallery, 4411 Montrose; 713-520-9200, barbaradavisgallery.com.

Often featuring nymph - like women and allusions to fairy tales, her paintings examine adolescent ennui through a particular language of gestural mark - making.

These evocative titles, with their personal allusions and cryptic references, are undercut by the canvases» strict formalism, which denies any socio - political or historical narrative through which to interpret the image whilst simultaneously emphasising the aesthetic originality and freshness of Bowling's work.

While these images are an allusion to the dynamics and politics of social relations, they also transcend the diversities of the figures through powerful emotional drama.

The transparent prints seep light through each other while reflecting its surroundings in situ; its layers laid bare as an allusion to the virtual existence of the image.

Lastly, Shahryar Nashat breaks down boundaries between the human and machine in his installation Present Sore, and Amy Sillman's animation Triscuits features ghostly characters going through cycles of expulsion and insertion through different allusions to Bernie Boston's Flower Power, Yiddish aphorisms and Soviet - era poetry.

Allusions to personal and collective memories are suggested in layered, theatrical environments which reference to numerous art historical and decorative styles, such as Post-Impressionism, Colour Field painting, postmodern décor, through to present - day Pop iconography.