Sentences with phrase «touch of ambivalence»

The feminist organizations evidenced a touch of ambivalence in the Adams case.

Not exact matches

Or he's under the illusion that he can move objects without touching them — throughout, the film does a little dance of ambivalence around what's real and what imagined.

As curator Helen Molesworth, who organized the exhibition, contends in her essay «Amy Sillman: Look, Touch, Embrace,» included in the show's catalogue, that painting today is understood in terms of failure or ambivalence, affectation and power, and medium - specificity.

These accomplished works by a young artist are intriguing in part because of their aesthetic ambivalence, rooted as they are both in a style of abstraction that emerged from Surrealism and the early works of artists like Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella, both of whom systematically resisted the subjectivity and intimacy of painterly touch.