Sentences with phrase «voyeuristic pleasure»

Each election cycle, the media and general public take voyeuristic pleasure in examining how candidates made money and the charities they supported before knowing that the national microscope would be on them.

Omer Fast's new exhibition at the Chinatown branch of James Cohan Gallery, August, revels in the power of the Western imagination to utilize non-white cultures as a way to role play and «time travel» into playgrounds for voyeuristic pleasure - seeking that reinforce Western modernity's sense of superiority.

Why does something gain value merely because it is rare and authentic — the odd voyeuristic pleasure that comes from seeing on display the salt and pepper shakers from the mess kit George Washington may have clutched as he crossed the Delaware?

Perhaps the best argument in favor of abstraction was articulated by Theodor Adorno after the Holocaust, when he asserted that realist representations of atrocity offer simple voyeuristic pleasure over a more profound grasp of the horrors of history.

These color works are often autobiographical, depicting fathers and sons or dreamy adolescent boys; others show shirtless models — posed on a bed or amid lush paradisiacal greenery — and betray the intense voyeuristic pleasure of the man behind the lens.

There's a certain voyeuristic pleasure in peeking into a space that's not yours - especially when it belongs to a builder of dreamy custom homes.

Since Elizabeth scarcely can offer a commoner more than foreplay, she takes voyeuristic pleasure in orchestrating a relationship between him and her favored lady - in - waiting, Bess (Abbie Cornish, combining innocence with passionate energy), whose blond curls the queen is fond of stroking.

But we do not watch because we «enjoy» chaos, as if we get some voyeuristic pleasure out of it.

FROM feckless fathers and teenaged mothers to so - called feral kids, the media seems to take a voyeuristic pleasure in documenting the lives of the «underclass».

By all means, continue to enjoy that healthy release and engage in that voyeuristic pleasure.

No director works as single - mindedly to punish his audience — to make it pay double for every voyeuristic pleasure.

With ebook covers visible only to the reader, voyeuristic pleasure is gone for those who like spying on what others are reading on the train.

Sara is Missing is all about the horrors of mobile technology and touches upon the voyeuristic pleasure that one gets from prying through another person's personal items.

His luxuriant paintings of vices and voyeuristic pleasures were celebrated in his first solo museum show earlier this year, at Philadelphia's Moore College of Art & Design; his work is appearing in gallery shows and art fairs around the world; and, this month, he will be the subject of Jeffrey Deitch's first show heralding the dealer's triumphant return to SoHo.

By emphasizing the rudiment, the seams, the backstage, the works in this show trigger the voyeuristic pleasure and heartbreak of witnessing a cultural monument depleted of its austerity, an artifact characterized by its own degradation, by a void begging to be filled with meaning by artist and viewer alike.