Sentences with phrase «work was apolitical»

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Olney though contends Goldsmith has overegged his role in the «apolitical» anti-Heathrow movement: «For him to say «the only way we can stop Heathrow is to appoint me as MP» is actually ignoring a great deal of work done by thousands of other people over the decades.

Still, as a mostly apolitical black comedy and dark melodrama, «Lovelace» works reasonably well, and that's mostly due to a strong pace and a stronger cast.

And the show's organizers — Johanna Burton, director and curator of education and public engagement at the New Museum, working with Natalie Bell and Sara O'Keeffe, assistant curators — have included a substantial amount of entirely abstract work of a kind 1982 audiences perceived as apolitical, though here it is not.

It follows accusations in 2016 that the prize was failing to engage with the current climate, with the work of last year's winner, Helen Marten, seen as apolitical.

MB: Yeah, I don't believe the rhetoric around this hermetic, internalized force that works through you that you have to block out the world, and it has to be apolitical, and a painting is a painting.

What he called for was work taking into account this context rather than masquerading as self - sufficient and self - referential, arguing that «art for art's sake» serves only to perpetuate an idealistic illusion of art as eternal and apolitical.

None of this information is disclosed by the work itself, nor is it essential to the experience, but it does ground the work in Gonzalez - Torres's «identity» — refusing to become apolitical, impersonal, or blind to difference, and also refusing identity as a confine.

A similar political / apolitical bifurcation is present in the work and lives of artists working between 1865 and 1900.

'» Lewis confounded critical categorization in part because his activism was not immediately evident in his art, although, as Anfam argues, his abstract works were far from being apolitical.

Using visual subject matter that was wholly abstract, filmmakers could create works that, while occasionally interpreted as apolitical and «safe,» actually utilized complex structures and challenged viewers to reexamine the narrative basis — and in some cases the very materiality — of film.