2020年8月17日 · Arthur’s statement drew rebuke online, where many condemned the use of the word “historical” as a way for Magnum to absolve itself of responsibility for the images in question, many of which flout UNICEF’s guidelines for ethically documenting children.

2013年7月19日 · As the father of comix, R. Crumb is a near-mythical figure in American counterculture. The illustrated escapades of Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, Big Baby, and other memorable characters are droll sociopolitical commentaries that flout American puritanism. From underground comics championing the hippie movement (free love!

And deform these knots Moulène does: He seems to relish destruction through creation. The majority of his sculptures—particularly the seven based on prime knots—steadfastly flout math-textbook ideals of depictive clarity. Rather than reveal their structure, the bronze Noeud 5.1 Varia 02 (Paris, 2012) and its ilk are blasted, bony wraiths.

She exhorted her students to define “problematic,” appreciate abjection, and flout knee-jerk proprieties. In her art, she deploys sex as a metaphor for the outlawed desires and cheap fictions that rot America from the inside out, the dank recesses of the national id that she called the country’s “soft underbelly.”

In both shows, the frames filled an entire floor, weaving in and out of multiple rooms. Not only is their raw materiality a striking contrast to the high finish of the galleries, but the structures appear to flout the buildings’ existing spatial organization with a defiantly independent logic.

In one sense, sex workers who refuse to be cowed by stigma flout social conventions that continue to condemn female promiscuity and promote sexual discretion. Moreover, as a spokeswoman for the Marxist-feminist English Collective of Prostitutes wrote in 1977, “Prostitute women put a price on a service all women are expected to provide for ...

2017年1月21日 · Paradoxically, General Idea had seemed to flout the idea of art as art as idea of Reinhardt/Kosuth, only to revisit their premises in new ways. As artists, they couldn’t only be in the streets. It was more interesting and more productive to bring art’s many parts together into a system that wove together inside and out.