Word: mocking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...claims to transmit transcendent truths. Jackson Pollock wanted his spattered canvases to represent universal psychic turmoils. Hickey loves them but says they are better regarded as freedom made visible. "They stand as permission for certain kinds of human behavior." He tells the story of a friend who painted a mock Pollock at his surfer bar to clue in visitors that this was a wiggly kind of place. "The 'Pollock,'" Hickey explains, "was no different from the sign at the front door that said, 'No shirt, no shoes, no problem...
...caryatid--but a caryatid with nothing at all to support and nothing whatever to do. An equally bored-looking cat, if cats can look bored, hesitates between the two of them. The very air is congested with the excessive patterns of a middle-class interior, with its ugly mock-Henri II furniture. It manages to be monumentally static, miserable and funny, all at once...
...general, popular culture has gone through a period of soul-searching, with filmmakers, television programmers and comedians trying to figure out what is appropriate right now. Some, like the creators of the popular French satirical show Les Guignols, have found themselves under attack for continuing to mock the suspect intelligence of George W. Bush. But others seem to be finding the right balance. Ellen DeGeneres, the American comic, received a standing ovation after hosting the twice-delayed Emmy Awards, a show she opened by joking: "What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded...
...Small Sunset, 1972” continues to mock former paradigms of art. What appears to be a beautiful sunset is actually a slice of a large sausage. What looks like the sun’s rays is actually the sausage’s grease. Roth is questioning accepted ideas of beauty by demonstrating that an old sausage can capture the essence of a sunset just as beautifully as paint can. “Birdplate 3, 1966,” which is made out of chocolate eggs and candy, is oddly powerful with its thick texture and frenetic markings...
...social conscience—near as I could tell its underlying point has something to do with over-consumption of resources and the unsustainable lifestyle of man. And yet, the show’s point isn’t quite the point. Every plot twist is an opportunity to mock a theatrical device or style of theater. Urinetown is possessed of such charm and generates such tremendous good will that even old jokes like the deliberate misunderstanding of idiomatic language seem fresh and welcome