Eric Harriz's white cutout backdrop forms a handsome screen for photographic and video projections.
The first performance of Mahagonny took place against a backdrop formed by two related phenomena.
Mrs Clinton has plenty of baggage; Mr Obama could join the long list of potential superstars, such as Howard Dean and Wesley Clark, who fizzled out.The great debateThe race will be about policy substance above and beyond the backdrop formed by the drama of Iraq.
A while back we were watching Engrenages (titled Spiral for BBC4 viewers), which – should you be unfamiliar – is a gritty cop show set against a backdrop formed by Paris's meaner and remoter streets, when something bizarre happened.
The action of Mahagonny unfolds against a backdrop formed not by the "alienated labour" that Marx defined as the basis of late capitalism, but such activities as logging, prospecting and prostitution – all of which, in Marxist terms, constitute forms of primary accumulation.
It is against this backdrop formed by such younger artists that we now reassess the Pictures generation.
In some works elegant glass or metal objects and their reflections or refractions combine with pale, sometimes crisply segmented backdrops, forming spare still lifes that are also quasi-abstract meditations on optics.
Our curio cabinets and chesterfield sofas are the backdrops of domesticity, forming the unchanging indoor landscape — mahogany mountains, meadows of chintz — against which we go about life.
A century after Jefferson, another collision of musical forces played out, forming the backdrop of Mahler's Vienna, the subject of a concert scheduled for July 17.
The maze of mirrors forming the backdrop at Dior Homme gave a precise reflection of the graphic vision of the designer Kris Van Assche.
