It is raw, inventive and trippy -- qualities that seem an embodiment of the condition of contemporary art now.
Which indeed they may have done: Kiefer stockpiles canvases and materials and leaves them lying about in the open air, or shoves them into dank cellars and broiling transport containers, for as long as a decade before he picks them out and reworks them, to produce both an image of some sort and a physical embodiment of the very conditions he seeks to represent.
Introducing himself first as Mr. Chartwell, he is mostly called Black Pat, and he is an embodiment of depression — a condition that Churchill, like Dr. Johnson, called the "black dog".
Similarly, Humpty Dumpty is referred to in Paul Auster's 1985 novel City of Glass, when two characters discuss him as "the purest embodiment of the human condition" and quote extensively from Through the Looking Glass.
He will be the embodiment of the status quo.
This has led to the embodiment of the term selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs).
Seeing this disparity as their embodiment of the paradox of life conditions, Hart conceptualized her 2006-2011 series as mythopoetically personifying the unlimited variety and creation of nature while laying bare the paradoxically mechanistic yet organic patterns and forces underpinning and generating all life.
It is a moral condition: an embodiment of the authentic American tradition of self-reliance, family values and community spirit.
Table 2 Condition name and degree of embodiment in taxonomy Condition Name Passive or active?
But the film makes its points in a lighthearted, street-smart vernacular, treating its protagonists not as embodiments of a social condition but rather as self-aware individuals who are, like teenagers everywhere, both smart and dumb.
