The results include narratives, abstractions, political statements, historical contemplations and journalistic musings presented through drawings, paintings, collages, photographs, found materials, computer-generated imagery and text.
It sets the tone and the style for the entire film, which blends documentary and fiction, drama and comedy, spontaneous confession and analytical contemplation, intimate experience and historical resonance, observation and artifice.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
DARGIS In his book "The Virtual Life of Film," D. N. Rodowick, taking a cue from Jean-Luc Godard, describes the new cinephile as "simultaneously nostalgic and future-seeking, backward and forward looking, as befits contemplation of an art form undergoing a stark historical mutation".
His bitter contemplations of black history, in particular, have a historical dimension, while reflecting his awareness of being treated as a token black star in a mostly white art world.
His bitter contemplations of black history, in particular, have an epic, historical dimension, while also reflecting his own insecurity about being treated as an exotic, token black star in a predominantly white art world.
Ms. Lower declares that the contemplation of women's diverse roles in the Third Reich is a "historical blind spot".
In a way, the works in On the Nature of things, function as contemporary Vanitas paintings, in which the contemplation of existence is made through a mixed symbolism of the intermingling of historical and contemporary objects.
Because the book is an historical artifact so connected to World War II, one could be forgiven for thinking it's all a contemplation on anti-Semitism and the Nazis.
Baldwin's second solution issues from an idealist or "experiential" perspective and involves the contemplation of beauty as a way to personally reconcile fact and value that presages Foucault discussion of the historical development of "technologies of self" by which individuals craft an "aesthetics of existence".
