Just a small, circling motion of her upper body as she faces him becomes a powerful psychological gesture, like a ripple spreading on a pool.
She scours medical and psychological sources, images, gestures and written testimony to build up a picture of suffering and its interpretations since the 18th century.
Once again, the psychological connections turned a gesture of confidence into a vulgar and boastful contortion.
Painters like Bengston, and sculptors like Bell and Kauffman, stayed with abstraction but eliminated gesture and psychological drama.
The studies now took on a psychological cast, with self-cleansing gestures suggesting obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Ms. Anthony's, by contrast, seems merely a good study along previously established Martha Graham-type lines: a strong woman recycling a few strong gestures in her psychological fixation.
Not much is needed -- an untimely economic lurch, a shift in the cultural winds, an unfortunate but indelible psychological association -- for a gesture of authority to look like bombastic flailing.
At the finale — a timid commercial gesture passing as psychological atonement — Manny's ghost materializes to shed light on his behavior.
In his early portraits, gesture intensifies the psychological penetration of character; especially powerful among his later works are allegories of the artist's emphatic humanism.
Like the portraits created several decades before by German photographer August Sander (1876 1964), Struth's photographs reveal identity, history, and (often) psychological state through posture and gesture, dress, and the subjects' physical environment.
