The brutally austere films of the French director Bruno Dumont scrutinize human behavior with a chilly, quasi-scientific detachment that borders on misanthropy.
"I wanted you to be forced, because of the inhabitants in (the work), to talk back at it". Pittman called his new works, which include six 6-by-5-foot paintings, two massive 10-by-8-foot paintings and an accompanying suite of lithographs, "a litany of sorts" that scrutinize human behavior and the need for relationships.
Every participant scrutinizes the human from a different angle.
"The life class is a special place in which to scrutinize the human form," Deller said of the project.
"I know for an absolute fact that e-mail is being scrutinized by human administrators and by technological automated means," he said.
The trial of the 13 has been closely scrutinized by human rights groups and Western governments and has generated an international outcry since they were arrested last year.
Israel and the United States view the Human Rights Council, which answers to some nondemocratic member states, including Saudi Arabia, China and Cuba, that are themselves often scrutinized for human rights violations, as eager to shine a harsh spotlight on Israeli practices even though it overlooks egregious rights problems elsewhere.
Present-day scholars (and pseudo-scholars), moths to the flame, too often write about him with scant consideration, or even awareness, of the subtlety with which he could scrutinize the human condition.
Scrutinizing his fellow humans was a major concern with Manet, although hardly with the leading Impressionists, whether Monet, Pissarro or Sisley.
Descartes proved wrong in his beliefs that all sensory inputs focused on the pineal gland and that the pineal itself was a selective motor organ, suspended in a whirl of "animal spirits," dancing and jigging "like a balloon captive above a fire," yet capable in humans of scrutinizing inputs and producing actions "consistent with wisdom".
People like to study other human faces, and they also can enjoy scrutinizing countenances that clearly are not human, such as a doll's or a cartoon figure's.
