Sentence examples for social provocation from inspiring English sources

There is something beyond pop parody or social provocation in Mr. McCarthy's action, too.

Mr. McLaren, a former art student, found an outlet for his ideas about fashion, music and social provocation in the inchoate rock 'n' roll scene of London in the early 1970s.

But as social provocation they step solidly in the spirit of feminist art which, since the 1970's, has used autobiography and the body to further issues of gender.

There is something beyond mere Pop parody or social provocation in the work, something to do with deep private needs and desires, which we perceive secondhand as comic pathos.

Such action can hence be interpreted as non-physical aggression in response to social provocation.

The biography of Victoria Woodhull (née Claflin) and Tennessee (Tennie) Claflin, reads like a list of feminist firsts and ahead-of-their-time social provocations.

And, again unlike the Stones, the band has always left musical and social provocations to others: it has kept a strong working-class fan base, sticking to its love songs, its nostalgia, its basic pleasures.

A more focused selection of works would make a better case for clay as a medium for social commentary or provocation.

But if what Rhoades wanted was a fatwa, he didn't get it—had he lived into the age of social media, his provocations would have likely found an answering voice.

Earlier this week I spoke over the phone to Rock about his decades-long friendship with Bowie, the musician's massive cultural impact—"like Steve Jobs"—and how the Brixton native's otherworldly and forward-thinking approach to music, provocation, and social issues so greatly shaped our world today.

The provocation proved provocative.