He considered English a form of combat, a process of "discarding grammar, throwing syntax out, subverting images from within, beating the drum and cymbals of rhythm, developing torture chambers of irony and sarcasm, gas ovens of limitless black resonance".
Vehemently scribbled or carefully painted, the colors subvert the images' innocent progressiveness with childlike feelings of their own.
Some of of his work focuses on replicating this act of anger and defiance, while other works subvert stereotypical images of Chinese power and propaganda.
For Mr. Ferry, who was a visiting professor at Southampton College last year, the literature of tourism is the basis for photomontages that disrupt and subvert conventional images of scenic attractions.
Tóibín does not so much subvert this image as enrich it.
Mr. Ventura, who often subverts commercial images he finds in magazines, said he likes "to layer different realities".
I didn't want to subvert the image of Imelda completely, more get inside of her head.
Peggy, who is either pregnant or holding a child in almost all of her scenes, embodies a familiar feminine ideal, and Ms. Adams does nothing to subvert the image of a perfect mother and helpmeet.
However canonized these tracks have become, they are no more than parody songs, and they do nothing to subvert the image of Sandler as a goofball whose greatest strength is to bust our bellies by making funny sounds like "turkey lurkey do and turkey lurkey da...".
Mr. Alda, who spent years on "M*A*S*H" turning himself into a paradigm of niceness, has since relished subverting that image, and he generously supplies occasions for the audience to snarl and hiss and gasp at him in indignant disbelief.
There's certainly self-deprecation in Hart's work: his persona is that of someone who projects authority and self-esteem, but constantly subverts that image.
