These questions, and many others that come to mind when taking in the totality of works on display, are left unanswered in the essay, and aren't even asked in the exhibit. .
The totality of his work, though brilliant in parts, ultimately suffers from a lack of focus and a failure to follow up on his undoubted early successes.
Art is created by specific artists living in and fashioned by a specific culture, and it helps to understand this culture if we are to understand and appreciate the totality of the work.
If their frankly prosaic character renders pronouncements about the excellence of individual pictures difficult to make, she observes, there is less question about the force and power of the totality of his work.
First, he had endorsed an optimism concerning the capacity of the proletariat to constitute such a totality in society through a revolutionary overcoming of reification; later on, this optimism was modified to encompass the ever increasing human capacities to become self-conscious of their universal character through a reflection of the existing social totality in the totality of the work of art.
Punctuated by occasional paintings and sculptures, the totality of 55 works by 40 artists ranges over more than 100 years.
It's tempting to tell yourself that if people would only read your work, they'd get how subversive and nuanced and brilliant you are -- a condescending perspective that allows you to assume all your critics simply haven't taken in the totality of your unimpeachable work.
The totality of Bridges's work surely constitutes one of the most significant scientific legacies of the 20th century.
When he was there, in the nineteen-thirties, you could still see that the city, from the walls surrounding it to the emperor's Forbidden City at its heart, was conceived as a totality — a work of monumental geometry, symmetrical and precise.
Yet thinking this week about the totality of his life and work, I remain more grateful than I can say for that hour in his company, courtesy of British Rail.
But like the totality of her show, it worked.
