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affect Psychol the emotion associated with an idea or set of ideas affect [′af‚ekt] (psychology) Conscious awareness of feelings; mood. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This isn't the first time Lawler's camera
has homed in on Hirst's most aggressively marketable art-works, and
though the affectlessness of her photographs suggests a scrupulous
avoidance of value judgments--in these pictures, ostensibly, a Mondrian
drawing equals a Man Ray portrait equals one of Yoshitomo Nara's
lamentable little pod people--it's difficult to avoid reading a
certain wry ruefulness into the images. Still, Single Wide works better than much gallery-based
deconstruction of cinematic coding, a genre in which bad acting is often
justified as Warholian affectlessness and poor plotting passes for
metafictional ambiguity. The traveler in the video installation strongly
resembles Chalayan's fashion models: Her blank facial expression
mirrors the affectlessness of the runway. |
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