Similarly, when she describes Rudolph Valentino as a star who expressed the desire of his female fans to
transgress sexual prohibition, when she takes note of the camera work in Valentino's films and the newspaper debate that surrounded the appeal of an Italian immigrant to women, she accurately reveals the way in which a struggle over gender and cultural values pervaded the rise of the urban mass culture.
That trial should be broadcast on television, with all language translations, so that other rogue states can watch and learn what happens when they
transgress.
While echoes of Yaacov Agam, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Bridget Riley, and Victor Vasarely linger (as do hints of latterday retro-psychedelia), Blinderman's premise that the visual conjurations of current artists don't just sit on the surface of the painting, they
transgress the frame and move right into the viewer's space - a realm profoundly complicated in recent years by spectacular advances in computer graphics and digital special effects, by IMAX virtuality and Magic Eye conundrums - is pretty convincing.
"Rapid Action Team is formed to keep a check on the wild animals, so that they don't
transgress into human habitation.
By "crazy rednecks," Dickinson was mimicking the conventional response to those poor, rural, white boys in Memphis who recorded at Sun - they had to be a little touched in the head to
transgress the racial tracks, even in the name of a good beat.
Like Bordowitz's valiant extension of his earlier activist work into a more subjective territory, this Biennial, at its best, reveals film and video's power both to transport and to
transgress, carrying the film-and-video section forward and continuing a legacy that, in Hanhardt's words, "break[s] convention to empower and give voice to represent the world around us." Some of the best works (by Bordowitz, Haynes, Negron-Muntaner, Finley and Stoeltje, among others) push generic and national boundaries - but taken as a whole, the film-and-video section does not do so nearly enough.
Creating art connects Jarman to a realm of ecstatic possibility in which death is just another resource one uses to step beyond the boundaries, to
transgress the limits of flesh and time.
It was my own conviction that artists who wanted to
transgress taboos really had to defy them all.
To these we can add a fifth, and the smirking irony of inverted commas suits this last "Genet" especially well: this is Genet the act, the getup, the mannerism, the Genet beloved of American adolescents of all ages who yearn to "
transgress" traditional values, even though at this point the very word "transgression" has become almost the imprimatur of enlightened-bourgeois false consciousness.
Thus, to eradicate this awfulness I felt because of those wicked sights, it is important to
transgress some restrictions.
Talking to a delegation of Hyderabad Chamber of Small Trade and Small Industry (HCSTSI) at his office here on Monday, Jamali said the police who
transgress their authority would face the departmental action notwithstanding their position and influence.
