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  • Taking what were sensational police and media stories of domestic terrorism and kidnapping--the Baader-Meinhof Gang in the Republic of Germany and the Symbionese Liberation Army with it's famous hostage-turned-conspirator Patty Hearst in the U.S.--and re-presenting their photographed remains in oil (Richter) and silkscreen on aluminum (Noland), the enflamed iconography and rhetoric of the 1960s-70s Left generation seems appropriately eulogized and put to rest.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • One could, I suppose, call this artistic cluelessness a "moral" problem, but most of what Scruton sees as the unleashing of "moral chaos" is finally just the consequence of the aesthetic incompetence of some those entrused with the job of re-presenting the theatrical art of the past.

    Philosophy and Literature 2009

  • Instead of re-presenting its case on remand, Penn Central petitioned for cert which was granted.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Lochner v. New York as a Test Case 2010

  • Representation, the art of transferring reality to the page, means re-presenting the real in its uncanny fictional form, in a way that makes it easy for us to forget we are reading black and white markings on a sheet of woodchip and not in fact looking through a hidden window onto the world.

    American Wife « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

  • One could, I suppose, call this artistic cluelessness a "moral" problem, but most of what Scruton sees as the unleashing of "moral chaos" is finally just the consequence of the aesthetic incompetence of some those entrused with the job of re-presenting the theatrical art of the past.

    Art and Culture 2010

  • Taking what were sensational police and media stories of domestic terrorism and kidnapping--the Baader-Meinhof Gang in the Republic of Germany and the Symbionese Liberation Army with it's famous hostage-turned-conspirator Patty Hearst in the U.S.--and re-presenting their photographed remains in oil (Richter) and silkscreen on aluminum (Noland), the enflamed iconography and rhetoric of the 1960s-70s Left generation seems appropriately eulogized and put to rest.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • A month later there's a second volume of The James Bond Omnibus, re-presenting a good chunk of the Bond newspaper strip drawn by Yarolslav Horak based on the original Ian Fleming novels.

    Upcoming Books Round-Up Steve 2010

  • Instead of re-presenting its case on remand, Penn Central petitioned for cert which was granted.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Lochner v. New York as a Test Case 2010

  • SF can and often does function as analysis through conceit, the future re-presenting the present, defamiliarising it in order to expose its faults, to allow "the defectiveness of the ruling paradigm to be seen whole".

    Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • It was only a matter of time before developers stepped up to the challenge of re-presenting this data for the public, which is exactly what design agency Berg has produced with its latest project, Schooloscope.

    Schooloscope: The 4ip-funded project to make Ofsted tables accessible 2010

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