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affect verb act on, adficere, bear upon, cause to alter, cause to vary, change, commovere, conduce, exert influunce, have an effect upon, have influence, impress, induce, influence, introduce a change, make a change, play a direct part, prevail upon, produce a change, produce an effect, tangere, transfigure, work a change, work upon Associated concepts: affect an action, affected with public interest, affecting a substantial right See also: alter, appertain, apply, concern, dispose, emotion, fake, feign, influence, interest, involve, militate, modify, motivate, pertain, prejudice, pretend, prevail upon, profess, relate 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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