Sentences with phrase «american cultural heroes»

Kent thinks of himself as a folk artist, a regionalist naively painting «Monuments to American Cultural Heroes».

Not exact matches

Like its hero, the movie is uniquely American, and its palpable affection for the landscape — both geographic and cultural — can make your heart swell.

Thanks to director Ryan Coogler, the regal hero and his homeland have served as a seismic pop cultural event, rekindling the imagination of a generation of African - Americans and creating a renaissance in the character and his world.

We didn't make his sophisticated, subtle Shop Girl a hit, so he dishes out what he knows, alas, today's American audiences will gobble up greedily: a painful assemblage of distasteful slapstick (not one but two elderly and infirm folks are abused — by the putative hero, no less — in the opening moments of the film alone), cultural stereotyping, and celebrations of idiocy that will try the patience of anyone with a double - digit IQ or age.

Made in America explores the ugly contradictions in the heart of the American character through the rise and fall of a cultural hero, but goes far beyond the trappings of a single man.

Basquiat drew his subjects from his own Caribbean heritage — his father was Haitian and his mother of Puerto Rican descent — and a convergence of African - American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with Classical themes and contemporary heroes like athletes and musicians.

He became a cultural hero because of his influential writings as an art critic, his work as an arts organizer, and his role as spokesman for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance and mid - twentieth century.