Sentences with phrase «american zeitgeist»

While the Whitney Biennial is a survey of contemporary American art, not of the contemporary American Zeitgeist, it's impossible not to read some index of the national mood in its propositions.

Now, what I have referred to before as the something, the force, just waiting to spring on the American Zeitgeist would in the early sixties be given throaty articulation by the courtiers surrounding John F. Kennedy, who, while clearly doing little more than making rhetorical gestures, nevertheless managed to hit the cultural nail squarely on the head.

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At the same time, there was so much to do, so much to rebuild, and the regnant American and Israeli zeitgeist allowed so little room for melancholy or lack of confidence.

In this regard it is clear that moral education, even in its diversity and its oppositions, is more a story about the legitimation of American culture than it is about its transformation; as in every generation in America, the substance of moral education has reflected the central assumptions and ideals of the prevailing zeitgeist.

My friend Linda Tripp (no, not THAT Linda Tripp) just sent along this little piece of the zeitgeist: Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude...

Finally, we get Zeitgeist's subtitled U.S. theatrical trailer for the film (1:32), which throws out many a grandiose cinematic comparison and makes no effort to appeal to your typical American moviegoer.

Best Documentary: THE OATH Directed and produced by Laura Poitras Released by Zeitgeist Films and American Documentary / POV

However, the two documentaries have captured an international zeitgeist after the most recent American election, so their inclusion is far from a surprise.

Get Out managed to strike a deep nerve with the zeitgeist, resonating with themes of black excellence and white subjugation, exploring how American racial relations tick all the way back to the days of the slave traders and the traded.

Top of the Lake is Jane Campion and follows a critically acclaimed first season; Sacred Deer is Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos's follow - up to The Lobster; Girls at Parties is based on a Neil Gaiman story, which puts it in the zeitgeist thanks to American Gods; and The Beguiled is the latest from Sofia Coppola.

«It's actually oddly literal for our trailer's purposes — and I think a lot of the cultural things we're dealing with in Wakanda are in the zeitgeist in the African American community.»

We had some intense discussions over the next several days, but I was very proud of my magazine for deciding to buck what was then the reigning zeitgeist: ignore poverty completely since it was, as everyone knew, an African - American problem and political correctness dictated that no one touch it.

It could be the zeitgeist, I don't know, but people are talking more about supporting community businesses rather than sucking money out of the community and giving it to American tax dodgers.»

Are there American painters who captured the cultural zeitgeist the way our greatest novelists and musicians have?

A change in the new Whitney is to recognize our immigrant influx and have each of them considered «Americans,» regardless of their birth country, opening up a tremendous amount of art, not previously viewed as part of our collective zeitgeist.

Carolee Schneemann, Viet Flakes, 1965 7 min, toned b & w, 16 mm film Originally shot on 8 mm film, Schneemann layers a sound collage of Vietnamese sacred chants and American pop songs that capture one aspect of the 60's Zeitgeist, over footage of suppressed newpaper images depicting the American war in Vietnam.

Warhol was often criticized but in the end it was said that «Warhol had captured something irresistible about the zeitgeist of American culture in the 1970s.»

The zeitgeist is very much on her side: A retrospective of the African - American figurative painter Kerry James Marshall arrives at New York's Met Breuer this month, and next summer, London's Tate Modern will mount a major exhibition on the shifting definition of «black art» in the United States in the past century.

Laura Poitras, My Country, My Country, 2006, digital video, 90 min., a co-production of Praxis Films and The Independent Television Service (ITVS) produced in association with P.O.V. / American Documentary, courtesy of Zeitgeist Films

Europe, with exhibitions like «Documenta» and «Zeitgeist,» is way ahead of us in integrating European and American art.»

Prince went on to appropriate and re-present images from advertising that captured the American cultural zeitgeist: the Marlboro Cowboy, Cadillacs, soft porn, motorcycle gangs.

Fortunately, this year also marked a strong showing for projected works — Chrissie Iles» doing I presume — and while most demonstrate an unhealthy fixation on American dominance, the majority of them made a strong case that projected works may be zapped into the zeitgeist more than any other medium.

GALLERY ZEITGEIST: 171 S. Jackson St. «Signifying Nothing,» a documentary photography exhibit of decaying urban American by Clark Humphrey.

Like many of his contemporaries, Voulkos drew inspiration from the experimental zeitgeist of the 1950s American subculture that embraced and intermingled influences as diverse as Asian philosophies, free - form jazz, and an iteration of Abstract Expressionism that turned tradition on its head.