Sentences with phrase «american car culture»

So overall, this continues to be a great choice for families wanting to significantly reduce their gas consumption while still enjoying the benefits of oversized American car culture.

Weary of the criticism that was plaguing his signature car part works that situated them as a commentary on American car culture, consumerism and taste, Chamberlain sought out other materials through which he could create sculptures so as to avoid then so called «car crash syndrome.»

American car culture has often featured in his work, from shiny hoods and leather interiors to car washes and highways in what have become iconic images.

: Customized: Art Inspired by Hot Rods, Lowriders, & American Car Culture, New York 2000 Deichtorhallen / Hatje Cantz (Eds.)

Recent co-authored books include Customized: Art Inspired by Hot Rods, Low Riders and American Car Culture (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, New York, 2000) and Desmothernismo (Smart Art Press and the Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA, 1998).

An enduring example of the rich heritage of American car culture, the iconic Batmobile attracted a crowd, a testament to the power of automotive design and its ability to impact young and old alike.

It's a long - term endeavor, and hard to measure, but when millions are exposed to the best of American car culture, something good has got to be happening.

Aston Martins are far removed from American car culture, but the V12 Vantage that when you shoehorn the biggest engine possible into the engine bay of a smaller car, the result is a hot rod.

Not exact matches

It can be tough to be a Ford driver in this culture when no one else cares enough about their country to buy American cars.

From his pop - culture perspective, Thompson can see a world where Hummer - loving Americans abandon their monstrous vehicles to go green, prompting a race to see who can get the smallest, most efficient, greenest car around — a trend that may be starting now.

FMG includes news and lifestyle English - language cable network FUSION TV, and a collection of leading digital brands that span a range of categories: technology (Gizmodo), sports (Deadspin), music (TrackRecord), lifestyle (Lifehacker), modern women's interests (Jezebel), news and politics (Splinter), African American news and culture (The Root), gaming (Kotaku), and car culture (Jalopnik).

The utter weirdness of Alex Cox's remarkable debut — a document of L.A.'s hardcore punk scene that's also an ode to its car culture, a critique of the American middle class, and a kind - of sci - fi comedy about a radioactive Chevy Malibu — would seem to preclude its existence.

Creator George Lucas was the same guy who made 1973's «American Graffiti»: keenly attuned to car culture and nostalgia, in love with the horizon, a tinkerer with gears.

An exciting return to the great car - culture films of the 1960s and»70s, when authenticity brought a new level of intensity to the action, «Need for Speed» taps into what makes the American myth of the open road so enticing.

The collection presents photography of the U.S. along its highways and captures our changing landscape that has been shaped by car culture and the tradition of the American road trip according to the museum.

When Nissan sought to break into the U.S. market with its Datsun brand some time around the end of the Eisenhower administration, Yutaka Katayama, the legendary «Mr. K» credited as father of the Z - Car, road - tripped across our country, meeting middle Americans and absorbing the culture.

«As we've seen hundreds of times over the years — from «Bullitt» to «Gone in Sixty Seconds» — Mustang fits the bill perfectly, and it's really a car that represents American culture at its best, which is why we chose it for Toby's ride in «Need for Speed.

But no one thinks of the NSX as an American car, and no one thinks of the Corvette as anything but the epitome of American automotive culture.

In my culture (Indian - American), it is very common to spoil your kids with nice items, paid for college, luxury cars, etc..

Discover the history and culture of La Habana Vieja in style, taking a classic American car tour through the city.

Road trip Cuba in a vintage American car and witness authentic culture lost to progress for generations when economic development in Cuba came to a standstill with the Cold War in the 1960's.

In addition to driving (pun intended) the nation's economy and commerce, the car has played an important role in American culture — high and low — making appearances in advertisements, pop songs, film and fine art.

One can see the dynamic cubist cityscapes of Lyonel Feininger's paintings from the early 20th century as well as the expertly crafted pin - striping of American hot rod car culture.

Using the bright color combinations typically identified with early - 50s Rothko paintings, sharply applied in this instance in a style reminiscent of custom car culture, Robinson inserts the logos of now - defunct American cars.

Prince's technique involves appropriation, and he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially American sensibility, with images stemming from the Marlboro Man, muscle cars, biker chicks, off - color jokes, gag cartoons and pulp fiction novels, among many other sources.

At no time was this more evident than in the later»60s, when, fed up with reductive critiques that related his sculptures to car crashes and thence to the violence supposedly endemic to contemporary American culture, Chamberlain took a seven - year sabbatical from his signature medium.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Instead, Frank focused on politics, race, religion, Hollywood, and cars — themes that organize the Cantor's exhibition — creating compositions that highlight the quirks and eccentricities of American culture.

Kurland presents the predominantly masculine culture that surrounds the sexy, freedom inducing American dream of «the car».

Edward Kienholz used the car culture as an image of American excess in visceral, sexually explicit installations, even insisting that, after his death, he should be buried in a 1940 Packard coupe.

You can't talk about cars in American culture without talking about pure existential fear, perhaps best expressed in the anonymity of being pinned behind one of John Baldessari's dots — also included in the show.

DC StreetsBlog documents a major car culture tipping point in: U.S. PIRG Report: Young Americans Dump Cars for Bikes, Buses.