Sentences with phrase «american cultural touchstone»

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And while Phi and Bui are telling a specific story about a Vietnamese American experience, there are many touchstones to other cultural experiences in the narrative, which will resonate more widely with readers and, hopefully, generate some much - needed empathy with others.

Throughout her career Pensato's eye has been drawn to the cultural touchstones and abandoned ephemera of a quintessentially American childhood, and boasts an enormous collection of plush toys, models and statuettes of cartoon characters and mascots in her East Williamsburg studio.

As a result, American audiences have been able to expand their understanding of 20th - century Italian art beyond Arte Povera — which has long been the art world's major postwar Italian cultural touchstone — and beyond Italy's fascist history, which, not surprisingly, creates a certain discomfort among American viewers.

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From Pratt's rich artistic history and its impact on American culture and architecture, to the innovations it has pioneered in both education and business, this show promises an in - depth look at touchstone in Brooklyn's cultural landscape.

Rooted in the personal experiences and reflections of each artist, the works explore family, historical figures and events, and cultural touchstones that resonate within the African American community.

After the Smithsonian's G. Wayne Clough decided to remove David Wojnarowicz's film A Fire in My Belly from the exhibition Hide / Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Wojnarowicz became a household name and a cultural touchstone, to the point where Vanity Fair can now glibly claim, «Right - wing America will be begging for David Wojnarowicz...» and expect its readers to get the joke.

In a North American context, for many people blackface is cultural touchstone that signals the symbolic domination of black bodies and its ugly, not so distant, history.