Sentences with phrase «american identity construction»
The concept of the nonhuman is an inseparable component of Asian American identity construction, deriving from a historical racialization of Asians as a subspecies.
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Exploring the role of craft and war in the construction of national identity, Smith's works are often sites of interaction, which provide a context for expression and dialogue among audiences about American history.
American artist Hank Willis Thomas discusses his work and the construction of black identity through popular culture.
Artist uses everyday objects such as police barricades, tabloid photographs, and construction materials to explore the intersection between the fantasy and reality of American identity.
Continuing the concepts embedded in her recent solo exhibition, Smell the Roses at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, Gaignard's new body of work employs exaggeration and camp to explore social constructions that relate to her identity as a biracial woman.
The resulting pastiche duly imitates the piecemeal construction of personal as well as artistic identity, while problematizing the roles of both African Americans and women in the history of representation.
Known for her life - sized fantastical portraits of African Americans, Baltimore - based Amy Sherald explores the construction and performance of identity.
Punchbag added further complexities to questions of raced, gendered and cultural identities raised by Glenn Ligon's Skin Tight: Muhammed Ali Text (1995)[Figs.85 - 86], a punchbag and text piece which specifically sought to address «how black men have used boxing to confront issues of black American identity» and «the construction of masculinity in relation to questions of violence, the commodification of black subjects, sexuality and resistance.»
This essay focuses on manifestations of narcissism in recent art that considers the construction and performance of identity in American culture.
Brown is concerned with the stylistic appropriation of African - American cultural forms and with the global construction of identity through consumerism.
Chronicler of American subcultures and vernaculars and their role in the construction of American identity, he has explored the depths of racism, sexism, and psychosis in mainstream humor; the mythical status of cowboys, bikers, customized cars, soft porn and celebrities.