Sentences with phrase «american vernacular culture»

Wide ranging in approach, his work is unified by his regular use of American vernacular culture — including books, posters, newspapers and magazines, records, old films, and other vintage items — which he draws from his vast collections source material.

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Danny DeVito and Richard Dreyfuss starred as feuding aluminum siding salesman in 1963 Baltimore, and once again Levinson demonstrated his flair for capturing the vernacular of a particular species of American male, effusive about work, food and pop culture, clueless about the women around them.

Individual collections include: examples of British vernacular culture from Peter Blake; the eclectic contents of two rooms from Hanne Darboven's family home in Hamburg; Damien Hirst's skulls, taxidermy and medical models; Indian paintings from Howard Hodgkin; Dr. Lakra's record covers and scrapbooks, Sol LeWitt's Japanese prints, modernist photographs and music scores; 20th century British postcards and Soviet space dog memorabilia from Martin Parr; Hiroshi Sugimoto's 18th century French and Japanese anatomical prints and books; Andy Warhol's cookie jars; more than 1,000 scarves and other textiles by the American designer Vera Neumann from Pae White; and a collection of thousands of objects assembled by Martin Wong and subsequently acquired by Danh Vo.

As a descendent of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, and after Pop art had magnified critical interest in consumerist culture, Prince's «rephotographs» could be seen as a cynical representation of reality, and as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular.

With his unique perspective, Hammons fuses the power of street vernacular with African American culture.

Individual collections include: African art and samurai armour owned by Arman; examples of British vernacular culture from Peter Blake; the eclectic contents of two rooms from Hanne Darboven's family home in Hamburg; Edmund de Waal's Japanese netsuke; Damien Hirst's skulls, taxidermy and medical models; Indian paintings from Howard Hodgkin; Dr. Lakra's record covers and scrapbooks, Sol LeWitt's Japanese prints, modernist photographs and music scores; 20th century British postcards and Soviet space dog memorabilia from Martin Parr; Jim Shaw's thrift store paintings; Hiroshi Sugimoto's 18th century French and Japanese anatomical prints and books; Andy Warhol's cookie jars; more than 1,000 scarves and other textiles by the American designer Vera Neumann from Pae White; and a collection of thousands of objects assembled by Martin Wong and subsequently acquired by Danh Vo.

Deploying posters, books, postcards and even a café and hotel, his projects have consistently had at their center a focus on the American vernacular — its music, popular imagery and ephemera — mining the nuances of culture through its unsung conventions.

An English and Spanish word that broadly describes images and objects produced in the Americas and typical of American cultures, here it is specifically intended to evoke both North American vernacular art collecting traditions and a unique hemispheric perspective that reaches across national borders.

«Conceived as a complete retrospective of Evans» work, this exhibition highlights the photographer's fascination with American popular culture, or vernacular,» explains Clément Chéroux, senior curator of photography at SFMOMA.

The origins of the blues lie in the vernacular culture of African Americans living in the Mississippi Delta and New Orleans around the turn of the twentieth century — people for whom slavery was a recent memory and basic civil rights were far in the future.

By juxtaposing their works, A New American Sculpture reveals the confluences of sources — from archaism and European avant - garde art to vernacular traditions and American popular culture — that informed these artists» novel contributions to the history of sculpture.

As the catalogue explains, Diebenkorn forged strong allegiances to sources in American art and popular culture before fully responding to Matisse's influence; the teacher who introduced him to Sarah Stein was in fact a disciple of Edward Hopper, and it was the example of Hopper's hard - won, vernacular images that guided Diebenkorn's early engagement with the harsh literalism of the American scene, which was often hostile to modernism.

These include his relationship with education, his links with modernist architecture, his view of the tradition of painting and of American literature, and his approach to the vernacular, popular culture, youthful initiatory rites and styles of musical subcultures.

An unsung pioneer of vernacular photography since the Fifties, Weinberger captured a young generation of rebels, who were greatly influenced by American culture.

MG As much as your work engages with non-Western traditions, it is also very much rooted in American culture, where there is a long legacy of sculptures built out of found objects — not only in «high art,» but even more so in vernacular expressions, of which your work seems keenly aware.

We both have the same love for the visual vernacular of American culture and its individualism.

The artist's work has been included in extensive group exhibitions, including Iran Modern, Asia Society, New York (2013); Spectacular of the Vernacular, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN (2011); Word Into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London (2006); Far Near Distance: Contemporary Positions of Iranian Artists, House of World Cultures, Berlin (2004); Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA (1988); Sculptur Projekte Muster» 87, Germany (1987); International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1984); 74th Annual American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL (1982); Biennial of American Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1981); 39th Venice Biennale, American Pavilion, Italy (1980); Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970); and Documenta 5 (1972), 7 (1982) and 8 (1987), Kassel, Germany.

Together with Claes Oldenburg, Edward Ruscha and the late Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein ranked among the most important American artists to explore the vernacular culture of mass - produced consumer goods and popular urban life.

Among the black community, the slur nigger is sometimes rendered as nigga, a pronunciation emphasizing the unique intra-racial dialect of black people, a self - referential pronoun in African - American Vernacular English usage popularized by the rap and hip - hop music cultures.