Sentences with phrase «european cultural identity»

His practice comprises drawing, painting, video and sculpture and often explores the construction of European cultural identity and history.

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Finally, national identity, the most symbolic aspect of sovereignty proudly brandished by right - wing populists, has largely been impacted by these supranational evolutions as well as by the cultural diversification of European societies.

Dr Jago Cooper said: «For the millions of indigenous peoples living in the Caribbean before European arrival, caves represented portals into a spiritual realm, and therefore these new discoveries of the artists at work within them captures, the essence of their belief systems and the building blocks of their cultural identity.»

As she charts the dilemmas and gestures of an European trader Almayer (Stanislas Mehar) and his «mixed - blood» daughter, Nina (Aurora Marion), Akerman's decision to take Conrad's 19th - century, Malaysia - set story to modern - day Cambodia without acknowledging the changes comes to strike less as an eccentric gesture than as a purposeful extension of the narrative's inquiries into cultural identity and colonial uprooting.

Led by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Prospect.4 brings together 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing issues of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity within the context of the celebration of the city's Tricentennial.

Youth Art Interchange II brings together young people from four major European cities to consider issues of European citizenship, identity and cultural democracy.

The dap originated during the late 1960s among black G.I.s stationed in bases in the Pacific and throughout European during the Vietnam War and was an important symbol of black consciousness, identity, and cultural unity during a time of racial unrest.

The list, put together by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, (of the Nasher Museum in Durham North Carolina), includes 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, and will address themes of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity.

Catherine Opie fuses the observational tradition of American photography with a European poststructuralist approach to identity politics in a practice that seeks to determine the aesthetic and cultural languages that articulate community.

The role clothing plays in conveying cultural identity was impressed upon Shonibare at an early age when his father, a successful lawyer, left for work donning a European - style suit yet wore African robes at home.

Featuring more than fifty artworks ranging in date from the early 1930s to our own time, Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA demonstrates how artists interested in issues of identity have negotiated a vast array of European, African, and American visual - cultural forms to redefine what it means to make a portrait.

His works question today social and cultural phenomenons (individualism, nomadism, personal mythologies) in relation with European identity, conceived as a paradigm.

The triennial exhibition, spread across seventeen venues in New Orleans, will feature seventy - three artists from «North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing issues of identity, displacement, and cultural hybridity within the context of the celebration of the city's tricentennial,» according to an announcement from the event's organizers.

His practice revolves around the politics of formation and representation of identity and the conflict between Western European and African cultural references.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

Structural equation modeling was used to examine the effects of cultural factors (ethnic identity, perceived discrimination), family relations, and child problem type on mental health service utilization in a community sample of 1,480 adolescent girls (860 African American, 620 European American) between ages 15 and 17 years enrolled in the Pittsburgh Girls Study.