Not exact matches
An especially memorable
theme links two deaf children through two different time periods as they venture through New York City, circa a silent
black and white 1927 and a colorful 1977 — joining them with a
true sense of melodic wonder that speaks for the music of imagination and exploration, especially when sound itself can't be heard.
Unlike its competitors, the app doesn't offer a
true brightness control, but as you long as you save a good nighttime reading
theme (I prefer dim gray text over a
black background), you should be able to make do without it.
Earlier audio - visual installations range from Baltimore (2003), which, in part through the stylisations of
black action movies from the 1970s, looks at the histories, divisions and intersections of
black and white cultures, through to his trilogy comprising
True North (2004), Fantôme Afrique (2005) and Western Union: Small Boats (2007), all of which deal with
themes of voyaging and cultural displacement on both a local and global scale.
In his masterful travelling exhibition, «One
True Thing: Meditations on
Black Aesthetics» Kerry James Marshall has elucidated what Western culture has efficiently negated or appropriated: an African American sensibility capable of addressing universal
themes.