Sentences with phrase «about cultural images»

I think Carl Jung came up with some good ways of thinking about our cultural images and how they come about — that scientists many hundreds or thousands of years later might have the same sorts of cultural images informing their intuitions, and thus using those images as the basis for a theory of evolution is not so much extraordinary than it is to be expected.

First, we must abandon religion's prophetic condemnations and look instead at what it teaches about cultural images and symbols.

Not exact matches

In this cross-disciplinary conversation I turn first to what is known about the brain, then to what we understand about belief, and finally, on the basis of that convergence of ideas, to an examination of the cultural symbol - images of Byzantine and medieval architecture, which express both cognitive and cosmic ways of understanding human life.

They love and respect the church they understand, and what they understand about the church is due, in no small degree, to the halfhearted, truncated doctrine of the church they have received from the clergy and from the cultural image.

But surely it doesn't do the LPGA image any good when players seem unwilling or unable to speak intelligently about a cultural or social issue.

Whether that's Meghan Trainor singing about her booty, Gisele kickboxing, women kicking ass in Spartan Race, or even someone like Kimanzi Constable talking about how men struggle with body image, too, the cultural conversation has shifted from an obsession with flat abs to a commitment to loving what we've got and treating our bodies with care.

On the occasion of Museum of the Moving Image's Tsai Ming - liang retrospective, presented with support from Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York, we created this short film about the work of the great Taiwanese director.

In a frank and accessible dialogue, Mark Harris, film historian and Vulture columnist, Eric Hynes, critic, journalist, and Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, talk to FILM COMMENT Digital Editor Violet Lucca about the writers and larger cultural trends (be it the rise of VHS or social media) that have shaped their own approaches to the medium.

These are images that still reinforce toxic cultural mythologies about who and what is truly worthy.

Over the semester students will learn to think critically about the relationship between history and cultural representations, particularly through the international circulation of photographic images.

Seen as a whole, his practice raises fundamental and evergreen questions about the value of images and art, the nature and possibilities of painting and film, the intertwined relation of our subjectivity to cultural identity, and the ways we address what we experience in life in parallel to the mediated world of images.

He chooses images from mass culture to talk about politics, art, painting, cultural issues, taste, the material world, pleasure, power, sexuality, gender and the role of the artist's external life in the larger culture.

His solo shows include A New Commission for an Old State at Edith - Ruth - Haus, Oldenburg (2016); Proposal for a Porn Company, Galpão VB Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo (2016); Painter on a Study Trip, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); It's Never Too Late to Talk About Love, Nile Sunset Annex, Cairo (2014); When Meanings Face Glossy Surfaces, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo (2010) and I Never Wanted to Be Alone in a Room, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2010).

His solo shows include A New Commission for an Old State at Gypsum Gallery (2018) and Edith - Ruth - Haus, Oldenburg (2016); Proposal for a Porn Company, Galpão VB Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo (2016); Painter on a Study Trip, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); It's Never Too Late to Talk About Love, Nile Sunset Annex, Cairo (2014); When Meanings Face Glossy Surfaces, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo (2010) and I Never Wanted to Be Alone in a Room, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2010).

Mostly shot in moody black and white - with a notable exception for the gorgeous curls and brilliant pink and yellow smiley t - shirt of Marc Bolan, the images brim with personality; each one really does appear to speak a thousand words about an unprecedentedly exciting cultural moment.

Like «Reflections in Black,» the selected advertising images are stripped of text, heightening viewers» awareness of cultural assertions about beauty, desire, virtue and ideal white femininity.

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Hank Willis Thomas appropriates culturally charged historical images, presenting them in memorial flag frames that trigger ideas about collective commemoration and cultural remembrance.

Without any individuals the images speak generally about human living conditions and their cultural or country - specific manifestations.

He is also interested to ask questions «about the artistic image and its capacity to observe socio - cultural landscapes and human geographies.»

[106] The success of Rockwell's depictions was due to his use of long - standing American cultural values about unity and respect of certain institutions while using symbols that enabled a broad audience to identify with his images.

«I started drawing up images, thinking specifically about the cultural significance of showing my work in Shanghai.

Her videos and installations deal with social, political, and cultural concerns of contemporary Turkey, and particularly the question of femininity: in Cross Section (1996), a video in black and white, the image of a woman bears the subtitle She surpasses the notion of gender and questions the viewer about the concept of cultural identity.

By subtracting all the branding information from advertising images appropriated from four decades of Ebony magazine, Thomas hopes to encourage viewers «to think more deeply about how advertising reinforces generalizations surrounding race, gender, and cultural identity.»

See also this video interview about the South West Queensland Indigenous Cultural Trail, with Angie Walks and Jane Palmer (see image from website below).