Sentences with phrase «against social expectations»

Having grown up during Japan's postwar «economic miracle» period, Mr. often exercises his art as a weapon against social expectations.

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And then there was John Paul's social doctrine, which, again against all expectations, put the Catholic Church at the centre of the world's conversation about the politics, economics and public culture of the post-Communist future.

These questions lead more directly to questions about whether we are willing to allow women to define their own place in society, or are we going to just keep feeding them a line of social expectations for women, then keep asking them to measure up against it.

She ranges widely over political, diplomatic and social events and concludes that earlier crises had just about been managed, led to complacency, and were set against a background of paranoia and war expectation.

They launch into social media, pay for virtual blog tours and call upon press outlets and reviewers, only to become frustrated when these channels don't deliver against their (often inflated) expectations.

The bringing to light of a processual artistic activity, such as Morris called for in his theoretical texts Notes on Sculpture, Part 1 - 4 (1966 - 69) and Anti-Form (1968), likewise addresses the social context of production and labor, a perspective which is also to be seen against the background of the institutional criticism of Concept Art as well as the social expectations during the 1970s with regard to art production.