Sentences with phrase «around cultural icons»

«Together these objects reveal Deller's artistic interest in the social connections around cultural icons and events, and his reinvestment in the histories and contexts of their creation,» says Locks.

If there ever was a time for Canada to wrap its arms around its cultural icons and support them — to leverage them to help build a brand for a nation — it's now, and I mean right now.

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Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei himself has risen as a cultural political pop icon due to the controversy surrounding his arrest by the Chinese government, in turn, artists around the world created politically charged pop artwork to demonstrate for his release, hence bearing witness to unforeseen polipop culture in the making.

Here we find Eugene von Bruenchenhein's copious photographs of his often topless and apparently game wife; the rather creepier ballerina - doll pictures made by Morton Bartlett, after devoting laborious attention to crafting the dolls themselves; the insouciant intensities of Greer Lockton, revolving around gender reassignment and the refashioning of icons, both cultural (Jackie O.) and subcultural (Candy Darling) through dolls and photographs; and selections from the inscrutable archive of Polaroids taken of actresses on television by the anonymous photographer known as Type 42.