Sentences with phrase «art in social context»

In the 1980s Graham began to explore art in its social context.

Bradford's personal vision of his Los Angeles community exists within and beyond the canvas: the artist cofounded Art + Practice, a local organization that works with teens and young adults in foster care to stress the cultural importance of art in social context.

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Instead, students are encouraged to put works «in context ¯ to see how social, political, and economic, and cross-cultural conditions shape the production and reception of ideas and works of art.»

Professor Christine Halse, Chair in Education, School of Education, Faculty of Arts & Education at Deakin University, said some of the key findings were how powerful outside of school influences were on shaping students» attitudes and behaviours, and how important and necessary it was for schools to consider and take into account they operate in this broader social context.

These materials place this epic exhibit in its historical context in five units: Observing the Urban American Scene; The Spirit of Modernism: A New Way of Looking; The Spirit of the Painting: Expressive Use of Color, Line, and Shape; Modernism in New York, 1913; and Armory Art in the Social Studies Classroom.

The literacy tasks are developed to align with the Common Core English Language Arts Standards and are meant to promote high - quality student assignments that develop reading, writing, and thinking skills in the context of learning science, history, English, social studies, and other subjects.

The tasks are developed to align with the Common Core English Language Arts Standards and are meant to promote high - quality student assignments that develop reading, writing, and thinking skills in the context of learning science, history, English, social studies, and other subjects.

Integrated studies engages students through social studies content and allows them to experience reading, writing, listening and speaking as well as exploring concepts through art, music, math and science in a context that is rich and meaningful.

Drawing on the skills and content from English language arts and mathematics, and combining with the Missouri Learning Standards in science and social studies, integrated projects enable meaningful learning through life - based, active projects that allow children to experience learning within a real world context.

It is these conflicts that have fueled Fraser's engagement with what is called institutional critique over the past 30 years, during which time she's researched, analyzed, and made visible — in alternately unsettling and humorous performances — the inescapable social, economic, historical, and even emotional and sexual contexts that frame a work of art.

with essays by Johannes Meinhardt and Jeffrey Rian, in German) Art Collected: Private, Corporate and Museum Contexts, University Art Museum, Binghampton, USA (curated by Lynn Gamwell) Hybrid Neutral: Modes of Abstraction and the Social, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence Museum, New York, USA (traveling exhibition coordinated by Independant Curators Incorporated, curated by Collins and Milazzo, cat.

A critic of institutions and a believer that the artist should act as what he termed an «incidental person» — one who operates in a non-art context, inserting oneself into political and social life — Latham created an oeuvre that paved the way for much socially engaged and politically charged art practice that we see today.

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.

In the 1990s, along with the advancement of market - oriented reforms, instead of big art movements, Chinese contemporary art begins to develop diversely with more social context.

In his new publication Jens Hoffmann reflects on the spaces of contemporary art — the gallery, the institution, the biennial — and ultimately positions the discipline of curating in the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinkinIn his new publication Jens Hoffmann reflects on the spaces of contemporary art — the gallery, the institution, the biennial — and ultimately positions the discipline of curating in the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinkinin the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinking.

In 1998 he co-founded Afterall Publishing in London (and remains a director), known for its sharp focus on contemporary arts in relation to a wider artistic, theoretical and social context through its journal, critical readers and its One Work serieIn 1998 he co-founded Afterall Publishing in London (and remains a director), known for its sharp focus on contemporary arts in relation to a wider artistic, theoretical and social context through its journal, critical readers and its One Work seriein London (and remains a director), known for its sharp focus on contemporary arts in relation to a wider artistic, theoretical and social context through its journal, critical readers and its One Work seriein relation to a wider artistic, theoretical and social context through its journal, critical readers and its One Work series.

Like the dioramas of the Museum of Natural History or the period rooms of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hello Meth Lab in the Sun creates theatrical depictions of three specific social / historical contexts: the utopian hippie commune, the clandestine meth lab, and the varied sites of modern industrial production.

She explores the possibilities of performance art as a way to continue her research on the relationship between people and objects, and to further investigate the commoditization of culture, assimilation, and how cultural meaning is transformed in the multicultural urban environment and is absorbed into new social contexts.

Presented August through December of 2020 by the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural: Swing Landscape in Context will be an in - depth examination of social, political, and creative environment in which the iconic Swing Landscape mural by Stuart Davis was created.

Beneath these questions lies a deeper one: how art might be most useful in a social context.

The artists featured in Radical Women have made extraordinary contributions to the field of contemporary art, but little scholarly attention has been devoted to situating their work within the social, cultural, and political contexts in which it was made.

While their art grew from the Soviet social and cultural context in which they came of age, their work still attains a universal significance.

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 productiArt as well as the social expectations during the 1970s with regard to art productiart production.

Based on documentary and photographic evidence of the time, it reconstructs the spatial, temporal, social, and political contexts in which the works of art were created and exhibited, and the way in which they were interpreted and received by the public of the time.

Whiteread's frieze elaborates on the building's original terra - cotta reliefs depicting the Tree of Life, a motif that in the context of the Arts and Crafts movement of the time connoted social transformation through art.

Chief Curator Heather Pesanti joins McMillian to talk about his new art in the context of a larger body of a work that weaves elements of US social and political history, the body, and architecture into complex tapestries entrenched in myth, memory, and storytelling.

The exhibition explored in depth the relationship of radical politics to art, by providing visitors with factual context in the form of historical objects that brought home the social and historical realities the movement faced, interspersed with historic artwork that supported and reflected its circumstances and ideals, as well as contemporary pieces.

For Architecture + Art, SMoCA commissions architects and artists to create site - specific installations in response to the spatial, environmental and social context of the Museum's site in Scottsdale, Arizona.

While a few recent publications — like the essays by Richard Flood, Frances Morris, Robert Lumley, and Karen Pinkus in the catalogue of the 2001 exhibition «Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962 - 1972,» co-organized by the Walker Art Center and Tate Modern, or the overview Arte Povera (1999), edited and illuminatingly introduced by Carolyn Christov - Bakargiev — have begun to consider arte povera in a broader social context, the field is still plagued by the idea that its artists were primarily enamored of low, or literally «poor,» materials, and by the argument that arte povera's antitechnological bent is a misinterpretation of American Minimalism.

With its associated programme and publication activity, Galerie Rudolfinum strives to present the international art framed in the aesthetic, social and political context to the Czech audiences.

With its emphasis on experimentation and interpretation, and its focus on studying art in its historical, cultural, and social contexts, the Grey serves as a museum - laboratory for the exploration of art's environments.

But in the hands of curator Boris Groys the proposition turns ambiguous... «Specters,» as conceived by Groys, explores Russian «post-conceptual realism,» an artistic practice in which artists shift attention from isolated art objects and performances to their social and political context.

His art is dedicated both to documenting and diagraming social contexts, and to creating self - organized dynamic models that intervene in the structures that define people's relationships with one another and with the material world around them.

His texts, in which he connects contemporary art, literature and music to broader social issues and cultural contexts, are published in various publications, including Art in America, Camera Austria, Afterimage and The Wiart, literature and music to broader social issues and cultural contexts, are published in various publications, including Art in America, Camera Austria, Afterimage and The WiArt in America, Camera Austria, Afterimage and The Wire.

Her exhibition, «Social Paper: Hand Papermaking in the Context of Socially Engaged Art,» co-curated with Jessica Cochran, was funded by the Crafts Research Fund and the Clinton Hill Foundation, among others.

While the field of social practice has had an increasingly high profile within contemporary art discourse, this book documents artists who have been under - recognized because they do not show in traditional gallery or museum contexts and are often studied by specialists in other disciplines, particularly within the Latin American context.

Her work has appeared internationally in diverse contexts, reflecting the transdisicplinarity of her practice: Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design (Moscow), Center for Independent Social Research (Saint Petersburg), Van Leer Institute (Jerusalem), El Museo del Barrio (New York), Anthology Film Archives (New York), Royal Geographical Society (London), Royal Institute for British Architects (London), Beijing Normal University, vessel art project (Italy) and Open Engagement (Portland).

In the context of his insistence on holding arts workers accountable for their own biases, Vélez's paintings suggest that formal explorations are not necessarily at odds with social forces, politics, and personal experiences, and this is perhaps the exhibition's greatest takeaway.

Within the context of social and political developments in the young democratic Germany, and against the backdrop of a lingering Cold War, the exploration of new territories in art, literature, theater and music are a form of Brechtian catharsis.

His work as a director of important European institutions, curator of major biennials and both writer and publisher of critical texts have sought to investigate the role of art as a catalyst for social change and the societal or political contexts in which art comes to be made public.

With the early Arts and Crafts movement and the Bauhaus vision of art integrated with everyday life as its historical point of departure, the Art and Craft department seeks to elaborate on the relationship between art and life, on matters of materiality (production, sustainability, globalisation), on design and architecture, and on artistic practice in social and political contexts in a contemporary perspectiart integrated with everyday life as its historical point of departure, the Art and Craft department seeks to elaborate on the relationship between art and life, on matters of materiality (production, sustainability, globalisation), on design and architecture, and on artistic practice in social and political contexts in a contemporary perspectiArt and Craft department seeks to elaborate on the relationship between art and life, on matters of materiality (production, sustainability, globalisation), on design and architecture, and on artistic practice in social and political contexts in a contemporary perspectiart and life, on matters of materiality (production, sustainability, globalisation), on design and architecture, and on artistic practice in social and political contexts in a contemporary perspective.

Extending possible interpretations of the veil and investigating the ambiguities and paradoxes expressed in contemporary arts practice, it provides both a social and an historic context to the veil's multilayered symbolism.

Although the same social, cultural and political context characterized the social and cultural dynamics in the US and the UK, the emergence of the Pop Art in these two countries was marked with different artistic groups and practices.

She curated exhibitions including Social Paper, the first exhibition considering hand papermaking in a socially engaged art context, and Among Tender Roots, the first retrospective featuring Mexican artist, Laura Anderson Barbata's work.

The notion of vernacular — a form of everyday parlance specific to a social group or region — manifests in his work through a graphic and discursive style developed in the context of globalized art production.

These shows, which include «Uncertain States of America», «China Power Station», «Indian Highway» and «Imagine Brazil», look at artistic languages, but also take into account the social and cultural context, the role of institutions, the critical discourses and the commercial art system in the countries in question.

The Grey has always considered art in relation to its social and historical contexts.

The curators of «Dioramas,» currently on view at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, have given this art - world phenomenon a broadened social and historical context.

When in the context of a social energy or dynamic, ie the social or collective energy surrounding a piece of art because it is well known and referenced etc - would then push the communication object into a «community or social» sphere resulting in a more social - ized dynamic energy.

Emerging from the dynamic arts program at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in the late 1980s, Gillick expanded into social sculpture, cultural critique, and «Relational Aesthetics,» the critic Nicolas Bourriaud's term for art within a context of relationships.