Sentences with phrase «as cultural critique»

1970); S. Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art (1983); W. C. Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America (1983); F. Frascina, ed., Pollock and After (1985); D. Anfam, Abstract Expressionism (1990); S. Polcari, Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience (1991); A. E. Gibson, Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics (1997); D. Craven, Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique (1999).

Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique examines the artistic aims of the New York School of painters within the context of left - wing political discussions during the 1940s and 1950s.

Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida's large - format C - prints mounted on aluminum from the Cosmococa 5: Hendrix — War series (1973/2003) were originally conceived as projections in multi-sensorial, built environments designed as cultural critiques demanding viewers» direct involvement and consideration.

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A justified process - rooted philosophical appreciation of social canons can be taught through a pedagogical strategy that begins with their critique, that expunges them from the natural given furnishings of the immediately real in order to rediscover them as the inherited cultural accretions by which we transform the immediately real into a world of enduring meanings and human significance.

Second, Jewett adopts whole - cloth the latest fad in New Testament scholarship, which broadly terms itself as postcolonial, and reads virtually everything in the New Testament as a coded critique of the Roman Empire and especially of its claims of cultural superiority elaborated in the civic cult of the early empire.

The communitarian critique of liberalism, whatever one may think of it as philosophy, has succeeded in reminding liberals that liberalism does have social and cultural presuppositions, and that these must be attended to if liberalism is to survive.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

Even «conservative» Christians who deplore the cultural costs of late modernity treat any critique of its obvious material basis as practically blasphemous.

Neveldine «Taylor don't yet work in 3 - D, but they've mastered the previous standards of digital - era filmmaking as part of their constant critique of media overload and cultural excess and moral anarchy.

One fears that Smith and More, perhaps like their author, are drawn to Christianity mainly as a transcendent means for making their own cultural critique.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

The extremely complex equilibrium at display in this film is pleasantly surprising as it balances the critique of certain aspects of Holy Week with presenting a respectful view at its religious and cultural essence.

Haynes brilliantly uses the restrictions of the genre to critique cultural expectations: Cathy's purposefully stilted dialogue remains bound by the front - office conventions of post-WWII Hollywood (interestingly, Frank's isn't), and unlike the men in the film, her options are as limited as the choice between a happy or a sad ending.

She has written a number of education books that conservatives liked, one of them a scathing critique of leftist historians who attacked the public schools as «an instrument of cultural repression.»

As students learn to use technology tools to build representations of a social world's characteristics, they generate reflective critical thought through their analysis and critique of the identities, relationships, and values constructed by the cultural practices and discourses in that social world.

But as poetry readers know, its lyrical gifts can be an antidote to many of life's woes, offering calm waters of meditation, razor - sharp cultural critique or a playful celebration of language.

These new works take historical paintings and Internet culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits suffused with cultural and societal critiques.

Black cultural products have historically served as a major source for European and Euro - American exotic interests — interests that issue from a healthy critique of the mechanistic, puritanical, utilitarian, and productivity aspects of modern life.

Sietsema is not interested in trompe - l'oeil for the sake of showing off; at the end of the day, his paintings and works on paper are a highly considered critique of the production of cultural objects and the roles that they play as they circulate.

Referring to Doomocracy as an act of «political catharsis,» Reyes leverages political, social, and cultural anxiety — and fear itself — as the media for participation and cultural critique.

Her works demonstrate elements of Institutional Critique and are conceptual as well as rich in cultural and historical references, while simultaneously sensually complex and emotionally charged.

As such, his meanings are multivalent and shift fluidly from one locale to the next, at times satirizing Cold War - era fears of an «alien» Chinese invasion, critiquing notions of authentic cultural and touristic experience, or radically reordering the relationship of the subject to the landscape.

Pascher has written on art, film, and a variety of cultural issues, with texts appearing in numerous publications including Afterall, Art in America, Springerin, Merge Magazine, Metropolis, «The Museum as Arena: Artists on Institutional Critique» (Verlag der Walther König), and «Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists» Writings» (MIT Press).

The show explores the use of the profound mechanisms of comedy as tools for unmasking, analysis and critique of the ideological, social, economic, cultural and political systems by a series of artists from the national and international scope.

But Stezaker was a student too at a time when a wholesale critique of the pop - cultural image was being launched by such thinkers as Guy Debord; the Situtationists» scurrilous repurposing of media imagery became an exemplary strategy for him, alongside his abiding, and then unfashionable, interest in surrealism.

I explore issues of violence, social taboos, political conflicts and human behaviors by deconstructing iconic cultural imagery as a form of critique and analysis.

Apparatus 2.0 expands on its predecessor by initiating long - distance working relationships between the same artists, asking them to consider their experiences — in different cities, under respective historical and sociopolitical conditions — and see how these aspects shape their understanding of images as a form of cultural critique.

For her solo show she has created large format paintings and sculptures using the foundation's main gallery as her studio this summer: these new works take historical paintings and internet culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits suffused with cultural and societal critiques.

Informed by Ringgold's legacy as well as the current political climate, the exhibition poses questions about how to reconceptualize cultural representation, engagement, and critique: What spaces for agency are available to black artists today, and by what means have they produced spaces for themselves?

His practice works to critique academic pedagogy as a means of Socratic questioning of the acquisition of knowledge in terms of racial fabrications, perceptions of otherness, and cultural value.

Critiquing Modernism in the 1960s and 1970s also had its political implications in the Philippines, as it meant a shift away from the cultural pretensions and repressive regime of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, who ruled the country from 1965 to 1986 under mounting controversy.

Just as we come from across national, cultural, material and conceptual boundaries our student body includes recent graduates, mid-career artists, writers, teachers and thinkers who come to Transart Institute to expand their points of view and invigorate their practice by participating in intensive immersive residencies including workshops and seminars, presentation and critique, peer dialogue and debate and becoming part of an international artistic research community.

Other bodies of work, such as her Rambo series, respond to broader cultural concerns and critique sexism, racism, and discrimination at large.

Facilitated by a diverse roster of teaching artists, scholars, writers and educators working within the field of comics, Skin and Bones Comic Con seeks to expose audiences to diverse approaches to visual storytelling, and contextualize comics as a powerful tool of social commentary and cultural critique.

Through employing the Nefertiti bust as a metaphorical thread, and by interrogating the contested history of Egyptian Museum collections from the 19th century onwards, the exhibition is concerned with the critique of museology, the staging of the artwork and the writing of art - historical narrative as a means of forming and informing cultural otherness.

The «museum» set forth a sort of living biography of the artist (Gaba was actually married in the Wedding Room in 2000), as well as positing a biting critique of the power of Western cultural conventions.

The anthology features both artists and art historians writing on art, media and popular culture — oftentimes infusing a new kind of humor into their cultural critiques — as well as original pictorial contributions.

The sizes range from 12 x 16 inches to 24 x 19 inches, but they are still packed full of wit and satire, as well as cultural and political critique.

Through her lyrical videos, Behbahani stages a contemporary cultural critique by layering and juxtaposing allusions to past and present sociopolitical circumstances with a language that she draws from her experience as a painter.

Flood has been making his lace paintings since the early 90s; their process of manufacture and slightly kitschy image derived from actual lace encourages us to look at these seductive beauties with a jaundiced eye; 2) The exhibition includes site - specific installations made of absurd pseudo-posters, multi-media, ephemera, collages, text paintings, and documents from the last decade that remix pop culture and critique systems of mass cultural distributions such as rock videos and albums.

Allowing pop - cultural artifacts to function as «information,» as opposed to «form,» Baldessari's works represented a radical departure from, and often a direct critique of, the modernist sensibility that dominated painting for decades.

While so much of today's common wisdom around appropriation grants that tactic a kind of distanced purview, from which an artist might critique while simultaneously participating in prevailing modes of cultural representation, we all too rarely account for the ways in which a sort of lasciviousness attends the venture — especially, perhaps, as younger generations take up its presumed look and legacy.

She reminded delegates of colonisation and racism as the core roots of disease and health inequalities for Indigenous people, and critiqued how cultural awareness is being softened, to make it more palatable to non-Indigenous people.