Sentences with phrase «as cultural figures»

The paintings mix fiction and fact as cultural figures and source images are interlaced in imaginary dynamics.

He is seen, rightly, as a cultural figure of real importance.

Within the context of The Whitworth, these themes would take on a very specific meaning through exploring the artist as a cultural figure and raising ideas around authenticity and posterity by linking theatrical performance and irreverent humour.

Gillick has also produced a number of short films which address the construction of the contemporary artist as a cultural figure including Margin Time (2012), The Heavenly Lagoon (2013) and Hamilton: A Film by Liam Gillick (2014).

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These witnesses, of course, include the great figures of black American political and cultural history, but they include as well the leaders of the founding generation who conceived and gave birth to our still - maturing democracy.

But I've come to see the question as mostly the fault of the Orthodox themselves, who have not quite figured out how to convey that Orthodoxy — being Christianity — is for everyone and doesn't require a particular cultural identification.

He was known as a bohemian cultural figure with a taste for dirty jokes, and the whole «God» thing didn't seem natural.

In this politics of freedom, religion figures as a cultural power, a recognized public force; and the freedom that one claims for it is the more legitimate as religion is not its exclusive beneficiary.

We might also put in the category of counterquestions the small Barth revival and the interest in the Barmen Declaration, which may be due as much to a desire to resist cultural accommodation as to the recent anniversaries of the figures they involve.

Thus understood, the doctrine of radical evil can furnish a receptive structure for new figures of alienation besides the speculative illusion or even the desire for consolation — of alienation in the cultural powers, such as the church and the state; it is indeed at the heart of these powers that a falsified expression of the synthesis can take place; when Kant speaks of «servile faith,» of «false cult,» of a «false Church,» he completes at the same time his theory of radical evil.

Nonetheless, by usually speaking as though his ideal types characterize real historical figures, he leaves the impression that each Christian or group can be adequately typed by one or the other of the cultural attitudes.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

The drive to put mental health treatment on the same footing as physical health is being backed by a cast of famous sportsmen and other cultural figures.

Linking this theory to the current cultural situation yields four steps that could increase the acceptance of you — and your female colleagues — as leaders in the world of science (Figure 5).

The video is the latest in the Epic Rap Battles of History series, which pits related cultural figures against each other as they ridicule each other in witty, historically accurate verse.

In fact, director Michael Mann — an epochal»80s cultural figure as the creator of «Miami Vice,» who has been almost invisible in this decade — is after something much richer and stranger than the plot of «The Insider» would suggest.

Guevara is as intricate a figure (and as much of a cultural hero) as Bob Dylan, but while Todd Haynes in I'm Not There tried (disastrously) to dissect Dylan through a series of semantic gallery illustrations, Soderbergh more intriguingly posits Guevara as one of the many cogs in the machinery of political insurrection.

Disney has really carved out a genre for itself: the underdog sports story as cultural melting pot, complete with the Middle American white coach / scout / father figure whose preconceptions are overturned by scrappy kids who overcome every hurdle with heart and hard work.

Most of the pleasures of «Don Jon» come from Gordon - Levitt setting up expectations and then softly deflating them: the blustery father figure played by Tony Danza starts out as a «type» before he begins to reveal layers of cultural and sexual identity that complicate a simpler interpretation.

It's an entire cultural epoch ahead of its time — the cynicism of Hud's «rightness» held in the trembling hands of creepy Cal, who, though he elicits the audience's sympathy, is as destructive a figure to our romantic image of the hero as Paul Newman's solipsistic cowboy.

These prior studies tend to look at the dangerous female figure as a cultural symptom, or as discrete manifestations of popular and genre cinema.

Meanwhile in New York actors, actresses, artists and the like are part of a cultural revolution including such figures as Rockefeller and Da Vinci to name but a few.

Chilean director Pablo Larrain has described Neruda as a «false biopic», and it's a film that surprises on many levels in its presentation of Pablo Neruda, the great poet who is his country's best - known cultural figure.

So while motormouth Wade Wilson may not be as timeless a figure as Randle McMurphy, or as subversive a cultural critic as Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat or Bruno, he's the anarchic spirit we deserve right now.

Contentiously, some figures have even levelled charges of cultural appropriation against Anderson, with Will Toledo from Car Seat Headrest going so far as to label Isle of Dogs «racist» and «a movie that would appeal to literally zero people beyond [Anderson] himself».

The approach, based on the Delors report definition, assumes that LTLT occurs through the two complementary processes: the «discovery of others» and the «experience of shared purposes» which lead to the development of key illustrative competencies including empathy, cultural sensitivity, acceptance, communication skills, teamwork and leadership, among others as illustrated in figure 1.

Literacy and numeracy figure prominently as domains as do Digital literacy, Learning to Learn, Social and Civic Competences, Initiative and Entrepreneurship and Cultural Awareness and Expression.

Students talked about how important it was to feel loved and cared for by adults in the school, how they needed teachers and staff who could relate to their cultural backgrounds and not just act as authoritative figures for four years.

Sheinkin's quirky figures wonderfully capture the gentle humor of his characters and stories, as what seems like a recipe for a surefire culture clash ends up proving that wisdom, insight, and humor transcend cultural differences.

Your only problem is going to be trying to figure out where to go as there are so many great cultural / adventure places (up north) and tempting islands (south).

Don discussed what the day - to - day life of a travel writer is like, how to approach travel as a pilgrimage, traveling to sensitive places that need to be preserved, the cultural effects travelers have on the places they visit, how best to visit areas that are politically volatile, how travel writing enhances the experience of travel, and figuring out the meaning of life.

You figure these things out as you go, and as you encounter new situations and cultural facets you're able to engage, process and react to them without influence from others.

Serving as a Roman provincial capital, the centre of Moorish Spain and as a Caliphate, Cordoba has played host to cultural figures such as Seneca, Roman statesmen including Marcus Claudius Marcellus, and religious representatives such as Cardinal Salazar.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, and neighbors as well as the writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures she encountered in a career spanning the 1920s to the 1980s.

Featuring a boyish animatronic figure reminiscent of literary and pop cultural characters such as Huckleberry Finn, Howdy Doody, and Alfred E. Neuman, the mascot of Mad magazine, the work is suspended with heavy chains from a large mechanized gantry, which is programmed to choreograph its movements.

With the aid of film and photographic records, correspondence, invitation cards, as well as posters and other ephemera, light will be shed on Joan Mitchell's colorful personality and her multifaceted relationships to visual artists, writers, and other cultural figures.

With film recordings and photographs as well as correspondence, invitations, posters, and other ephemera, Joan Mitchell's vibrant personality and her various relationships to artists, authors, and other figures from the cultural world of her time are illuminated.

There she painted friends, neighbours, casual acquaintances and people she encountered on the street among the immigrant community, and just as often cultural figures connected to Harlem or to the civil rights movement.

As his career progressed he became increasingly hermetic, focusing the subjects of his paintings on a constellation of cultural figures and their contributions that paralleled his own explorations of the human condition.

Penn developed that artistic vision over the next sixty years, shooting more than 150 covers for Vogue between 1943 and 2004 (a selection of which will be on view), creating celebrated portraits of leading cultural figures such as Pablo Picasso, Truman Capote, and Miles Davis, and producing groundbreaking fashion editorials noted for their natural lighting and formal simplicity.

The exhibition title references many facets of arts and culture traditions from ancient history to the modern day, arising out of Smith's meditations on the number's spiritual significance as a marker of immortality, as well a number of noteworthy cultural and historical facts and figures featuring the number itself.

The shared medium of carved marble makes these venerated symbols and folkloric figures appear to have a family resemblance as they meet head - on in a cultural exchange between the East and the West.

Immersing himself in New York's downtown culture, he quickly became a fixture on the artistic scene, befriending other artists such as Jean - Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, as well as many of the most innovative cultural figures of the period.

While Whitten will be remembered as a giant of American painting and a singular figure in the creative history of black diaspora, he kept his eye fixed on the deeper currents that connect people across broad cultural divides and vast historical distances.

In the featureless smooth faces, gender is only hinted at; the expression is told through body language while cultural signifiers are smoothed over as a way to universalize the figures.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, neighbors, and locals as well as writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures.

She unearths missing archival images that serve as portals to a collective, diasporic memory and, disrupts myths to reclaims cultural figures and representations.

Portraying a pair of gigantic figures with their heads lowered and with one arm around each other in a gentle embrace, the sculpture alludes to familiar childhood toys and cartoon characters while at the same time transforming their identities with a radical shift in scale, presenting them as monumental cultural presences...

Instead in 1947, he took his G.I. Bill money and went to study art in Paris, where he met such cultural figures as Antonin Artaud, Alberto Giacometti and Jean Cocteau, in whose film «Orphee» he had a bit part.

Future projects include John Waters: Indecent Exposure, a retrospective of that important cultural figure's visual arts career, as well as projects with DIS, Maren Hassinger, Mary Reid Kelley, and Meleko Mokgosi.