Sentences with phrase «between low culture»

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Babylonia, situated on a broad low plain between the rivers at their widest points, was very fertile and had developed an advanced culture as early as 3500 B.C.. From this region comes the famous Code of Hammurabi which, dating from long before the time of Moses, shows high ethical discernment regarding the establishment of justice in human relations.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

In a digital world, we may all witness the collapse of formerly compelling distinctions between high and low culture, theological education and spiritual formation, and theory and praxis.

The perennial plight of established religious bodies is reaching for the lowest common denominator, muting faith's distinctives, softening the edges of anything that might create tension between faith and culture.

He got into growing hot peppers after seeing a correlation between cultures that eat them and the low rates of cancer and heart disease within those cultures.

Richard Regan, head of investment affairs at the Association of British Insurers, says that low inflation and better communication between companies and investors would create a better culture for long - term investment.

Basal A0.5 values for diabetic cultures also seemed to increase, but there was no significant difference between low and high insulin concentrations (Fig. 4B).

Faculty - Administrators: Increasing Proximity to VPR — ResearchNorth (St. Louis U.)-- changing culture of research office and increasing accessibility; very low startup and maintenance ($ 20K; $ 160 / mo; 525 sq. ft.); programming; intellectual resources (books); faculty can use it for meetings (use increasing) and lab meetings bring students to the space; snacks, coffee, beer; open door culture has increased casual interaction; VPR and Provost have dropped in on meetings; similar space has been requested for second campus — space has somewhat bridged a physical division between north and south campuses.

The low glycogen content in diabetes does not seem to be part of the mechanism responsible for insulin resistance because we found a significant positive correlation between glycogen content and GS FV0.1 in diabetic cultures.

It was recently suggested that Hes1 expression can cycle in ES cell culture [13], although the link between this oscillation, low - level gene expression, and developmental bias is not clear.

By looking at both living mice and molecular processes in a culture medium, the researchers were able to find a causative link between low dietary potassium, heart disease and the underlying pathogenic mechanism.

«You can track it back to the relationship between high culture and low culture, which has been much more defined over the last decade,» says Tim Blanks, BoF editor - at - large.

The structured and low - pressure environment facilitates romance between men and women of all ages and cultures.

As Neal Gabler notes in his book Life: The Movie, the 19th - century boundaries between high and low culture were blurred by movies and other electronic media in the 20th.

At the film's recent press day, Mirren revealed her approach to the role, what it was like having the opportunity to improvise on set, acting opposite the renowned Puri and what the two share in common, what she looks for in a project, why the director is an important consideration, why she likes to alternate between big movies and smaller low budget films, her lifelong attraction to French culture, her latest film that she's currently shooting with director Simon Curtis entitled «Woman in Gold,» and her upcoming biopic, «Trumbo,» with Bryan Cranston about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

You can figure out a lot about the differences between our culture and French culture by comparing two current series of low - budget TV features about teenagers.

The article's author, James A. Peyser, explains that even though Boston Public Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Boston.

Learners are moving from a culture of deep attention (ability to concentrate on one object or information stream for long periods of time, ignoring outside stimulation) to hyper attention (switch focus between multiple information streams, a preference for high stimulation and lower tolerance for boredom).

Participants discussed a range of factors that impede student success, including gaps between tribally enrolled students and other Native students; high teacher turnover in remote areas; poor attendance and truancy; low family and community involvement; schools» lack of knowledge about AI / AN culture and history; and fragmentation of services among state, tribal, and local agencies.

Cultural mismatches between the culture of the child and that of its teacher have been empirically shown to result in a range of negative outcomes for the child, including behavioural infractions, low academic outcomes and dropping out of school.

YA seems no longer bound by strict genre lines or pegged below a certain benchmark of quality — Kephart noted that YA novels are taking «more risks than ever with voice, structure [and] form,» and Weiss argued that the generally high quality of YA writing, coupled with increased interest on the part of adults, is facilitating a «leveling of the difference between high and low culture.»

On that roof, rain slapped and the light hummed like a mosquito, and between those high and low notes ran the Yiddish, a tongue no cultured person speaks.

He explores the relationship between «low» and «high» culture, the increasing influence of the media and the genuine artistic urge satisfied by handicrafts.

He goes on to define what he means by high and low art and as an example he draws the contrast between a poem by T. S. Eliot and a Tin Pan Alley song; or a painting by Georges Braque and a Saturday Evening Post cover; all being examples of contemporaneous culture.

From his Silver Factory in New York City, Warhol produced works of art that bridged the gap between high and low culture.

Creative Time: Musson works in the productive gap between high and low culture.

Working somewhere in between high and low culture, he often creates work that plays with kitsch.

The bold, uncompromising nature of Pop art challenged the divide between high and low culture, questioning the influence of commodity and the boundaries of contemporary art making.

Drawing from sources high and low, he masterfully appropriates the gestures, sounds, and symbols of black culture and European heraldry (coats of arms), demonstrating the surprising similarities between them.

In his photography, sculpture, installations, and works on paper, Breuning merges humor, kitsch, and pop culture to investigate the relationship between high and low art, often calling into question our assumptions regarding historically designated «masterpieces» by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock.

Beginning in the 1960s, he obsessively collected newspaper clippings, cartoons and advertisements; these images fuelled his investigations into the distinctions between high and low culture, figuration and abstraction.

Frederick Jameson characterised Postmodernism as a breakdown of the distinction between «high» and «low» culture, subsuming the kitsch imagery of mass culture in quotations and reproductions recycled in painting.

Michael Darlin, chief curator at MCA Chicago, sees the Superflat concept as a broader statement about Japanese culture, wherein the distinction between high and low art is much less definitive than in the West.

An early member of the Chicago - based 1960s collective the Hairy Who (which later morphed into the Chicago Imagist Group), Wirsum's works speak widely to the canon of modern artists who privilege experimentation and transgression over cohesive style, and who used popular culture as if the boundaries between high and low had never existed.

Pop Art introduced recognizable imagery, drawn mainly from popular culture into art, severing the boundaries that had previously existed between traditional fine art and everyday life, and between so - called high art and low culture.

The art of preeminent American modernist Stuart Davis (1892 — 1964) feels especially vital today in its blurring of distinctions between text and image, high and low culture, and abstraction and figuration.

There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern; these include bricolage, the use of words prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern - day context, as well as the break - up of the barrier between fine and high arts and low art and popular culture.

Theo Mercier (b. 1984, France) creates tongue - in - cheek sculptural and photographic assemblages of collaged images and found objects that playfully collapse the boundaries between high and low art, craft and industry, past and present, Western and non-Western cultures.

By directly confronting the basic ideas of the Abstract Expressionism, the first American Pop Artists (emerged in the end of 1950s) completely blurred the boundaries between «high» art and «low» culture.

It was a monologue (delivered in a rotary telephone costume I designed) exploring a symmetrical rift between high and low culture, inspired in part by a musical comedy about a working class bell hop who exposes a pretentious composer (who stole his girlfriend) as a fraud by revealing that his critically acclaimed avant - garde divertimento is really just a hit - parade song played backwards.

Donald is fascinated by the way in which this system of values in the world of decoy making and collecting (still vital today, in spite of the anachronism of duck hunting) echoes so directly that of the art world — while the art world (in spite of claims that we are beyond modernism with its distinctions between high and low culture) would have nothing of such objects.

Equally at home on YouTube (his website includes a MySpace link) as in a gallery setting, the content and low - tech look of Linzy's videos do away with any vestigial discrepancies between high art and pop culture.

According to David Foster Wallace, «the apotheosis of pop in postwar art marked a whole new marriage between high and low culture.

Studiomakers has been set up to broker relationships between artists, designers and anyone seeking low - cost studio spaces, and is appealing to the city's property developers to integrate studios into new developments in order to maintain London's position as a culture capital.

The exhibition is also intended to «challenge the traditional separation between high and low culture».

Rashaad Newsome's works, employing a visual vocabulary of hip hop culture and co-opted heraldic and royal motifs, are what confront you as soon as you enter the gallery; Phoebe Boswell has taken over the whole of the lower ground floor space with a multi-layered installation that involves wall drawing, works on paper as well as tiny animations that sit somewhere between Kara Walker and Tony Oursler.

FAILE's work is constructed from found visual imagery, and blurs the line between «high» and «low» culture, but recent exhibitions demonstrate an emphasis on audience participation, a critique of consumerism, and the incorporation of religious media, architecture, and site - specific / archival research into their work.

Through such tactics Dahn's suggests there is no distinction between high and low culture: «You can transform the low, the most shitty and obvious things, into high quality art, recycle them into an art context where they take on different meanings... That's my strategy, working with these kinds of mass or working class icons.

The allure of popular imagery for Lichtenstein grew from the desire to blur the boundaries between «high» and «low» culture as a means of fusing art with daily life.

A grubby charm seeps through much of the artist's work as he exhumes links between disparate fragments of internet memes, childhood obsessions and critical theory, which clash to form an aggregate of references from high, low, sub and popular cultures.