Sentences with phrase «black vernacular»

These overlapping comics all take place in «Black Metropolis» — the long dreamed - of capital of the «Black World» — and are written in Black vernacular English.

Martine Syms's expansive, multi-disciplinary practice, which includes film, essay, graphic design, web design, and publishing, explores representations of blackness and its relationship to narrative, black vernacular, feminist movements, and radical traditions.

Martine Syms (b. 1 988, Los Angeles) uses video and performance to examine representations of blackness and its relationship to American situation comedy, black vernacular, feminist movements, and radical traditions.

Martine Syms uses video and performance to examine representations of blackness and its relationship to American situation comedy, black vernacular, feminist movements and radical traditions.

The novella's title Plant you now, dig you later refers to the black vernacular phrase meaning «see you soon,» and is specifically influenced by Louis Armstrong's formulation: «And now I'll do you «Just like the Farmer did the Potato — I'll plant you now and dig you later.

«Populated by superheroes whose powers derive from those attributed to the seven gods of the Yoruba pantheon, and characters that debate intellectual history, philosophy, and politics in Black vernacular English, Rythm Mastr channels the diasporic and utopian drive of science fiction and Afrofuturism using the intertextual qualities of the graphic novel and the film storyboard.

The publication of young adult novel When We Was Fierce has been postponed by its author and publisher following harsh criticism of the «deeply offensive» invented black vernacular it is narrated in.

Perhaps, in response to my «slanguage» assignment, she has written about code - switching from Caribbean Spanish to black vernacular English to social media lingo.

Not exact matches

At first, Longley and New Mexico's black players had difficulty comprehending each other's vernacular.

Vintage, i.e. I bought it ten years ago, black featherweight sweater, generic Bloomingdale's cashmere Vintage, in the same vernacular, tan pants from Armani Collezione Black leather and patent heels from Beautblack featherweight sweater, generic Bloomingdale's cashmere Vintage, in the same vernacular, tan pants from Armani Collezione Black leather and patent heels from BeautBlack leather and patent heels from Beautifeel

It is vernacular amongst people to beam at couples where the female is from black group and male is from white group.

I like that there's a certain equality to the fact that if Ewan McGregor can butcher an American accent in Black Hawk Down, Josh can mangle the British vernacular in Blow Dry.

In The Hiptionary, Mahmoud El - Kati, Professor Emeritus in American History at Maclester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, legitimizes black dialect with alphabetical lists of both vocabulary words and phrases straight from the vernacular.

I pointed to African American Vernacular English, a dialect spoken by some black people, as a similar example.

This novel in verse, written in street vernacular, is illustrated in striking black and grey acrylics.

This novel - in - verse, written in street vernacular, is illustrated in striking black - and - gray acrylics.

Among the periods she intends to highlight are the years 1924 to 1943, when the notion of a distinct American folk art came into public consciousness through the efforts of the Whitney Studio Club and MoMA director Alfred Barr; the long decade from the late 1960s through the early 1980s that saw both the publication of Roger Cardinal's 1972 book Outsider Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular art.

Leigh's sculptural works in ceramic and other materials reference vernacular visual traditions from the Caribbean, the American South, and the African continent, as well as the black diasporic experience dating from the Middle Passage to the present.

Without formal training (in Lockett's case, deliberately so) and working largely with found materials, Lockett, Dial, Holley and peers like Joe Minter took their visual language from traditional black Southern vernacular art forms like the scrap quilt and the yard show but adapted it to speak of personal philosophies, social issues and the African - American experience.

The introduction establishes the importance of Black artisans in colonial New Orleans and references the emergence of iconic cultural forms including jazz, vernacular architecture, politically significant moments in New Orleans history (Plessy v. Ferguson), and food.

With this in mind, let me evoke the American noir sensibility through the contemporary notion of key words (here grouped for poetic effect): Contorted Narrative Alienation / Distant Blue Darkness / Dramatic Adjectival Allure / Visceral Black & Blue Bruises / Pleasureless Expressionist Stiletto / Awkward Lone Gothic / Unforgiven Repressed Revulsion / Strangled Outsider Vernacular.

He has turned up at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, as a «vernacular artist,» and in a Whitney Biennial heavy on political art, where I never so much as took note of it.

The exhibition will consider the distinctive architectural design of each site, as well as the hand - made furniture, counters, desks, cabinets, and display systems by Randy Shull Design, built using vernacular and available regional materials, and inspired by the design aesthetic and creative philosophies of Black Mountain College.

However, Purifoy's peers in the community of Black artists in Los Angeles, such as Powell, identify influences in his work ranging from George Washington Carver to vernacular architectures of the Deep South to Congolese fetish sculptures.

Working with established cultural tropes, the artist largely disconnects from art world contexts in order to alternate between black and queer vernaculars in his irreverent discussion of the AIDS epidemic and its origins.

10/25 Kerry James Marshall, «Mastry» Through 1/29, the Met Breuer A painter of historical mysteries and the «African - American vernacular,» Marshall will showcase his huge graphic masterpieces of jet - black men, women, and children in housing projects, on streets, at play in the fields of the American Dream.

Made using black & white slide film, these images are drained of the bright colors typical to the fairground painting vernacular, changing the way in which the original paintings were read.

Harris, working in CMOA's hometown of Pittsburgh, and VanDerZee, in Harlem, captured pictures of social black life that revealed both the formal and vernacular aspects of two communities that were overlooked but lived in with complexity and style in the 20th century.

Enacting a dramatic narrative in the style of a soap opera or telenovela, Linzy's multiple personae express desperation, desire, and ambition in the vernacular of southern blacks from the lower socio - economic spectrum.

While Linzy draws on the experiences of poor southern blacks and the vernacular of working - class serial television in his videos, Hennessy Youngman (Jayson Musson) plays directly to the art world.

However, most of this work springs from an expressionistically freeform compositional approach which, in the case of Martin, was unabashedly influenced by the vernacular forms of black Southern artists like Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley, who had little choice but to employ the most abject of materials.

Vertical roll, black, neon and strobe light; dancers, musicians, computer language, television broadcast and satellite transmission form the visual and aural vernacular of his tapes and films, recently gathered under the title, Channel Mix.

The vernacular wood frame of his Church at Head Tide (1938) exemplifies this concentration upon local forms: the black outlines surrounding the structure — increasingly prevalent in Hartley's work after the early 1930s — metaphorize this inward turning.

New York gallery Foxy Production flanks the entrance to the auditorium, with Petra Cortright wriggling around in a striped shirt, exploiting the disorientation of a fun house mirror - like distortion effect in her video i feel u (2015), and Sara Cwynar showing us manipulations of vernacular photography and a new series of color grids melting beyond their neat black borders.

African American Vernacular Photography reproduces 70 of Cowin's most exceptional color plates with essays by Brian Wallis, Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator at the International Center of Photography, and Deborah Willis, MacArthur Fellow and author of Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present and, with Carla Williams, The Black Female Body: A Photographic History.

Books Hannah Black, Vernacular Loneliness Kency Cornejo, Contemporary Art of El Salvador, 1977 - 2017 M. Neelika Jayawardane, Comrades with Cameras: The Afrapix Photographers» Collective and the Anti-Apartheid Movement Janet Kraynak, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life Shaka McGlotten, Black Data Amber Musser, Brown Jouissance: Feminine Imaginings Nada Shabout, The Dialectics of the Decorative in Iraqi Art Greg Youmans, Something New Under the Sun: Bay Area Queer Filmmaking Across the 1970s

Her 1995 essay «In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life» illuminates the power and importance of the family camera and vernacular photography.

Among the black community, the slur nigger is sometimes rendered as nigga, a pronunciation emphasizing the unique intra-racial dialect of black people, a self - referential pronoun in African - American Vernacular English usage popularized by the rap and hip - hop music cultures.

Black window and doorframes by Marvin bring modern detailing to the vernacular architecture.