Sentences with phrase «by commercial culture»

As corporations vie more and more aggressively for young consumers, popular culture — which traditionally evolves from creative self - expression that captures and informs shared experience — is being smothered by commercial culture relentlessly sold to children by people who value them for their consumption, not their creativity.

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Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.

During this time Egypt continued to be a center for continuing cultural and commercial emigrations from neighboring Arab countries as well as a crossroads for the infiltration of Western culture — an infiltration which remained within the bounds imposed by the desire to maintain the Arabic and Islamic character of the culture of Egypt.

The air, sunlight, soil, forests, various life forms and water are all being affected adversely by the modern industrial, commercial culture which is not establishing a sustainable relationship with the natural world.

By becoming part of the corporate culture, a move that probably worked quite well in the short term, churches have now equated themselves with the retailers of any commercial product.

In a ritually impoverished society, television lends ritualisitic elements by broadcasting civic ceremonies, sports events, and even commercial advertisements.5 Such programming provides the images and iconography by which individuals become connected to the shared values of our consumer culture.

Virginia Stem Owens in her book The Total Image notes how the mass - cultural acquiescence seen in the paid - time religious broadcasters is part of a broader infatuation by evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity with mass commercial and advertising culture.

While the cultures» propensity towards spicy food has become a stereotype, reinforced through a commercial push for «Latino» products such as hot sauce and salsa, it remains true that the flavor of the culture's cuisine is influenced by hot chiles of all kinds.

It's the culture at the club and it starts with the owner... you got to held people accountable & be about winning not about turning around profit (which by the way if you win gets bigger as you attract more commercial deals & bigger players that wants to win / play for the best)!!

Such reasons are cited by the manufacturers of two leading brands of commercial infant formula, Enfamil and Similac, as why their products still have a place in a culture of increased breast - feeding.

Argentina's ancestors are mostly Italian and Spanish; however, it developed its culture by the hand of France, its technical education through Germany and infrastructure through the UK: railways, stations, ports, commercial transport.

A series of strikes in the culture and heritage sector opens with walkouts by British Library workers on Thursday (16) and Friday (17), the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

It further added that the words were understood to mean «the second — fourth plaintiffs are organized criminal companies employed by the first plaintiff, through a corporate culture of malfeasance and impropriety, to perpetrate fraud on the Republic of Ghana and their other clients through illegal, dishonest, fraudulent, sleazy, shady and opprobrious commercial transactions».

These items provide tantalizing hints of commercial traffic on a Silk Road predating by two millennia the trading route that eventually linked China to Europe in the early centuries A.D. Hiebert likens the Oxus civilization to Polynesia — a scattered but common culture held together by camels rather than canoes.

These notes have been used by traditional cultures for centuries prior to finding their way into the Western fragrance repertoire, and were used in commercial perfumes until recently when synthetic molecules were developed to replace them.

Nowadays, though, most commercial cultured butter is «cultured» by the incorporation of bacterial cultures.

After a stellar career in student drama at Oxford, he had joined the BBC, but he was soon also writing film criticism and, in 1956, was one of the founders, along with Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson, of the Free Cinema movement, espousing a cinema free of commercial and political constraints and using a personal style to capture working - class life and popular culture, which had been ignored by traditional British cinema.

These developments — the rise of auteurism, its adaptation to commercial Hollywood pictures, and a new seriousness about the mass culture — combined by the middle 1970s to alter, perhaps permanently, the way we regarded all the films we attended.

Scripted by leading lady Sylvia Chung — who co-stars with Chow Yun - Fat as the secretly entangled, openly warring bosses of a major import - export company — To's film has much more to say about workplace politics, commercial culture and the roots of the financial crash than its gaudy, giddy exterior might suggest.

As for the commercial disappointment, you can cushion the blow by acknowledging that the film makes no effort to appeal to Americans, instead delving into hooligan culture and a fandom that means nothing to them.

«We need to move away from an expensive and time - consuming culture of proliferating external examinations - modules, re-sits and retakes - towards fewer high - quality qualifications overseen and conferred not by commercial organisations but by institutions of academic excellence such as our best universities,» said Mr Gove.

We live in a culture so dominated by a commercial mentality and its tenacious faith in the power of the purse as the decisive motivator of human behavior that, even when the evidence shows that this conviction is wrong, many refuse to let go of it.

While Alert Bay's economy is still influenced by commercial fishing, it has gained a reputation as an «off the beaten path» tourism destination emphasizing First Nations culture, its natural environment and eco-tours.

The four two - minute documentary - style films, created by BBC StoryWorks, BBC Advertising's commercial content production arm, challenge the perceptions of traditional Britain, offering a modern take on the stunning landscapes, fashion, culture and history, and will air on BBC's commercial, international news channel, BBC World News, to an American audience between October 2017 to March 2018.

With his expertise of over 20 years in the hospitality industry across the globe in different departments including operations, marketing, commercial innovation, guest satisfaction, project management and brand development, Burton believes in continual learning and upgrading by listening to people, understanding the desires of high - end travellers and adapting to various cultures.

Internationally - renowned interior designer Alexandra Champalimaud was inspired by Jakarta's long - established position on the global stage, and by its commercial trading history and the influence of many cultures on its character, in particular Indonesia's Dutch colonial period.

This coincided with the period when the city was ruled by the Itzae, a group of seafaring warrior traders or Putun from Chontal Maya territory in Tabasco and Campeche who had political and commercial ties with central Mexican cultures.

Influenced by the happenings staged by Allan Kaprow, George Segal, Claes Oldenburg, and others, which incorporated everyday objects and popular culture, Lichtenstein turned to an entirely new imagery culled from the contemporary world of advertisements and comic books and adopted the graphic techniques of commercial illustration.

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN January 29 - May 8, 2011 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX July 23 - September 18, 2011 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial culture.

At the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the group Occupy Museums, a collective that exposes how global capitalism co-opts culture for its own commercial ends, mounted an installation that examines the debts accrued by artists in the pursuit of their work.

Displays of commercial dinner services decorated by Bracquemond punctuate the exhibition, revealing the unexpected but vital role of his printmaking in ceramics production while highlighting his aesthetic experimentation when the taste for Japanese art and culture swept French society.

This exhibition — again at the Whitechapel — established Richard Hamilton & Eduardo Paolozzi as the leaders of a group of artists fascinated by advertising, commercial design, and other manifestations of popular culture.

He rearranged the existing territory of different nations by containing languages and marks of social consuming as well as public commercial media to eliminate the clash between different cultures and merge the worldwide culture and history.

Chu's window display operates as both an artistic and commercial display, challenging what is and what is not art by fusing the gallery with the street culture from which is is inspired.

«s culture - jamming campaigns dissected mainstream visual culture by inserting lesbian images into recognizably commercial contexts.

Over time, the scope was broadened to include works by renowned American Illustrators and pop culture commercial artists, including Tim Burton, Maurice Sendak, Charles Schulz and Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss).

's culture - jamming campaigns dissected mainstream visual culture between 1991 - 2004 by inserting lesbian images into recognizably commercial contexts.

Adrian Wong bases his series of neon works on the proliferation of signage and commercial messaging that covers his native Hong Kong, a method of appropriation and simulation shared by Wiyoga Muhardanto from Indonesia whose branded sculptures satirise consumer culture.

Yet in a corporate culture, it is a double bind since it also shows a cynical motif: selling the product, i.e. hijacking the family for commercial employment and tuning the cultural output to its spectators by censoring away the world's horrors.

Johns and Rauschenberg, and soon Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and others, complicated modernism's claims of artistic authorship and authenticity by turning to popular and often banal subjects drawn from mass culture and producing works that mimicked — and often exploited — commercial modes of production.

Works by such Pop artists as the Americans Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselman, James Rosenquist, and Robert Indiana and the Britons David Hockney and Peter Blake, among others, were characterized by their portrayal of any and all aspects of popular culture that had a powerful impact on contemporary life; their iconography — taken from television, comic books, movie magazines, and all forms of advertising — was presented emphatically and objectively, without praise or condemnation but with overwhelming immediacy, and by means of the precise commercial techniques used by the media from which the iconography itself was borrowed.

A New Yorker since the 1960s, the artist has led a double life since arriving in the U.S.. By day he has been an innovator in conceptual graphic design, with many of his commercial logos and packaging becoming iconic in American culture.

In this context Point of View as a collection represents how artists offer up an alternative to mainstream, mass - produced culture's content by combining the imaginative and innovative properties identified with high art with forms and subjects drawn from advertisements, commercial movies, graphic and industrial design, science fiction, and popular music.

Now 77, the German artist Thomas Bayrle was for many years a revered professor at Frankfurt's Städelschule and he continues to be appreciated by European curators and critics for own art's radical acceleration of Warhol's serial appropriation of commercial culture.

The exhibition's placement on the fourth floor of the Museum — between galleries featuring paintings by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol — underscores the continuation of prewar avant - garde practices in America and the unique legacy of Evans's explorations of signs and symbols, commercial culture and the vernacular.

«By the mid - and late - 1970s,» wrote the curator Richard Marshall in his essay for the exhibition «American Art Since 1970» at the Whitney Museum, «painting had moved further away from the confines of the Minimalist approach — even from a negative reaction to it — and the artists [Jennifer Bartlett, Vija Celmins, Lois Lane, Neil Jenney, Bill Jensen and Elizabeth Murray] inaugurated new ways to treat subject matter and meaning -LSB-...] there emerged a move against an insular, elitist attitude towards art and what it is, should be, or must be -LSB-...] artists began to look at more diverse visual repertory: commercial art, advertising, fashion, television and movies, popular culture, the decorative arts, rugs, religion, ancient artifacts, and Middle Eastern Cultures.»

Using the images from mass culture and found objects, pop art artists reshaped the face of the painting by introducing a new kind of commercial aesthetics.

prepared by Lloyds of London, builds itself around the model that the development of a compensation culture in the UK is generating a perception of an increased litigation risk with the result that corporate resources are diverted from the general commercial purpose of the company to the litigation process both avoiding it and participating in it.

Calunius partner Christian Stuerwald and fellow speakers will discuss at a seminar organized by the Swedish Arbitration Association (SAA) the use of and room for growth for dispute funding in Sweden and the Nordics; these countries have a business environment that creates relatively large disputes by the numbers and a sound and transparent legal culture with reliable courts and commercial arbitration.

Ian said: «I was attracted to the Excello Law business model due to the flexibility it offers lawyers to focus on developing our services to clients in the way we see best, complemented by a collaborative culture across a national team of senior, commercial lawyers.»