Sentences with phrase «by cultural representations»

Maybe that's because so much of our talk around the devil is shaped by cultural representations.

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Martin sees disturbing parallels between the cultural representations of people who fall by the wayside in the world of work — through unemployment, «deskilling» or lack of training — and those who fall ill as a result of «inferior» immune responses, leading to AIDS, cancer or a host of other diseases.

Unfortunately, our cultural understanding of what «beauty» means is limited by the media's representations of women, which often pressure us into changing our appearance to what we think beauty should look like.

Cultural appropriation is particularly threatening with regard to Black hair because Black women have had to fight for equal representations in several industries and for our beauty to be valued by society.

In early 2015, Jaden released an album titled This Is The Album, comprised of three tracks designed to promote his new - age collective MSFTSRepublic, which includes Beats 1's MSFTS Frequency radio show, hosted by Jaden Smith, an online «zine» of abstract cultural and political representations and a clothing line.

The strides taken in racial representation in Black Panther have made the film a cultural phenomenon, and the soundtrack, produced by rapper Kendrick Lamar, honors this legacy.

The 90th Academy Awards turned Sunday night's ceremony in Los Angeles into a celebration and exhortation of representation and inclusion, after a year marked by seismic cultural change in Hollywood that rippled across the world.

The piece proceeds in the mode of cultural studies by analysing the racial discourses surrounding the film: black rural folklorism, the representation of stereotypical black comic or menial roles in film, the commodification and packaging of black culture, and what Naremore calls «a chic, upscale «Africanism», redolent of café society, Broadway theatre, and the European avant - garde.»

Take the cultural cues in his work: the Rockwellian Americana he essays in Blue Velvet; the Bauhaus by way of Antoni Gaudi of Dune; or the late - Hitchcock identity puzzles he rejiggers in Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive — both commonly seen as satires of what they represent but more accurately described, perhaps, as simple, uncommented - upon representations of what a lower layer of consciousness might consider to be unadorned gospel.

A grisly critique of representations of violence, the original version shot a hole right through the fourth wall, but Haneke's echo — which re-uses the same locations and stresses its own pointlessness at every turn — transforms his cultural commentary into an endless hall of mirrors, completing the project by repeating it.

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.

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I don't think this approach enriched the game by any means, but it does serve as a built - in defense to any accusations of poor or inadequate cultural representation that could be levied at Infamous 2 and its characters.

Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

By placing the Soviet plane in the setting of an empty sky, devoid of potential targets, the artist highlights our cultural tendency to fetishize objects of war, while simultaneously neutering representations of violence — a practice that is particularly manifest in the content of mass - market video games.

«American art by definition includes several aesthetic realities, several cultural realities and a broad geographical representation.

[56]: 43 What, however, can be said, is that it was a movement that developed in the early 20th century mainly in Germany in reaction to the dehumanizing effect of industrialization and the growth of cities, and that «one of the central means by which expressionism identifies itself as an avant - garde movement, and by which it marks its distance to traditions and the cultural institution as a whole is through its relationship to realism and the dominant conventions of representation.»

Identity Shifts A companion exhibition to Posing Beauty, this collection - based display features works by African American artists who use representations of the human figure or some aspect of the body (including hair) to explore how we construct and perceive personal and cultural identity.

Informed by the Los Angeles mural culture, Cristi's complex paintings often intermix cultural signs and representations with painterly abstraction, connecting the politics of the canvas to the politics of the street.

This collection - based exhibition features works by African American artists who use representations of the human figure or some aspect of the body (including hair) to explore how we construct and perceive personal and cultural identity.

Founded by Dawne Langford and Avi Gupta, Quota is a curatorial collaboration dedicated to broadening cultural diversity in public discourse around artistic creation and representation.

The artworks included in this small, focused, survey exhibition encourage conversations surrounding indigenous cultural practices such as mark - making and mapping; visual representations of settlement and expansion; and depictions of changes to the landscape brought about by colliding cultures.

It's in this same year that Tate Modern's exhibition «Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (1963 — 1983)» begins its story of the radical, brilliant and hugely varied art made by African American artists in the political and cultural landscape of Civil Rights, Black Panthers, Blaxploitation, and other manifestations of the fight for equality in education, jobs and representation.

Gowda is interested in the power that objects and forms carry in capturing aspects of reality, with its social and cultural narratives, that are otherwise unseen by and unspeakable through other languages of representation and analysis.

By replacing the typical European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, Wiley is able to draw attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives and raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation.

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?

Thursday, May 11, 11:00 a.m. U.S. Pavilion Press Conference U.S. Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice Mark Bradford's Tomorrow Is Another Day, the official U.S. representation at the 57th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia — is co-organized by the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and The Baltimore Museum of Art and is presented by the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.

The Whitechapel Gallery has published this list of objects, which are being loaned to the gallery for a forthcoming exhibition, as information under The Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan (Publication and Provision of Information) Regulations 2008 and that by publishing this information the Gallery makes no representations that any of these objects fulfill all the requirements of the section 134 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007.

The paintings themselves are conceived by involving elements of cultural and geographic surroundings, as well as elements of digital representations culled from vast online sources to my own camera.

Moroles has strong representation in Dallas which include commissions by the Belo Corporation, Stele Gateway, 1995, made with Fredericksburg granite; the Latino Cultural Center, Granite Weaving, 2001 made with Dakota Mahogany Granite; and three works installed at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Kheirkhah's multi - disciplinary art practice and her specific focus on decentralising the generalising cultural forms of categorization, explores the representations of the so called «Middle Eastern» female identities through a practice which is generated by the interplay of history, politics, media and visual arts within contemporary Western visual culture.

By turning the camera on herself, Sherman raises challenging and important questions about the role of women in society and the representation of cultural stereotypes.

Nine sculptures by artist Charles Rudy (1904 - 1986) will be on display alongside three - dimensional representations made possible through a partnership with the Google Cultural Institute.

The artist is particularly interested in the social and political legacies of cinema; by revisiting twentieth century revolutionary movements through their cultural manifestations, Jones proposes that new forms of collective action and self - representation may yet be possible.

Furthermore, Namsa Leuba's (b. 1982) work, presented digitally by Lensculture, explores shifting themes of self - image, using the bold language of fashion photography to explore the African representation and cultural heritage.

By appropriating technologies of representation from the sciences, architecture, and the commercial arts and combining the dimensional properties of video, photography, sculpture, and drawing, Sarah Dornner investigates the ways in which cultural and social constructs inform individual perceptions of space.

She «is critical of African American cultural history and the representation of black bodies, and her portraits are satirical manifestations of identities shaped by political, social, economic, and cultural influences.»

With some 250 works by more than 80 schooled and unschooled artists, this exhibition argues for a more diverse and inclusive representation in the cultural arena.

The official U.S. representation at the 55th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia, 2013 was organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts and presented by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State; made possible with the collaboration of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) and Co-Commissioned by Holly Block, Executive Director, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Carey Lovelace, Independent curator and critic.

For their first exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery following the announcement of their representation by the New York dealer, Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin have delivered an ambitious debut, translating typical gallery experiences into a staggering, surreal encounter with cultural formats and blurred informational structures.

Stories of representation, dispossession, and the day - to - day politics of cultural difference collapse into and spiral out of the work His research in Singapore has involved connections between Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and Great Britain in an «umbilical» relationship linked by the trade of cotton and other essential goods.

Yishai Jusidman: Prussian Blue, Memory After Representation is made possible by support from Mex - Am Cultural Foundation and the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.

The Brooklyn Commune's Cultural Democracy and Representation Team, led by Kyoung H. Park, has designed an artist survey to invite artists to share their experiences working in the field in order to open up public discussions regarding diversity and inclusion in the performing arts.

Bill is also the author of the Canada Chapter in Media, Advertising and Entertainment Law Throughout the World published and updated annually by Thomson Reuters, and a number of published articles on legal topics such as Merger and Acquisitions representations, Cultural Industries under the FTA, International Commercial Arbitration and Equipment Leasing.

The cautious approach adopted by the Court seems even more problematic since targeting specifically MSM population relies on cultural demeaning representations of gay and bisexual sexualities connected to promiscuity.

The cultural representations, values, and norms were variables explored by Trainor (2010b) to devise strategies regarding how to solicit more involvement from parents who are culturally and linguistically diverse.