Sentences with phrase «central cultural forms»

The affinity between this mode of economic organization and certain modes of moral and cognitive culture that have roots deep in western culture undoubtedly helps explain why those modes, utilitarianism and science, have become such central cultural forms in modern America.

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This is the least understood, yet potentially the most important form of cultural imperialism.7 During the past four decades, communication has become increasingly a central component in all industries.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.

Sigiriya was the last stop of my travels in the portion of central Sri Lanka known as the «Cultural Triangle,» a group of ancient city and temple ruins that form the nucleus of the beginning of civilization on this small island located off the tip of southern India.

A trend that also represents a growth opportunity for these destinations: according to Istat (Italy's central statistics institute) and Federculture (the federation of public services for culture, tourism, sport and leisure time), cultural tourism, in particular in cities, has resisted the crisis and stands as the most deseasonalised form of tourism.

Zhang's images have frequently featured a central cutout, the edges of which form the silhouette of an well known cultural icons from both eastern and western culture.

Each artist has been commissioned by The Crossrail Art Foundation to create works of art sympathetic to the locality, history or function of the stations, forming a string of cultural interventions across central London from December 2018.

Group Island Press: Recent Prints, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2018 Thinking Through Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, 2018 Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 The Unhomely, Denny Gallery, New York, NY, 2017 Women Painting, Miami Dade College, Kendall Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 New Faces, Different Places, Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM 2017 The Home Show, form & concept, Santa Fe, NM, 2016 Girls Who Dance in Dissonance, Wayside, Los Angeles, CA, 2016 Surface Area: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2016 Self - Proliferation, Girls» Club, curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2016 Faces and Vases, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2016 Visions Into Infinite Archives, SOMArts Cultural Center, curated by Black Salt Collective, San Francisco, CA, 2016 Summer Art Faculty Exhibition, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2015 Paula Wilson & Jovencio de la Paz, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI, 2015 Perception Isn't Always Reality, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO, 2015 DRAW: Mapping Madness, Inside — Out Art Museum, curated by Tomas Vu, Beijing, China, 2014 - 2015 Lake Effect, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, curated by Mike Andrews, Saugatuck, MI, 2014 I Am The Magic Hand, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, Organized by Josephine Halvorson, New York, NY, 2013 Sanctify, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2012 Configured, Benrimon Contemporary, Curated By Teka Selman, New York, NY 2012 Art by Choice, Mississippi Museum of Fine Art, Jackson, MS, 2011 The February Show, Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY, 2011 Art on Paper: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, 2010 Defrosted: A Life of Walt Disney, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, 2010 41st Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK, 2009 - 2010 Carrizozo Artist's Show, Gallery 408, Carrizozo, NM, 2009 - 2010 While We Were Away, Sragow Gallery, New York, NY, 2009 A Decade of Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999 - 2009, Tsingha University, Beijing, China, 2009 Collected.

His art collecting in the 1980s and 1990s, a period when he was central to new British art, was strong on shocks and thrills, low on the sort of cultural theory that loves such forms as live art.

The right to housing is an element within the right to an adequate standard of living and is recognised as central to the realisation of all economic, social and cultural rights.32 The right to adequate housing is also recognized in other international human rights instruments including; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.