Sentences with phrase «century ethnographic»

There are also 12 paintings depicting Native Americans, by the 19th - century ethnographic artist George Catlin.

His use of materials is, to use the same word with a different meaning, impressively appropriate: the silver gelatin process gives the images, though contemporary, a faded archival aura, like old 19th century ethnographic photography, while evoking the shiny metallic surfaces of modern cars.

The installation is treated like a specimen, or a museum exhibit cordoned off with a velvet rope, which talks back to the 19th century ethnographic displays at the world fairs that displayed people from «exotic» lands in recreated habitats.

Over the past 20 years the artist has hyper - realistically rendered pictures of prepubescent boys, non-existent 19th century ethnographic studies and invented architectural spaces, as well as animations of physical forms in motion.

Part I juxtaposes A.M. Duggan - Cronin's early twentieth century ethnographic project of portraits and «native types,» set outdoors, with Santu Mofokeng's «counter-archive» of largely self - conscious modern African sitters posing in the studio.

Not exact matches

Modern and contemporary Latin American art; 19th - century traveler artists to Latin America; colonial art and objects from Latin America; Amazonian ethnographic objects

Her collection, which leans heavily toward geometric abstraction produced between the 1940s and 1990s, also includes 19th - century traveler artists to Latin America, Amazonian ethnographic objects, colonial art and objects from Latin America, and contemporary art.

Caracas, Venezuela; Dominican Republic; New York Media, entertainment, telecommunications, consumer products, and travel resorts 19th - century traveler artists to Latin America; Amazonian ethnographic objects; colonial art and objects from Latin America; Modern and contemporary Latin American art Top 200 appearance: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

19th - century traveler artists to Latin America; Amazonian ethnographic objects; colonial art and objects from Latin America; Modern and contemporary Latin American art

Caracas, Venezuela; Dominican Republic; New York Media; Entertainment; Telecommunications; Consumer products; Travel resorts Modern and contemporary Latin American art; 19th - century traveler artists to Latin America; colonial art and objects from Latin America; Amazonian ethnographic objects Top 200 appearance: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2017

In terms of this presentation, the Chapman Family Collection parodies typical Western ethnographic museums and deepens the criticism of the underlying hypocrisy associated with a century of globalization.

In the past, the Mexican artist has scoured the archives of the 19th - century English explorer and diplomat Alfred Maudslay, gone north of the border to research the Scottish sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi, and, of course, is well - acquainted with the ethnographic archives of her hometown Mexico City.

There are five areas of deep focus within the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros: modernist geometric abstraction from Latin America; artworks and documentation of traveler artists who explored and worked in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries; ethnographic objects from and documentation of twelve of the indigenous tribes from the Orinoco river basin in Venezuela's state of Amazonas; material culture from Latin America's colonial era; and contemporary art from Latin America and beyond.

The exhibition takes as one of its points of departure the critical legacy of the first half of twentieth century ethnography and the continued fascination in contemporary art with exploring ethnographic poetics.

A major exhibition filling MoMA PS1's entire gallery space will open in 2013, highlighting artists who are reacting to the pressing questions of the 21st century with its interrelated ecological, economical, spiritual, ethnographic, political, and social challenges.

Viewers can see themselves mirrored in the glass, which could be read either as an intentional provocation — implicating viewers into the postcolonial quagmire — or an ironic update on the gilded expositions of ethnographic fairs and 18th - century aristocratic art collections.

Interdisciplinary visual artist, performer, and writer, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle's current body of work «The Uninvited» focuses on reconstructing the narratives that took place in the late 19th century and early 20th century West African ethnographic photography taken mainly by French colonialism.

As the history of art in the twentieth century unfolded, with the world - making intersection of the ethnographic and modernity, the representational strategies of colonial identities were bound up in extreme depictions of racial exoticism.

The collection, amassed entirely through donations, includes artworks from the past three centuries as well as ethnographic objects such as helmets, masks and weapons from Africa, Oceania and the Americas.

Interdisciplinary visual artist, performer and writer, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle's current body of work «The Uninvited» focuses on re-constructing the narratives that took place within late 19th century and early 20th century West African ethnographic photography taken mainly by French colonialist.

See and buy art from over 130 of the world's leading galleries specialising in antiquities, Asian art, ethnographic art, illuminated manuscripts, medieval, modern and post-war art, Old Masters and 19th Century, as well as photography, sculpture and wunderkammer.

Here behind the velvet rope, the philanthropist is the specimen, turning the table on ethnographic displays commonly included in 19th century world's fairs where humans were on view in their recreated habitats.