Sentences with phrase «challenged established traditions»

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And this, in turn, challenges established national political systems, notions of identity and democratic traditions.

This sense of cultural refinement, which included various forms of ritual and tradition, shaped her aesthetic along with her art education, inspiring her to challenge established social conventions.

His research and eventual film work will explore how the influence of these committed intellectuals reverberated widely in the post-war cultural arena, eventually giving rise to an emerging discipline of «cultural studies», that, in its focus on popular art forms and vernacular traditions, posed considerable challenges to the established academic elite of that time.

The way he has brought together the art historical traditions of John James Audubon and the great naturalists of the past with profound and often challenging cultural themes has established him as a uniquely American artist.

Reeder's approach complicates the gravitas of his subject — namely the history, styles, and traditions of painting — with saccharine colors and atypical subjects while challenging established tastes and preconceptions of value.

If the Arte Povera movement challenged established art conventions through its use of found or «low» materials, and if abstract expressionism was in many ways a tradition of American hegemony during the Cold War and the ultimate in «high art seriousness» as practitioners confronted the sublime and the subconscious in their energetic output, Scott's paintings are a strange hybrid of both.

Established in 1974, Bindmans has a long history and tradition of challenging injustice and protecting the rights and freedoms of ordinary people.