Sentences with phrase «challenges accepted conventions»

In building their collection of photographs since 2007, Robert Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker turned to the most innovative contemporary work that challenges accepted conventions of the nature of photography — in scale, subject matter, and method of creation — and has helped to ensure the medium's prominence in the contemporary art arena.

Not exact matches

Challenging accepted social conventions including the mechanisms and male dominance of the art industry, these artists sought to reconfigure, and ultimately reshape, the prevailing iconography of «woman» as passive muse surrendering to the male gaze.

Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology opts for an unusual curatorial methodology, adopting certain standards of exhibition practice at the same time that it challenges them, arguing that accepted categories, genres, and conventions of telling a narrative through artworks can be approached otherwise.

Challenging accepted social conventions including the mechanisms of the art industry, these artists sought to reconfigure, and ultimately reshape, the prevailing iconography of «woman» as the passive muse surrendering herself to the male gaze.