Sentences with phrase «challenging accepted notions»

A survey of Wiley's career since 2001, this exhibition features 60 paintings and sculptures (a more recent pursuit) that riff on images from the art historical canon, challenging accepted notions of race, gender and representation.

It also shows that your results are important and that you are challenging accepted notions.

«Early humans and dawn of human information sharing: Team challenges accepted notions of cultural transmission.»

From Uterus Man to LuYang Delusional Mandala, to her latest work Electromagnetic Brainology, Lu Yang's refreshing sense of absurd humor challenges accepted notions of contemporary art.

The exhibition explores multiple themes that challenge accepted notions of belonging and identity; the everyday and the fantastical; the past and the future; the public and the private.

Not exact matches

Writing in the October issue of Current Anthropology, he and three colleagues challenge a widely accepted notion that cultural transmission goes back more than 2 million years.

Applying all of this to the passenger pigeon is challenging many widely accepted notions about the bird.

I emphasize the word willingly to challenge the notion — accepted by many teachers and administrators — that coaching is a tool for fixing people or enforcing a program.

Through each of the artists» engagement with the formal and conceptual properties of the medium, they challenge the notion that photography presents a faithful representation of reality and incite us to look more closely at how images are manipulated, styled and filtered to create fictions that we, the public are too - often ready to accept.

For More Pricks Than Kicks, Simon Denny will explore the notion of negation that lies in Beckett's work: indeed, he was asked by the curators to handle the display of the artworks in the exhibition, and, after having accepted this challenge, announced that he «would prefer not to», quoting Bartleby's famous motto (mention source Bartleby as not Beckett).

Featuring creatives at the show challenge the ingrained notion that photographs represent reality, and instead push us, with their works, to observe more closely the ways images are manipulated, styled, and filtered to create fictions we often accept as truth.

Experimenting with atypical materials and finishes — even swapping studio detritus with the late Franz West for use in new paintings — he challenges the accepted ideas of how art should look and redefines notions of historical legacies.

Throughout his career, Stella has challenged the boundaries of painting and accepted notions of style.