Sentences with phrase «complex social history»

This exhibition examined the sneaker's complex social history and cultural significance featuring approximately 160 pairs of sneakers.

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With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Once the exceptional, but fundamentally biological, nature of the collective human complex is accepted, nothing prevents us (provided we take into account the modifications which have occurred in the dimensions in which we are working) from treating as authentic organs the diverse social organisms which have gradually evolved in the course of the history of the human race.

Faced by an almost incomprehensible amount of material always contained in the most complex linguistic, political, and social contexts, the history of religions has moved ahead in the attempt to mark out its own responsibilities and contributions.

By the same token, I still believe that we need to rediscover and reinterpret the three overlapping political traditions — conservative, liberal and socialist or social - democratic — that have woven in and out of our history for well over a century; and that we have at least as much to learn from our complex religious traditions as from political ones.

As the previous section should make clear, Rwanda's history in the region gives it a complex web of overlapping military, economic, social and emotive reasons to continue activities in Eastern Congo.

«This work helps us understand the evolutionary history of eusocial and communally breeding social systems, which are socially more complex than pair - forming,» he added.

«We expected to find similar trends across all primate radiations — that is, that the faces of highly social species would have more complex patterning,» said Santana, who conducted the research as a postdoctoral fellow with the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics and who is now an assistant professor at the University of Washington and curator of mammals at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

The complex event and its aftermath can also be further illuminated via discussions of larger themes in social and political history, such as balancing national safety and civil rights — comparing reactions to 9/11 with those following the attack on Pearl Harbor, for example — or the grounds for overseas military interventions — such as the recent U.S. engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan as compared with the U.S.'s position on the League of Nations after World War I. «These themes put a light on it,» Brodsky Schur says, giving teachers and even parents a way to integrate such a seemingly unteachable event.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

Incorporate Teaching Tolerance's Social Justice Standards to explore current events tied to this country's complex history with race.

HOWL, eon (I, II)(2017), examines the complex legacy of nineteenth - century westward expansion, including the Bay Area's deeply embedded histories of colonialism, capitalism, class conflict, social protest, and technological innovation.

Teresita Fernández's massive, charred map installation, made with charcoal, reacts to America's fraught political and social history, while Tim Rollins and K.O.S. illustrate the American narrative through literature that visualizes the complex reality of the violence, discrimination and urbanization of the American landscape.

Accompanied by an illustrious publication featuring texts by Als and Jeremy Lewison, the exhibition chronicles an artist's personal and creative journey over the decades, while chronicling complex social and political narratives embedded in American history.

This talk will explore the history and place of printmaking and the printed image in the development of the city as a social centre and the way that we have evolved cognitive mechanisms to deal with complex visual systems that guide and inform our everyday lives.

As complex histories and dynamic changes affect Asian political, social, cultural and economic landscapes, it is the artists who grapple with the past, present and future creating a backdrop for new ways of thinking.

Together, these artists visualize the complex political and social reality of the American landscape that is marked by a long history of violence, discrimination, and urbanization.

Chief Curator Heather Pesanti joins McMillian to talk about his new art in the context of a larger body of a work that weaves elements of US social and political history, the body, and architecture into complex tapestries entrenched in myth, memory, and storytelling.

Although each artist takes a vastly different approach, both artists use the power of photography to illuminate America's complex history of race in ways that can help increase our understanding of social conditions today.

This exhibition reconsiders the state of contemporary art in Latin America, investigating the creative responses of artists to complex, shared realities that have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

With a focus on work made by artists born after 1968, in addition to several early pioneers who were active internationally in the 1960s and 70s, Under the Same Sun at the SLG examines a diversity of creative responses by artists to complex, shared realities that have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

As complex and layered as memory itself, these artworks communicate personal histories, transmit or challenge social and cultural narratives, and reveal stories about their material lives.

The anniversary online exhibition encourages new scholarship on the original show and hopes to foster a renewed appreciation of how the digitization of art historical resources offer distinctive frameworks to address complex political, social, and cultural issues related to art history and museum practices.

In its more recent history, after having faced extreme destruction in World War II, it was entirely redeveloped and transformed into a pedestrian zone with a large social housing complex situated in the middle.

Marshall paints large, allegorical, allusive paintings invigorated by a complex conceptual weave of personal and social history, African American popular culture, African diasporan folk material, and a refreshing sense of awe and challenge in the face of Western painting's daunting historical legacy.

In total, they've gifted the museum at least forty works from their collection, which according to the institution, will help it to showcase LGBTQ culture and address the complex social and political history surrounding the representation of men.

Rather than attempting a definitive history, the publication posits an alternative approach to the myriad questions and debates associated with representation, presenting its technological history as inextricable from the social history of media, and staging this through the complex and multivalent relationship between the photographic image and the body, whether it be the body of the viewer, or that of the depicted.

Internationally acclaimed artist Stan Douglas» engaging work explores social histories played out through a complex, cinematic televisual language.

He creates drawings, installations, and films that weave complex arrangements of social and cultural events, examining the relationships between their disparate histories.

Including film, wall paintings, ceramics, silkscreens, Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible frames the artist's oeuvre as a complex dialogue between culture and system, a body of work invested in the perpetual cross-referencing of aesthetic and social histories.

Overstreet's work, which is composed of cubic geometries, dynamic angles and pyramidal forms, addresses social and political causes while investigating the spatial and textural possibilities of painting and complex cultural histories.

Including film, wall paintings, ceramics, silkscreens (on mylar, plexiglass, steel, and canvas), Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible frames the artist's oeuvre as a complex dialogue between culture and system, a body of work invested in the perpetual cross-referencing of aesthetic and social histories,» states the Contemporary Arts Center.

Including film, wall paintings, ceramics, silkscreens (on mylar, plexiglass, steel, and canvas), Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible frames the artist's oeuvre as a complex dialogue between culture and system, a body of work invested in the perpetual cross-referencing of aesthetic and social histories.

All of these artists employ the undeniable beauty of their materials and abstract compositions to convey complex ideas about art history, social issues, and identity.

They are a testament to his incredible skill and the result of a complicated relationship with Western Art History, by which the artist has re-interpreted his own place in his native social fabric while exploring complex relationships between class, sexuality, and violence.

Rodney McMillian has a complex artistic practice that embraces a wide range of media to investigate social history and culture.

(New York, USA) The exhibition examines the diversity of today's creative responses to complex shared realities, which have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

Through complex schemes, marked by several layers of symbolism, themes such as body image, sexuality, social turmoils and political convulsions are communicated in a vertiginous speed, forming a whirlwind of multiple anachronisms which combine autobiographical scenes from the artist's domestic life and public events belonging Brazilian history — both those stamped in the country's social imaginary as well as those programmatically neglected from it.