Sentences with phrase «confronts issues of violence»

Each of these artists confronts issues of violence and power, shifting between personal, political and historical events while maintaining a dialogue with the tradition of figurative painting.

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Cockburn combines social protest and faith while confronting issues of poverty and violence in developing nations and celebrating the world's diversity.

«The federal government's continued inaction on this issue has not only allowed the epidemic of gun violence to spread, but it has left it to the states to provide the leadership needed to confront this problem head on,» Gov. Cuomo said.

AIDS is increasingly affecting women; and marriage — in which there can be frequent episodes of male violence and sex with multiple partners — has become a serious and significant risk factor for acquiring HIV.13 In Uganda, for all its relative progress, rape and domestic abuse have been important factors in sustaining the epidemic.14 Is it too much to hope that the searing catastrophe of AIDS may have put before women and men an issue that they can use to confront male violence, exploitation, and stigma?

(1) The political issues explicitly confronted in Haneke's work — the alienating rituals of late capitalism, immigration, multiculturalism, the legacies of colonialism, the origins of fascism, the media's relationship with violence — further encourage the idea that he is attuned to the contemporary world, and prepared to engage with it, with a commitment matched by few other directors today.

Although she was neither a witness to nor victim of violence growing up, Pierce explains how she was confronted with the issue while teaching English in the Peace Corps when she realized her co-teacher, who she had become close to, was being abused by her husband.

2016 Nov. 18 — Wadsworth Atheneum Presents 43rd Annual Festival of Trees & Traditions Nov. 1 — John Trumbull Paintings Central to «Visualizing American Independence» at Wadsworth Atheneum Oct. 5 — First U.S. Exhibition by Artist Dulce Chacón Explores Human Feats and Failures in the Frontiers of Air and Space Sept. 23 — Grant S. Smith to Lead Development, Revitalize Fundraising Initiatives at Wadsworth Atheneum Sept. 9 — First Major Photography Survey in 27 Years to Open at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Aug. 16 — Francisco de Zurbarán's «Saint Serapion» Returns to Galleries at Wadsworth Atheneum May 23 — Exhibition to Highlight Diversity of Contemporary Artists, Artworks May 10 — Works by Salomon van Ruysdael and Kehinde Wiley Among Newest Acquisitions by Wadsworth Atheneum April 21 — «Vanessa German / MATRIX 174» to Confront Social Issues of Race and Violence Beginning June 9 March 25 — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Names Anne Butler Rice New Director of Education

In an effort to identify truth, reality, and meaning, each of the artists in the exhibition confronts these questions by inventing, criticizing, or retelling reality — simultaneously grappling with issues of racial identity, sexuality, violence, protest, globalism, and ethics.

Punchbag added further complexities to questions of raced, gendered and cultural identities raised by Glenn Ligon's Skin Tight: Muhammed Ali Text (1995)[Figs.85 - 86], a punchbag and text piece which specifically sought to address «how black men have used boxing to confront issues of black American identity» and «the construction of masculinity in relation to questions of violence, the commodification of black subjects, sexuality and resistance.»

A multimedia artist, Nanashe creates works that confront the viewer with issues of violence, control, meaning, humor, perception, and the body.

First, that women should make feminine art, and second, that African American artists should make figurative and «activist» art, works that confront issues of race, inequality, injustice and the long history of violence against black people.

At Rutgers University, he began integrating performance, video, and installation into works that confront the viewer with issues of violence, control, humor, perception, and the body.

The Center also offers student research assistance to judges confronting issues of gender - based violence, though whether the... [more]

He ties the recall petition to a host of issues in which progressive commitment to due process, basic defendant rights, and judicial independence have run aground in cases of sexual violence, with the ordinarily progressive position abandoned; these include victim - impact statements, propensity evidence in sexual - violence cases, the right to confront witnesses, and general abandonment of due process in campus sexual assault.

The contributors to this issue of Zero to Three illustrate the diverse settings and situations that early childhood professionals confront in their work with young children and families: A busy morning in a pediatric clinic; the traumatic aftermath of domestic violence; guiltridden parents worried about the health of their infant; mothers with severe psychiatric disorders; reflective supervision in an early intervention program; and peer - group support for enhancing social and emotional development in child care settings.