Sentences with phrase «contemporary cultural phenomenon»
As a contemporary cultural phenomenon, selfies are of interest to psychologists, in terms of how people think and feel when taking, posting and viewing both their own selfies and those posted by others.
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A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior in organic value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces of Life.
Probably the most important cultural phenomenon in contemporary Jewry is the rise of what some have called the «ba'al teshuvah movement.»
As Clifford Geertz has pointed out, the contemporary skeptical and revisionist spirit is «determined to examine science as through and through a social and cultural phenomenon.»
Since the 1970s, Muntadas has given attention to «media landscapes» (mass media, symbols, images and slogans) that allow him to investigate contemporary phenomena associated with political, cultural and educational dynamics, revealing and denouncing its instrinsic mechanisms and opening up a broader scrutiny of the human condition in an age of advanced capitalism.
The exhibition's catalog and accompanying texts go to great lengths in describing the show, instead, as «a broad overview of a groundbreaking aspect of contemporary art practice» — «a recognizable cultural phenomenon... that also addressed universal aspects of the human condition.»
Rather than simplistically linking revolutionary breakthroughs in the arts with larger social and cultural phenomenon, he writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art's engagement with history even when it seems apathetic or blind to current events.
Her new book, on comics as a contemporary cultural and aesthetic phenomenon, will be published in the fall by HarperCollins.
Given the recent rise of a similarly trans - cultural phenomenon in the form of Gerhard Richter's abstract paintings, there's something to be said for Contemporary artists who find a way to make lage bodies of decorative work with few barriers to interpretation or assimilation.
Given the task at hand, this is a formidable book — a volume replete with information, interpretation, and insight on contemporary Chinese art — a phenomenon that has sustained itself within a myriad of contextual, social, political, economic, and cultural issues.
Referencing a range of historical and contemporary codes and double meanings including floriography, the Victorian cultural phenomenon that used flowers as tokens to communicate hidden or forbidden pleasures, Fox developed the «Phantasieblume» body of work (2008 - 11), a series of intricately hand cut decorative objects resembling the preciousness of handcrafted Victorian lace sited within a series of cabinets.
In her work, Aleksandra Domanović takes a probing look at a wide range of phenomena of contemporary society, among them cultural techniques, scientific and...
This contemporary art exhibition, organized by Wiels and curated by Dirk Snauwaert in collaboration with Mons 2015 — European Capital of Culture, will present a group of artists interested in phenomena of circulation, diaspora and cultural dislocation.
In her work, Aleksandra Domanović takes a probing look at a wide range of phenomena of contemporary society, among them cultural techniques, scientific and technological developments, history and culture, popular culture and the shaping of national and cultural identity.
The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.
Her research interests are in interdisciplinary relationships of contemporary art and in cultural phenomena with regard to historical, economic, and political contexts.
It also confirms a phenomenon that was not present in other historical periods and is unique to the art of our time: despite the fact that the world continues to be made up of diverse cultural zones, international contemporary art has a universal language.