Relates the biblical tradition and
contemporary social attitudes to counseling on sexual and changing role problems.
Not exact matches
All of this material provides a rich background for a treatment of the political,
social, moral, and personal consequences of
attitudes toward suffering in the
contemporary world.
That is an inward matter, and you sometimes feel that with regard to many
contemporary moral
attitudes and
social customs you are a «yes man,» not an independent character standing up for your own convictions.
In his new publication Jens Hoffmann reflects on the spaces of
contemporary art — the gallery, the institution, the biennial — and ultimately positions the discipline of curating in the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political,
social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new
attitudes and new thinking.
In
contemporary Russia in which the official political and cultural
attitudes become increasingly conservative, a new generation of Russian artists continue the tradition of the Russian artistic and political Left: desire to change the reality by means of art, ideals of equality and
social justice, radical Utopianism, secularism and internationalism.
The programme highlights how the deployment of new and innovative materials and technologies, as well as shifting cultural and
social attitudes is affording alternative frameworks and understandings about
contemporary experience, from educational models and street culture to collectively designing museums for African contexts.
Although nearly one hundred years have passed since the birth of Dada in Zurich and much has changed in terms of the initial purpose of the movement (which was founded to diminish
social pretensions, ridicule the human situation, and force audience self - awareness by attacking their common assumptions about art), there are
contemporary artists, like Boller, who employ similar forms, gestures and
attitudes towards materials which like a steady heart seem to keep the beat of the movement alive.