Sentences with phrase «contemporary womanhood»

The images in her work do depict women in positions of strength (Shiva, Thinking of Venus), but they principally deal with some very personal preoccupations of contemporary womanhood.

Not exact matches

One of my biggest concerns about literature coming out of the contemporary «biblical manhood and womanhood» movement is that it tends to relegate certain traits to certain genders, and then pit those traits against one another.

I thought it would be interesting to use a format like Jacobs» to comment on the contemporary «biblical womanhood» phenomenon in a fresh way.

Now, I would never suggest that feminist ideology is perfect or that the feminist movement did not create some problems, but just as the contemporary biblical womanhood movement deserves fair, nuanced treatment, so does the feminist movement.

Current projects include In the Shadow of the Negress: A Brief History of Modern Artistic Practice, which explores the constitutive role played by fictions of black womanhood in Western art from the late - eighteenth century to the present, and a companion volume — tentatively entitled Touched by the Mother: Contemporary Artists, Black Masculinities, and the Ends of the American Century — that brings together many of his new and previously published critical essays.

Antonia B. Larkin is a multidisciplinary artist whose main focus is contemporary black womanhood.

Select group exhibitions and biennials featuring her work include Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); Surrealist: The Conjured Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015); Picasso & Contemporary Art, Le Grand Palais, Paris (2015); Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, traveled to Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, GA, and the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2014); The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2013); Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2011); The Spectacle of the Everyday, and Black Womanhood, San Diego Museum of Art, CA (2009).

Through a contemporary lens, Marilyn has become a symbol of not only sex appeal, but empowerment and womanhood as she embraced the camera in a way that no celebrity had dared to do before.

Using recurring motifs, she celebrates the female spirituality and African womanhood in a glorious fashion commonly found in contemporary African art.

This exhibition — like her life in art — was about womanhood, and it served as a living will of sorts, a testimony to her belief in the power of contemporary art and the power of women in art.