Sentences with phrase «cultural artefacts»

2 July 2013Last updated at 07:32 ET Magazine Monitor A collection of cultural artefacts Contents of the 2013 pack Changing the nappy at Kensington Palace, when the moment comes, may be easier thanks to a gift to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge from the Finnish government, writes Mark Bosworth in Helsinki.

The appearance of Albert Bierstadt's landscape Mountain Scene (1880 - 90) in both The Age of Innocence (1993) and The Hunger Games (2012) serves as the basis for Mathis Gasser's Grasshopper (Mountain Scene)(2015 - 16), in which he reproduces the original painting twice and hangs the pair beside a screen playing footage from the 2015 - 16 TV adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle, a series that deals with the role of cultural artefacts in imagining counterfactual histories.

Many of us are sensitive to the case put forward by countries that have seen their treasures dispersed around the globe; but while playing Uncharted or Tomb Raider, we'll spend hours of our free time engaged in the process of removing valuable cultural artefacts from their native homes.

Often working with charged cultural artefacts and symbols, Tee pairs diverse points of inspiration to instigate dialogue...

The «admiration» expressed by the guru character goes along the lines of «if we want to fight them properly, we need to learn from them so that we can wallop the bejasus out of them asap» It's a deeply, deeply, nasty piece of writing — but an interesting cultural artefact for all that.

Amy Adams gave a performance of vulnerability and charm in Tim Burton's Big Eyes and no one would begrudge her her Golden Globe, although Brits may have been hoping that it would go to Emily Blunt for her singing role in the Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods — one of the things that made that rather stately cultural artefact bearable.

Highlighting the work of the men charged with rescuing cultural artefacts in the Second World War, The Monuments Men offers an obvious continuation and easy correlation.

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo cut their teeth on such urbane, snippy TV sitcoms as Arrested Development and Community and the film begins brightly, with some inspired comedy concerning the Cap's growing laundry list of post-WWII must - see cultural artefacts and baffling culinary innovations.

Beijing, the enormous capital, is known for its ultra-modern buildings juxta - positioned against the city's millennia - old history, the Tiananmen Square and the National Museum of China, featuring an array of fascinating cultural artefacts.

Although it is only a suburb of Pretoria, Tshwane, it is in close vicinity of many interesting places to visit, such as a Lion park, Cradle of Humankind, Sterkfontein Grottos, Hartebeespoort dam and its huge cultural artefact market, and Bela Bela with the biggest Water Feature Park in South Africa.

At nearby Batu Bolong is the wonderful Tugu Hotel, a living museum of priceless antiques and rare cultural artefacts and, almost opposite, one of the newer kids on the block and a definite favourite with the young and beautiful (despite its name)-- Old Man's.

On North Island explore Auckland «City of Sails» and Bay of Islands made up of over 140 subtropical islands, known for its stunning beaches, big - game fishing and Maori cultural artefacts.

What's interesting is that these characters continue to flourish in a culture that is becoming increasingly sceptical towards the idea of acquiring and retaining cultural artefacts from overseas.

His practice involves an exploration of the significance and circulation of images and cultural artefacts through painting and curating.

Each of Hiller's works is based on specific cultural artefacts from our society, which she uses as basic materials.

The film blends fact and fiction to reimagine cultural artefacts, their collection and display, through fabricated narratives, memories and moments of forgetting.

Patrice Renee Washington's ceramic works similarly ossify and illuminate symbolic and loaded cultural artefacts and suggest hand - fashioned tools that might offer alternatives to oppressive state apparatuses.

Charles Mayton's practice examines the various ways in which cultural artefacts can be redistributed and reanimated, with an increasingly acclaimed aspect of this enquiry centered on painting about painting.

The artist's humorous sculptures draw from a wide variety of source materials from both low and high cultural registers: popular imagery, toys, kitsch paraphernalia mixed with ancient cultural artefacts and modernist archetypes.

The focal point is the translation and recontextualisation of already existing cultural artefacts.

Art and cultural artefacts roam the bright and hot ecosystem of the caatinga, the armadillo in the mythology of indigenous societies, the symbolic and political invention of the sertão.

Feldmann's appetite for amassing cultural artefacts is demonstrated in a new work presented for the first time at the Serpentine.

Some artists borrow imagery directly from pop cultural artefacts, such as Mario Rossi's series of five paintings which depict the words «The End», as seen in the closing shots of films such as Psycho and On the Waterfront.

With a background in anthropology, Susan Hiller collects ordinary cultural artefacts and transforms them into art works that touch upon inherent contradictions in society.

According to the artists, by «exposing these fragile and supposedly timeless cultural artefacts to the processes of decomposition... The garden becomes a sensual reading room; a library; an information platform; an invitation to a provocatively foreign realm of knowledge.»

She also learnt how the Sami in Finland and Norway have diversified away from reindeer herding into other jobs within the mainstream, including tourist businesses in Karasjok, Norway, and Siida in Finland, which educate tourists on culture, and sell cultural artefacts and goods.

In her cross genre works, Aladağ investigates questions about origins, identity and gender, by means of cultural artefacts and hand down plots.

Often working with charged cultural artefacts and symbols, Tee pairs diverse points of inspiration to instigate dialogues between Eastern philosophies and Western culture.

Every cultural artefact you can think of is on display during the festival.

It may see the emergence of cultural artefacts we find distasteful, like the burkha.

On the one hand, emotional manipulation has always been at the heart of our cultural artefacts; in fact, we have always lauded the best artists, writers, film - makers, composers and the like for their seamless skills in moving us and enlarging our horizons.

Explores how attitudes have changed throughout history, from early medical drawings, 19th - century paintings, anatomical models and cultural artefacts, to works by artists such as Damien Hirst, Helen Chadwick and Wim Delvoye.

Bucklow believes that our modern - day appreciation of cultural artefacts — such as mobile phones — is completely divorced from our understanding of the materials that go into their making.

«But if this is true, if people enriched the forests by domesticating palms, that is also a cultural artefact.»

The campaign will encourage tourists to make informed decisions and help reduce demand for trafficking in persons, cultural artefacts, wildlife, fauna and flora such as ivory products, as well as counterfeit goods, and illicit drugs.

Much of Hiller's art is characterised by an engagement with cultural artefacts.

Through his videos, installations and live performances, Leckey explores the relationship of cultural artefacts to human subjectivity and the production of desire.

Through sculpture and installation they explored the relation between art and life as made manifest through nature, elemental matter or cultural artefacts, and experienced via the body.

The second word of the exhibition's title is misleading in that it suggests that, in standard museum style, cultural artefacts will be presented and viewers will absorb facts about them.

Guillaume Pinard is an informed observer of art and cultural artefacts — of which he scans appearances and hidden meanings.

In effect, the artworks and the everyday objects are cultural artefacts, which also relate to each other in a network of historical, social, and anthropological connections, thereby revealing new or overlooked inherent meanings.

A collector of cultural artefacts, Claydon repurposes objects and data into sculptures that are full of intentional contradictions.

Price uses these attributes to explore and dramatically map the value and meaning of cultural artefacts, collections and archives.

Laws are cultural artefacts.

It involves data sets and infrastructure, she said, but data can also be cultural artefacts or even the location of significant sites.

Geophysics and soil science, carbon dating, knowledge of cultural artefacts, stories and other evidence provided from ancient documents and carvings, pollen analysis, human DNA from local populations, etc. — each had evolved in independently of one - another, but would now be combined to deepen any 21st century archaeology's approach to understanding the pot.