Sentences with phrase «cultural artifacts from»

, or culture house, the institute houses a collection of historic and present - day cultural artifacts from Sumba's diverse tribal communities and can organize excursions to megalithic villages and scenic sites around the island.

Bishop Museum Ethnology Database Cultural artifacts from the Pacific Rim.

Its anti-style actually works greatly in its favor — it manages to accurately reflect the banalities of childhood, the fluid nature of memory, the flashes of recognition we have of cultural artifacts from a previous time, and our struggles to redefine our relationships with our parents and friends as we change and grow right along with them.

The EUSD responded quickly to these concerns by removing all cultural artifacts from the school environment, clearly explaining to the program instructors that these artifacts were not appropriate, and giving parents the opportunity to observe the yoga classes, but it's possible the «damage» had already been done.

The mere existence of a cultural artifact from a previous era does not imply that it is itself significant for the present culture in which it occurs.

It was pure fluff, but also a memorable cultural artifact from a previous era.

E.T. might be the best - known Atari misfire of 1982, but Custer's Revenge is a much more deeply embarrassing cultural artifact from the same timeframe.

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Rather, what Crouch did was to continue the tradition of creating new cultural forms from within the folk culture he inhabited and taking such artifacts into a broader public space.

I have tracked and compiled a list of their common characteristics — from the desire to create good cultural artifacts to a strong sense of calling — and these leaders» optimistic outlook on the future has steamrolled me.

The tide had turned from a Lewisian seeing of celestial beauty in the jungle of filth and imbecility that is Myth to a marketable spotting of Christian symbolism in every pop cultural artifact imaginable.

Some study participants noted that when yoga was initially introduced at EUSD, it included cultural artifacts, such as Sanskrit language, mandalas, Hindu stories, prayer mudra (i.e. bringing hands together at one's heart), and a poster that outlined the eight limbs of yoga from Patanjali's yoga sutras.

Available exclusively in the Wii U version of the Never Alone game, collect more than 20 in - game Cultural Artifacts that feature beautiful high - resolution images and compelling background information drawn from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution.

In 1993, Graham Fuller went a step further, calling Tarantino «not so much a postmodern auteur as a post-postmodern one, for he is feverishly interested in pop - cultural artifacts and ideas... that themselves spring from earlier incarnations or have already been mediated or predigested.»

Certainly, attending attractions such as Doha's Museum of Islamic Art, with its impressive collection of tapestries and other artifacts from throughout the Middle East and beyond, and the Msheireb Museums, chronicling the people and industries that laid the foundation for modern Qatar, illustrated that, yes, those looking for some cultural insight during their visit won't come up short.

Ubud has been the cultural focus of Bali for decades and is the place to visit if you are searching for original carvings, sculptures, artifacts, and paintings from across the Indonesian archipelago as well as Bali itself.Villa Alamanda lies to the east of Ubud an approximate ten minutes away and as welcome guests approach the villas they pass through a traditional carving village known to most as Tengkulak.

Both bodies of work highlight the poignant conjunctions between image and text in these found cultural artifacts, culling material from two very different books that each appear to be one thing but end up revealing quite another.

Postmodernism has seen disruptions of art as self - contained cultural artifact in everything from Dada to Walter Benjamin's Arcades.

As the title suggests, the exhibition casts a wide net, capturing everything from cultural artifacts (feminist literature, earthenware) to graphic design (exhibition posters, bakery business cards), to unique artists» works influenced by graphic novels, Girl Scout badges, stock photography, and other bric - a-brac.

The exhibition tells the story of progressive ideas and aesthetics in the modern world through visual artifacts generated by the seismic events of 1917 and drawn from premier cultural institutions in California: the Getty Research Institute, the Wende Museum of the Cold War, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

Manipulating and re-contextualizing digitized cultural artifacts — diagrams, illustrations, charts and maps — mined from the billions of terabytes available online, Veselka designs patterns that she prints on fabric.

7 Bringing Jutta Koether, Wade Guyton, R.H. Quaytman, and Stephen Prina into the discussion, Joselit introduced «transitivity» as a term for work that «moves out from painting - as - cultural artifact to the social networks surrounding it.»

For Wanderlust, Issa presents the sculpture Heritage Studies # 10, a five - foot - long copper cylinder, part of her ongoing work «Heritage Studies» begun in 2015, which includes formal reinterpretations of cultural artifacts drawn from various historical and museological sources.

Part flesh, part baroque architecture, the alien vessel contains multiple levels of historical and cultural meanings; from science fiction to luxury furniture, the work seamlessly weaves cultural artifacts into a sleek and surreal CGI moving image artwork.

The second form of intervention is a freezing of the object's (d) evolution as cultural artifacts: they become frozen indifferent states of object - hood, from recognizable to wholly mutated.

The audience is presented with not only a new way of experiencing contemporary cultural production but with a new framework for seeing artifacts from our social and historical narratives and resignifying our relationship to them.

Linzy's performances, and the visual language he draws upon in his still - and moving - image work, borrow from cultural artifacts that are rooted in the tropes of daytime soap operas, reality television, Hollywood drama and situational comedies.

Hovering between photography, collage work, and watercolor, Rafferty's portraits examine the hangdog undertones of the humorous and the hilarious overtones of the mournful; the presence of the gendered body in actions ranging from the quotidian to the extraordinary; and the ability of pop cultural artifacts to generate not just nostalgia, but a comment about the here and now.

For example, by 1975 artist DAVID HAMMONS was already creating sculptures from black cultural detritus (hair, food, artifacts, etc.) that ironically commented on black identity.

«There is a lived experience in this work, and for people to come to Africa and to engage with it closer to where the dialogue originated... that says that African artifacts of our time are valuable enough from a cultural point of view to build a cathedral for them» — a cathedral, he added, on «the same scale and the same ambition and the same platform» as those devoted to, say, «Jeff Koons and Michelangelo.»

Featuring works by 134 artists from 31 different countries, along with a diverse collection of cultural artifacts that range from traditional Korean funerary dolls to an archive of 3,000 photographs of people with teddy bears, the exhibition is a sprawling, multifaceted investigation of the ties that bind people to images and images to people.

Mr. Wilson's provocative and emotionally charged re-imaging of the historical society's collection of Maryland artworks and artifacts drew nationwide attention from critics and curators and put Baltimore on the map as a destination for cutting - edge cultural tourism.

The collection's inclusion here feels like a charity project: extracting the collection from its unstable home to act as a cultural artifact in the refined German building.

By Proxy includes Marcel Duchamp's assisted readymade With Hidden Noise, a ball of string with an unknown object rattling inside it; embroidery works by Alighiero Boetti; three drawings from John Cage's 1990 series River Rocks and Smoke, in which chance operations are performed by smoke settling in the fibers of the paper; Oliver Laric's Yuanmingyuan Columns, a new work created with 3D scans of Chinese cultural artifacts ensconced in Bergen, Norway; Yoko Ono's seminal chess set and war allegory Play it By Trust; and a work from Xu Zhen's recent Eternity series, which juxtaposes the East and West by mounting headless replicas of key Hellenistic and Buddhist sculptures neck to neck.

This alleged «cultural evolution» encourages the artist to deconstruct and build artifacts in which he mixes — without taboos — the trivial, decorative and well - measured paraphernalia of luxury culture with elements from the suburban culture: snake skins, leopard patterns, gold and fake carbon fibers that aspire to shine in an asphaltic grey.

The exhibition emphasizes the integration of innovative aesthetics with a deeply cultural edifice that enhances the material artifacts as well as engages the viewer in a narrative that rightly can not be negated, where identity, meaning and intention are inseparable from form.

Painting and sculpting women, primarily in the nude, Monica draws from her own memories and cultural artifacts, often placing her dark skinned full bodied models in contemporary situations.

The fact is that either as a documentarian or as a fantasist, Bradley's work has always stemmed from his desire to preserve, or otherwise re-animate, a cultural artifact.

The work is inspired by the various religions in Indonesia and also by the artifacts imported from the Indonesian coastal city, Cirebon, where it is known for its cultural mix of Chinese, Arabic, Sudanese and Javanese.

This approach to selecting cultural artifacts and inserting them into new concepts parallels the role that sampling plays today in almost every creative discipline, from music to architecture.

Comprising approximately 60 prints from the MoMA collection that were included in the 1938 book or exhibition, the installation maintains the bipartite organization of the originals: the first section portrays American society through images of its individuals and social contexts, while the second consists of photographs of American cultural artifacts — the architecture of Main streets, factory towns, rural churches, and wooden houses.

Allowing pop - cultural artifacts to function as «information,» as opposed to «form,» Baldessari's works represented a radical departure from, and often a direct critique of, the modernist sensibility that dominated painting for decades.

The works presented in Repossession exemplify Attia's aptitude in creating hybrid cultural objects and collages that transform Western artifacts from icons of power and domination into symbols of freedom and resistance.

Known for his collaborations with museums and cultural institutions throughout the world, Wilson's Local Color incorporates traditional African and Caribbean artifacts from the Studio Museum's permanent collection and an assortment of objects the artist purchased along Harlem's 125th Street.

I regard «morality» somewhat as I regard language: a cultural artifact that emerges from the interaction of nature and nurture.