Sentences with phrase «cultural construction»

They both use dramatic religious and mythological iconography to delve inside the psychological worlds of people who suffer from tragic events (the socio - political dimension of human experience in Jerome's Jewish inspired paintings) and physical abnormalities (the transgression of cultural constructions of perversity in Joel - Peter's Catholic inspired photographs).

Activists who have been working to draw attention to labor practices in connection with the Guggenheim's planned expansion in Abu Dhabi — and who last week briefly occupied the loading dock of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice during the 2015 Biennale — said this week that their tactics seemed to be generating more overt resistance from the government of the United Arab Emirates, which oversees cultural construction projects.

«On the one hand, they are expected to be nurturant, caring and agreeable, consistent with the normative cultural constructions of feminity,» the researchers write.

And the liberators misunderstood their own needs and those of their movement's members: «The culture of emancipation was apparently too thin to sustain these people and enable them to reproduce themselves; the radical rejection of the past left, as it were, too little material for cultural construction.»

«Our findings suggest that men may experience particular problems in recognising that they may have an eating disorder as a result of the continuing cultural construction of eating disorders as uniquely or predominantly a female problem,» they add.

In the «Gender and Performativity» section, Martha Wilson's A Portfolio of Models, a series of seven photo - and - text works, further describes cultural constructions of roles for women: «These are the models society holds out to me: Goddess, Housewife, Working Girl, Professional, Earth Mother, Lesbian.

The question of gender's intersection with cultural constructions and racial anxieties are revealed in economic and industrial language, as well as props and costumes that take tropes to their humorous extreme.

The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as «you», «your», «I», «we», and «they», addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, and sexuality.

Although the natural processes of growth and decay have been the operative thematic in all of her work, lately the artist has veered away from nature and towards cultural constructions of uncertainty and instability.

When I told this story in the March 1973 Artforum (and in Building - Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction, 1993) I adduced an industrial picturesque as early as the historical moment of Friedrich Engels, T. H. Hair's A Series of Views of the Collieries in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham (1844), in what was a «response» to Carl Andre's blanket denial of formalism in the Bechers» work.

The artists will reflect on cultural constructions and social frameworks in the special context of China and how all these form individual identities and artistic practices as well as define relations in the system that we urgently need to question.

I posit that the pathologizing of adolescent girls» resistances as mental illness may follow almost inevitably from widely accepted cultural constructions of the feminine and of mental illness.

Her current research focuses on the historical, legal, and cultural constructions of racial whiteness in America and critical interrogations of whiteness in contemporary art.

Gender theorists believe, as Simone de Beauvoir said, that «one is not born a woman, one becomes a woman» by assuming certain «gender characteristics» that are, for the most part, cultural constructions that these theorists denounce.

Even then we knew this to be no more than a cultural construction without empirical evidence to back up its veracity.

The focus on how eating - and body distress may be used to negotiate dominant ideas about gender and sexuality is similarly applicable to male patients, as well as gender minorities, even whilst the cultural constructions at stake may be different.»

Dunbar has fun with the argument that science is a cultural construction and therefore subject to fashion, and he is bothered by Bryan Appleyard's Understanding The Present, a sustained whimper about science taking away the mystery of things.

A cultural construction of adolescence, 2nd edition.

Our conception of the natural and a truth of origin is just as much of a cultural construction as a milled log made of plastic paint.

Expanding upon his interest in the cultural construction of landscape, Doyle says, «The project is a meditation on the moment when the innocence and «can - do» ambition of the American Dream becomes inextricably twisted together with an end - of - empire excess and fears of our own mortality as a species.»

Presented in the artist's signature red enamel frame, works such as Untitled (Your Fact is Stranger than Fiction), (1983) draw upon Kruger's own background as a magazine designer, adopting the same visual tools employed by the mass media in order to examine the cultural constructions of power, identity and sexuality.

Following the intergenerational make - up of the exhibition, time emerges as a prominent theme — either referring to the temporality of process or in the form of history as a cultural construction.

A short piece of prose in the press release introduces the theme around identity - building, cultural construction and social interaction that forms new languages and defines «the crumbling away of old cultural and social model boundaries»:

In my own work, I'm interested in how landscape is a cultural construction informed by our own subjective view of the world.

Allie Pohl is a Los Angeles - based conceptual artist whose work explores the social and cultural constructions of contemporary Western society.

Other research interests include the historical, legal, and cultural constructions of racial whiteness in America and critical interrogations of whiteness in contemporary art.

Both Europe and the Middle East, as Edward Said pointed out more than 20 years ago and Robert Bartlett noted more recently, «are obviously not natural facts but cultural constructions, invented, indeed, as a pair of contrasting polarities.»

She uses the camera to engage ideas of cultural construction and has worked as a Native American cultural resource monitor over the past 18 years.

Neshat, whose work critiques the cultural construction of difference, fully turns her attention to American culture for the first time in this show and depicts the ambiguity of feeling for an outsider through enigmatic images, haunting encounters and mystified points of view in her film and photography.

This group of works, selected from the 1980s, examines the cultural constructions of power, identity and sexuality through their juxtaposition of text and imagery.

Gaining recognition alongside a group of photographers known as the Boston School, Pierson explores the cultural construction of identity, including how we see and how others see us.

Featuring photography and moving image installation, this show examines the media representation and cultural constructions of zones of conflict in the so - called «War on Terror».

In literature, the visual arts, criticism, and ideological analysis, attention has focused on sexuality as a cultural construction, opposing a perspective based on a natural or biological «truth.»

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And, the cultural construction of female madness is an attempt to position women as outsiders to rational discourse: «all body, no brain.»