Sentences with phrase «cultural critique»

Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique examines the artistic aims of the New York School of painters within the context of left - wing political discussions during the 1940s and 1950s.

In new book, Billy Graham's oldest son, Franklin, combines lessons from his father with cultural critiques.

Referencing the history of painting, particularly the fraught legacies of hyper masculine artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, her canvases combined figuration with feminist cultural critique.

A self described artist of the «absurdist cultural critique,» Solien is concerned with the contemporary collapse of our culture.

Part memoir, part cultural critique, and part genetic travelogue, Beyond the Pale is a brave, intimate investigation into the secret histories that each of us carries in our genes and an inspiring and beautiful memoir about parenting a child with a disability — and building a better future for that child.

Blending laugh - out - loud moments with serious cultural critique, Evans discovers that living the actual teachings of the Bible means surrendering idealized role - playing in favor of becoming an eshet chayil — a woman of strength and wisdom.

One fears that Smith and More, perhaps like their author, are drawn to Christianity mainly as a transcendent means for making their own cultural critique.

Space Station 76 is a postmodern snafu of the most intolerable sort, the kind of hokum that increases one's appreciation for successful comedic cultural critique, if only for the severity of this film's failures.

Our reviewer writes, «Along with his pointed cultural critique are stark, electrifying pieces like «Ode to a Drone» and inventive, playful poems like his celebratory ode to grammar in the sly «His Love of Semicolons» («The comma is comely, the period, peerless, / but stack them one atop / the other, and I am in love»).

James T. Green continues to wield cultural critique as a mode of investigation into his screen - based images.

Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida's large - format C - prints mounted on aluminum from the Cosmococa 5: Hendrix — War series (1973/2003) were originally conceived as projections in multi-sensorial, built environments designed as cultural critiques demanding viewers» direct involvement and consideration.

A lot of them are really funny cultural critiques, riffs on advertising and fashion magazines, or art nerd in - jokes.

«Through a prolific creation, General Idea's body of work reveals a complex combination of reality and fiction, and of parody and rigorous cultural critique,» says Bonnet.

Never intended for public exhibition, the first Jokes nonetheless maintained the strong sense of otherworldly removal and latent cultural critique that defined Prince's seminal photography of the early «80s, and represent an important shift in the artist's process that would lead to the Hoods.

Matthew Darbyshire's work explores notions of social and cultural critique through playful approaches to urban architecture and design.

Through her lyrical videos, Behbahani stages a contemporary cultural critique by layering and juxtaposing allusions to past and present sociopolitical circumstances with a language that she draws from her experience as a painter.

Opening December 6 at the Rubell Family Collection, Allison Zuckerman's fusions of historical tropes and digital art offer wry cultural critiques.

Cattelan's subjects range widely, being derived from popular culture, history and organized religion; while bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing cultural critique.

According to Bomer and Bomer (2001), teachers have four complementary responsibilities: to teach for social action, to teach the language of democratic classrooms, to introduce the practice of cultural critique, and to conduct themselves as political agents (pp. 18 - 19).

But as poetry readers know, its lyrical gifts can be an antidote to many of life's woes, offering calm waters of meditation, razor - sharp cultural critique or a playful celebration of language.

Möller's sculptural installation «Katzenbaum» incorporates both popular design theory and feminist cultural critique.

A self - described artist of the «absurdist cultural critique,» Solien invites you in with brightly colored compositions filled with farcical figures and fanciful objects.

Abstract expressionism as cultural critique: dissent during the McCarthy period / David Craven; Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

When he turns to theory and cultural critique, however, his writing becomes less fine - grained.

Its ideological presuppositions are difficult to specify: the author takes his theoretical framework from the radical historians Charles Beard and William Appleman Williams, but much of his cultural critique of modern American society carries echoes of Pat Buchanan.

Whether or not the deliver will depend largely on your musical pallet and willingness to dive into the cultural critique of Butler and Co..

Anti-American Graffiti: A Cultural Critique Built on Street Art Marco Prosperio's ambitious debut feature The Man...

But little else about Atán and Pivato's debut feature compares to Federico Fellini's masterpiece, which is distinguished by its regional detail and cultural critique and culminates in an honest, earned conclusion of hope mixed with despair.

Every once in a while a reasonable, down - to - earth person will crystallize in the form of James Franco, which makes all of his absurd, vapid artistic pursuits and «cultural critiques» about Kristen Stewart in Snow White and the Huntsman that much more frustrating.

Its underlying thematic framework, only vaguely hinted at in the previous two Thor efforts but fully articulated now, is one of thorough historical and cultural critique.

Biographies (books about a person's life written by someone else), autobiographies or memoirs (books about a person's life written by that person), research - based books (medical textbooks, historical books), and cultural critiques are just a few nonfiction books that benefit from the presence of an appendix.

Plenty of nonfiction books use them, whether they're historical books, cultural critiques, memoirs, or scientific research.

You're very likely to find bibliographies in the back pages of textbooks, historical nonfiction books, biographies, cultural critiques, essay collections, and research - based nonfiction books.

Rafferty has been unwavering in her cultural critiques over the past decade.

The exhibition's title, I KILLED KENNY, invokes the vernacular of «South Park,» framing Pensato's visual vocabulary within the cartoon's sardonic wit and cultural critique.

Cultural critique is embedded in Alison Saar's work as she combines familiar, domestic, and personal objects, imagery, and writing to connect past and present adversities resulting from the intersection of environmental destruction and social inequality.

Referring to Doomocracy as an act of «political catharsis,» Reyes leverages political, social, and cultural anxiety — and fear itself — as the media for participation and cultural critique.

The weave of visuals creates a cultural critique that questions ownership of image, disruption, interpretation, politics, and human nature.

Besides, amid today's vital openness to gender and cultural critique, what can one say about yet another dead white male?

A radical conception of human subjectivity was embodied in the process of composition itself, enabling painters to produce works in which personal expression and cultural critique were condensed onto the single act of painting.»

Harvard Crimson: Consumer Research Center Brings Bookshop and Cultural Critique to CCVA Harvard Crimson: Inside the CCVA: Pop Goes the Bookshop

Focusing on artistic practice and cultural critique, these essays examine the questions, research and propositions of neoliberalism's synthesis of economy and affect.

Apparatus 2.0 expands on its predecessor by initiating long - distance working relationships between the same artists, asking them to consider their experiences — in different cities, under respective historical and sociopolitical conditions — and see how these aspects shape their understanding of images as a form of cultural critique.

Jeffrey Gibson provides us with a unique investigation of Native American stereotypes observed through the prism of cultural critique, iconography and found objects.

Emerging from the dynamic arts program at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in the late 1980s, Gillick expanded into social sculpture, cultural critique, and «Relational Aesthetics,» the critic Nicolas Bourriaud's term for art within a context of relationships.

Godollei's work, primarily in printmaking media, incorporates political and social commentary into an extended series of cultural critiques.