Sentences with phrase «cultural expression into»

Spooner's performance is an evolving translation of Merleau Ponty's essay Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence (1952) and disassembles Ponty's original essay on speech, history and cultural expression into 8 - acts that include dialogue, dramatisation, un-workable stage directions, a growing cast of historical references and a non-chronological order.

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For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

Nonetheless, music, as literary and cultural critic George Steiner insists, «is brimful of meanings which will not translate into logical structures or verbal expression... Music is at once cerebral in the highest degree — I repeat that the energies and form - relations in the playing of a quartet, in the interactions of voice and instrument are among the most complex events known to man — and it is at the same time somatic, carnal and a searching out of resonances in our bodies at levels deeper than will or consciousness.»

I conclude with relief that science, in the hands of capable artists like Baldwin and the Rambert Dance Company, can be wrought into cultural expressions of sublime beauty.

Don't forget, these guys were responsible for the «cultural explosion»» — a revolution in thinking that led to such startling new forms of expression as cave paintings, specialized tools, and bones carved into the first flutes.

Before diving into the Internet Archive and the Open Library Project, let's ask ourselves some questions about the value of books and other cultural expressions.

Known for his haunting and poignant family portraits, Zhang's paintings highlight the emotional conflicts of his generation under the Cultural Revolution, where individual expression and traditional family ties were at explicit odds with the pressure to fit into the collectivist ideal.

The coercive cultural policy of his time forced much of Chinese art into a «semi-underground» state, but in a way, the burning desire for expression in severely limited conditions served as catalyst for the artist, bringing out numerous diverse and vibrant creations.

Located in a cultural hub with historic campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan, as well as a campus in Utica, New York (PrattMWP College of Art and Design), Pratt has an esteemed faculty of accomplished professionals and scholars who challenge their talented students to transform their passion into meaningful expression.

Elaine's areas of interest include: Interactive arts (dance / visual arts / poetry...); performance and installations; contemporary arts; computer music; digital video; new aesthetics; noise (audio & visual) and ambient (spatial chaos / order) transformed into art materials and expressions; new techniques; cultural diversity and interaction.

Weems and Holzer use text to interrogate power through self - expression, creating new narratives for cultural and political resistance, while Katchadourian voices the frustrations of everyday life while inserting her artistic identity into the male - dominated history of portraiture.

Standouts include Carrie Mae Weems» holographic narrative about race, sex, and politics portrayed by ghostly characters on a burlesque stage; The Propeller Group's video that draws parallels between funeral practices in Vietnam and New Orleans, along with the collective's sculptures of tricked - out musical instruments, which were also photographed with members of Louisiana marching bands; Glenn Kaino's installation of water tanks that turn military machines into coral reefs; Jean - Michel Basquiat's paintings and works on paper that reference the cultural legacy of the Mississippi Delta and the South; Camille Henrot's video exploration of the universe by way of the storage rooms of the Smithsonian Institution; Tavares Strachan's 100 - foot long neon sign declaring «You belong here» from a barge on the Mississippi River; and Andrea Fraser's monologue, in which she recreated a heated debate by New Orleans city council members during a 1991 vote to racially integrate the Mardi Gras krewes — changing her voice and expression as she dynamically alternated between speakers, both black and white.

Located in the cultural hub of New York City with historic campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Pratt is a living lab of craft and creativity with esteemed professors and scholars who challenge their talented students to transform their passion into meaningful expression.

Located in a cultural hub with historic campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Pratt is a living lab of craft and creativity with an esteemed faculty of accomplished professionals and scholars who challenge their talented students to transform their passion into meaningful expression.