Sentences with phrase «cultural fascination»

Contributing Author Julia Holemans In recent years, a cultural fascination has emerged with the so - called «millennial» generation.

Washington Project for the Arts presents The Art of the Superhero — Revisited, a group exhibition organized by F. Lennox Campello exploring our cultural fascination with masked men and caped crusaders.The artists included in the exhibition approach their topic with a mix of levity and seriousness, using the figure of the superhero to explore issues of identity, immigration, and the struggles of daily life.

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft «Althea Crome on Storytelling Through Knitting & Our Cultural Fascination with Miniatures» March 14, 2017

John Reed examines our cultural fascination with the Joker through the quirky, armless lens of Don Porcaro's art.

Part of the cultural fascination with the Kerrigan attack derives from the categorical buffoonery exercised by its perpetrators.

Despite our collective, cultural fascination with viral events, we know surprisingly little about what drives them, how often they occur or even what the term «viral» actually means.

Part of the cultural fascination with the perfected future state of heaven stems from our reaction to this loss.

For grasping the cultural fascination with heaven, perhaps nothing compares to two recent best - selling novels about the afterlife: Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones and Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

It's made by «Vine Stars,» yet another cultural fascination of the platform.

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Father Lombardi said Benedict XVI recalled «above all the cultural crisis of the West that exploded in «68, with the fascination for Marxism and the illusion of creating a new world, and the crumbling of the communist regimes in «89: the fall of the ideologies that did not give room to faith but rather to scepticism.

To be fascinated with Romantic personalities such as Kleist or Hoffmann is all good and well; yet for these voices to reveal their relevance to our cultural moment here and now, we ought not just indulge in but genuinely reflect on our lasting fascination with these writers and what they have to tell us.

In addition to our culture's fascination with breasts as sexual objects, breastfeeding is also «modified by a wide variety of [cultural] beliefs, not only about infant health and nutrition, but also about the nature of human infancy and the proper relationships between mother and child, and between mother and father1.»

In Silent Sparks, biologist Sara Lewis explores both the cultural and scientific fascination with these...

Former English professor Craven makes a case for the cultural importance of stories by making a decidedly grim fairy tale, a modern twist on an ancient tradition, and winds up with an imaginative take on society's fascination with horror.

This documentary explores Japan's fascination with girl bands and their music, delving into the cultural obsession with young female sexuality and the growing disconnect between men and women in hyper modern societies.

More important, I believe his fascination for the arts provided the cultural backdrop for much of the perspective of his later days.

Her fascination with the cultural and religious differences between Russians and the many peoples once ruled by Moscow grew into a book on the Chechen war (Crying Wolf: The Return of War to Chechnya).

People of all ages retain an endless fascination in the lives and influences of famous and successful politicians, pioneers, and popular cultural figures.

Of course there is also the cultural side of life on the island of the Gods: Balinese dance, artwork and architecture give the island its unique fascination.

The Red Sea is best accessed from Egypt, a land synonymous with cultural and historical fascination.

In over fifty new paintings depicting the circular labels of assorted vinyl albums and singles, Muller draws upon his endless fascination and encyclopedic knowledge of music and its capacity to shape both individual and cultural identities.

Composed from amateur footage taken by Abraham Zapruder and subsequently published in Life magazine, Laing's shaped - canvas painting highlights the international fascination with America's cultural revolution and the ways in which it could shift the political landscape.

The textural fascination of its steel surface, transitioning between the smooth, attenuated areas of the vertical elements and the molten knots of welding at the joints and abdomen, beckons tactile engagement, while our fear of the spider — itself a cocktail of innate, primal drives and cultural conditioning — inevitably flares up in response to its eight - legged form.

The artist has said of this new series that, as with a previous body of work in which he articulated a fascination with Futurism, he is «exploring new ways of interpreting a definitive and somewhat overlooked period in cultural history, developing works centred around the kinds of characters who populate my practice, imagining who is the boy / man who would make this sort of space his own, what his home might look like... and what sort of psychosis would lead to this?»

Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed post WWII Japan, his black and white photographs express a fascination with the cultural contradictions of age - old traditions that persist within modern society.

While Morley's paintings invite the viewer to reflect upon the conflicts that have shaped humanity since time immemorial, they also echo the artist's personal experiences as a child during the Second World War, his cultural affinity with both England and America, and his lifelong fascination with models, from the plastic Air - fix kits of his youth to the paper cut - out varieties.

Within his fascination with source, Boone is interested in how particular arrangements and the accumulation of materials that are clearly part of a larger cultural fabric are what construct personal histories, and how reconfiguring these arrangements creates open vessels for new intention.

Cultural references abound — from Marcel Duchamp's engagement with everyday objects to filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard's fascination with the colors red, yellow, and blue.

Her multidisciplinary work combines her fascination with cultural botany, anthropology... + more

Yoon's fascination with cultural diversity, sparked by his 2001 move to the US from Korea and Japan, gave rise to Neighbors.

Annie Leibovitz's «Isabella Rossellini and David Lynch» is about the closest Masters comes to the post-Warholian pop cultural obsession of emerging artists scattering the Frieze London tent, a collective fascination with the Kanyes, Clintons and #NSFWs of recent, to extremely recent history pointing to the total infiltration of mass media, post-2000.

«Coasts have been a source of ongoing artistic fascination throughout the modern period, and this exhibition draws exciting and unprecedented parallels between works with radically different aesthetic and cultural contexts.»

Whether it be Sekhukuni and his use of the Internet as medium, Mooney and her fascination with ephemerality and the social notion of space or Adams and his interrogation of hybrid racial, sexual and religious identities, each are operating outside the stereotypical approaches canonized by South African art history, thanks to the possibilities / challenges presented to them by a new political and cultural climate.

As a whole, Haunted by Objects is the grandiose attempt by an artist to use cultural objects and the narratives and worldviews preserved in them to give voice to his own sense of fascination.

Paschke's fascination with the print media of popular culture led to a portrait - based art of cultural icons.

Here we return to Warhol's enduring aesthetic — the artist's concerns with death are again suppressed by that of celebrity, as we leave behind Warhol's obsessive electric chairs, or car crashes, and swiftly return to the artist's fascination with the mass production of the image, repetition, and commercial cultural value.