Sentences with phrase «cultural figures who»

Drawn from the papers of a variety of artists, writers, and arts organizations, the range of subjects, circumstances, and photographic styles on view here reflects the range of historically important cultural figures who lived and worked Downtown.

In recent years, locals have praised «Morrison House Presents,» a free discussion series that spotlights artists, authors, historians, and other cultural figures who have keen insights to share with Alexandrians.

More than 500 people sign on including many of Canada's leading cultural figures who lend personal endorsements and signed books to the effort.

His father, Leopoldo Zugaza, is a well - known Basque cultural figure who cofounded the Photomuseum of Zarautz.

Not exact matches

I tend to be an optimist, and early on, before we figured out our hiring and cultural philosophy, we dealt with a lot of flaky people and who dropped the ball.

These witnesses, of course, include the great figures of black American political and cultural history, but they include as well the leaders of the founding generation who conceived and gave birth to our still - maturing democracy.

It is this homeless Christ who represents 8,990 cultural contexts in the world today (I use the figures of statistician David B. Barrett).

But I've come to see the question as mostly the fault of the Orthodox themselves, who have not quite figured out how to convey that Orthodoxy — being Christianity — is for everyone and doesn't require a particular cultural identification.

And this figure does not include the uncountable number of Christians who are still identified with China's mysterious «underground church»: believers who worshiped secretly during the Cultural Revolution and who still have not all surfaced.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

The second half of the 20th century, and the rise of television, introduced yet a new change in communication technology that was accompanied by the rise of a new cultural icon: the sports figure, who for the first time in history rose to the status of global celebrity.

In fact, director Michael Mann — an epochal»80s cultural figure as the creator of «Miami Vice,» who has been almost invisible in this decade — is after something much richer and stranger than the plot of «The Insider» would suggest.

Disney has really carved out a genre for itself: the underdog sports story as cultural melting pot, complete with the Middle American white coach / scout / father figure whose preconceptions are overturned by scrappy kids who overcome every hurdle with heart and hard work.

It's an entire cultural epoch ahead of its time — the cynicism of Hud's «rightness» held in the trembling hands of creepy Cal, who, though he elicits the audience's sympathy, is as destructive a figure to our romantic image of the hero as Paul Newman's solipsistic cowboy.

Chilean director Pablo Larrain has described Neruda as a «false biopic», and it's a film that surprises on many levels in its presentation of Pablo Neruda, the great poet who is his country's best - known cultural figure.

Gibb argued against some «vocal figures in the media» who believe the EBacc represents a dreadful step backwards in the cultural life of schools.

«We have to figure out how to fix the horrible cultural narrative, which says that teaching black kids is at best rewarding and at worst impossible,» says Wilkins, who now works on civil rights issues at the College Board.

Students talked about how important it was to feel loved and cared for by adults in the school, how they needed teachers and staff who could relate to their cultural backgrounds and not just act as authoritative figures for four years.

Following the press release provided by Amazon Publishing, tipped by TeleRead, Jay Parini said, «It seems appropriate to launch a series of short, thought - provoking biographies with a figure who has dominated our collective imagination and cultural iconography for over twenty centuries.»

Rimbaud has provided inspiration to a long line of cultural and countercultural figures, from the Surrealists to the»70s East Village punks like Patti Smith and Richard Hell (who took his stage name from the same Rimbaud poem).

Identity Shifts A companion exhibition to Posing Beauty, this collection - based display features works by African American artists who use representations of the human figure or some aspect of the body (including hair) to explore how we construct and perceive personal and cultural identity.

MATRIX 268 features 239 drawings by the Los Angeles — based artist Veronica De Jesus (b. 1970), who from 2004 until 2016 made portraits of artists, writers, and diverse cultural figures to mark their passing.

This collection - based exhibition features works by African American artists who use representations of the human figure or some aspect of the body (including hair) to explore how we construct and perceive personal and cultural identity.

Amongst the guests at the star - studded evening were participating artists Tracey Emin and Marc Quinn, who both introduced their works, collectors and gallerists and leading cultural figures; Prince Pierre d'Arenberg, Sheikha Hoor Al - Qasimi, Nicolai Frahm, Xavier Hufkens, Bruno Wang, Jimmy Lahoud, as well as designer John Pawson, and Phil Tinari, Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

This unruly object was complemented by a photocopied publication, which featured interviews (conducted by Cruzvillegas) with knitters, community gardeners, slam poets and other figures who issued from a cultural space that was alien to clichés of Parisian identity.

examines this watershed cultural moment — brimming with change and conflict — and the figures who defined it.

The exhibition opens with a 1945 portrait of the musician Armando Perez and includes other figures from Harlem's cultural circle, including Sarah Shiller who, with her husband, supported left wing artists such as Neel during the period.

Portraits compiles the many works completed over Wood's career, done in a variety of media, and with a range of subjects and sitters, including paintings of artist friends, self - portraits, intimate familial moments in domestic interiors and the artist's own cultural and sports heroes, from basketball players and boxers to Philip Guston and Pablo Picasso — though Wood's esteem for these figures is beside the point, as he notes: «I don't depict only those athletes who have meaning for me.

Now, in a presentation she calls 30 Years Later, O'Grady plans to bring Mlle Bourgeoise Noire back to life, transforming her into a figure who rails against the money - driven art world as a means of restoring the cultural purpose it once had.

Sotheby's is honored to announce a series of sales celebrating Jean Stein — author, editor and oral historian, who chronicled the lives and work of cultural and political figures in New York, Paris, Hollywood and beyond.

It has references to traditional iconography to do with drapery, veiling and the myth of Orpheus, who was an inspirational cultural figure for the artist.

In 1947 Irving Penn took his picture for Vogue as part of series on figures who were helping turn New York into the world's new cultural center.

A bubbly, welcoming figure in person, the artist seems a far cry from the firebrand who challenges cultural perceptions of the female body (take her «Plush» series of photographs of women's pubic hair, a commission for Playboy that never ran), and the fashion and beauty industries (in erotically charged, lush yet disquieting paintings like 2007's Blue Poles, a close - up of heavily shadowed eyes).

Joseph Beuys (1921 — 1986) was one of the twentieth century's most revolutionary cultural figures, who changed the look and meaning of sculpture forever.

Inspired by the Kongos» (of the Democractic Republic of the Congo) power figure nkisi nkondi, Destierro (Displacement, 1998 - 99) represents the spirit of the Cuban people who awakens in order to make good on the promise of revolution that has yet to happen; even without this specific cultural context, the artwork haunted me as a symbol of a popular consciousness, political betrayal, and a building hunger for change.

Next up was Hans Ulrich Obrist, who explained that shortly after Ryan Trecartin introduced him to Instagram a few years back, he began asking cultural figures to write short phrases on post-it notes, and it's turned into a massive series called The Handwriting Project.

One of the leading cultural figures of his generation who is recognized for the artistic influence and profound social impact of his work, Ai Weiwei has built a remarkable interdisciplinary career across a variety of media.

The Menil has named this special new series in honor of the late Marion Barthelme Fort, for many years a central figure in Houston's cultural community who had served the Menil Collection as Vice President of its Board of Trustees and Chairman of its Nominating and Governance Committee.

Our gaze wanders over to the output of central figures of twentieth - century art history caught by Picasso's Stalin portrait in the Communist cultural journal Les Lettres françaises from 1953, Andy Warhol's poster promoting the German Green Party from 1978 (at the suggestion of Joseph Beuys, who also appears in the exhibition), or Robert Rauschenberg's poster for the United Nations» International Conference on Population and Development in 1994.

Thek's circle was comprised of other gay artists and cultural figures, many of who would develop into familiar, iconic, artists as well, including the photographer Peter Hujar and the painter Joseph Raffael.

The group exhibition Figure as Form features a variety of contemporary artists who engage with the history of the figure and all of its associated cultural baggage involving gender, race, and sexual ideFigure as Form features a variety of contemporary artists who engage with the history of the figure and all of its associated cultural baggage involving gender, race, and sexual idefigure and all of its associated cultural baggage involving gender, race, and sexual identity.

This statement resonates with the work of Geoffrey Farmer who excavates multifarious cultural histories, from the life of Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention, photographs in Life magazine between 1935 and 1985, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame or Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire, to the figure of Aloysius Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street.

Close Encounters is international in scope but includes many figures who lived and worked in New York and who helped define it as a cultural capital in the decades following World War II, including Langston Hughes, George Balanchine and the Ballet Society, Saul Steinberg, Truman Capote, Woody Allen, Louise Bourgeois, and Rudolf Nureyev.

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People who are more often perceived as dominant figures may be influenced to adopt aggressive and defensive behaviors often idolized in the cultural mainstream.