Sentences with phrase «cultural heroes»

Kjartansson repeatedly celebrates the romanticized figure of the artist as cultural hero through the lens of music and durational performance while also pitting sincerity against the artifice of performance.

People like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Michael Dell did so, becoming cultural heroes and creating value along the way.

For some, in both the United States and Israel, he has become a full - fledged cultural hero.

A writer who began with an excellent book on baseball, Goldstein has captured the zestful image of Coffin as a popular cultural hero.

Dana Ullman, MPH, widely recognized as the foremost spokesperson of homeopathic medicine in the United States and author of 10 books, including The Homeopathic Revoluion: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy stops by Dr. Lo Radio to discuss the power of homeopathy and why YOU should include this in your healthcare regime.

Lindsay Anderson's fond, contentious book on John Ford has just been published in the U.S., which prompts thoughts from Richard Schickel on Ford's films and the need for cultural heroes.

Kent thinks of himself as a folk artist, a regionalist naively painting «Monuments to American Cultural Heroes».

Celebrating the importance of role models and icons in combating the legacies of racism and discrimination, Afro Supa Hero provides a snapshot of a childhood journey to adulthood, shown through Jon's personal collection of pop cultural heroes and heroines of the African diaspora.

The works in the main gallery exhibition, «Transactions of the Eye,» act as a bridge between featured artist Harold Coego's two home countries: Cuba, where historical and cultural heroes surrounded him, and Canada, where new characters and new human interactions shape a different life.

The mining industry in Australia also hasn't been massive for all that long a time, and the real cultural hero here is the «Aussie battler» out on the farm or sheep station; they don't have the kind of industrial heroes that capture the imagination of the US.

From a purely marketing point of view, it's great to see local movements like this embracing mainstream cultural heroes, rather than remaining in the usual hippy ghetto that is so often the domain of such initiatives.

«Me, My Mother, My Father and I» will draw on stage traditions, film music and literature and will explore the stereotypes of actors and artists as cultural heroes.

Yet they were better men than the twenty - first - century intellectuals who have supplanted them as cultural heroes.

Guevara is as intricate a figure (and as much of a cultural hero) as Bob Dylan, but while Todd Haynes in I'm Not There tried (disastrously) to dissect Dylan through a series of semantic gallery illustrations, Soderbergh more intriguingly posits Guevara as one of the many cogs in the machinery of political insurrection.

Made in America explores the ugly contradictions in the heart of the American character through the rise and fall of a cultural hero, but goes far beyond the trappings of a single man.

During the past sixty years Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), traditionally generally scorned, has become a cultural hero.

Each is a set of words, drawn in ink and configured into a specific shape, and each portrays an artist of Bochner's circle or one of his cultural heroes: Ad Reinhardt, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Robert Smithson, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Marcel Duchamp, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Alfredo Volpi is an unfamiliar name in the UK, but a cultural hero in Brazil.

While Volpi's name may be unfamiliar to many in England, in Brazil he is a cultural hero.

This series of portraits of some of the artist's own «cultural heroes,» including a poet and a gay rights activist, posing and performing on the empty pedestals that monuments of Portuguese colonists once occupied.

Some are portraits of the cultural heroes of the day before they were famous or just on the verge, and others are satirical self - portraits in a Mao jacket and sunglasses in front of famous architectural monuments, posing as an «Ambiguous Ambassador» of Asian culture.

To the people of Jamaica, he's a cultural hero.

He became a cultural hero because of his influential writings as an art critic, his work as an arts organizer, and his role as spokesman for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance and mid - twentieth century.

Playing with stereotypes usually projected onto the persona of the actor, Kjartansson both celebrates and derides the romanticized figure of the artist as cultural hero.