Sentences with phrase «cultural history of»

It may be the workshop of the modern world, but let's not forget the amazing cultural history of the Far East.

Various Indigenous nations had their own political structures which varied depending on the complex cultural history of each region and group.

John maintains an interest in the cultural history of Victorian England, especially in relation to material culture and clothing.

It teaches kids about the environmental repercussions of raising large animals for human consumption, the impressive nutritional profile of insects, and the rich cultural history of entomophagy.

The cumulative effects of climate change in Alaska strongly affect Native communities, which are highly vulnerable to these rapid changes but have a deep cultural history of adapting to change.

This show attempted to explore the cultural history of Harlem from an anthropological and photographic perspective rather than through the lens of creative practices by artists living in Harlem.

focuses on the rich cultural history of the neighborhood and takes an unflinching look at the daily lives of the working - class people and immigrants who lived there.

The SCHIRN presents a major exhibition dedicated to the cultural history of vision.

This richly illustrated book contains essays on the intersections between art and magic by Jonathan Allen and Sally O'Reilly; texts on each of the 24 featured artists; new writing on the cultural history of magic by Simon During, Brigitte Felderer, Peter Lamont, Pierre Taillefer, Helen Varola and Marina Warner; a fold - out collation of texts and images exploring the dynamics of magic, art and power; and an illustrated selection of props and offbeat ephemera from the world of theatrical magic.

The cultural history of New Orleans is by nature a collective one.

Mike Kelley's writings include project descriptions and accompanying texts from his major works; a retrospective view of his radical rock band Destroy All Monsters; and essays on prevailing themes, such as caricature, in the cultural history of representation.

«The cultural history of Santa Fe for the past 100 years is closely entwined with modern art history,» notes the project's director David Eichholtz.

The inaugural exhibition, «Photographing L.A. Architecture,» demonstrated Krull's interest in the cultural history of Southern California and also marked the beginning of his representation of noted L.A. artists such as Julius Shulman, James Fee, and Edmund Teske.

Armed with incisive wits, Stamp and Johnson shrewdly observe and critique the aesthetic makeup and cultural history of their shared city.

This exhibition — organized by the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with the DuSable Museum of African American History and other cultural partners and presented concurrently with the DuSable's exhibition South Side Stories: Holdings — takes a nuanced look at the cultural history of Chicago's South Side during this momentous era of change and conflict, with a focus on artists of the Black Arts Movement.

Their artworks provide a personal and cultural history of three generations of Inuit women whose art practices included autobiographical narratives and chronicled intimate and sometimes harsh memories and historically resonant moments.

• 2012: A new permanent exhibition exploring the natural and cultural history of Los Angeles and Southern California, opens.

From one of art's greatest contemporary photographers to the rich cultural history of famous eruptions

Her current research project explores the cultural history of dioramas and its influence on contemporary artists and thinkers, leading to an exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in 2017.

This work is an unsentimental look at the cultural history of various locations in the Sandy Spring, Maryland area.

Research Center for Media - and Performance Art and Guest Professor for Cultural History of Modernism at the Bauhaus - University Weimar.

Also on display will be photo - collages and videos that examine the cultural history of Washington, DC and Virginia sites.

Relating these works to one another through interconnecting narratives and cross-references, scholars and curators provide a broad cultural history of the region.

Almost becoming a tourist in his hometown, he was heavily influenced by the rich artistic and cultural history of the city.

The results have something - but not quite enough - of the investigative tenor of Gerhard Richter's late abstractions, which treat paint as if all of its expressive potential lay embedded in the material itself and the cultural history of responses to it.

As with her more recent ventures, Macuga explores the cultural history of the venue and melds it with recent events.

In Children of Unquiet, Mikhail Karikis interweaves sound recordings of geothermal activity and industry in Larderello, Italy, with a cinematic and cultural history of Dante's Inferno, whose vision of hell was inspired by that very location.

She employs a variety of media including tap dancing, embroidery, a cappella song, and broadcast technologies, producing videos and installations that explore the cultural history of landscape.

This interest in modernism's roots and friendships with women actively participating in the cultural history of their era served Paule well as seeker of inspirational role models.

Presenting work at the three museums and accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events, Caribbean: Crossroads offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the diverse and impactful cultural history of the Caribbean basin and its diaspora.

said: «It means that we have secured this key part of the cultural history of St Ives and actually our national cultural history».

The artist, writer, and media theorist (and former Rhizome editor and curator) continues her interdisciplinary methodology with Getting Ready — which invokes «the anxiety of preparation for public engagement and exploring the degrees to which online participation soothes or exacerbates social alienation» — and touches on themes that have become staples in her work, like the politics of participation, gender theory, and the cultural history of technology.

As the Saatchi Gallery's CEO Nigel Herst noted, many British know about social and political changes that Ukraine has been undergoing these days, but not many people really know about the cultural history of our country.

Since 1998 he works in fragments of a cultural history of aesthetical practices of the end of the XIXth Century, around the production of a somatic and sexualized subjectivity, about what he published the essay «Narciso Fin de Siglo» (Melusina, 2008).

In recent years, Kentridge has dramatically expanded both the scope of his projects (such as recent full - scale opera productions) and their thematic concerns, which now include his own studio practice, colonialism in Namibia and Ethiopia, and the cultural history of postrevolutionary Russia.

Through paintings, costume and set designs, posters, photographs, film clips and theater ephemera this exhibition brings to light an exhilarating but fleeting moment in the cultural history of the Soviet Union when innovative visual artists joined forces with avant - garde playwrights, actors, and theatrical producers.

Her treatments of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's life span (For Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982 — 83) and the cultural history of Germany (Kulturgeschichte 1880 — 1983) are much the same.

Exhibitions • Capturing critical and audience acclaim, our art exhibitions and Day With (out) Art programs contemplate the deep cultural history of AIDS activism and examine the relationship between HIV and contemporary culture.

By combining things found on the street or in the studio and relating them to specific narratives, Mirza explores «the socio - cultural history of objects and the contexts in which they originally emerged / developed.»

«The Fatal Environment» is the second volume of Richard Slotkin's epochal study of the frontier myth in the cultural history of the United States.

Jenn Zahrt, PhD is a Seattle - based author, professional publisher and editor, and an expert in the field of the cultural history of astrology.

Capturing critical and audience acclaim, our art exhibitions examine the deep cultural history of the AIDS crisis and contemporary issues around HIV / AIDS today.

The exhibition brings together 75 prints, books, photographs and examples of optical apparatus to present a visual and cultural history of the controlling gaze from the 16th to the 20th century.

Hayward Gallery, London From flak jackets to flotsam to Farrow & Ball, seven artists curate an inspired cultural history of postwar Britain

In Rome, she will spend three months immersed in the diverse art scene and cultural history of the city whilst researching the project and looking at the relationship between the Commedia dell» Arte and Italian cinema.

His work primarily uses photography, printmaking, installations, and artist books to explore the cultural history of Modernism.

Erizku has been inspired and triggered by the visual impact and cultural history of Hong Kong during his visits to Asia over the last year, which have been equal parts cultural exchange and artistic interaction with local craftsmen.

Equal parts funny and tender, the video jerry - rigs analogue source material with a beguiling blend of digital aesthetics to explore the speculative future of the chikha — a female singer or dancer wound deep into the cultural history of Morocco — within the twenty - first century standards of social media - enabled distraction and cultural disassociation to which the twenty - nine - year - old Bennani belongs.

Standby Executive Director Maria Venuto and Seery expanded into the field of media preservation, with the aim of conserving the works of many artists and the cultural history of organizations like ACTUP Oral History Project, Appalshop, Experimental Television Center, Franklin Furnace, La Mama, Martha Graham Center, and Paper Tiger Television.

Capturing critical and audience acclaim, Visual AIDS» art exhibitions examine the deep cultural history of the AIDS crisis and contemporary issues around HIV / AIDS today.