Sentences with phrase «cultural history reveals»

In this retrospective, what could have felt like a crash course in cultural history reveals a drawn - out artistic evolution, full of curious contradictions and creative leaps.

Douglas Crimp's memoir - cum - cultural history reveals the reality behind the myth of New York's thriving art scene in the 70s

Not exact matches

In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

A cursory glance at infant feeding history will reveal that the introduction of formula marketing probably contributed to this break down as well as the cultural expectations developed in the early 1900s that only specific health professionals hold all the answers for our bodies.

In short, the movie starts with Thor chained up in the lair of a fire demon named Surtur and ends on Asgard with Thor, his adoptive brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who is more often his enemy than his friend, an Asgardian warrior known as a Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), and the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) battling Thor and Loki's recently freed sister Hela (Cate Blanchett, camping it up deliciously), the Goddess of Death, whose role in Asgard's conquering of the nine other realms has been largely obliterated from the official history (this is the film's one major socio - cultural theme, and it gets a beautifully realized visualization when Hela causes a seemingly innocuous painted dome to crack open, revealing a portrait of a much darker and more violent history underneath).

Grady spent many years compiling and researching local cultural history that simultaneously reveals the ongoing production of cottage architecture, cottage industry and the role that cottages play in politics and social identity within Cannon Beach.

Gestures of cultural understanding are performed by a number of artists whose images reveal complex narratives: Kent Monkman's alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle reclaims a controversial headdress; Aida Muluneh speaks to the struggles and achievements of the African diaspora across history; and Caroline Monnet's scene of women in the film industry highlights an emerging sense of power and self - determination.

Curated by Agustín Arteaga, the DMA's new Eugene McDermott Director, and the result of a combined cultural endeavor between Mexico and France, this major traveling exhibition showcases the work of titans of Mexican Modernism alongside that of lesser - known pioneers, including a number of rarely seen works by female artists, to reveal the history and development of modern Mexico and its cultural identity.

Curated gallery presentations, creatively themed to reveal new perspectives on key moments in cultural history, include:

Theirs was an era that history books tell us was instrumental to our nation's amassing its great wealth of coin and cultural treasures but that postcolonial critique consistently reveals to have been built on the backs of the world's most vulnerable and exploited citizens.

Ligon's paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources — literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs — to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society.

As complex and layered as memory itself, these artworks communicate personal histories, transmit or challenge social and cultural narratives, and reveal stories about their material lives.

In this concentrated display, we see Green's keen ability to formally and conceptually collage several disparate histories and taxonomies in order to reveal overlapping cultural and social complexities — essentially her working methodology that would promptly be taken up by many others in the field of contemporary art.

It must reveal an awareness of cultural perceptions dating back as far as the 60s such as: «America has a racist history,» or «Male sexuality tends to objectify females,» or «High art is about cultural snobbery.»

In this excerpt from Phaidon's «Chromaphilia: The Story of Color in Art,» reading art history against the grain of green reveals conceptual, psychological and cultural differences between Bruce Nauman, Brice Marden, and Olafur Eliasson.

Traditional art from the Indian sub-continent reveals the region's layers of history and unique racial, linguistic, and cultural diversity.

By combining the music, testimonials and the original garments, it reveals why high - end Italian labels were so important to the cultural and style history of both genres.

As Fajardo - Hill and Giunta state in their joint introductory catalogue text, the focus of Radical Women is to reveal a body of work forgotten in Latin America's cultural history, «providing it with the complex theoretical and critical framework that it deserves.»

Exploring how artists interpret urban and rural landscape through the lens of their own cultural, political or spiritual ideologies, the exhibition reveals the inherent tensions between landscape represented as a transcendental or spiritual place, and one rooted in social and political histories.

Like the photographic and sculptural works in Accumulations, Number Sixteen reveals a complex network of accumulated inspirations, cultural allusions and visceral histories.

«With this exhibition, the artists are attempting to reveal the truth about the roots of humanity's history and recurrent behaviors in the light of current cultural dynamics and the psychology of modern society.»

Bearden transforms Homer's Odyssey into vibrant, graphic images that adeptly communicate the familiar epic, reveal his own personal and cultural history, and evoke grand themes that concern the human condition.

The holdings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum reveal the United States» rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today.

These reanimated forms culled from history reveal an anachronistic exhaustion and cultural impoverishment in the contemporary tense.

Takekawa continues to reveal many of his personal experiences in his work, while interweaving them with current events and cultural history.

«Together these objects reveal Deller's artistic interest in the social connections around cultural icons and events, and his reinvestment in the histories and contexts of their creation,» says Locks.