Sentences with phrase «cultural iconography for»

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.»

Not exact matches

The west has dominated Christian iconography for so long, I think we have assumed that the western cultural version of Christ is the «true» version.

This exhibition seeks to correlate directly with How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney's Latin America and Latin America's Disney at MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House and The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State L.A., through the idea of creating identity and using iconography as political and cultural tools to represent the experiences of the people who have most suffered from corporate imperialism.

His work for Art Brussels pushes his oeuvre further in his use of iconography to cultural references including symbolism.

Paintings by Julian Schnabel, Thornton Dial, Rita Ackermann, Joe Bradley, and others largely abandon iconography for material in their reshaping of cultural clay (Laska does this too in her own work, hung in an earlier gallery).

Lalla Essaydi, the Morrocan - born artist uses iconography from 19 - th century Orientalist paintings as an inspiration and a starting point for the exploration of her own cultural identity.

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 these times of diversity and multicultural experience, the artist's image is both a cypher for the human condition as well as the foundation for complex iconography in which the cultural object stands to reflect the impact of societal norms on the individual.

Her work uproots political and religious iconography to dismantle cultural tropes; take, for example, the animation SpiNN, 2003, which abstracts the hairstyles of gopis (female devotees of Krishna) into a flock of small black silhouettes that swirl around the screen like a murmuration of starlings.

Although there are notable influences from prior body art practice and both Eastern and Western cultural and artistic iconography — a large degree of indebtedness to Yoko Ono, Yves Klein and Carolee Schneemann, for example — Rong's appropriation and assimilation of both cultural narratives is what makes her work particularly interesting from a critical perspective but also as an illustration of the interconnected and mutating cultural psyche's of an internationalist «millennial» practitioner.

Kristofferson San Pablo is a Los Angeles based artist whose work explores ideas about bootlegging and remixing of cultural iconography & media imagery through art as a way to distort and transform the conditions for which they were previously used.