Sentences with phrase «cultural ideas about»

Inner conflict between wanting to be involved and cultural ideas about masculinity and men's roles

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Indeed, its cultural significance warrants giving it a position in Christological discussion equal to that accorded to at least some of the material from the Jewish background in the analysis of the genesis and development of early Christian ideas about Jesus.
Complaints about the cultural «imposition» of ideas about universal human rights are, more often than not, in the service of nationalism, racism, ideology, or power politics - or all of these in combination.
Pretty soon the likes of Einstein, Kepler, Maxwell, and Newton will have to be a fuzzy ambiguous creature of some sort so all the non-white non-Jewish kids who aren't Asian (i.e., the black kids) don't get any wrong ideas about ethnocentricity or Western cultural superiority producing such sheer conceptual and mathematical genius century after century.
It is a difficult enterprise to maintain in a time when taboos lie strewn across the cultural battlefield, but Ms. Brown, being British, knows that there is still a giggle to be milked from an audience that only vaguely remembers what was supposed to be sacred about the institutions and ideas now so casually mocked.
However, as we began to unpack the terminology, examine the practical implications of discussing it as a preeminent cultural construct versus an abstract idea and thought more deeply about how we would actually define it, the idea of Christian Privilege became more amorphous.
Finally the assembly agreed on a number of guidelines for a new information order, including: the elimination of the imbalances and inequities brought on by media monopolies; a «better balanced dissemination of information and ideas»; freedom of the press and of information; and respect for each people's cultural identity and its right to inform the world about its «interests, aspirations and social and cultural values.
In this cross-disciplinary conversation I turn first to what is known about the brain, then to what we understand about belief, and finally, on the basis of that convergence of ideas, to an examination of the cultural symbol - images of Byzantine and medieval architecture, which express both cognitive and cosmic ways of understanding human life.
As part of her research, Brown interviewed 140 mostly white, middle - class mothers in the Minneapolis area about their cultural ideas of mothering, how they cope with their «life load,» and how they really parent.
A Peaceful Revolution is a blog about innovative ideas to strengthen America's families through public policies, business practices, and cultural change.
The focus on how eating - and body distress may be used to negotiate dominant ideas about gender and sexuality is similarly applicable to male patients, as well as gender minorities, even whilst the cultural constructions at stake may be different.»
Dating a person without having any idea about his / her cultural background or traditions can prove to be an uphill task.
In the search for reality (either subjective or documented), the film is also curious about the process of the actor — a thematic piece that blends seamlessly to the film's themes of being watched if not so much with its ideas on our cultural media climate.
Ideas of representation and cultural awareness are central to the concept of windows and mirrors, but critical reflection and thoughtful action are central to the idea of literature as a sliding glass door, a concept similar to windows in that both present different experiences, but sliding glass doors also can represent a change in perspective about the possibilities in the real world that a particular text helps the reader to consider.
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Ideas should also lead to enjoyment and satisfaction in being able to answer or find answers to the kinds of questions that people ask about themselves and the natural world, and have cultural significance reflecting achievements in the history of science, inspiration from the study of nature and the impacts of human activity on the environment.
Arts Festival Impacts aims to offer a case study to concretely examine theoretical ideas about the impacts of festivals, and, more broadly, further PZ's research interests in exploring the impacts and characteristics of arts and cultural offerings on community audiences.
The students will be offered reading lists, and website links for multicultural books, suggested ideas for family outreach initiatives, multicultural learning strategies within the classroom, challenging inner biases and / or stereotypes about children from other cultures, getting to know the whole child, understanding the cultural family dynamic of your students, and learning to adapt the classroom to the needs of your diverse body of students, etc..
They explore with students how issues that they are learning about in particular subjects relate to spiritual, moral, social and cultural ideas and about modern British Values.
They are the researchers, using primary and secondary sources to learn about key events, figures, and cultural and political ideas.
5) Get past the nostalgic (and completely false) idea that the book industry is or ever was all about hardcover books and cultural moments.
Let me repeat: leading puppies or shy or fearful dogs up to strangers to have the stranger give them a treat is a really bad idea that unfortunately has made its way into the cultural mythology about «how to introduce dogs to people.»
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Like Wilson, I liked the idea of looking hard at a cultural punching bag and investigating what the work can tell us about the world and ourselves.
The FOR - SITE Foundation is dedicated to the idea that art can inspire fresh thinking and important dialogue about our natural and cultural environment.
His clipped, effective prose did not rise to those heights, nor did his ideas about art have the generous scope and grandeur of Ruskin's cultural vision.
Each artist incorporates their cultural background into their current work in unique ways, some producing work that clearly shows the resonance of their origins; others creating pieces that express ideas, even controversial ideas, about their roots, and still others are working in new and utterly original forms.
This exhibition explores a wide range of important topics including: personal histories, cultural traditions, environmental concerns, the effects of violence, changing ideas about gender and sexuality, and new approaches to the medium of photography.
Another typical house - setting is Alabama Song, a project that provides Houston with a place where people can converse about not - so - typical cultural things and experience a presentation of non object - based ideas: artist talks, critique and reading groups, screenings, workshops and performances.
From focused exhibitions on the work of Cuban painter Amelia Peláez and Haitian born, Miami - based artist Edouard Duval - Carrié to thematic presentations of the Museum's permanent collection to major retrospectives on artists Ai Weiwei and Beatriz Milhazes and group exhibitions on the exchange of ideas between the Caribbean basin, Europe, and North Africa, PAMM's upcoming projects serve as critical frames through which larger dialogues about recent history, migration, new cultural formations, and diverse ideologies can be structured.
In Chris Ofili's work painterly and cultural elements — both sacred and profane, personal and political, from high art and popular culture — come together to play on ideas of beauty while carrying messages about black culture, history and exoticism.
His paintings often appear to be pure abstractions, but upon investigation and contemplation, they reveal a charged space that connects to the artist's personal experiences and whose underlying ideas raise questions about issues from politics to environmentalism to cultural identity.
Since that time, post-colonial thinking, globalization, and an awareness of our own cultural hybridity have deepened ideas about African culture; the exoticizing and demeaning implications of Primitivism have made it untenable.
If such perception - events are more about ideas and concepts — our own, or those we glean through interactions with different communities or society at large — to what extent would notions such as popular visual tropes, specific cultural references, or language itself tend to be associated with physical sensations?
Through paintings, sculptures, photography and decorative arts, Visions of US explores evolving ideas about American cultural identity from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries to tell a rich and inclusive story about how we imagine and represent the United States.
For several years, Rolf Sachs has been focusing in his works on language and speech and the objects of his cultural origins that touch him and reflect his ideas about freedom and openness.
Ofili's work combines painterly and cultural elements to play on ideas of beauty while carrying messages about black culture, history, and exoticism.
Hank Willis Thomas appropriates culturally charged historical images, presenting them in memorial flag frames that trigger ideas about collective commemoration and cultural remembrance.
Visions of US explores evolving ideas about American cultural identity from the 18th through 20th centuries.
Other works addressed his ideas about museums as places for dialogue and cultural production across disciplines.
The gallery says his work features «painterly and cultural elements — both sacred and profane, personal and political, from high art and popular culture — come together to play on ideas of beauty while carrying messages about black culture, history and exoticism.»
The idea of a merger would have been considered heresy back in 2008 (Eric Garcetti hated the idea), but many folks in L.A. seem to be resigned to the notion of the County Museum taking over one of the premiere bastions of contemporary art in the United States — in the same way that you might feel resigned about having to resignedly take in some hot mess of a family member who, despite having every social, cultural and financial advantage, can't seem to pull their shit together.
Adjaye will talk about the ideas that inform his practice, the main aspects of his work, the role of architecture in the contemporary world, and the need to draw public attention to cultural heritage.
The Master of Fine Arts Program at CalArts is a two - year, full - time, studio - based program... An interdisciplinary forum for the intellectual, cultural, and experimental possibilities in production, the program pushes students to question conventional ideas about contemporary art.
About Iniva Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) engages with new ideas and emerging debates in the contemporary visual arts, reflecting in particular the cultural diversity of contemporary society.
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.
I don't want to sound naïve here — of course all of what you do adds to the value of David Zwirner and the works of your father's gallery, but that is not the point, or it is but for you art is about the ideas and cultural resonances, not just the market value.
Converge 45: YOU IN MIND is conceived as an «art convergence in four chapters» that takes an acute and particular care about the idea and ethos of Portland's inherent positivity to amplify (for good purpose) the generous hand of independent artists whose practices tend towards perpetuating / activating the now radical notion of our cultural commons... It is my intention with YOU IN MIND that the projects we exhibit and / or present, focus on artists who have a «public» in mind, conceptually, structurally and / or are actively present within the resulting work itself.
Here, ideas of home, hospitality and generosity mingle with thoughts about cultural inheritance in a broader sense.
Having explored the Anthropocene idea over the past eight years in my book, the large cultural - scientific «Anthropocene Project» at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and an ongoing special exhibition at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, I find it laudable that the recently published «Ecomodernist Manifesto» of the Breakthrough Institute attempts to encourage a debate about this question.
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