Sentences with phrase «cultural imagery in»

This group of artists is known for drawing on existing art and cultural imagery in their works, commenting on Modernist notions of originality, the autonomy of the art object and its status as a commodity.

Not exact matches

But are classes like «The Material Culture in the Victorian Novel» or «The Power of Ornament: Roman Imperial Imagery and Its Reception» really more practical than studying gender politics through our cultural reaction to the VMAs?

The imagery that is used in Genesis 1 — 2 and in Genesis 6 - 8 finds many parallels in Mesopotamian and Egyptian cosmology, and if we don't understand these cultural contexts, we will almost certainly not understand these opening chapters of Genesis either.

Through such a change in the cultural imagery, we could «choose our own salvation as a political as well as spiritual act» (p. 910)

Where I «find» them is in the imagery and the cultural archetypes that hold our collective imagination.

Religious leaders, I think, face alternatives not easily reconciled: to try to form communities in which biblical imagery and ideas provide an alternative vision to our cultural ones, or to engage in a process of mutual critique, edification, correction and revision of frameworks that are informed both by our religious traditions and by the sciences and culture.

It's when people connect on this experiential level that ideas (in this case, «bad things shouldn't happen to good people») gain cultural traction and eventually make their way into religious imagery.

Television already has succeeded in transforming most cultural institutions and activities to meet its own needs and to fit its own imagery.

We live in a cultural moment (and have been for some time) where worship songs appropriate destructive imagery and negative language to talk about God.

Reports: Iraq: Mosul, Iraq: Destruction of Nebi Yunis (Tomb of the Prophet Jonah) Syria: Ancient History, Modern Destruction: Assessing the Current Status of Syria's World Heritage Sites Using High - Resolution Satellite Imagery Report Report (PDF) Ancient History, Modern Destruction: Assessing the Current Status of Syria's Tentative World Heritage Sites Using High - Resolution Satellite Imagery Report Report (PDF) Azerbaijan: High - Resolution Satellite Imagery and the Destruction of Cultural Artifacts in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan Report

It's a cultural touchstone with imagery that instantly became iconic, a deeply layered satire, and an exploration of race and relationships that has made an indelible impact on the world in the year since it debuted.

by Walter Chaw Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered is the most startling debut since Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, with which it has a few things in common: both are constructed with a wilful disdain towards narrative; both are aimed at the outer limits of shocking imagery; both display an open hostility for the cultural status quo; and both joke on their audience's entrenched preconceptions of film form.

Except to say when considering Western history and the current cultural and political climate, there is imagery in this trailer that I find to be stunning, indeed powerful, and quite moving.

- you can manually maneuver your characters around the battlefield - if you have an energy wave that shoots forward in a straight line, you can now move into the best place to strike - environments you visit in The Lost Sphear will offer more diversity when compared to I Am Setsuna - the world is composed of different cultural regions - one is based on machinery, while another is focused on magic - the imagery of the moon is still a consistent visual theme tying the game together - the team is aware I Am Setsuna's skill system created problems for some players, and it is working to tweak it here - the game will have inns where you can rest to restore your health and magic - there are more unannounced features to be revealed

In Encampment — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation occupying MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Clemente's transitory experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and indeed consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a particularly rich range of references and meaning.

Brischler's source material is culled from a wide swath of cultural references including book covers, vintage film posters, ephemera from long - out - of - print queer publications, and digital imagery in the age of social media.

< EXHIBITION Paying homage to Ebony and Jet magazines — cultural barometers, vital news resources and bibles of aspirational imagery in the African American community for more than half a century — the Studio Museum in Harlem mounts «Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art» on Nov. 13.

Fein's visual language frequently incorporates appropriated imagery and simple graphics taken from the mainstream or sub-cultures, in order to spark curiosity in the viewer about his historical and cultural discoveries.

Today, he continues to probe cultural mythologies and archetypes in various media, appropriating imagery from animated films, mail - order catalogues, modernist abstraction, and street graffiti to create an artistic lexicon that insistently collapses the boundaries between high and low.

One of the key figures in the Pop Art movement, his complex narratives of recognizable imagery are firmly situated in the cultural and political contexts in which they are made.

avaf works in a vast array of media, including painting, drawing, installations, video, sculpture, neons, wallpaper, decals, and often confronts gender, politics, and embedded cultural codes through pop imagery and neon colors.

Through its collage of images, creating, according to Rosenquist, «a kind of motion in the mind», America's mainstream cultural values were being questioned by its own popular advertising imagery.

Chiefly recognized for his grand - scale meticulously blurred chalk drawings of referential and symbolic cultural motifs, the Wall Street Journal reports on Gary Simmons «s new presentations of boxing imagery in Miami and New York, as well as his participation in Prospect New Orleans.

avaf works in a vast array of media, including painting, drawing, installations, video, sculpture, neon, wallpaper, decals, and often confronts gender, politics, and embedded cultural codes through pop imagery and neon colors.

Bradford's monumental painting My Grandmother Felt the Color, 2016, is currently on view at the BMA in a gallery dedicated to social abstraction, alongside other artists who have turned to abstract imagery to convey the humanity, complexity, and ongoing impact of specific cultural experiences, such as Jack Whitten and Ross Bleckner.

Through symbolic gestures and imagery Biggers creates an experience that highlights often overlooked cultural and political narratives in American History.

The theoretical complexity underpinning Lloyd's practice finds its material and processual counterpoint in the synthesis of past and future - combining high and low cultural perspectives, digital and analogue techniques, and traditional and non-traditional artistic imagery and processes.

Yoshida, who encouraged the use of commercial and popular cultural imagery, led a group of artists who came to be known as the Imagists who distinguished themselves from the art scenes in New York and Europe with high color figurative paintings and drawings.

Integrating new scholarship, documentary imagery and archival materials, Robert Rauschenberg is the first comprehensive catalogue of the artist's career in 20 years, an important contribution to American cultural and intellectual history and a necessary volume for anyone interested in contemporary art.

In a culture that is stuffed full of imagery, icons, argument, products, brands and just plain junk, can we invent something new by mining, reframing, re-contextualizing, and re-conceiving some of the ideas and objects that make up the cultural moment in which we livIn a culture that is stuffed full of imagery, icons, argument, products, brands and just plain junk, can we invent something new by mining, reframing, re-contextualizing, and re-conceiving some of the ideas and objects that make up the cultural moment in which we livin which we live?

Curators Stephanie Plunkett and Joyce K. Schiller have the pleasure of teaching a MICA course exploring the artistic and cultural underpinnings of published imagery through history, and we are pleased to present the findings of our talented students in this weekly blog.

Norman Rockwell Museum Curators Stephanie Plunkett and Joyce K. Schiller have the pleasure of teaching a MICA course exploring the artistic and cultural underpinnings of published imagery through history, and we are pleased to present the findings of our talented students in this weekly blog.

By presenting bold and striking African American women in historical compositions, Thomas offers an alternative to mass media imagery and simultaneously makes thoughtful allusion to pop cultural references like Blaxploitation and suburban kitsch.

Integrating new scholarship, documentary imagery and archival materials, Robert Rauschenberg is the first comprehensive catalogue of the artist's career in 20 years, an important contribution to American cultural and intellectual history across disciplines and a necessary volume for anyone interested in art of the present day.

Through a range of image sources and her stage - like environments, such as gallery walls painted with Chroma Key blue paint used in film or TV studios, Hamilton explores our associations to surreal and seductive cultural imagery while examining the histories of art, film, and performance.

Seamlessly blending pop cultural imagery, color theory, and psychology, Yuskavage draws on classical and modern painterly techniques and, in particular, marshals color as a conduit for complex psychological constructs.

But Stezaker was a student too at a time when a wholesale critique of the pop - cultural image was being launched by such thinkers as Guy Debord; the Situtationists» scurrilous repurposing of media imagery became an exemplary strategy for him, alongside his abiding, and then unfashionable, interest in surrealism.

In his work, Guzman uses abstract and representational imagery to explore cultural and historical references that encompass colonialism, indigenous folklore traditions and European and American modernism.

Employing appropriation as a strategy of production, they incorporate prefabricated objects and imagery into their art, repositioning them in ways that expand our perceptions of history, representation, class, violence, resistance, and cultural practice.

Also informed by studies in visual literacy at New York University and cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago, the simultaneous viewpoints presented in his grids of photo imagery - sourced from the environment, movies, Internet and print media - point to insights beyond any given framing device.

Lê uses these new collages to illustrate a cultural shift in Vietnam in recent years, as corporate logos and insignias gradually replace the war imagery that has long dominated the country's visual lexicon.

Featuring over 120 works, this mid-career survey spans 1991 to 2015 and is arranged to highlight recurring themes, imagery and cultural references that are found in the artist's deeply autobiographical practice.

Thomas has stated that his interest in non-representational imagery is due to his concern with bringing about reactions of pure emotion in his audience, devoid of cultural references and cues.

The panoramic view of inventive female imagery in the film and the selection of the music reveal the irony reflected in political and cultural norms between Eastern and Western societies.

Reski enacts his own succumbing to the onslaught of contemporary pop - cultural imagery as a theatrical backdrop in which to plant images that distil desperation into metaphors for desperation.

Buck is an artist who is fascinated by the cultural imagery surrounding his two homes (one in Bozeman, Montana, and the other on the Big Island of Hawaii), current events, popular culture, and the irony inherent in world history.

In artworks like I Am A White Agitator and Amelia Falling (2016) Willis Thomas employs language and familiar imagery from the Civil Rights era, appropriating historical visual media and stripping it of its context to open up questions of cultural stereotypes, and the way the media perpetuates them.

With our empathic cultural ethics now under greater threat than ever before, the show provides an opportunity, in featuring artists who take apart ideologies through the imagery, narrative, and placement of their work, to step into direct relations with the cultural imaginary of what it means to strive toward becoming American.

There are many references to art and popular cultural imagery that have permeated the Chinese creative subconscious, be it an iconic Andy Warhol portrait and images of the twin towers with smoke pouring from them culled from print media, or the enduring allure of Hollywood and cinema's role in both reflecting and shaping the image of America in the minds of people outside it.

In «Encampment» — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation in MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Francesco Clemente's experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a rich range of references and meaninIn «Encampment» — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation in MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Francesco Clemente's experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a rich range of references and meaninin MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Francesco Clemente's experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a rich range of references and meaning.