Sentences with phrase «cultural lens through»

The exhibition, which ran from September 27, 2014 through April 26, 2015, offered a new cultural lens through which to experience the former penitentiary - turned - national park.

«The cultural lens through which the fishermen viewed this issue was of struggle in a post-slavery society, of the rich, predominantly white expatriates making a law that oppressed the poorest of the poor locals to benefit the wealthy.»

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The dominant interpretation, derived from Franco - German scholarship of the nineteenth century, emphasized material aspects: political contest and domination in the Near East; the social structures of the Levantine crusader principalities viewed, especially by Francophone scholars, through the lens of modern colonialism; cultural confrontation and exchange through settlement and trade, a topos made familiar by eighteenth - century Enlightenment writers seeking to integrate the Crusades into a narrative of European progress; military adventurism that exposed the mentality of crusaders — heroic, passionate, devout, or misguided according to taste.

I've become a lot more aware recently of how we tend to read the Bible through our own cultural lens without stopping to think what things meant for the people at the time.

Seemingly tragic, these ideas are viewed through a lens that is highly satirical of American cultural and self - depreciating in its comedic voice.

Debuting in a time where discussion on race in American cinema is at an absolute fever pitch, Morris From America explores the idea of cultural and personal identity through the lens of a 13 - year old black aspiring free - styler living with his father (Craig Robinson) in the little white - washed German village of Heidelberg.

Author and filmmaker Ytasha Womack said Afrofuturism is» a way of looking at the future or an alternate reality, but through a black cultural lens.»

The Remains of the Day seems to build on that critique, but examining it through a lens where the sociopolitical need for such a sect of people, even the cultural need, is waning.

In the Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship, students investigate diverse cultural contexts and develop skills in being able to see common issues through diverse cultural lenses.

By exploring their own and others» histories, values and cultural practices, and the benefits and challenges of interacting with diverse groups, students learn to see common issues through diverse cultural lenses and to practise empathy.

They filter all decisions and actions through the lens of their agreed - upon and deeply held cultural beliefs and clearly understood desired results.

The Global Oneness Project brings the world to the classroom through free multicultural stories and accompanying lesson plans to explore cultural, social, and environmental issues through a humanistic lens.

Students looked at the issue through various lenses — from a genetic, biological perspective as well as from a cultural, geographical perspective — and discussed their findings in writing.

The experiences of both teachers and students with individuals of differing social, ethnic, cultural, and geographic backgrounds can serve as a lens through which future interactions can be viewed.

It's vitally important to remember that most people have not considered the immense difference between a world seen through the lens of a traditional relational database system and a world seen through the lens of a Hadoop Distributed File System.This paper broadly describes the cultural challenges that accompany efforts to create and sustain big data initiatives in an evolving world whose data management processes are rooted firm...

The typography was refracted by objects from London architecture: «We took models of the main architectural and cultural symbols of the city which echo the idea of Future London Academy — knowledge through the lens of London,» ONY explains.

Bangkok - raised artist Korakrit Arunanondchai engages a myriad of subjects such as history, authenticity, self - representation, and tourism through the lens of a cultural transplant.

This is the first work in a second generation of his celebrated Wind Sculpture series and continues Shonibare's ongoing examination of the construction of cultural identity through the lens of colonialism.

Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

This conversation with artists Brendan Fernandes and Aliza Nisenbaum, moderated by Joshua Cohen, Assistant Professor, African Art History, The City College of New York, revisits the work of Amedeo Modigliani through the 21st - century lens of formal and cultural appropriation.

EXHIBITION «Who We Be» @ Cantor Center for the Arts at Stanford University (March 30 — June 27, 2016): This timely and innovative exhibition explores visual culture since 1965 through the lens of cultural, political and demographic change.

The exhibition, on view Nov 17 — Dec 16, 2012, features 15 artists «united through a heightened sense of awareness to their immediate surroundings seen through the lens of the American landscape; a landscape shaped by unseen socio - political forces, constantly shifting cultural paradigms, and the on - going flux of construction and destruction.»

To see, to understand how art can act as a lens, a prism, through which to understand broader cultural experience — now and after Brexit.

John Reed examines our cultural fascination with the Joker through the quirky, armless lens of Don Porcaro's art.

Titled «Miss Coari 1969, 1993,» the inventive collection explores different ways of working with cotton and found materials through the cultural lens of Gascon's hometown of Manaus, Amazonas.

Organized in chronological sections ranging from the colonial era to the mid-twentieth century, this long - awaited book examines a noteworthy collection through a variety of interpretive lenses − aesthetic and cultural − for the benefit of a broad readership.

Featuring artists and art historians Cecily Brown, Emmelyn Butterfield - Rosen, and Nick Mauss, and moderated by Jutta Koether, this panel will consider different methods of reading Florine Stettheimer's work, through the lens of social and cultural history, or as an alternative example of modernism, creating its own series of networks from within.

Throughout The Space Between: Selected Writings on Art, Michael Bracewell approaches visual art through its cultural context, the lens of the recent past and prolonged looking.

Born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley, Patrick Martinez's L.A. suburban upbringing and his diverse cultural background (Filipino, Mexican and Native American), provided him with a unique lens through which he interprets his surroundings.

Kjartansson repeatedly celebrates the romanticized figure of the artist as cultural hero through the lens of music and durational performance while also pitting sincerity against the artifice of performance.

While these concerns may be universal, Saudi artists approach them through the lens of their country's unique history and forms of cultural expression.

Few artists have the ability to not only contribute to the cultural landscape, but to actually redefine the lens through which that culture is apprehended.

Our current exhibition, «A Green and Pleasant Land: British Landscape and the Imagination: 1970s to Now» focuses on how artists have interpreted the British landscape through the lens of their own cultural, political or spiritual principles.

Through this lens he examines the political and cultural landscape of his country.

With its new exhibition, «Blues for Smoke,» on view until April 28, 2013, the Whitney Museum of American Art explores a large array of contemporary art, from the 1950s to the present, through the lens of blues as an artistic sensibility and cultural idiom.

Bouquets offers an exciting opportunity to examine the traditional still life through a largely unexplored cultural lens, expanding scholarship and understanding of 19th - century painting,» said Maxwell L. Anderson, the DMA's Eugene McDermott Director.

Highlighting this spectrum of code - based art, the work in code / switch will explore technology as subject as well as medium, and will offer a survey of art that critically reflects on the creative use of tech, through a socio - cultural lens.

In a text accompanying the show, they argue that if the AIDS crisis, which was at its peak during the six years Rosenberg worked on the series, «is not a subject of the work, it is an implicit and important cultural and historical lens through which to consider a series of photographs depicting the sexualized male body as a site of pleasure.»

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.

The cultural signifiers of these places melt together when viewed through the Colorado - based artist's sunshine - hued lens.

«Curated by the iconic British photographer Martin Parr, this exhibition is a timely consideration of how international photographers from the 1930s onwards have captured the social, cultural, and political identity of the UK through the camera lens»

Whether through the lens of architecture, art, cultural industries, history or literature, dialogicCENTRALsolutions focuses on discussing new approaches on thinking about Central America.

The Museum of Art's exhibition program highlights, on a rotating basis, high - quality exhibitions that are broad - ranging, diverse, and balanced in their exploration of contemporary art, historic art examined through the lens of the present, a variety of artistic mediums, a diverse range of content, and a range of cultural and social positions.

The paintings meander through various systems of knowledge and representation such as Tantric iconography, a landscape in the isolated dictatorship of North Korea, illustrations of cellular generation and radical cultural histories seen through the lenses of fellow artists Emily Roysdon and Cameron Rowland.

Curated by the iconic British photographer Martin Parr, and designed by London based architects Witherford, Watson, Mann, the exhibition is a timely consideration of how international photographers from the 1930s onwards have captured the social, cultural, and political identity of the UK through the camera lens.

She often explores beauty and sexuality through a historical and pop - cultural lens.

Amie Potsic is a photographer and environmental artist based in the Philadelphia area whose work addresses cultural, personal, and natural phenomena through the lens of social responsibility.

The story unfolds in loose chronological order through ten chapters, outlining moments of cultural and artistic revolution that shaped the development of American Art, through the lens of Sandler's close, interpersonal relationships with artists such as Chuck Close, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Serra, and Cindy Sherman.

In a constantly evolving body of work, Kjartansson plays with notions of myth, cultural history, and identity, often through the lens of music and durational performance, all the while playing sincerity against the inherent artifice of performance.

By composing sculpture with dancers, Ettun creates a sense of what she calls a «handheld history» examining the transformation of cultural and psychological narratives through the lens of personal accounts and perspectives.