Sentences with phrase «cultural mainstream»

Abstraction and Realism during the Postwar Years This balancing act between a race consciousness in art and visual assimilation into the white cultural mainstream — exemplified most emphatically in a nonfigurative, abstract art — was undermined by several artists in the post — World War II years.

With colleagues from the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, & Excellence, a federal research center at the University of California campus here, Tharp has identified five standards that he says mark effective instruction in classrooms with high concentrations of students from backgrounds outside the U.S. cultural mainstream.

Artists who subscribed to a black nationalist agenda argued that Thomas (along with the other well - known black abstractionists) created works that did not challenge the aesthetic sensibilities of the white cultural mainstream.

Outside of a few brief years a decade earlier, the band had never been anywhere near the cultural mainstream.

A cult is often understood as a religious group with strange beliefs out of the cultural mainstream (which many today increasingly consider biblical Christianity).

There can be little doubt that a type of smug, triumphalistic secularism has dominated the cultural mainstream for several decades.

In the past 60 years, yoga has gone from a little - known, esoteric Indian practice to a central activity of the cultural mainstream.

This is connected, relevant, global art that provides a fresh alternative to the noise dominating the cultural mainstream, and an inspiration for its future.»

With more than 114 million copies sold - in worldwide, Grand Theft Auto games have helped propel video games into the cultural mainstream.

She feels somehow emotionally and stylistically closer to those untrained artists who work outside the cultural mainstream and she shares with them the quality of timelessness that emanates from their own personal, and sometimes isolated, worlds.

** Marina Abramovic» ** s 2010 mid-career MoMA retrospective, The Artist Is Present, propelled the Belgrade - born artist, an art world force since the seventies, into the cultural mainstream.

Craft, technique, and awareness of the history of materials are very much in evidence in Simone Leigh's work, which takes up subjects cast as inherently abject by the cultural mainstream for the fact of their unapologetic Blackness, but appeals on a technical and material level to curators and audiences who might otherwise marginalize the work and its message.

[iv] If the imperative to define ethnic histories is mandated by ongoing white supremacy in the historical and cultural mainstream, then the ethnicity exhibition operates similarly to the «Atrocity Exhibition» described by J. G. Ballard.

The purpose of the Guild and exhibitions such as Sight Unseen is essentially to bring the work of blind photographers into the cultural mainstream.

[4] If the imperative to define ethnic histories is mandated by ongoing white supremacy in the historical and cultural mainstream, then the ethnicity exhibition operates similarly to the «Atrocity Exhibition» described by J. G. Ballard.

And yet the self - definition of German artists of his generation who have remained in Germany, if not in Berlin, appears no less determined by their reactionary relation to a cultural mainstream, which usually means an American one.

«Through Leger, Matter met and began working for Swiss graphic designer and photographer Herbert Matter, who, as an artist for Condé Nast publications, was largely responsible for translating the photomontage innovations of the dadaists into the visual vocabulary of the cultural mainstream.

Although voguing emerged from Harlem's queer ballroom scene during the 1960s and 70s, the dance style entered the cultural mainstream in 1990 with Madonna's iconic music video «Vogue,» now remembered as a notorious instance of cultural appropriation.

For the artist, this concept of Love Forever stood for civil rights, sexual liberation and the antiwar movement, brought to the cultural mainstream by activist groups of the 1960s.

During the 1920s and 1930s, something of the Vorticist idiom entered the cultural mainstream with Edward McKnight Kauffer's posters for London Transport.

But while the Turner has helped bring contemporary art into the cultural mainstream, this has arguably been to everyone's advantage except the artists».

The 2003 movie version starred Scarlett Johansson as the object of the painter's affection and helped catapult the painting into the cultural mainstream.

They want to change the contempt with which they are treated, they want to end the blockage placed in front of them designed to quash their aspirations and heritage, they want to end the mentality of relegation that sees so many First Nations forced into to the lowest status imaginable by the political and cultural mainstream.