Sentences with phrase «cultural meaning of images»

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A law which properly has only this meaning: to release man from the world, to separate him from any interest in an independent cultural development, and to humble him in obedience to the transcendent power of God — of a God, whose image is not in any sense determined by the conception that man has of his own highest spiritual life.

It also could provide a means whereby other influential factors could be investigated and addressed, such as differences in the social and economic purposes of broadcasting, the social sources of violence and how media portrayals interact with those causes, how the restraints and traditions of media production cause the media to pick up particular cultural images while ignoring others, and how particular audiences respond to and use media images.

Much of the meaning of Liu's painting comes from the way the washes and drips dissolve the documentary images, suggesting the passage of memory into history, while working to uncover the cultural and personal narratives fixed — but often concealed — in the photographic instant.

«An image may be charged with cultural or symbolic meaning and completely devoid of such meaning at the same time, and this dialectic is fundamental to my work,» says Geva.

Part flesh, part baroque architecture, the alien vessel contains multiple levels of historical and cultural meanings; from science fiction to luxury furniture, the work seamlessly weaves cultural artifacts into a sleek and surreal CGI moving image artwork.

The result is images imbued with poetic and evocative personal significance — a sort of displaced self - portraiture — that resonate with larger cultural and historical meanings.

The range of the images made it not only a crowd - pleaser but also an invigorating photographic exploration of the meaning of community across cultural boundaries and geographic lines.

She often combines ceramic elements, beautifully handcrafted, with utilitarian items, such as toilet plungers or buckets, to create pieces that call into question the cultural and historic meaning of particular objects or images.

Inspired partly by the French critical theorist Roland Barthes, who viewed mass cultural images as signs freighted with latent meaning to be deciphered, she first gained attention for a series of artworks starkly displaying newspaper snippets (headlines, photographs), forcing viewers to examine the way they responded to media's authoritative voice.

Working primarily in performance, moving image, and printed matter, Howden - Chapman's work analyzes language and images as means to investigate the confluence of social conventions and personal narratives that underlie economic, ecological, and cultural change.

By invoking the extreme mediation of experience and meaning, Brown's work provocatively calls into question the power of image, as well as the appeal of surface over the substance of cultural forms.

He creates and repurposes images, films, structures, and objects that are full of established cultural signifiers yet totally empty of empirical meaning to endow these seemingly known forms with new possibilities.

Katja Novitskova and Timur Si - Qin Artists: Katja Novitskova and Timur Si - Qin Curated by Agatha Wara Adopting the language of global advertising and offering acute reflections on what it means to live under today's historical conditions, Katja Novitskova and Timur Si - Qin present images, objects, and texts that address our contemporary state of conflation: the value transitions between the biological and the cultural, from information into matter.

In her opinion, our culture no longer creates its self - image and an understanding of itself through text and artifact, but by means of cultural performances.11 In her analysis of the «reenactment» phenomenon of artistic performances, curator Inke Arns suggests that reenactments give us access to the past by means of immersion, identification, and the forging of more personal and diversified links with aspects of that past.

These materials represent a veritable cultural field, serving as models for the private images, but also as a means of interpreting them.

Its cultural and commercial value relies on the willingness of viewers to believe in things that can't always be immediately perceived or fully understood — to allow for the possibility that the objects and images they encounter in the gallery might have access to meaning and even power.

This idiom takes on special meaning when applied to the West's preoccupation with certain stereotypes in contemporary Chinese art — images of the Red Guards, Mao Zedong and panda bears — as well as to the fetishized mass - consumption of cultural objects that satisfy its imagination of a new China in transformation.

The vinyl images have been repurposed as covers for farmers» crops, pond liners, patches for damaged doors or sculptures, their photographic images obscured, with their original meaning subverted, they are a re-used by - product of a dead economy, exhausted of their original context, meaning, and purpose, they signify the mechanism of value transfer through cultural systems perpetually in flux.

His practice is driven by his interest in the semiotic function of images and texts: how they are used to form both personal and cultural meaning, values, and beliefs.

Their projects aim to question the very meaning of reproduction by relating the reproduction of images to other resonances of the word, such as biological reproduction, in which the child inhabits the womb of the mother, and cultural reproduction, in which social institutions perpetuate norms from generation to generation.

Morell has turned his camera on conveyors of cultural meaning such as books, maps, money, and museums in extensive series that explore the perception of images.

Barbara Kruger hit her stride with the same format, in captioned images that, with great economy of means, created bruising cultural commentaries.