Presented in alignment with Art Design Chicago and the Terra Foundation for American Art, the program will trace select artistic and design legacies produced in the city, spanning from 1968 — 2018, as well as their impact on the larger social, aesthetic, and
cultural movements from the twentieth - century to the present.
The works on view explore visual and cultural framing practices to re-contextualize European, African, and American aesthetic and
cultural movements from Minimalism and Dada to Black Lives Matter.
Yet the artistic practice of mashup — where an artist fuses a found object with another to create something new — has a long history in the arts, its roots in a variety of prominent
cultural movements from the last 100 years.
His work also references African - American political and
cultural movements from the 1960s to today, including the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements.
Not exact matches
Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific
cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition
from a regional Jewish Jesus
movement into a global Gentile church).
Every urban reform
movement of the past 200 years —
from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful
Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and
cultural problems created by industrialism.
It is a living religion which has received and is still receiving its vitality
from the people who confess it; it is a great
movement which has passed through various stages of development over its long and complicated history, influencing and being influenced by the religious and
cultural forces in its environment.
While the character of certain
movements and groups is to a large extent defined by sociological criteria, such as the earlier so - called Frontier religion or now the Buchmean (Oxford group) Movement, which Allan Eister has recently analyzed in his book Drawing Room Conversion, we find that the more definitely a religious group is a religious group — as distinct
from an economic, political, or
cultural association — the more important, both for members of the group and students of it, will become its worship and its theology.
We do not know the
cultural background and ethnic origins of the tribes that took part in the
movement which we know best as Joshua's conquest of Palestine, yet the influence of the Arabian Desert was strong upon them, if we may judge
from such information as we possess of their social life in the immediately following period.
Then more flexible people begin to understand, and they start to experiment with the new consensus so that
cultural transformation, this
movement from death to life of an entire people, begins to happen.
We might look first at the actual situation of our civil polities on the ground, at diagnoses of our global political situation coming
from different
cultural standpoints, and at the new social and political
movements springing up to meet our social ills.
It dramatically portrays as never before that churches around the world have reached a critical point in the
movement from being more or less homogenous in faith, worship and life to a situation of theological and liturgical heterogeneity, rooted in a profound commitment to express Christian faith and witness in terms of particular local
cultural idioms.
In two recent works, The Uncertain Phoenix and Eros and Irony, David L. Hall presents a systematic and radical critique of the Western
cultural and philosophical tradition, and (in The Uncertain Phoenix) a provocative vision of a future which might result front a
movement away
from certain aspects of that tradition.
And that organization, that
movement, must be broad enough and deep enough to engage millions of Americans
from a variety of
cultural backgrounds at the deepest level of their personality.
What we have seen
from his theory thus far is that he clearly saw
cultural movement not simply conditioned by technology, but determined by it.
For we hold the bold belief, especially
from humble experience in the Faith
movement, that if it were our whole society would experience a new
cultural springtime.
The history of the San Francisco Zen Center
from the late «50s to the present shows a continuous
movement from general intellectual and
cultural interest in Zen to high and demanding standards of practice.
... The dynamic
movement of society gives absolute value to the present, isolating it
from the
cultural legacy of the past, without attempting to trace a path for the future.
The communal
movement of the past ten years has contained much
cultural arrogance in its assumption that the small intentional community, withdrawn
from the larger society, is the only worthy form of common life.
The alienation of the Western powers
from their
cultural and religious roots, and
from their consequent sense of historical mission, also played a part in the decolonization
movement following World War II.
In the expansion of Christianity around the world in the wake of European colonialism, new converts
from the various indigenous peoples have not infrequently fastened on the apocalyptic component and blended it with their own
cultural beliefs to create fresh millennial
movements which offer their people hope of deliverance
from imperialistic conquest and the arrival of a new age of bliss.
Indeed, enlightenment liberates one
from all identification with historical or
cultural movements.
Would either the suffragist
movement of the last century or current feminism have emerged
from another sort of
cultural climate?
See also Steven Tipton's study of ethical configurations in a Christian sect, a Zen center, and a human potential
movement, in Steven M. Tipton, Getting Saved
from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and
Cultural Change (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1982), 244 - 77.
I probably would have agreed with you a year ago somewhat, but after having transparent conversations with people
from different ethnic and
cultural backgrounds, I have found that there is more truth to this social injustice
movement than I would have liked to admit.
Kids
from that era had the benefit of growing up during an extreme
cultural paradigm shift (e.g. feminist
movement, deconstruction, dawn of digital age, etc) which seemed to bring a fair amount of empowerment with it, so maybe they've just been socialized to think that there supposed to be doing MORE than what they saw their mothers do.
Professor McKenna advises «
from an evolutionary and biological perspective, proximity to parental sounds, smells, gases, heat and
movement during the night is precisely what the human infant «expects», and in our push for infant independence, we are forgetting that an infant's biology can not change quite as quickly as
cultural child - care patterns.»
Tendencies that have come to define modern Western societies include the existence of political pluralism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New Age
movements), and increasing
cultural syncretism — resulting
from globalization and human migration.
So how could a cheap little movie that is in many ways, as our Todd Ramlow pointed out, a commercial for «what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas» debauchery, become one of 2009's biggest pop
cultural movements (apart
from Twilight of course)?
Zoolander and Hansel are veritable Rip Van Winkles, but — distinguishing the film
from its Austin Powers template, as well as Zoolander 2's immediate predecessor — it's the
cultural innovations they encounter that are held up to ridicule, such as phones that are bigger than Zoolander's (redeeming his microscopic cellphone
from the original), hipster patois (although «hashtag» has for some reason penetrated Derek's vocabulary), and a gender - neutral model (Benedict Cumberbatch) whose name, All, and uncanniness mock the trans
movement at a particularly precarious moment in our history.
Brazilian writer - director João Moreira Salles intercuts his mother's movies of a 1966 group tour in China during the inception of the most radical phase of the
Cultural Revolution with archival footage
from three other radical
movements, all
from 1968: The May uprisings in France; the brutal ending of the Prague Spring; and the brief rebellion in Brazil against the reigning military dictatorship.
They represent the culmination of a
cultural change that began as the 1980s indie film
movement shifted control of American film production away
from the major studios to the entrepreneurship of individual (not necessarily «independent») outsiders.
This bundle contains 17 ready - to - use Renaissance worksheets that are perfect for students to learn about the period
from the 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and Modern history which started a
cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe.
Research shows that the
movement of these children
from a low SES school to a higher SES school in Australia undermines the «quality» (
cultural and social capital) of the remaining student body in the low SES school.
Teachout traces Ellington's deep influence on various
cultural movements,
from the Harlem Renaissance to the Duke's own renaissance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival.
In the article «
From Production to Destruction to Recovery: Freeganism's Redefinition of Food Value and Circulation,» published in the University of Iowa's Iowa Journal of
Cultural Studies in 2008, Michelle Coyne writes that freeganism grew out of anticapitalism, anticonsumerism, and the counterculture that includes the anarchist - punk
movements of the 1970s.
This
movement was extremely successful, and
from 1970 to 2000 we saw a rapid
cultural change.
Since 1877, the historic American Humane Association has been at the forefront of virtually every major policy
movement, legislative effort, and shift in
cultural attitudes aimed at improving the lives of children, and protecting pets and farm animals
from abuse and neglect.
The European Renaissance, a
cultural movement that lasted
from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century is said to have originated in Florence.
Check out the latest
from Mic, including our deep dive into how female Overwatch players are dealing with online harassment, an article about a fan
movement advocating for more same - sex romance options in Mass Effect, a personal essay to JonTron
from another Iranian - American and an article looking at
cultural diversity in Overwatch.
Featuring a boyish animatronic figure reminiscent of literary and pop
cultural characters such as Huckleberry Finn, Howdy Doody, and Alfred E. Neuman, the mascot of Mad magazine, the work is suspended with heavy chains
from a large mechanized gantry, which is programmed to choreograph its
movements.
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).
Showcasing works
from the 1960s through 2013, the exhibition surveys political satire and
cultural commentary through art
movements ranging
from capitalist realism to contemporary pop art.
From Neolithic hand axes, through William Morris, John Ruskin and the socialist movement, to David Bowie's 1972 Ziggy Stardust UK tour, 21st Century capitalism and the invasion of Iraq, the exhibition weaves a mythical narrative through moments and events from Britain's shared cultural memory, moving back and forth between the past, present and an imagined fut
From Neolithic hand axes, through William Morris, John Ruskin and the socialist
movement, to David Bowie's 1972 Ziggy Stardust UK tour, 21st Century capitalism and the invasion of Iraq, the exhibition weaves a mythical narrative through moments and events
from Britain's shared cultural memory, moving back and forth between the past, present and an imagined fut
from Britain's shared
cultural memory, moving back and forth between the past, present and an imagined future.
By pulling
from art
movements, such as Pop Art, Conceptualism and Art Brut, Ortiz spontaneously blasts both humorous and dramatic Tex - Mex
cultural realities.
The history of modern art,
from dada onwards, is littered with
movements whose subversive force has been emasculated by
cultural acceptance, a fact of which the artists here are painfully aware.
Modernism is a philosophical
movement that, along with
cultural trends and changes, arose
from wide - scale and far - reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The intervention artworks will speak to themes both present and absent
from the exhibition, such as NASA's lunar landing, the legacy of iconic post-war artists like Joseph Beuys and Robert Morris, the rise of collaborative artistic practices, and the
cultural and political affects of the Civil Rights
movement.
The Short Century presents a
cultural context in which the intense politics of African freedom
movements are displayed:
from the initial struggles for independence following the Second World War, to the collapse of apartheid in South Africa and the establishment of democratic governments in the nations of Africa.
From cultural interventions such as happenings and the Artists Against the Expressway
movement, to legislative initiatives such as the AIR (Artists in Residence) re-zoning and historic district designation, the panel will consider how activism and community engagement impacted this neighborhood.