Sentences with phrase «cultural movements including»

Drawing from cultural movements including Négritude and the Harlem Renaissance, the show expands on Négritude founding father Léopold Sedal Sénghor's 1939 essay Ce que l'homme noir apporte, and its idea of «rhythm being at the center of Africa's system of thought and experience, influencing the continent and diaspora's cultural production.»

In a groundbreaking career surpassing 50 years of practice and encompassing many significant visual and cultural movements including Conceptual Art, Post-Modernism, and Feminism, Nancy Spero made the female experience central to her art and challenged aesthetic and political conventions.

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In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

His research interests include cultural globalization, the social effects of new media, new religious movements, indigenization, diaspora Asians in the West, and the image industry in Asia.

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.

The focus of his academic research included a cultural exploration of sustainable agriculture practices, and work with native peoples in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.

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.

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.

will feature artists including Melvin Edwards, Fred Eversley, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Alonzo Davis, Dale Brockman Davis, Noah Purifoy, Betye Saar, and Charles White, connecting their work to larger movements, trends, and ideas that fueled the arts during this important era of creative, cultural, and political ferment.

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).

Recognizing the Bronx's cultural contributions — including the birth of artistic movements such as hip hop, graffiti art and Latin Jazz, that served as inspiration to many contemporary artists — in 1999 the Museum expanded its collecting practice to include works by artists for whom the Bronx has been critical to their artistic practice and development.

The MOVEMENT movement has performed at various artful happenings, museums and galleries including Pacific Standard Time, REDCAT Now Fest 2013: Molly Maps Erratic written, choreographed, and directed by Mecca V.A. Recent Commission by Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department to develop site - inspired work for The Wonder Room at TongMOVEMENT movement has performed at various artful happenings, museums and galleries including Pacific Standard Time, REDCAT Now Fest 2013: Molly Maps Erratic written, choreographed, and directed by Mecca V.A. Recent Commission by Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department to develop site - inspired work for The Wonder Room at Tongmovement has performed at various artful happenings, museums and galleries including Pacific Standard Time, REDCAT Now Fest 2013: Molly Maps Erratic written, choreographed, and directed by Mecca V.A. Recent Commission by Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department to develop site - inspired work for The Wonder Room at Tongva Park.

Her involvement in the peace movement and anti-war activism, illustrated by The War Series, provided a springboard for further inquiries into many significant visual and cultural movements, including conceptual art, postmodernism, and feminism.

Nancy Spero's groundbreaking career encompassed significant visual and cultural movements, including Conceptual Art, Postmodernism and Feminism.

Often referencing political and artistic history, including social resistance movements and Dada, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, Pendleton siphons historical and aesthetic content from texts and visual culture to critically examine the resonance of ideas from varied cultural and social perspectives.

The book includes a unique catalogue of images, an extensive list of suggested readings, and a descriptive timeline situating the movement vis - à - vis relevant artworks and films, exhibitions, cultural criticism, and political events from 1960 to 2000.

Reflective of a desire to be a weather vane for the subtlest of movements in the cultural breeze, the ICA's departmental structure has also frequently shifted, with programmatic divisions — including «recordings», «live art», «talks», «media art» — regularly dissolved and reconstituted.

Although social progress moves in fits and starts (and often retreats), the movement towards inclusivity does coincide with a broader enthusiasm for women's voices and stories, visible in other cultural fields including television, film, literature, and music.

During the first half of the 20th century, European artists viewed Paris as a cultural capital where a spirit of experimentation and innovation produced a succession of artistic movements including Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism.

His work also references African - American political and cultural movements from the 1960s to today, including the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Mmovements from the 1960s to today, including the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts MovementsMovements.

Several of the city's cultural institutions will also showcase art there, including the New York Academy of Art, which will feature figurative work by its international students, and El Museo del Barrio, which presents an exhibition of modernist abstractions related to optical and kinetic art movements.

His participation in arts organizations included his role as a founding member of Spiral, an association of African American artists that came together in 1963 to support the civil rights movement; his 1964 appointment as the first art director of the newly established Harlem Cultural Council, a prominent African American advocacy group with several hundred members; and his role in concert with artists Ernest Crichlow and Norman Lewis (with seed money from the Ford Foundation), as a founding member of Cinque Gallery which supported young minority artists.

The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

Even though Burri was never explicitly tied to any movement, to most viewers his abstract «unpainted paintings» should appear comfortable in his cultural moment, absorbing the monochromatic interests of Abstract Expressionists, while also setting the ground for Arte Povera and assemblage art.The co-curators work extensively to expand these associations through the exhibition's wall labels, which relate Burri to various artists, works, and moments far beyond the scope of midcentury abstraction, including Piero della Francesca's Madonna of Partition (1455 — 6)(for the subject of incised fabric), Joseph Beuys (as an artist formed by war), Italian Neorealist cinema (for its use of artifice and rupture to reappropriate the realism of Facist war propaganda), and even Rodin's Gates of Hell (1880 --- 1917)(for the «Combustione Plastica» series» hellish melting of form).

In the social and cultural upheaval of the postwar era, with its corresponding reflections on values, art movements rapidly emerged around the world, including Minimalism in the United States, Arte Povera in Italy and Anti-Form in Britain, and modernism came under fierce criticism and reexamination of its values.

His cultural circle also included the choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919 - 2009) and the composer John Cage (1912 - 92)- later to become influential in the Neo-Dada and Fluxus movements - as well as the Belgian sculptor Georges Vantongerloo (1886 - 1965), the great Romanian modernist Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957)(whose simplification of natural forms had a lasting influence on Kelly), and the American inventor of mobiles and stabiles Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976).

The wide range of inter-connected topics will include: local food, public policy, democracy, local business, the commons, cooperatives, local finance, spirituality, connecting to nature, economic indicators, health, education, bridging the North - South divide, the new economy movement, climate justice, cultural diversity, biodiversity, environmental justice, income inequality, and the impact of the economy on our psychological well - being.

Catherine's background includes living extensively abroad and working with music and movement together in different cultural groups and has a former career in the creative arts.