Sentences with phrase «cultural mythology»

In Kent Monkman's first New York solo show, which closes this weekend at Sargent's Daughters, art history commingles with cultural mythology in a passion play about masculinity and belonging.

A world - renowned artist, McCarthy works in a wide variety of media, often exploring the idea of the artist - protagonist through American cultural mythology.

Let me repeat: leading puppies or shy or fearful dogs up to strangers to have the stranger give them a treat is a really bad idea that unfortunately has made its way into the cultural mythology about «how to introduce dogs to people.»

This set is similarly abridged, but rather than toying with familiar cultural mythology, the broad strokes here feel like the developer tip - toeing around spoilers.

To become aware of and to transcend cultural mythologies — to claim authorship of our individual stories — is the purpose of all forms of conscious parenting.

«Cultural mythologies strongly influence women's expectations about being pregnant.»

These are images that still reinforce toxic cultural mythologies about who and what is truly worthy.

Today, he continues to probe cultural mythologies and archetypes in various media, appropriating imagery from animated films, mail - order catalogues, modernist abstraction, and street graffiti to create an artistic lexicon that insistently collapses the boundaries between high and low.

Within the spectrum of queer performance, re-enactment has often been employed as a strategy for deconstructing histories of heteronormative oppression but it is also becoming a means for queer artists to critically engage with their own cultural mythologies and origin stories.

Some works in the show call up more recent cultural mythologies pervading black representation.

His criticisms reveal the tenuous truths of their original messages, asking his audience to consider the often unsavory consequences and legacies that lie in the shadows of our cultural mythologies.

From the spiritual significance of East Asian mountain peaks to the rugged sublimity of the American West, Yi taps into cultural mythologies of landscape as a point of departure to address visual perception, physical experience, and cognitive uncertainty.

With an interest in cultural mythologies, narratives and everyday life, these materials served as a vital source in his practice.

Becker is interested in these landscapes as an intersection of personal identity, cultural mythologies, and political power.

Not exact matches

Ah the perils of incorporating pagan virgin birth mythology into pre-existing Jewish cultural tradition.

Gradually this belief, that God is one, led her to abandon the remnants of mythology she had inherited from her cultural ancestors.

If one can recognise the vital role which the mass media are playing in this regard and understand some of its major mythologies, exploration of the process and media mythologies offers a rich resource for theological reflection and the cultural contextualization of faith.

Is the Muslim terrorist really such a strange, marginal, and alien figure in our own cultural history and mythology?

Not everyone needs a million - times - revised - to - suit - the - particular - cultural - mores book to make them feel like the «characters of spirituality» are well defined, and frankly to many spiritual but not religious types they read like a fairy tale or mythology.

Girard demonstrates the presence of violence throughout mythology, ritual, and cultural activity dependent upon ritual.

This is the reason why historic Christianity, in the long run, always granted a place to other cultural traditions: paganism survived in law; its mythology enjoyed a series of rebirths in art.

Focusing the lasers of science on controversial subjects can cut through mythology, cultural biases, and obfuscation, and this month's cover story is no exception.

«We now know,» says Saturno, «that mythology that was important in the16th century was equally important in the first century,» which establishes a degree of cultural continuity.

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Since Homer's Illiad and Odyssey committed their exploits to text, the heroes of Greco - Roman mythology have proliferated in the cultural realm.

It's comparable to the emergence of Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands — reactions, both, to Eisenhower eras defined by cultural repression and the indoctrinated magnification of the mythology of the American male.

His latest film, The Ornithologist (2016), is a quasi-western shot in anamorphic widescreen that follows one man's bird watching trip that takes him through the pressures of nature, mysterious cultural rites, and a bricolage of mythologies that in turn transform him.

The situation in which our protagonist finds herself, and all the characters that surround her, everything we see in the film, I would say is deeply rooted in the Russian cultural tradition and the mythology of the place in literature.

Terra Feminarum, released on Kalevala day, may not be as important in the cultural scale but it's an uncanny marriage between Kalevala mythology and Japanese danmaku shoot»em up (bullet hell shooter).

With a good command of the English and French languages, my research interests have been particularly focused on Cultural Studies (Folk Culture, Mythology, Ancient lore, Superstition and Popular Beliefs, Life After Death... [Read more...]

You will have over 50 different gods to play (with more coming) that are straight out of history books, ancient mythologies and cultural lore.

Detention is a narrative - driven atmospheric horror game inspired by Taiwanese mythology / cultural elements.

According to its description, Detention makes use of folklore, mythology, and cultural references as a part of its story.

Mulaka is a 3D action - adventure sport that appears to the Sierra Tarahumara area of northern Mexico and channels its cultural heritage into a captivating journey steeped in mythology.

Often in dialogue with literature, the early work of this visionary artist explored mythology and cultural archetypes related to gender, while more recent projects address our complex relationship to the natural world.

As an independent curator, he has presented exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, such as Mythologies - Brazilian Contemporary Photography (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2012); Éloge du Vertige (Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 2012); Generation 00 - The New Brazilian Photography (Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo, 2011), Look and Simulate - Photographies from Collection Auer (MAM - SP, 2009), The Invention of the World - Collection of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (Itaú Cultural, 2009, with Jean Luc Monterosso), Provisional Power (MAM - SP, 2014).

This work is a homespun faerie tale, a re-creation of cultural folklore and a personal mythology — a world populated by recurring fantastical creatures and strange hybrid phenomena.

Moderated by Lauren Haynes, Associate Curator, Permanent Collection, this conversation will explore the scope of this exhibition in relation to broader cultural concerns, and unpack the roles of performance, mythology and narrative in Hancock's practice.

Three themes that emerge from her work are explored in Outcasts: finding a voice, the process of constructing multiple perspectives on female identity; hybrid alternatives to the status quo, harnessing ancient and modern mythologies to subvert the established social and cultural order; and healing and empowerment as pathways to resistance, inclusiveness and recovery from loss and trauma.

Art historian Dave Hickey said of landscape art, «It is so attractive at a primitive personal and cultural level... that it is always difficult to decide whether a work is true to itself or only true to some old echoes within myself, some resonant private mythology.»

Both exhibitions emphasize the plural nature of feminist art: art made all over the world by women of all different nationalities, classes, and cultural and racial affiliations, and presumably identified with both the «essentialist» and the «constructionist» brands of feminist theory and politics, not to mention the many strategies of feminist art, from craft work to political exposé to canon - busting to the deconstruction of gender mythologies to body - centered investigations.

He never seizes to challenge our preconceived notions and questions of cultural hierarchy, the mythology of the artist and his position in society, or modes of production.

Knight Foundation January 21 - April 8, 2018 - Solo Show The Unavoidable Twilight - AIRIE Nest Gallery - Everglades National Park October 18, 2017 - January 8, 2018 - Solo Show Mythology & Site - Deering Estate - Miami November 19, 2017 - January 5, 2018 - Group Show SIXTH - curated by Jane Hart Bridge Red Studios / Project Space November 30, 2017 - Four Women Show The Reform of Consciousness - curated by Nina Surel Collective 62 October - November 2017 - Artist Residency - Crandon Park September 8 - October 22, 2018 - Group Show Dual Frequency South Florida Cultural Consortium - Art and Culture Center of Hollywood June 28 - Open Studios Fountainhead Studios June - September 2017 - Two of my drawings are featured in the Perez Art Museum's Inside / Out Public Art Program, which brings reproductions of artworks from their collection into Miami neighborhoods.

Her fantastical and elaborate artwork is rooted in the disciplines of anthropology, mythology and cultural studies.

The four artists in Revision: Translating Histories engage with cultural ancestries ranging from Haitian migration and Yoruba beliefs to the everyday mythologies of good luck charms and barber capes to craft contemporary portraits of deep - rooted canons.

Her interdisciplinary installation and performance works explore themes of nature, technology and the body as they relate to mythology, feminism and the production of cultural ideology.

A surreal, creepy, funny allegory, the film is stuffed with cultural references, including Nigerian mythology, Francis Picabia's painting «Adoration of the Calf» and Busby Berkeley musicals.

Drawing from the legacies of the European Old Masters and Christian iconography, as well as mythology and cultural lore, the artist layers existing histories with new narratives suggested by contemporary world events to create a psychological terrain of pathos, tenderness and repulsion.

Biographical legend, produced in the construction of an individual mythology, is a critique of biographism; it gives shape to the identity crises experienced by individuals in their various cultural and social relations of belonging.

Through the flamboyant costumes of his multiple artistic personae, we catch a glimpse of self - revelation, a command of cultural and art - world mythology, as well as a gentle reflection on the human condition.