Sentences with phrase «cultural mythos»

This provocative iconoclastic act liberates the borrowed paintings from their cultural mythos, reinvigorating the icons into bold enigmatic prototypes.

Felice House and Dana Younger ask their audiences to reevaluate the typical archetypes and cultural mythos of the West.

The work is based around Kelley's concept of Educational Complex, or the invisible construction of cultural mythos through social institutions like school and domestic life.

Masculinity and virility are closely tied in many human cultures and passed on through the generations via cultural mythos, perceived gender roles, and media.

But Americans have been so concerned to maintain the purity of the gospel that few contemporary U.S. theologians are attempting to find points of positive intersection between Christianity and our cultural mythos.

Not exact matches

Crucially important to Meland's enterprise is a recognition of myth as the felt expression of the depths of human culture, In his view, religious faith, and more particularly Christian faith, finds embodiment and expression not only in religious institutions and individual religious experience, but in the midst of secular cultures as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western men.

If there's any lasting cultural impact to this latest film adaptation of Stephen King's «Carrie,» it's that it confirms the material's status as an archetypal mythos.

This exhibition also includes a new work from the Bruce High Quality Foundation, which exploits the cultural importance of cinema to the mythos of car culture as the brightly hued bumper of a New York City taxi, equipped with a motion sensing device, which interrupts the viewers experience, delivering the soundtrack of the movie Taxi itself as the spectator approaches.

Brooklyn - based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology to create a mythos that imagines the culture of tech savvy plant - human hybrids.