Sentences with phrase «cultural observations like»
Or maybe not, because while initially it struggles to establish a consistent tone, as soon as the plot kicks off in earnest, the film picks up speed and confidence, venting plumes of sight gags, bloody violence and deadpan, dead - on cultural observations like powdery snow from a thematically - appropriate metaphorical snowplow.
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When we try to insert Lewis» cultural observations into our culture today, we become like Indiana Jones — still fighting the Nazis through the 1980s.
In this connection, I have been particularly struck by Gustavo Gutiérrez's observation that, whereas much contemporary theology seeks to respond to the challenge of the «nonbeliever» who questions our «religious world» as Christians, in a continent like Latin America the primary challenge comes to us rather from the «nonperson» who questions us about our «economic, social, political and cultural world.»
«The time is perfect to meet the needs of our citizens with cultural plans addressing topics like community vitality, tourism, equity, creative economy, artists, geography and the built environment, and art - making, observation, and participation.
More humbly, it was intended, like many other restagings of historic exhibitions, as an objective observation of the present social and cultural conditions within which art is produced, presented, and given value, through the reenactment of a show that had struggled with similar issues.
That observation by Bruguera was echoed, with some caution, in the other morning session which began with a collaborative study of cultural piracy by Weinmayr and London, UK — based artist Andrea Francke, from illegally produced and sometimes amended pirated books in Peru to the Chinese trade in knock - off smartphones (which, as Francke explained, have ironically become a research and development resource for companies like Nokia).
Unlike, let's say, the wider historical account, which includes the whole bohemian world that is inseparable from its political and social surroundings in Dore Ashton's essential volume New York School: A Cultural Reckoning, or Irving Sandler's landmark Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism, your observation that the beginning of pluralist taste in art begins with Cahill and continues onward to the works of Allen Ruppersberg and more recently, deliberately formed art collectives like Bernadette Corporation and the Bruce High Quality Foundation.