Sentences with phrase «cultural references while»

Still others create objects that speak to the importance of shared cultural references while living during an era of unprecedented technological change.

Not exact matches

Though dated in its cultural references, Greenleaf presents a powerful description of true servant leadership; leadership focused on every person your enterprise touches - employees, customers, and society in general - asking, «Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?

For the chairman of the Standing Commission on Evangelism, while claiming to honor those authoritative references, the normative articles of faith are constructed by perceived cultural directions and personal needs.

While the movie includes narration (by Charles Osgood) drawn from the book, it also allows the stars opportunity for topical pop - cultural references as well as narrative detours, as when the mayor goes in for a Who - Root Canal «Sticking» «Who» in front of everything,» he gripes, «doesn't make it hurt less») or Horton's clover lands in a field of clovers, whereupon he sets out to locate his speck - adorned lower out of the thousands stretching before him.

Here, she talks about her influences, including architect Zaha Hadid, and what it means to use cultural references responsibly while designing a cinematic world.

While subtlety wasn't expected, the never ending mugging at the camera, poorly scripted references to varied cultural phenomenon of that time (photography, burking, mob protection), and stream of celebrity cameos (Bill Bailey, Ronnie Corbett) gives the impression that Landis was more concerned in operating the cinematic equivalent of a «shock and awe» campaign, rather than making a solid piece of genre entertainment.

So, UNESCO's (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) contentious decision to remove all references of Jewish ties to the holiest site in the world for the Jewish people will, in effect ignore 2,000 years of Jewish history while maintaining Islam's claim to them.

While it's hard to tell where the homage ends and genuine cultural absorption begins with the Japanese and their (perfectly reasonable) obsession with Mobile Suit Gundam, I do find the use of Gundam as a reference point interesting, because much as the mobile suit's use in Gundam is to provide a vehicle that can operate equally well in space, under Earth's gravity, and in the artificial «gravity» of O'Neill cylinders, Vanquish is taking the commonly used Western term «space marine» quite literally, as Vanquish's power armor seems to be designed both as a spacesuit and as body armor, used to infiltrate a structure floating in space.

While some works in the volume are overtly political — Ai Weiwei's irreverent CCTV Spray (2012) guides readers in making a spray - can device that can block out surveillance cameras — others more subtly reference the complex nature of cultural exchange in a rapidly globalizing world.

Johnson explores the physicality of his materials to investigate the construction of identity, both visually and conceptually, in a practice that is steeped in individual experience while invoking shared cultural references.

For this new series, titled «Mimbres,» she picks up on her studies of tiles while also injecting this new cultural reference, painting the geometric Mimbre designs on the edges of the canvases.

While Yet started with the premise of communicating visually with an audience who does not share the same language or cultural references, it evolved into a creative document of the images and ideas that fuel Trecartin's artistic process.

Johnson investigates the construction of identity in a practice that is steeped in individual experience while invoking shared cultural references.

Her works demonstrate elements of Institutional Critique and are conceptual as well as rich in cultural and historical references, while simultaneously sensually complex and emotionally charged.

Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work engages a variety of social, political, and cultural issues, while often referencing American history.

Throughout his career, Erizku has created a unique visual language and distinctive iconography that address issues of race, identity, politics and cultural history, while drawing from myriad references ranging from urban culture to advertising to the art historical canon.

But it is puzzling, too — there is little thematic cohesion, and while it is easy to seize on Colen's artistic and cultural references, the substance of his own ideas is more slippery.

The sculptures reference the tradition of immortalizing subjects stemming back to antiquity while taking inspiration from art history, fashion, popular media, cultural anthropology and even pornography.

His works center around the relationship between form and content: often using several layers of paint, resin, glitter, collage elements, and occasionally, elephant dung, Ofili enlists sexual, cultural, historical, and religious references to create uniquely aesthetic and physical works that expose the darker undercurrents of society, while also celebrating contemporary black culture.

A site - specific printed gingham curtain by Michelle Grabner engages with Mies's simple geometric windows while also symbolically referencing the fabric's cultural associations.

Razmi's body of work focuses on issues of identity and gender while appropriating national, cultural and artistic references to reposition pop - culture within a contemporary Iranian context, giving her re-embodied, re-contextualized works a tongue - in - cheek quality.

Poses / Born Actors, which carries conscious cultural references — including the 1951 sci - fi thriller, The Man from Planet X, also relates to Samaras's Sittings, 1978 — 1981, when the artist invited participants to undress in his studio and pose nude while he photographed them.

Painter, sculptor, and video artist, Wallinger plays with perception and perspective work while simultaneously layering it with cultural, historical, and mystical references to uncover.

While there seems to be a sense of play among the myriad references, the cultural allusions to the racial, class, and hierarchical issues that exist in South Texas become transparent.

Rooted in his personal heritage, Aryanpour's works bring a thoroughly contemporary expression to the Iranian visual tradition — from its artistic techniques to cultural symbolisms - while referencing and exploring the Western tradition of abstract art.

His series of crystal - embellished mirrors mimics the security gates of Puerto Rican houses, contradictorily alluring and keeping people away, while a series of ornate sculptural works reference the belts and trophies of boxing culture; such cultural objects allude to Dzine's time spent watching boxing matches with his father as well as an out - of - reach upper - class lifestyle.

Every image is rooted in a specific moment of attention, and while her work is contemporary in terms of its fragmentation and cultural references, it is perhaps more traditional in its commitment to the most fundamental aspects of picturemaking: drawing, colour, and texture.