Sentences with phrase «cultural representation from»

Charlottenborg, too, invites visitors to witness a rewriting of art history with Kerry James Marshall's paintings, which address questions of cultural representation from an African - American perspective and seek to mitigate «the lack in the image bank», to use the artist's own turn of phrase.

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This indicates the extent of the difficulties already inherent in recruiting representation from different cultural and ethnic groups within school communities.

From a pop - cultural perspective, representations of Victorian - era murderer Jack the Ripper in film and television are generally infused with fog, most notably Hitchcock's The Lodger.

Information ranges from #fakenews and propaganda about how Mexico is nothing but drug cartels and Cubans are jailed for eating meat to misinformed representations of cultural habits and customs to more subtle but insidious articles in which all the facts might be correct on the surface but, being an outsider, the writer swaps out the nuances and complexities that make up real cultures for confused generalizations and stereotypes that promote subcsoncious racism.

Contestants from each country compete to offer the best representation of the Central American coast using the categories of cultural costumes, swimwear and evening gowns.

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).

Travelling Dust is a departure from accepted modes of cultural reference and representation, opening up new channels of thought and taking a renewed look at what these places mean to one another within the realities of geopolitics.

This exhibition will feature work ranging from Penner Bancroft's For Dennis and Susan: Running Arms to a Civil War (1978), a powerful body of early photographs depicting the impact of leukemia on Penner Bancroft's sister and brother in law, to works from the 1980s and 90s that examine the representation of the family and the cultural frameworks through which landscape is perceived.

The presentation of Frances Stark's paintings, which employ text appropriated from the writings of musician Ian Svenonius, constitutes a vigorous defense of censorship on grounds of its necessity in equalizing political representation in cultural spaces, much as Black suggests.

This idea of holistically consuming our human stories, including the many that are normally excluded from history — while it has become a normal part of daily digital living — was inconceivable in the 1980s when the Guerrilla Girls became famous for storming cultural institutions and media outlets to take on the political plight of better representation for women in the arts.

Cutting Copper: Indigenous Resurgent Practice, a collaborative project between grunt gallery and the Belkin Art Gallery that I co-organized with Shelly Rosenblum, aimed to bring together a cross-disciplinary group of artists, curators, writers, educators, scholars, students and activists to explore the embodied theory of Indigenous resurgence and cultural representation — from the perspectives of their own disciplines and one another's.

In conjunction with her exhibition «Full Circle,» artist Summer Wheat shares the methods and cultural histories that guide her abstract - figurative work, from intuitive perception to ancient forms of representation and knowledge.

The three artists included in this year's residency exhibition extend this notion to explore how communities themselves can influence the ways in which art is produced, whether through incorporating images that document change and progress, questioning the contexts of cultural and physical representation so as not to repeat history's mistakes, or archiving materials from a community's past in order to benefit future generations.

The resulting volume (to be released in fall 2017) offers a resource for students, scholars, or any engaged reader, to consider dominant threads in aesthetic theory along side related works of art, including selections from structuralist and post-structuralist explorations of representation, to German media theory, the study of cultural techniques, and the still - burgeoning realm of new media theory, together offering a wide array of theoretical and methodological approaches to the world of images, and a sense of how those approaches have evolved over time.

In 1969, he became a founding member of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), which formed coalitions with other artists» groups, protested the exclusion of women and men of color from institutional and historical canons, and advocated for greater representation of black artists, curators, and intellectuals within major museums.

By replacing the typical European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, Wiley is able to draw attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives and raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation.

One of the most thought - provoking catalogue narratives is Ligon's «Blue Black,» which discusses the challenges Ofili has faced (and continues to face) in attempting to transition from centralizing concerns about identity, «race,» and social exclusion toward more nuanced and entangled representations focused on cultural syncretism, creolization, and hybridity.

Drawn from the museum's permanent collection, this wide - ranging exhibition looks at the representation of the self, examining the idealized and mythicized ways that artists have portrayed pop and cultural icons, from Malcolm X to Thelonious Monk to a New Orleans grand marshal.

Rather than rendering direct representations of his travels, the artist abstracts bits and pieces from the road, cultural impressions and his personal psyche offering to create a glimpse not of the place itself, but into the traveler's mind.

Los Angeles - based artist Amy Bessone mines the cultural representation of female form in history, from Greco - Roman marble nudes and the odalisques of high modernism to contemporary thrift - store objects.

Sama Alshaibi will be speaking about her work at the Contemporary Arab + Muslim Cultural Studies Institute's workshop «On Representation'taking place 28 February from 2 - 5 pm at the University of North Texas.

The paintings themselves are conceived by involving elements of cultural and geographic surroundings, as well as elements of digital representations culled from vast online sources to my own camera.

Stemming from her South American heritage and migration to Europe, Calero constructs social spaces that use sensory engagement as a democratic entry point for audiences to investigate socio - political themes of cultural representation and national identity.

The artists in this exhibition mine transnational counter-flows, cultural dispersions from geographical or social peripheries and alternative representations.

In his work Cokes samples and subverts modes of representation and cultural fragments from the media — in particular news, advertising, and Hollywood cinema — reframing the images and ideas that are designed to construct our habits and identities.

By appropriating technologies of representation from the sciences, architecture, and the commercial arts and combining the dimensional properties of video, photography, sculpture, and drawing, Sarah Dornner investigates the ways in which cultural and social constructs inform individual perceptions of space.

Mike Kelley's writings include project descriptions and accompanying texts from his major works; a retrospective view of his radical rock band Destroy All Monsters; and essays on prevailing themes, such as caricature, in the cultural history of representation.

Yishai Jusidman: Prussian Blue, Memory After Representation is made possible by support from Mex - Am Cultural Foundation and the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.

Field Re-Mediations is a library of objects and ideas that facilitates re-framing cultural practices that underlie environmental degradation, and arise from particular shared representations of nature.

While so much of today's common wisdom around appropriation grants that tactic a kind of distanced purview, from which an artist might critique while simultaneously participating in prevailing modes of cultural representation, we all too rarely account for the ways in which a sort of lasciviousness attends the venture — especially, perhaps, as younger generations take up its presumed look and legacy.

An MNC is likely to allow employees to have their own representation, from cultural and risk perspectives (potential exposure in another jurisdiction would militate in favour of allowing separate legal representation for the employee).

There is no doubt that the bilingualism requirement will make other criteria harder to satisfy, from regional representation through racial or other ethno - cultural identities.

The cultural representations, values, and norms were variables explored by Trainor (2010b) to devise strategies regarding how to solicit more involvement from parents who are culturally and linguistically diverse.

Relationship - related representations, as is the case with most knowledge structures, can be derived not only from first - person direct experiences in romantic relationships, but also from indirect sources such as shared relationship beliefs of family and friends, cultural norms and the media (Hatfield & Rapson, 2010).

Join us for free lunch, music and cultural entertainment with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers and representations from local Aboriginal community organisations.