Sentences with phrase «cultural representation through»

Painting at RISD prepares students to engage in an individual search for meaning and cultural representation through the development of strong visual skills, keen critical reasoning abilities and an understanding of broad historical and social contexts.

Not exact matches

For a visual representation of the story of Fogo de Chão, watch «The Gaucho Way,» a documentary - style video shot through the eyes of real Fogo de Chão Brazilian gauchos and explores the restaurant's deep cultural roots in Southern Brazil.

In a cultural context, kente is more important than just a cloth and it is a visual representation of history and also a form of written language through weaving.

Martin sees disturbing parallels between the cultural representations of people who fall by the wayside in the world of work — through unemployment, «deskilling» or lack of training — and those who fall ill as a result of «inferior» immune responses, leading to AIDS, cancer or a host of other diseases.

A grisly critique of representations of violence, the original version shot a hole right through the fourth wall, but Haneke's echo — which re-uses the same locations and stresses its own pointlessness at every turn — transforms his cultural commentary into an endless hall of mirrors, completing the project by repeating it.

Through opportunities to study the lives, cultures, values and beliefs of people in different places, students learn to appreciate and interpret different perspectives and to challenge stereotypical or prejudiced representations of social and cultural groups where they exist.

As students learn to use technology tools to build representations of a social world's characteristics, they generate reflective critical thought through their analysis and critique of the identities, relationships, and values constructed by the cultural practices and discourses in that social world.

Representation in our cultural heritage through art, literature and philosophy.

Bangkok - raised artist Korakrit Arunanondchai engages a myriad of subjects such as history, authenticity, self - representation, and tourism through the lens of a cultural transplant.

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).

Over the semester students will learn to think critically about the relationship between history and cultural representations, particularly through the international circulation of photographic images.

In announcing its representation of Williams, the gallery described the development of his practice over the years and how he expresses personal, political and cultural narratives through abstraction:

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.

Through Mas Rudas, Buentello's work has evolved to explore socio - cultural examinations of Chican @ identity and cultural representations of gender.

Mimi Jung's work examines multiple dimensions of self - preservation, particularly as it relates to private and public self - representation, and the ways in which those depictions are manifest through social and cultural mores.

[56]: 43 What, however, can be said, is that it was a movement that developed in the early 20th century mainly in Germany in reaction to the dehumanizing effect of industrialization and the growth of cities, and that «one of the central means by which expressionism identifies itself as an avant - garde movement, and by which it marks its distance to traditions and the cultural institution as a whole is through its relationship to realism and the dominant conventions of representation.»

One can see this in two bodies of work: cultural representation is the primary issue in The African American Flag Project, where «African American» flags were the subject of the paintings; and the Made in USA series of paintings touch on the politics of consumption through self - referential text and image.

-- Oscar Wilde BODY UTOPIA creates a visionary space that honors ideas and representations of the nonconforming body — a body that does not subscribe to cultural ideals, whether through size, age, disability, ethnicity, gender presentation, or «queer», self - chosen, outlier identity.

Hamilton questions the representation of cultural phenomena through popular media in her sculptures and videos.

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.

Through biographical and cultural contexts, Kha's photographs explore the conventions of the Self - Portrait, revealing the discontinuities between self, image, and representation.

Gowda is interested in the power that objects and forms carry in capturing aspects of reality, with its social and cultural narratives, that are otherwise unseen by and unspeakable through other languages of representation and analysis.

The paintings meander through various systems of knowledge and representation such as Tantric iconography, a landscape in the isolated dictatorship of North Korea, illustrations of cellular generation and radical cultural histories seen through the lenses of fellow artists Emily Roysdon and Cameron Rowland.

In Modern Fuel's Main Gallery, the artists reflect on prevailing modes of representation — on format and framing — in an attempt to situate cultural production within the social structures and spaces through which it unfolds.

Kheirkhah's multi - disciplinary art practice and her specific focus on decentralising the generalising cultural forms of categorization, explores the representations of the so called «Middle Eastern» female identities through a practice which is generated by the interplay of history, politics, media and visual arts within contemporary Western visual culture.

Through its various programs, the group has earned a reputation for showcasing cutting - edge work that deals intelligently with issues of gender and cultural representation.

Nine sculptures by artist Charles Rudy (1904 - 1986) will be on display alongside three - dimensional representations made possible through a partnership with the Google Cultural Institute.

The artist is particularly interested in the social and political legacies of cinema; by revisiting twentieth century revolutionary movements through their cultural manifestations, Jones proposes that new forms of collective action and self - representation may yet be possible.

His work engages issues of cultural identity through representation of and as the «other» through a variety of narrative formats.

Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction.

James explores these concerns through topics such as identity politics, gender, cultural stereotypes, pedagogical structures, domestic and captive animals and representations of nature.

This new international group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York gathers together artistic reactions to the ways in which media representations of violent conflict and identity are increasingly rendered through an individualized, and even banal perspective.

Through varied typologies, the works included in this exhibition present a range of responses to environments and dispute the purity of space while signaling cultural identification through representations of figures, structures, and coThrough varied typologies, the works included in this exhibition present a range of responses to environments and dispute the purity of space while signaling cultural identification through representations of figures, structures, and cothrough representations of figures, structures, and concepts.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who left Nigeria aged 16 to move to the US, traces the seams of this kind of cultural syncretism, through large - scale, mixed - media works on paper that patchwork different modes and techniques of representation to forge a continuity between her experiences in both countries.

Through more than 160 photographs, sculptures, soundworks, and video made since the early 1990s, Waters» renegade humor subverts mainstream expectations of representation and reveals the ways that mass media and celebrity embody cultural attitudes, moral codes, and shared tragedy.

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 Committee acknowledges that significant progress has been achieved in the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights of Indigenous peoples, through the COAG framework and the national strategy on Indigenous violence; the diversionary and preventative programs aimed at reducing the over representation of young people in the criminal justice system; and the abrogation of mandatory sentencing in the Northern Territory.