Sentences with phrase «cultural signifiers for»

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Film screeners have become cultural signifiers — connoting access, insider status and power for those who receive them.

Whether it's a T - shirt with «BOY» emblazoned across the front for Theron, or yet another tiresome pop - cultural signifier, his directorial hand is one blunt instrument.

Her parents fought the good fight to be treated with respect and equality and looked for any signs of backwardness they might need to root out of their daughters, who were alternately fascinated and repelled by the very cultural signifiers their parents feared.

On its own, a Polaroid image is fully identified with the artwork that ultimately grew out of it; the face depicted becomes a kind of signifier for larger cultural concepts of beauty, power, and worth.

The artists in this exhibition produce works that explore the multi-faceted characteristics of the word «hood» in some fashion: a slang term for a Black neighborhood; a suffix in cultural theory concepts like «objecthood,» «personhood,» «negrohood;» and Trayvon Martin's hoodie, which, along with his being an objectified young Black male, served as a signifier in an act of radical injustice.

For Wachs, these ocular riddles allow for the calculated manipulation of seemingly empty cultural signifieFor Wachs, these ocular riddles allow for the calculated manipulation of seemingly empty cultural signifiefor the calculated manipulation of seemingly empty cultural signifiers.

Known for his near - hoarder style collecting habit, Feldman possesses a keen eye for arranging and reframing ordinary objects and imagery, conflating high - brow and low - brow cultural signifiers to test viewer's expectations.

Best known for their performances, videos, and photographs that combine elements of S&M gay subculture with everyday domestic scenes, the artist team will further their ongoing exploration of power relations, as manifested in explicit cultural signifiers as well as clandestine -LSB-...]