Sentences with phrase «cultural signs»

For one thing, everything does, in an age of cultural signs.

In his works, the artist deals with maps and other cultural signs and talks about political and social issues.

In this age of unprecedented growth and technological change, we encounter a nonstop barrage of cultural signs.

Sydney Shavers is an interdisciplinary artist who uses Western cultural sign systems to assess ascriptive identities such as race and gender.

Informed by the Los Angeles mural culture, Cristi's complex paintings often intermix cultural signs and representations with painterly abstraction, connecting the politics of the canvas to the politics of the street.

I remember there were paintings of political and cultural signs like a profile of a figure, sometimes mixed in with writings in Hebrew, other times barely sustained among floods of expressionist and highly charged abstract gestures.

It crystalized this worldview of art as purely a set of cultural signs meant to be decoded.

But it also contains pieces by Philip Vanderhyden, Shana Lutker and Karl Haendel, younger artists who employ appropriation, irony and in - depth critical examinations of cultural signs.

Almost all cultural signs point to this dangerous lie, that love is something you fall in and out of, a volcanic eruption of emotions and passion.

The Italian Bishops» Conference said that the crucifix is «not only a religious symbol but also a cultural sign» and noted that its display in public buildings is «part of the historic heritage of the Italian people.»

The hybridization of cultural signs is the source of the strength of Simmons's recent artistic vision, made literal through his process of blurring and the fundamental instability of his medium.

Though intertwined in practice, the pictorial and the presentational represent two different worldviews, one identified with art as form, as something made, or something its maker arrives at, while the other regards art primarily as a set of cultural signs, or a strategy that produces an artifact, something meant to be read.

«What passes for imagination today is often just a recontextualization of cultural signs,» David Salle observed in a recent issue of Artforum.