Sentences with phrase «cultural syncretism»

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.

Early research intocolor meaning and cultural syncretism led to the occult traditions in general and the work of John Dee and Henry Cornelius Agrippa specifically.

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.

We are talking about cultural syncretism.

Tendencies that have come to define modern Western societies include the existence of political pluralism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New Age movements), and increasing cultural syncretism — resulting from globalization and human migration.

All religions, especially an explicitly incarnational religion like Christianity, will not be able to avoid cultural syncretism.

Any religion, especially an immanent incarnate tradition is going to be more susceptible to cultural syncretism.

Not exact matches

In answer to the criticism that WCC is syncretistic because of its program for inter-religious dialogue, Thomas said that if the word syncretism denotes all processes of interpenetration between cultures and religions, the only answer to a wrong syncretism, which means the uncritical, superficial, normless mixing of basically incompatible religious concepts and cultural attitudes, is a Christ - centered syncretism which grapples with and evaluates all concepts and attitudes critically in the light of Jesus Christ and converts them into vehicles for communicating the truth of the Gospel and for expressing its meaning for life.

But the ground and the framework of what the Church has to say in the world are the same and the cultural alternatives to Christianity in the modern world - humanism and syncretism.

But by the same token, cultural particularism pressed too far yields relativism, syncretism and over-contextualization.

A native of Los Angeles, California, and current New York resident, Sanford Biggers uses the study of ethnological objects, popular icons, and the Dadaist tradition to explore cultural and creative syncretism, art history, and politics.

Cultural synthesis and syncretism inform many of the central issues explored in Prospect.4.

SYNCRETISM explored the merging of distinct cultural traditions, while PEOPLE»S CHOICE examined the actual aesthetic preferences of the American people and the impact of market research on its society.

«American Art Today: Faces and Figures,» The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (formerly The Art Museum at FIU), Florida International University, Miami, FL, January 17 — March 9, 2003 «The Harlem Renaissance and Its Legacy,» Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, January 18 — April 13, 2003 «A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago,» Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 15 — May 18, 2003; catalogue «Structures of Difference,» Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, February — April 13, 2003 «The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism,» Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, March 18 — June 8, 2003 «Visual Poetics: Art and the Word,» Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, April 25 — November 16, 2003; brochure «Visualizing Identity,» The Jack S Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, August 27, 2003 — January 4, 2004 «Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection,» Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, October 26, 2003 — January 1, 2004; catalogue «Skin Deep,» Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C., March 15 — April 26; brochure «Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self,» curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, December 12, 2003 — February 29, 2004; traveled to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 2004; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, 2005; catalogue «Supernova,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2003 «Fast Forward: Twenty Years of White Rooms,» White Columns, New York, NY, 2003; catalogue «Today's Man,» curated by John Connelly, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2003 «The Disembodied Spirit,» curated by Alison Ferris, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, 2003; catalogue «The Alumni Show,» curated by Nina Felshin, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2003; catalogue «Crimes and Misdemeanors,» Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2003 «DL: The Down Low in Contemporary Art,» Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, Bronx, NY, 2003 «The Paper Sculpture Show,» organized by ICI, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, 2003; traveled to Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston - Salem, NC; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA «An American Legacy: Art from the Studio Museum,» The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 2003 «Stranger in the Village,» Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2003 «On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau,» The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2003 «Family Ties,» curated by Trevor Fairbrother, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2003 «Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude (Toward and understanding of trans - generational dialogue as a gift economy),» curated by Bill Arning, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 2003 «American Art Today: Faces & Figures,» The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2003

It is here that contemporary art and other cultural practices can address the collective imagination of all of Palermo's residents, a diverse mixture of identities existing side by side in a syncretism rooted in the city.