Sentences with phrase «cultural tropes»

This may simply be another set of cultural tropes that only feel fresh because I'm not as used to them.

Instead, he presents it as something resembling a collective modern brain, consisting of nonstop aggression, lonely self - aggrandizement and never - ending violence, a godless place in which a sentimental attachment to worthless pop cultural tropes has taken the place of spirituality.

Referencing fashion, women's domestic labor, and Surrealism, Stainman uses cultural tropes around beauty to create an embodied response in the viewer as a method of exploring the connection between body and mind.

These buxom women anticipate an audience, exaggerating both voyeurism and exhibitionism, confronting cultural tropes with bawdy humour.

Certainly this result may in part reflect the wording of the question and a familiar anti-government cultural trope, but Mettler's analysis points to deep - seated and systematic misperceptions on the part of submerged state beneficiaries (although what the 25 % of food stamp recipients who also reported they had «never used a government social program» were thinking is anyone's guess).

It's bizarre the way the series gravitates back and forth between shallow cultural tropes ripped straight from action cinema to identities and back stories which contain some actual weight — in the cultural sense, of course.

Similarly, Rashid Johnson's semiotic play of black - cultural tropes seems less like cynical hipster pastiche than it otherwise might.

Her concerns fluctuate between the scrutiny and investigation of self origin through cultural tropes, and uses both natural and found materials to illuminate limitations of control.

Her work uproots political and religious iconography to dismantle cultural tropes; take, for example, the animation SpiNN, 2003, which abstracts the hairstyles of gopis (female devotees of Krishna) into a flock of small black silhouettes that swirl around the screen like a murmuration of starlings.

With a capacity for self - mediating at unprecented velocity, images, ideas and popular cultural tropes are consumed and regurgitated in infinite mutations, while remaining static in a state of endless motion.

Whilst the prevalent cultural tropes suggest London is the major creative capital, this exhibition seeks to unify the regional divides across innovative practice.

Since moving to Trinidad in 2005, Ofili has incorporated the island's natural beauty and cultural tropes into his work.

His exuberant and subversive narratives employ a variety of cultural tropes, ranging in tone from comic - strip superhero battles to medieval morality plays and influenced in style by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Ernst, Henry Darger, Philip Guston and R. Crumb.

Wong is interested in the politics of representation, in transnational aesthetics, and Diaspora empowerment as expressed through the re-direction of visual and sonic pop cultural tropes.

In his brief fifteen - year career, Wiley has quickly become an established cultural trope.

One of the prominent themes of these hymns is the incomparability of God, a cultural trope that signifies the highest form of praise.

I can think of a few other archetypes that seem more common in Eastern games: martial artists, archers without pets, gunslingers... Again, this may simply be a different set of cultural tropes, and perhaps from the perspective of someone in Asia Western games feel like they have better class choices, but I enjoy the variety.

They found unique ways of referencing popular culture, either through stylistic simplifications evocative of popular illustrations and cartoons, or through the direct depictions of pop - cultural tropes.

The Banyan tree is woven finely into the fabric of Indian socio - cultural tropes and imbued with a mythic element.

Hancock employs a variety of cultural tropes, ranging in tone from comic - strip superhero battles to medieval morality plays, and in style from Hieronymus Bosch to Max Ernst.

Wearing's Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say, in which random people in the street were asked to hold up signs saying what they felt, has become a cultural trope, imitated innumerable times in adverts and social media.

Elsewhere, we introduce the work of Matt Henry, a British photographer who plays with the sense of place and cultural tropes.

By the beginning of the 21st century, artists had broken open Minimalist techniques in service of questioning the societal structures and cultural tropes that define our time.

In video and in sculptural installations — works that employ banal consumer goods and pop cultural tropes — Da Corte takes on these topics and others, touching on issues of identity, alienation and instability.