Sentences with phrase «cultural upheaval»

Set in 1988, a time of great cultural upheaval — against the excesses of the decade, the AIDS epidemic and the gentrification of the city culminating in the infamous Tompkins Square Park riots — TEN THOUSAND SAINTS is a nostalgia trip to a bygone era of New York City.

(CNN)-- Cultural upheavals often occur in the most surprising contexts.

The 1964 Tokyo Olympics are coming and Japan is in cultural upheaval while Umi just keeps her routine going.

Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a time of unprecedented environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval with resilience, ingenuity, and wonder.

Rethinking Residencies: Publics and Counterpublics reflects on artist residency programs, what communities they serve, and the responsibilities each has to one another in a moment of marked cultural upheaval.

After the success of «1937: Perfection and Destruction», the Kunsthalle Bielefeld is examining yet another year of significant cultural upheaval.

The moment of mass cultural upheaval has passed.

And fast, if we're to avert widespread cultural upheaval.

«It could be that the changes required are so fundamental and require such massive cultural upheaval that women don't see the point in participating if the solutions that get implemented continue to be superficial.»

What was happening to me, of course, was taking place all over America, but that in itself was a marvel: Radio and TV were creating a mass culture, and my rebellion dovetailed with one of the great cultural upheavals in modern history.

Now, as Childs points out, most of the elements in this consensus have been questioned from within and have been made to appear irrelevant by the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s.

I'd missed the cultural upheaval, but our family bookshelves told tales of surrender.

As the church faced the cultural upheavals at the turn of the sixteenth century, the response was to attempt to preserve the established structures and to put a damper on creative initiative.

When people remember the l960s they usually think of Vietnam, cultural upheaval and assorted liberation movements.

Then and only then will the nation halt the moral decline evident since the cultural upheaval of the 1960s.

During the expansion of the school in the 1960s and the cultural upheavals of that era, administrators, professors and board members were recruited without regard to their religious convictions.

Now, analyses of cave formations from the region bolster the notion that changes in the strength of that semiarid region's summer monsoon may have played a major role in this cultural upheaval, and others like it.

These community members, despite experiencing social and cultural upheaval that legitimized domestic violence, demonstrated a desire to rebuild protective cultural traditions and to challenge inequitable gender norms.

The second shows how much we owe to Darwin, Huxley, and many others who struggled to untangle humanity's place in nature in spite of the cultural upheaval that their work inevitably caused.

NEW YORK (AP)-- After a year of political and cultural upheaval, Super Bowl advertisers appear to be pulling back from themes of unity in favor of in - game stunts and ads that aim for the heart — and in some cases even lower.

Chase is also interested in the cultural upheaval of rock & roll, as well as the fallout: liberation without a rule book, long - haired kids turning into mentally unstable dopers and a generation gap embodied by James Gandolfini's perplexed blue - collar pops.

This documentary is the true and inspiring story of Maria Toorpakai, a talented squash player who faces death threats and cultural upheaval in her quest to represent Pakistan in international competitions.

There's little fault to find in Coming Home, which tells a heartbreaking story using components of a cultural upheaval that most of the world, China included, knows little about.

In the course of political and cultural upheaval, in the 18th century Leipzig then came to play the part.

The cultural upheaval that comes from the post-colonial presence of foreign oil companies is important to the story, but we see it strictly through its immediate effects on Blessing's life.

With clarity of expression, Maathai analyzes the most egregious «bottlenecks to development in Africa» occurring at the international, national, and individual levels — cultural upheaval and enduring poverty, among them — and deftly describes what Africans can and need to do for themselves, stressing all the while responsibility and accountability.

White Christian America had its golden age in the 1950s, after the hardships and victories of World War Ii and before the cultural upheavals of the 1960s.

In her comprehensive and detailed examination of the complex and dynamic nature of the African continent, Professor Maathai offers both «hard - headed hope» and «realistic options» for change and improvement, and analyses the most egregious «bottlenecks to development in Africa» occurring at the international, national, and individual levels — cultural upheaval, environmental degradation, and enduring poverty, among others.

by Anya Lawrence In the midst of a cultural upheaval, Budapest is rapidly becoming the vibrant creative mecca of Central Europe.

Amidst free - running acrobatics, lurking - in - shadows stealth and swordplay + gunplay combat, the games in the series have had aspirations of imparting a sense of the political and cultural upheaval of the time periods they're set in.

It is the first major exhibition to explore how those key moments, which coincided with periods of American social, political, and cultural upheaval, challenged or erased traditional hierarchies and probed prevailing assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist in contemporary culture.

Born between 1920 and 1945, this generation lived through the cultural upheaval of the Prague Spring in the 1960s and the «normalization» of the 1970s, when censorship was reintroduced.

The consequences of the World War I were sprawling around the globe, and although the combat did not take place on the American soil, it definitely took its toll on the economy and caused vast social and cultural upheavals.

«This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s» examines artists» responses to that decade's cultural upheavals, including the rise of gender politics, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cold War anxieties, and President Ronald Reagan's malign indifference to the AIDS epidemic.

Through exhaustive research and imaginative talent, Jennie C. Jones brings to light the unlikely parallels that emerged between the visual arts and jazz during the social and cultural upheavals in the late 1950s.

The artists explore constructions of personal narrative, specific moments of cultural upheaval, the complexity of human psychology, and the physicality of the body itself.

The exhibition was an ode to punk rock as a force for social and cultural upheaval.

As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art but artists.

Conceptual art emerged as an international art form during a period of social and cultural upheaval in the 1960s and 1970s, which coincided with the era of Pop - Art and the Italian movement Arte Povera.

In the social and cultural upheaval of the postwar era, with its corresponding reflections on values, art movements rapidly emerged around the world, including Minimalism in the United States, Arte Povera in Italy and Anti-Form in Britain, and modernism came under fierce criticism and reexamination of its values.

«Reference points for this work come from my interest in the historic changes brought about in art by the social and cultural upheavals and rapid developments in science and technology in the 1960's and 70's.

At the same time, her reexamination of the human body paralleled the cultural upheaval of the sexual revolution and women's movement: her work challenged the Western artistic tradition that regarded a woman's proper place in the arts as sitter or muse.