Sentences with phrase «culture ephemera»

This stream is more than just pop culture ephemera though — it shows the huge cross-over potential video game live - streaming, and particularly Fortnite, which has become a phenomenon after copying the survival play - style of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

People collect pop culture ephemera and decorate with signifiers from their favorite franchises.

The fear of contamination, physiological and cultural, the anxiety of societies encountering alterities and facing their own projections and prejudices are explored through the contribution of artists of various generations, shown together with historical artifacts and pop culture ephemera.

Featuring approximately 200 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs, decorative arts, architectural and landscape designs, costumes, and popular culture ephemera — dating from the late 18th century to the present day — VMFA's landmark exhibition expands the chronological and geographic boundaries of the regionally diverse, multicultural revival.

And while even the best episodes of Galactica and Lost are ultimately pop - culture ephemera, HBO's mob show is closer to real art: Dostoevsky crossed with Emile Zola, a novelistic meditation on the nature of societal corruption and personal sin.

What they didn't realize — or maybe didn't care about — is that this trading in mass culture ephemera would not sustain the humanities.

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By replicating this imagery within the confines of the gallery, altering it in color and composition while allowing the main graphic thrust of the imagery to remain, Simmons presents once - slighted or disenfranchised ephemera as vital contributions to culture at large.

Ephemera installed throughout the exhibition by Allison Rudnick, the department's assistant curator, supplied a sense of material culture on the home front: a group of nine chromolithographic postcards from several nations shows zeppelins looming cartoonishly over iconic landmarks, and two examples of printed cotton toiles de guerre from 1916, combining French patriotic and military motifs with a classical ornamental vocabulary.

Melgaard's schizophrenic accumulations of vulgar ephemera might evoke the installations of Thomas Hirschhorn — that is, if Hirschhorn's papery images of war - ravaged, blown - apart bodies and Hellraiser - like mannequins were replaced by cum - dripping penises and self - fisting platypuses; that is, if Hirschhorn were in fact not a heterosexual Swiss man but a sexy, hairy, Australian - born Norwegian gay guy hell - bent, in the abject tradition of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, on figuratively shitting all over mainstream culture.

The idea is «to deepen the viewer's understanding of how value is generated and accrued within a cultural context» while showing how «printed ephemera has woven itself invisibly into our understanding of art and culture.»

[Lovell] works in a shadowy periphery between substance and ephemera, two and three dimensions, spiritual and material culture, self and other, populating this ambiguous space with people, places, and objects from the past.

Deploying posters, books, postcards and even a café and hotel, his projects have consistently had at their center a focus on the American vernacular — its music, popular imagery and ephemera — mining the nuances of culture through its unsung conventions.

Together, these exhibitions offer insight into the changing role of ephemera in 21st century culture.

Carefully building a nuanced soundtrack whereby even the collective voice of its re-enactors never drowns out the source material, what might be an otherwise banal video collage eloquently reveals our personal response to nostalgic ephemera to be a whisper relative to the flat and highly constructed voice of pop culture.

David Bowie is Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238 Through July 15 Presenting approximately 400 objects including original costumes, handwritten lyric sheets from famous songs, original album art, photographs, and more ephemera, David Bowie is explores the creative process of a true pop culture iconoclast.

The artists take as their medium the debris of mass culture to address the urgent question: what are we to do with reconstruction in a time where history and all its material ephemera have been subjected to extreme fragmentation?

The exhibition will include drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, ephemera, and material culture that deal with changing conceptions of the body over time in Philadelphia scientific and artistic culture.

These artists fully engaged with the ephemera produced from this mass - produced culture, embracing expendability and distancing themselves from the evidence of an artist's hand.

Objects from The Amistad Center for Art & Culture's collection of 19th century prints, photographs, and ephemera will introduce slavery and the Civil War.

A consummate and prolific collector himself — of art, books and popular ephemera — Prince's work has continued to explore concepts of authorship and ownership in relation to the consumer materials of contemporary culture.

Recycling ready - made materials, repurposing common household items and creating art from the refuse of everyday life are classic strategies of the modern and postmodern avant - garde, from early - 20th - century Cubist collages of newspaper clippings and the ephemera of popular culture to today's recycling...

His tent paintings don't indulge the American fetish for brand names, but they are irreverent like Pop painting, and evoke a broader world of cheap, impermanent things, a restless culture on the move, a society that leaves its mark not through grand edifices but through an accumulation of ephemera and trash.

Familial rituals — cooking, hosting, and archiving the ephemera of personal histories — closely inform his processes and subject matter, as do the cycles of contact and conflict between Arab and Occidental cultures.

Anchored by recent gifts from Gund Gallery Board Member David Horvitz «74 and his wife Francie Bishop Good to the Gund Gallery Collection, this Gund Associate (intern)- curated exhibition offers a gendered lens through which to view 20th century civil rights activism so that we may better understand the roots and the aspirations of the political consciousness generated by Black liberation art, ephemera and digital culture today.

Instead, they take their own culture and heritage as primary sources of inspiration and combine photography with other techniques such as collage, silk - printing, painting, and images that use cultural ephemera and archival documents.

For most of his artistic career, Flood has created collages, paintings and sculptures, and altered found ephemera that serve to critique and highlight consumer culture and the perversity of the art world.Gratest Hits presents the deep wisdom and humor of three decades of work while ultimately revealing the true achievement of an artist who has produced many highly praised works and had an active career despite remaining barely visible at the museum level.

Arcangel's work has long dealt with the status conferred upon differing cultural ephemera: the privilege endowed so - called Fine Art as compared to the visual vernacular of «lowbrow» pop culture.

Tangier - based artist, Yto Barrada probes into the material history and visual culture of her hometown in this multi-layered exhibition of films, artworks, posters and ephemera, on display at Walker Art Center.

Performance Now examines the definitive role the medium has taken in contemporary art and culture and includes objects, ephemera, sound, and video of the performances displayed through large wall projections and monitors.

Flood has been making his lace paintings since the early 90s; their process of manufacture and slightly kitschy image derived from actual lace encourages us to look at these seductive beauties with a jaundiced eye; 2) The exhibition includes site - specific installations made of absurd pseudo-posters, multi-media, ephemera, collages, text paintings, and documents from the last decade that remix pop culture and critique systems of mass cultural distributions such as rock videos and albums.

Rosenquist continued developing his key themes: juxtapositions of consumer goods and popular culture taken from magazines, billboards, and the ephemera of American life.