Sentences with phrase «developed vernacular tradition»

Often without formal training, and facing economic insecurity and racial discrimination, these artists created profound works from both conventional art media and cast - off materials, giving visual power to a highly developed vernacular tradition that enriches an alternative to conventional narratives of modern art.

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Tapping the traditions of documentary and conceptual photography, Leonard's project, which she developed during a residency at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, is positioned within the genealogy of the grand visual archives that extend from Eugène Atget's Paris «then and now,» to August Sander's Face of Our Time, to Bernd and Hilla Becher's typologies of vernacular architecture.

Through the push and pull of cross cultural collaboration the group has balanced traditional cultural practice in the Caribbean and forward - looking design solutions; developing new methods and new vernacular that respects and elevates local traditions.