Sentences with phrase «during cold war»

She is currently working on an installation and book about the transformation of the Salton Sea / Mojave Desert during the Cold War.

The reenactment also attempted to banish the myth that American cultural diplomacy during the Cold War focused particularly on abstract expressionism.

Exposing the global commoditization of fear, Grimonprez blends archival footage of early 60's Folgers coffee ads, hysterical Red Menace newsreels, and Alfred Hitchcock's TV intros, with an imaginary murder plot involving Hitchcock and his doppelganger, to paint a vivid portrait of American media run amuck during the Cold War.

Her video The Man in the Background and her publication, Gentlemen and Arseholes, were launched as two parts of one project about art and propaganda during the Cold War.

Imaginary Enemy illustrated the challenges Yibai faced during childhood amidst a secret missile factory in China during the Cold War era and his paralleled fascination with American Culture.

My current projects include an installation and book about the transformation of the Mojave Desert during the Cold War, and several projects concerning water contaminated by radioactive isotopes and the subsequent effects on the human genome.

All this despite her proposal involving a project by the politically charged, multi-media artists Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla that involves the creation of six on - site installations about America's usage of art to alter and enhance it's geopolitical standing (think conspiracy theories surrounding the CIA's promotion of Abstract Expressionism during the Cold War and you'd just be getting started).

Thursday, March 3: Panel Discussion 7 - 9 pm English The panel discusses the works of Robert Motherwell, Tomie Ohtake, and Tang Chang as well as the international and national circumstances in the US, Brazil, and Thailand during the Cold War, in which abstraction was a key cultural pawn with ideological implications.

A 1995 Independent article on the CIA's role in promoting Abstract Expressionism describes these attitudes during the Cold War period:

In order to produce a (framed) document, Snyder contacted the CIA via email and asked a question regarding the utilization of art as a weapon during the Cold War.

«Growing up in a Greek immigrant community during the Cold War, especially in New Mexico, I felt that the culture was really not part of the U.S., but off the planet,» she says.

Known worldwide for his brave disobedience during the Cold War in illegally painting miles of the Berlin Wall, Thierry Noir's work stands as a symbol of freedom and an act of defiance against walls, borders, and persecution.

Rendered in cardboard and crayon, the spaces would not have come about without the real dangers experienced by someone growing up during the Cold War.

Kia Henda's portraits not only address modern Angolan identity, but the global history intertwined with the country's formation, from Portugal's colonial presence to the Brazilian slave trade system and the relationships with Russia and the United States during the Cold War, among others.

Exhibition charts artistic production from North, Central, and South America during the Cold War Era, featuring works by Raquel Forner, Gyula Kosice, Roberto Matta, and Robert Smithson, among others

Intended to help overcome West Berlin's isolation during the Cold War, the programme managed to connect the city with the creative talent of the wider world.

The book accompanies the reader through an imaginary and real itinerary, between history and trickeries, from the installation and performance Hiding the Elephant — referring to the people who «mysteriously» disappeared, who were exiled or persecuted during the Cold War — to the last works of the series Untitled Views — digital prints on mirror in which the artists experiment the theatrical effects of colored smoke bombs.

Voluspa Jarpa's work is rooted on the meticulous analysis of declassified archives and leaked documents of foreign interventions happening mainly in Chile and other Latin American countries (but also in Europe) during the Cold War.

Blue Room takes its title from two types of space which employ ambient lighting as a system of control: a dimly lit command center used to monitor airspace during the Cold War, and a calm room used to pacify prisoners in solitary confinement.

The project draws attention to the roles that certain artefacts have played in the recent history of the Philippines, specifically in shaping the cultural legacy of former Philippine dictators Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and the absurd postcolonial ideology they enforced under the auspices of capitalist democracies during the Cold War.

The multimedia artist Lisi Raskin uses large - scale drawings, collages, and installations to tackle themes that emerged during the Cold War, from nuclear panic and fallout shelters to the military command centers that brought mankind to the brink of annihilation.

The work presented in «COLD war COOL digital» is of significance as approximately 190 million apartments were built using pre-fabricated concrete panel building systems during the Cold War years.

The Pollock - Krasner House and Study Center opens its second exhibition of the season with a group show examining the rise of Eastern European Abstract Expressionism during the Cold War Era.

Like other artists raised in East Germany during the Cold War, Georg Baselitz gravitated towards and helped define what has since become known as Neo-Expressionism.

«Abstract Expression: Behind the Iron Curtain» centers on the work of four artists who were working in Soviet Bloc countries during the Cold War, creating art that wasn't sanctioned by Communist Party doctrine.

The exhibition is a highly unusual one in that it centers on this little - known aspect of artistic expression in eastern Europe during the Cold War period, according to the Pollock - Krasner House.

As other artists such as Richard Hamilton and the Independent Group, for example, explored the theme of science fiction in art during the Cold War period, Alario reprises this theme in today's climate.

Hall, James, The Battle for Realism — Figurative Art in Britain during the Cold War 1945 — 1960, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001

Delirious, an exhibit of willfully nonsensical and absurd art upcoming at the Met Breuer, will focus on works produced during the Cold War decades, and might provide context for those who see today's socio - political havoc, or the irrational art it begets, as something entirely new.

By this time, Franz Kline was already considered as a leading Abstract Expressionist with a considerable number of exhibitions behind both in the United States and abroad, including the Venice Biennale in 1960 and American Vanguard in 1961, a show that traveled throughout Europe, organized by the US government as an effort to advance itself as a guardian of free expression during the Cold War.

Jeanne Anne Nugent, art historian and independent curator based in New York, will examine avant - garde culture under state socialism during the Cold War.

During the Cold War, radio listeners across the globe started to notice bizarre broadcasts on the airwaves and believed they were carrying coded messages.

It was eventually excommunicated from the western art world during the Cold War while serving the aspirational visions of socialist art.

The story itself was heavily inspired by the history (and conspiracy theories) from the Space Race that happened during the Cold War.

Maybe... a crystal wasteland from one of the lands that lost its crystal during the cold war.

Many gamers are too young to remember the constant threat of annihilation felt during The Cold War; the fear that, at any moment, your life, and the life of those around you, could be eradicated by nuclear fire.

The main character of MGS3 is Naked Snake (Solid Snake's eventual father) and the setting is during the Cold War in Tarzan - like jungle settings and with a «Jane» to boot.

She is a playable character in the game in which, among the regular Wonder Woman, there are other version of the character like Atomic Wonder Woman (From an alternate earth population was almost wipped out in atomic attacks during the cold war) and Mecha Wonder Woman (A robot version of the character)

The game centers on running a spy agency during the Cold War.

Set during the Cold War in 1964, players are sent to the jungles of the USSR (an odd location) to destroy a renegade faction, and eliminate the American defector, a mission from the president of USA himself.

The trailer has revealed that the game will take place in a near - futuristic setting, and (except for a few missions), will not take place during the Cold War era.

In this game, players will be assuming control of either the US, or the Soviet Union, in a bid for global hegemony, during the Cold War.

Set in 1983 during the Cold War, Phantom Doctrine is an alternate history thriller in which players lead The Cabal, a secret organization dedicated to fighting a global conspiracy committed to control...

From there, the story is pieced together by a series of flashbacks, as Alex is questioned about his history of clandestine operations during the Cold War.

This towering summit has long been associated with dark forces, perhaps most famously in Goethe's Faust, and during the Cold War Brocken was a military base used for border surveillance.

During the Cold War a communications station was installed as a part of the Pacific Missile Range Facility.

During the Cold War, from the 1950s to the 1970s, Fort Baker was home to the Headquarters of the Sixth ARADCOM Region (ARADCOM stood for U.S. Army Air Defense Command).

In 1946 the school moved to the Presidio of Monterey, the renamed Army Language School expanded rapidly in 1947 — 48 during the Cold War.

Before the Cold War began Germany worked as one nation, but during the Cold War the borders were closed by the Soviet Union and Germany's two nations East Germany and West Germany was formed.

This skill was put to use during the Cold War, when they were used to find parts of missiles.