Sentences with phrase «during the culture wars»

In the U.S. we have seen a foxhole ecumenism develop during the culture wars.

This was during the Culture Wars, and Robert Mapplethorpe dominated.

A strong commitment to freedom of artistic expression led the Foundation to play an active advocacy role for artists during the culture wars of the 1990s and continues to inform its support of organizations that fight censorship, protect artists» rights and defend their access to evolving technologies in the digital age.

Some years back, Henry Korn (who had served as Administrator of the Jewish Museum, Director of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and on Franklin Furnace's Board of Directors) asked me if I thought Franklin Furnace got in trouble during the Culture Wars because in my work as an artist I impersonated First Ladies (Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Tipper Gore, now Barbara Bush again).

DeGenevieve's NEA - funded work famously came under attack during the Culture Wars of the 1990s, and she became an outspoken opponent of censorship and a popular professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The NEA 4, in collaboration with four curators who supported their work during the culture wars of the»90s, were asked...

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What does it look like to really imitate Christ in this culture, during these wars, amidst all of this wealth and privilege, despite all of our past failures?

During World War II the persecuted Christians threw a ringing challenge at comfortable, culture - adapted Christianity when they declared: «The first duty of the church is to be the church.»

And I suppose that you are using the word «comrade» as some sort of reference to Communism, which you associate with every person or idea that does not fit in with your ignorant view of the world, however during the Cold War the minority of the Middle Eastern Muslim cultures that hated the US tended to be even more hostile to the Soviets (who where officially Atheist).

With time to explore this land and her culture, Don Quixote, Velazquez's Las Meninas, and the Alhambra Palace come at your heart like a love - letter stuffed inside a Molotov cocktail, a weapon first used during «Le Guerra,» the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, a war between the Fascists of Franco and the RepublicaWar, in 1936, a war between the Fascists of Franco and the Republicawar between the Fascists of Franco and the Republicans.

This historical strategic culture was shaken to its core during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union became capable of conducting devastating nuclear strikes on U.S. territory, which ceased to be a sanctuary.

Talbert founded the Christian Culture Club at the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, served as a nurse in France during World War I and helped found the Phyllis Wheatley Club, the first Buffalo organization to affiliate with the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.

During Hunt's tenure, competition and policy issues relating to media and telecommunications became the responsibility of the Culture Secretary; they were removed from the purview of the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, after Cable was recorded stating that he had «declared war» on Rupert Murdoch.

Out of the traditions and organizational culture established during the late 1940s and 1950s came AAAS's activism of subsequent decades on social issues such as racial justice, the environment, and the war in Vietnam.

The appalling consequences of the military technology deployed in the Gulf War 12 months ago provide a tragic symbol of the encounter between East and West during the past five centuries: superior military technology has allowed Western nations to impose their will across the globe, inducing a prolonged crisis of culture among the losers.

Chris Kresser cited a number of healthy high - carb cultures, and noted that Okinawans became the world's longest - lived culture after being forced to an 85 % carb diet during World War II and its aftermath.

Specific historic events that help us understand why Athens and Sparta developed uniquely different cultures within the same area during the same time period (e.g., Messenian Wars, Peisistratos grants rights to the poor, Thermopylae, Salamis, etc.).

During the Obama administration, this office charged full speed ahead into the nation's culture wars by imposing on every educational institution in the country novel and detailed mandates based on very broad interpretations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and national origin) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex).

Although the documents are organized chronologically as the years just before or during the Civil War, the archive contains rich material for teachers and researchers interested in exploring other important themes in American History, such as slavery, immigration, ethnic groups, women's lives, reform movements, economic development, and political culture.

The fact that she did not abandon Isaac during the war because he was Jewish indicated that she was not prejudiced regarding other cultures.

I was curious about their experience during World War I, when their native country and culture was vilified as the home of Huns, brutes and monsters.

The title, Bleeding Kansas, refers to the violence between pro- and anti-slavery forces in the Kansas territory during the mid-1850s, but it's not a bad description of the nasty culture wars now raging in this rural...

The plot primarily follows two trajectories: life during and just after the Nigerian Civil War (July 1967 — January 1970), and the protagonist's growing sense of sexual identity in a conservative Christian culture.

Trace the dramatic wartime history of place that served as the Austria - Italian frontline during World War I, and discover surprising cultures within charming villages, where the ancient customs of the Ladin people still thrive and Austrian and Italian influences seamlessly blend.

This magical Southeast Asia river cruise along the Mekong River will take you through Vietnam and Cambodia, showing you the culture and local traditions of each country and the must - see sites along the way.Your adventure begins in bustling Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where you'll get a taste of the culture first - hand with a Vietnamese cooking class and go on a fascinating excursion to the Cu Chi Tunnels, an extraordinary network of tunnels used extensively during the war.

The city itself is rich in culture and history, and is particularly famous as the location of the Ludendorff Bridge, a strategically important Rhine crossing which - crucially for the Allied war effort - was captured by the US army during the Second World Wwar effort - was captured by the US army during the Second World WarWar.

With the exception of the Benglis totems, all the work was absorbed from the Corcoran Gallery, which died in 2014 of complications arising from wounds self - inflicted during the»80s --»90s Culture Wars.

During World War II New York became a meeting point for various cultures.

This concept brings together China's positions before, during and after the Cold War, as well as the traditional literati culture, as the three major forces that shape contemporary Chinese art.

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

Yoshitomo Nara and the Tokyo Pop art movement reflect the experiences of a generation of artists who grew up during the post-World War II economic boom in Japan that was characterized by, among other things, an influx of popular culture from the West, including the animation of Warner Bros and Walt Disney.

Through printed series of postcards and stamps Emily Newman looks at the figure of the spy in American mass culture during the time of the Cold War and in contemporary films and TV series.

The themes, for the show, developed from the artist's experiences of migrant culture in Melbourne during the 1960's and extended on to issues integral to the European diaspora at the end of the 2nd World War.

The newest to be unveiled is by Miami artist Michelle Weinberg, measuring 168 by 24 feet, inspired by dazzle camouflage painting applied to warships during World War I and in conjunction with the exhibition, «Myth and Machine: The First World War in Visual Culture.»

Opie gained notoriety in the 1990s with her series of portraits depicting gay, lesbian, and transgender sitters, heralded as groundbreaking during the height of the polarizing «culture wars.»

«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.

With a childhood surrounding a love of comic books, video games and pop culture, Doyle loves to pick out the locations and places made famous by films as epic as Star Wars, Pulp Fiction and Blade Runner — recreating them through bold and colourful illustrations; 10 of which will be on show and available as limited edition prints during a special «collectors preview» of the show next month.

Like Ligon, these and other artists explored loaded questions around representations of race, gender and sexuality during the reactionary aftermath of the «Culture Wars ‟ and the AIDS crisis at the close of the Reagan era.

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.

The destruction of Japanese cities during the Second World War led, out of necessity, to a culture of investment in modern architecture.

Look at the culture: the hyper - modernistic visions that emerged in art in the 1950s and 1960s — I'm thinking of Abstract Expressionism — participated, as Max Kozloff has argued, in this celebration of U.S. power during the Cold War.

In the wake of the «Culture Wars» of the 1980s and 1990s, the organization made this decision in order to provide the artists it was presenting with the same freedom of expression possible in the loft during the 1970s.

He reached adulthood during the second world war, and, after a technical education at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, served in a camouflage battalion in Maryland and Tennessee before joining the allied forces in France — an extraordinary first taste of the country and its culture.

With «Cargo Cult,» (2005) Bedia refers to a phenomenon which occurred amongst cultures in the South Pacific when they became dependent upon provisions carried by cargo ships, chiefly American, during World War II, and stopped producing their own products.

The afternoon symposium, «Allies, Enemies, Citizens: Figuring Asianness in World War II America,» will focus on the visual representation of Asianness and Asian - Americanness in the United States during World War II, featuring presentations by leading scholars in the field, including Gordon H. Chang, Professor, Department of History, and Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities, Stanford University; Amy Lyford, Professor of Art History, Occidental College; ShiPu Wang, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, UC Merced; and K. Scott Wong, James Phinney Baxter III Professor of History and Public Affairs, Williams College.

Trauma and the Uncanny: When Andy Warhol created his silkscreen paintings of Marilyn Monroe in the wake of her death, he touched on the darker side of a burgeoning media culture that, during the Vietnam War, became an integral part of everyday life.

Nevertheless, Valdés hopes their exhibition reveals to a wide audience Guatemalans» persistence in the years during and following its 36 - year civil war — a persistence that could carry lessons for all cultures.

More recently, Goodes was criticised after celebrating his culture by doing a war - cry after kicking a goal during the AFL Indigenous Round.

These changes include the public's brooding on the horrors of World War II and the new economic structures that were transforming the traditional family that had dominated Western culture during the prior 200 years.