Not exact matches
When parents have sought to bar homosexual teachers
from the classroom lest their children (horror of horrors) become homosexual,
essentialist theories have provided a seemingly authoritative basis for denying the possibility.
Well
from a biological
essentialist viewpoint, our only natural assets, our looks and our reproductive system wither away as we age.
Amy Traggianese is an elementary art
essentialist who specializes in arts integration, Amy received her Masters in Art Education
from Southern Connecticut State University and most recently, her Certificate in Education Leadership
from Sacred Heart University.
And McMillian's performance - based videos often recast significant events —
from Nat Turner's slave rebellion to Ronald Reagan's Neshoba County Fair speech — as playful, disconcerting parodies that upend
essentialist readings of history.
The reductive (but not necessarily
essentialist or straightforward) works on view at
From Centre seem to me to be a genuine attempt at continued participation in a living, though contested, tradition.
Thelma Golden, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem, synopsizes the development of «black art»
from «the vital political activism of the 1960s to the focused, often
essentialist, Black Arts Movement of the 1970s to the theory — driven multiculturalism of the 1980s to the late globalist expansion of the late 1990s.»
Both exhibitions emphasize the plural nature of feminist art: art made all over the world by women of all different nationalities, classes, and cultural and racial affiliations, and presumably identified with both the «
essentialist» and the «constructionist» brands of feminist theory and politics, not to mention the many strategies of feminist art,
from craft work to political exposé to canon - busting to the deconstruction of gender mythologies to body - centered investigations.