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Organized by Wadsworth Atheneum Director and CEO Susan Talbott, this selection of nearly 50 works examined social history, identity and race, as well as nostalgia for the traditional portraits that once defined photography, and outlines the transformation of photographic portraiture throughout modernist movements such as Dadaism and Surrealism.

From the classical portraits of Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and Timothy Greenfield Sanders, to symbolic portraits by Patti Smith and John Coplans, and those that tell stories by Adrian Peper and Carrie Mae Weems, Aspects of Portraiture: Photographs from the Wadsworth Atheneum examines social history, identity and race, and nostalgia for the traditional portraits that once defined photography.

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The board, which overhauled the state's history and social studies curriculum in May to reflect conservative values, will examine a resolution next week that would warn publishers not to «push a pro-Islamic, anti-Christian viewpoint» in world history textbooks, the newspaper reported.

In this method of examining a particular religious tradition, stress was laid upon determining what social needs were being met through religious beliefs and practices by a culture at a particular point in its history.

Your child's doctor will examine him and review his medical and social history.

In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.

She examined imbalances in the ratio of men to women in various cultures and at various times throughout history and the effects they had on social systems.

To assess the participants» early home environment, the researchers examined data collected when the participants were adolescents, including self - reported home life history, interviews with the participants» parents, and developmental histories recorded by a social worker.

We examine the history of social networking, from BBSes and Friendster to Diaspora and beyond.

My current research examines how the interrelationship among culture, history, and social interactions.

The key is to do both, to challenge our students to develop their literacy skills while examining difficult histories and issues of social justice.

Her conceptual framework, family cultures, has been used widely to examine the interconnectedness among families» political, cultural, and social histories and racialized identities; social practices; and literacy processes.

Teaching Mockingbird uses Facing History's guiding lens to examine To Kill a Mockingbird, offering material that will enhance student's literary skills, moral growth, and social development.

Partnering with RFA, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) examined the implementation and impact of LDC tools in two contexts: eighth grade history / social studies and science classes in Kentucky and Pennsylvania, and sixth grade Advanced Reading classes in Florida.

By examining Takei's diverse experiences and achievements, this entertaining and interactive exhibition creates a portrait of a unique individual while offering an innovative means of engaging with the social history of America.

Krasznahorkai is known for his gritty novels, but his newest work is part travel memoir, part social history where he examines his time spent in China during the dawn of the new millennium.

This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as exploring the language of violence and social interactions.

The show examines personal and political representations of LGBTQ lives through manuscripts, printed materials and oral history recordings, tracing social and legislative changes in Britain from the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde to the controversial «Alan Turing law» posthumous pardoning of historical homosexual «offences» this year.

HOWL, eon (I, II)(2017), examines the complex legacy of nineteenth - century westward expansion, including the Bay Area's deeply embedded histories of colonialism, capitalism, class conflict, social protest, and technological innovation.

Deana Lawson is a photo - based artist whose work examines the body's ability to channel personal and social histories, addressing themes of familial legacy, community, romance, and spiritual aesthetics.

Surrealism USa, the catalogue to the exhibition of the same name at the National Academy of Design, traces the history of this movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s by examining its manifestations throughout the country — from Social Surrealism and California Post-Surrealism to Magic Realism and the beginning of Abstract Expressionism.

In his early video works from the late 1990s, Sala used documentary strategies to examine life after communism in his native Albania, observing the role of language and memory in narrating social and political histories.

We'll look back into the past and contemplate the future of civil rights and social justice and explore the connections between history and contemporary art by examining the legacy of President Johnson and visiting The Contemporary Austin's rooftop sculpture With Liberty and Justice for All (A Work in Progress) by artist Jim Hodges.

Often examining women's roles in history and society, her photographs portray a wide range of common female social personas.

This exhibition examined the sneaker's complex social history and cultural significance featuring approximately 160 pairs of sneakers.

Deball burrows deep into the history of a thing, meticulously examining, testing and scrutinising its origins, its shifting significance, like some sort of social archaeologist - turned - artist.

According to a press release, Walker's work «continues the High's commitment to collecting artwork that explores the history of the American South and examines intersections of race, identity, human rights and social justice.»

First and foremost Mariana Castillo Deball is a biographer of objects... [She] burrows deep into the history of a thing, meticulously examining, testing and scrutinising its origins, its shifting significance, like some sort of social archaeologist - turned - artist.

With a focus on work made by artists born after 1968, in addition to several early pioneers who were active internationally in the 1960s and 70s, Under the Same Sun at the SLG examines a diversity of creative responses by artists to complex, shared realities that have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

An artist of colour closely associated with the Vancouver School, Stan Douglas examines the complexities of social reality and history and the means by which they are represented.

This important acquisition continues the High's commitment to collecting artwork that explores the history of the American South and examines intersections of race, identity, human rights and social justice.

Often referencing political and artistic history, including social resistance movements and Dada, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, Pendleton siphons historical and aesthetic content from texts and visual culture to critically examine the resonance of ideas from varied cultural and social perspectives.

Using her body to examine the role of female sensuality in connection to the possibilities of political and personal liberation from predominantly oppressive social and aesthetic conventions, Carolee Schneemann is regarded in art history as a pioneer of performance art.

Ligon's paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources — literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs — to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society.

Subsequent series have sought to reveal marginalized or hidden histories; she has examined the social invisibility of black Americans in service - oriented jobs, the construction of racial hierarchies based on skin tone within black communities, and the ways that objects can retain the memories and histories of their owners.

With some 100 works by forty artists, The Left Front examines the crucial moment in American history when artists took to their printing presses (and brushes and cameras) amid the economic and social devastation brought on by the Great Depression.

Woods» practice examines absences and vulnerabilities within cultural and social histories.

Drawing on iconic imagery of the Ku Klux Klan and the White House, McMillian's charged work examines the US's social and political history.

To contextualize our work, we will examine the emergence of Realism in the nineteenth century; survey different realist movements from art history, including naturalism and social realism; and analyze how, over time, painters have adopted realist conventions to their own ends.

A native of Raleigh, North Carolina, André Leon Gray is a self - trained artist who works in a variety of media to examine the impact of history and memory on present day power structures and social hierarchies.

Lien Truong's paintings examine social, cultural, and political history, exploring the influences that bind the formation of contemporary identity and belief systems in a transcultural context.

He creates drawings, installations, and films that weave complex arrangements of social and cultural events, examining the relationships between their disparate histories.

Essays by Kathy Halbreich, Associate Director of The Museum of Modern Art; Mark Godfrey, Curator of International Art, Tate Modern; and a range of scholars and artists examine the full range of Polke's exceptionally inventive oeuvre and place his enormous skepticism of all social, political and artistic conventions against German history.

It arrays works that probe exceptional nodes as a way of examining underlying conditions, and surveys the current state of art in 2017, a curious point in history grounded in an imploding social reality.

Gutai: Splendid Playground seeks both to examine Gutai's aesthetic strategies in the cultural, social, and political context of postwar Japan and to further establish the group in an expanded, transnational history and critical discourse on modern art.

«Weems links a seemingly innocent celebration of spring with a call to social action... May Days Long Forgotten examines the history of revolution and human rights on a global scale.»

Moran's work in both music and visual art examines the relationship between American social history and cultural production.

The exhibition aims to demonstrate Gutai's extraordinary range of bold and innovative creativity; to examine its aesthetic strategies in the cultural, social and political context of postwar Japan and the West; and to further establish Gutai in an expanded, transnational history and critical discourse of modern art.

Addressing the question of how visuality bears witness to larger histories of experience, the participating artists undermine conventional separations of personal and social truths by examining the practice of representation.

(New York, USA) The exhibition examines the diversity of today's creative responses to complex shared realities, which have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.