Sentences with phrase «examines national identity»

The first show to exhibit works from the region since the gallery's inception in 2003, Gazelli Art House examines national identity, tradition and history through this exceptional oeuvre.

His video work examines national identity, often specifically with reference to the displacement experienced by the Vietnamese «boat people».

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This year Richard Freeman, an economics professor at Harvard University and director of the Science and Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research, along with Wei Huang, a Harvard economics Ph.D. candidate, examined the ethnic identity of the authors of 1.5 million scientific papers written between 1985 and 2008 using Thomson Reuters's Web of Science, a comprehensive database of published research.

With major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Southern Festival of Books presents «Our Histories of Race and Ethnicity,» a rich and challenging track of sessions examining the ways in which our ethnic and racial identities shape us as individuals and as members of community.

Penguin Shorts will debut at the # 1.99 price and the nine launch titles will be A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin, a memoir of his days growing up in Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s; At the Hairdressers by Anita Brookner, a novella exploring issues of trust, betrayal and loneliness; Protection by Helen Dunmore, a story examining how far you would go to ensure your family's safety; The Happiness of Blond People by Elif Shafak, an examination of national identity and immigration; How To Set Up a Free School by Toby Young; How to Be a Rogue Trader by John Gapper; recipe title Perfect Christmas Day by Felicity Cloake; The Battle of Alamein: North Africa 1942 by John Bierman & Colin Smith, the first of a Great Battles series to be available through Penguin Shorts; and Great Battles: The Battle of Isandlwana by Saul David.

This major touring exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) examines the shifting identity of American self - taught artists and offers an unprecedented overview of their profound impact on the evolution of modern and contemporary art.

This exhibition highlights four themes in Kahlo's paintings to examine their continued relevance to international artists: the performance of gender, issues of national identity, the political body, and the absent or traumatized body.

In the words of Julia Peyton — Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Directors of the Serpentine Galleries in London, «Straddling the radically different worlds of both Cameroon and Belgium, Tayou has spent his career examining ideas of identity — whether national, geographical, financial, or emotional — in an attempt to find the common ground between us all.»

The artists have examined the concept of the exhibition from diverse angles - the legacy of institutions which now sit uncomfortably with each other, the question of identity which oversteps fiercely guarded national borders with several challenges thrown to the viewer to ponder on what is deemed to be the «status quo».

In a guide to intriguing art exhibitions nationwide, Judith Dobrzynski features the High Museum of Art's «Walker Evans: Depth of Field», a major international retrospective of Evans» work, including images taken of the American South during the Great Depression; the Denver Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.»

This exhibition brings together 50 works by some of the foremost artists of the era — including Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Grant Wood — to examine the landscape of the United States during the Great Depression and the many avenues artists explored as they sought to forge a new national art and identity.

Her doctorate in Art History is from the University of Sussex, and her thesis examined notions of Britishness, national identity and cultural diversity in contemporary art since 1980.

Students used the Netherlands as a case study and examined the articulation of personal, corporate, and national identity through various works of art, especially portraits, landscapes and architecture.

Shown in the context of the Commonwealth Games, her new film A Whole New World is a black comedy, which examines what it means to be British and the ways in which national identity is constructed and deconstructed in the age of globalisation and digital connectedness.

Inspired by his experience living between the Netherlands and Benin since the late 1990s, Gaba has navigated and closely examined national and transnational identity constructs under the tumult of globalization.

On display at the National Portrait Gallery beginning August 22 is «Portraiture Now: Staging the Self,» a bilingual exhibit in collaboration with the Smithsonian Latino Center that examines the works of Latino artists across a variety of media, questioning the idea that portraits can represent individuals» identities.