Sentences with phrase «fraught history of»

«With irreverent humor, Jimmie Durham confronts the fraught history of the United States and his own complex relationship to native identity.»

However, what's most relevant about Bradford's work right now is the way his chosen materials — instead of expensive oil paint, he uses found and printed paper combined with Home Depot supplies — challenge the fraught history of painting and seek to subvert its tradition of cultural and market dominance.

Teresita Fernández responds to the fraught history of America by using charcoal to create a massive, charred map installation suggesting an American history left untold.

Förg's anachronistic paintings, meanwhile, are also steeped in the fraught history of Modernism.

Not since Anselm Kiefer has a painter dealt so explicitly with the heavy, fraught history of 20th century Europe, and like Francis Bacon, his visages are rendered as swirling, gaping horrors.

Created out of roofing tar, varnish and enamel on masonite panel, the works pay homage to the fraught history of human labor and the land.

Teresita Fernández responds to the fraught history of America by using charcoal to create a massive, charred map installation suggesting an American history left untold.

, known for her large - scale sculptures and public installations that often interrogate and explore the idea of a landscape contributes a large - scale charred and disjunctive map of America, suggesting the fraught history of this deeply divided country.

In this centennial year, it is just as necessary to face the fraught history of the National Park Service as it is to celebrate its civic value.

Offering multiple vantage points on the fraught histories of migration and modernity, Dawit Petros's photographs and video works at the H&R Block Artspace invite reflection on the visible and invisible borders that separate us from others.

Not exact matches

What history — including the career of Agnes Macphail — can tell us about this fraught moment for women in politics

They are, in other words, real individuals, fraught with all the amgibuity, complexity, and richness of those who possess real histories.

As an African American whose history is fraught with discrimination, you should know better and be very ashamed of yourself.

I refer to his notion of the great transition of mankind toward a culminating phase of world history during the next few decades — a period fraught with great dangers and immense opportunities for human advance.

The urgent threats that Trump and State Senate Republicans pose to millions of New Yorkers demand that he to do so right now,» said Bill Lipton, state director of the labor - backed Working Families Party, which has a fraught history with Cuomo.

The history of mainstream politicians adopting pop music is a fraught one though, isn't it?

The last few million years of chimpanzee evolutionary history are fraught with population explosions followed by implosions demonstrating remarkable plasticity.

For the first time in the history of the fraught diplomatic talks, he said, China has taken a concrete step away from the current Kyoto Protocol rules that demand only a handful of industrialized countries act unilaterally while hundreds of developing countries act on a voluntary basis.

Parker and Hammer work well together, and their false intimacy speaks volumes about the fraught relationship between master and slave on which much of our early history was built.

If there are moments early on in which the film seems unfocused in its wide - ranging approach to capturing the fraught moment in American history, the perspective soon tightens to one specific location for many of the film's 143 minutes: the Algiers Motel.

He's a hard director to put a finger on, and it's impossible to tell how he'll handle such a complicated, emotionally fraught story as this adaptation of Deborah E. Lipstadt's History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, although having David Hare («The Hours») as a screenwriter will certainly help.

The social politics of it all are eerie and dense; those politics, twined with history, aesthetics, the New York Times push alerts I keep ignoring, the open - all - hours despondent chaos of my Twitter feed, and on and on, is even more fraught.

Despite his fraught political history with charter schools, on the first day of class today Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wants to see charter and traditional public schools sharing ideas with each other more often.

With all of that in mind, Mazda invited us to Monterey to fling the completed small ute around the area's stellar byroads, and more importantly, around a heavenly little ribbon of asphalt fraught with history — Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers — wars, political movements, technological advances — and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians... and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.

But the Bolshoi has transcended its own fraught history, surviving 250 years of artistic and political upheaval to define not only Russian culture but also ballet itself.

Referencing the history of painting, particularly the fraught legacies of hyper masculine artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, her canvases combined figuration with feminist cultural critique.

Using her deep love of her native land and her knowledge of its fraught history, she asks provocative questions — about history, identity, race, and religion — that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries.

Teresita Fernández's massive, charred map installation, made with charcoal, reacts to America's fraught political and social history, while Tim Rollins and K.O.S. illustrate the American narrative through literature that visualizes the complex reality of the violence, discrimination and urbanization of the American landscape.

Nothing in its fraught chronicles — not the bed, the dung, the porn or the poverty of talent — can possibly seem worth the bullfrog huffing and puffing that routinely accompanies the award when seen in the context of the city's own history.

I overlooked my share of artists, but the Whitney thrives on ugliness at first glance and Latin American art on a fraught emotional and political history.

America's fraught relationship with its black communities has been the cause of significant civil unrest throughout the country's history.

And, in this way, it finds itself in near polar opposition to the approach of Okwui Enwezor's «All the World's Futures» two years ago, an urgent and politically loaded excavation of colonial history that unflinchingly, and sometimes unrelentingly, revealed the truth about our fraught global order.

As with many of Macuga's projects, this piece explores the complicated and oftentimes fraught relationship between art and society throughout history, which continues to resonate in the present.

The «decorative», of course, has had a fraught relationship with art history, and like these peers, Ruairiadh O'Connell, in this compact solo exhibition, explores both the conceptual and cosmetic.

Alongside her untitled Mount Tamalpais paintings, her painterly studies of Bay Area environs, and a number of leporellos (accordion - pleated books), it included selected translations of her mid-1970s Al Safa writings, which sought to enrich understandings of her oeuvre within the context of Lebanon's fraught cultural history.

In quiet, contemplative tones and shot in black and white, My Education: A Portrait of David Hilliard uses multiple camera angles to reveal different, contrasting views of the same subjects, and the film raises questions and invites discussion about a fraught moment in American history that continues to ripple through society.

Examining the fraught relationship between the personal and the political, the everyday and the otherworldly, the past and the present, she reveals that the injustices of 1968 have not yet been relegated to the pages of history, but live on in new forms today.

Designed for the iPad, this catalogue describes Grosz's career in the postwar years and the history of the «Impressions of Dallas» commission, paying particular attention to the fraught cultural and political landscape of Dallas in the early 1950s.

Each artwork is priced at $ 110 with $ 25 from each sale supporting hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico and St. John: two Caribbean - American territories that share a fraught history in the sugar industry of yore and are now very much in need of love, attention, and resources from their fellow countrymen.

In the first of two solo exhibitions with Victoria Miro, Kara Walker is presenting a new body of work inspired by the fraught racial history Atlanta, the Southern city where she spent her teenage years.

Kiefer studied with Joseph Beuys in the early 1970s, but soon began to develop his own, deliberately indigenous set of subjects and symbols that he used to explore the fraught territory of German history and identity.

Her research - based projects have taken her from the infamous Tuol Sleng prisons in Cambodia to the radioactive sites of Chernobyl, reckoning with the fraught subjects of embedded histories, unseen forces and human mortality.