Sentences with phrase «from cultural symbols»

Her films, or digital montages, guide the viewer through immersive virtual spaces, derived from the cultural symbols and artefacts from the material world.

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If this was a «new» religious symbol being constructed then I would suggest it should be multi faith and multi cultural, but this is something taken from the site, used spontaneously.

Horned animals are sacred for a variety of cultural reasons but the root of sacred horned animals seems to come from the resemblance of their heads to the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes of human women, and the animals are usually associated with fertility and female symbols.

Such mission begins with a greater appreciation of a local church's own finitude, its own ethos drawn from the world's symbols but particularized in a cultural pattern specific to its own corporate life.

Now communication scholars have integrated insights from the fields of anthropology and cultural studies and are conscious of the significance of myth, symbol, story telling and ritual in media / audience analysis.

If it is true that symbols give rise to thought, then social thinking which has come loose from its cultural origins will eventually become thin and distorted, often with disastrous practical results.

In addition to criticizing cultural symbols, feminists are hoping for the emergence of new images and concepts from women's struggle to experience beyond or beneath or without the preconceptions embedded in present language and concepts.

Besides the ways Whitehead's theory of symbolic reference supports feminist attempts to purge cultural symbols from their sexist and patriarchal connotations, it seems clear from the following passage that Whitehead would applaud feminist hopes of producing symbols more faithful to women's experience.

To say that a symbol has a «history» can mean two things: (a) that this symbol was constituted at a certain historical moment and that therefore it could not have existed before that moment; (b) that this symbol has been diffused, beginning from a precise cultural center, and that for this reason one must not consider it as spontaneously rediscovered in all the cultures where it is found.

Amy Tay, Tiger Brand Director, Five Points Trading Company commented, «Dawn's artwork, formed from a curated selection of cultural symbols such as lanterns, firecrackers, blossoms and oranges, comes to life on Tiger packaging and promotional materials this season.

The Ed School students were divided into groups, with each group talking with one of the Japanese students about ways to improve learning and motivation in five areas addressed in the website, which uses symbols from the hiragana alphabet to introduce cultural topics.

The typography was refracted by objects from London architecture: «We took models of the main architectural and cultural symbols of the city which echo the idea of Future London Academy — knowledge through the lens of London,» ONY explains.

AN ARTIST WHOSE WORK garners as much praise for its visual dexterity as it does intellectual debate for its historic and cultural provocation, Kara Walker has moved on from images of slavery and the antebellum South to explore symbols of the New Negro era.

Keith Haring: Journey of the Radiant Baby — Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania, United StatesEditions on Paper — University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainKeith Haring: Art and Commerce — Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, United StatesKeith Haring: Paintings, Sculpture, Objects and Drawings — Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York, United StatesAgainst All Odds — Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, United StatesKeith Haring: POP Haring — Symbols and Icons Editions on paper from the Estate of Keith Haring — Singapore Tyler Print Institute, SingaporeComplete Editions on Paper — Centro Cultural Montehermoso Depsito de Aguas, Vitoria, Spain — Fundacion Caixa Galicia, Ferrol, SpainKeith Haring: Monumental Sculptures — Poppy & Pierre Salinger Foundation, Le Thor, FranceKeith Haring Drawings — Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, New York, United StatesKeith Haring — Early Drawings — Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United KingdomKeith Haring — Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, FranceKeith Haring Prints — Memo - art Galeria, Budapest, Hungary

I was instantly drawn to the way she uses textures like Nigerian portrait fabric and symbols like food labels or magazine clippings to weave together memories from her childhood in Africa and her adulthood in the United States, creating her own cultural touchstones in the process.Since receiving an MFA from Yale University five years ago, 33 - year - old Akunyili Crosby has worked almost nonstop, building an impressive CV of prestigious art prizes and gallery shows across the US and in Europe.

Nevin Aladağ (b. 1972), Kimsooja (b. 1957), and Nari Ward (b. 1963) combine and transmute specific objects, designs, and symbols from divergent cultural contexts in their video and sculptural installations.

The dominant pictorial element is the Union Jack, itself an internationally familiar, abstract, geometric pattern and a socially and politically charged symbol whose significance spans the cultural spectrum from contemporary fashion to aggressive national pride.

From cultural taboos to symbols of power, tattoos, piercings and other forms of body modification have played significantly different roles within different societies for thousands of years.

This expanded to encompass other symbols of bourgeois society, like Finance, Publicity and Modern Art, with the image of the eagle representing the «high falutin, «exalted view of art in cultural institutions inherited from the past.

By combining iconic symbols from Japanese culture with images of the everyday, Tabaimo explores the contrast between the smooth veneer of urban life and the societal changes that have transformed Japan's cultural landscape.

In response to critique of this history, which included displacing a generation of Aboriginal children into boarding schools where they were stripped of their linguistic and cultural heritage, Australia has in recent years represented itself internationally through a collection of symbols drawn from indigenous sources.

Báez's lush paintings often foreground female bodies and faces, incorporating imagery associated with various cultural symbols, from palm fronds and feathers to tufts of fur and intricate textile patterns.

Chicharrón seeks to explore the expression of latinidad, understood as a narrative imagery, elaborated from shared cultural symbols and images.

Such a keen eye for the symbols constituting the American cultural landscape prefigures his successive series such as his Nurses paintings, which draw inspiration from pulp fiction cover designs.

Artists like Carlos Castro Arias, William Cordova and María Elvira Escallón bring symbols from the past into the present, collapsing temporalities to signal the cultural hybridity and diversity of Latin America's people, and a modern vernacular forged by shared co-existence.

The works presented in Repossession exemplify Attia's aptitude in creating hybrid cultural objects and collages that transform Western artifacts from icons of power and domination into symbols of freedom and resistance.

Further, Native American educators propose cultural protective factors and cultural resources for resilience such as symbols and proverbs from common language and culture, traditional child rearing philosophies, religious leadership, counselors and Elders.