Sentences with phrase «from rural landscapes»

Running away from the rural landscapes became a goal for the educated and the governing elite.

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Thus their communication code, full of references to food, the farm, the rural landscape, human anatomy, death, the physical world, and the supernatural, contains messages and is indicative of a system of symbolic expression that validates and identifies these southern Black rural (peasant) migrants apart from a wider society» (Community in a Black Pentecostal Church, 175).

They say it would change the nature of the landscape from rural to industrial and would detract from heritage tourism in the Marcellus shale region.

A soil scientist from RUDN University (Russia) and his colleagues modeled how the expansion of the boundaries of the city of Moscow would affect the rural landscape in the next 30 years.

When it comes to dating in wales; from the hustle and bustle of its vibrant cities to truly breathtaking scenery in rural areas; it is a landscape which provides nothing but adventure.

Pupils explore a rural setting and the landscape that supports dairy farming then map the route that the milk takes from field to milking parlour, to dairy and then on to the shops.

Mewborn challenged the faculty and students last spring with a promise: If all students met their year - end academic goals, he would ride from North Hart across more than 20 miles of rural landscape to the middle school... on his bicycle.

From the rural beauty surrounding Teton Science Schools to the urban landscape of downtown Tucson's City High School, students have the opportunity to get out and enjoy where they are in any given moment, and learn something new no matter where they are.

In January of 1940 a small rural community on the Sussex Downs, already preparing for invasion from across the Channel, finds itself deep in the grip of a snowy landscape, with an ice - cold killer on the loose.

Traversing the South Korean landscape, from the rural fishing village of Pusan to the bustling capital of Seoul, This Burns My Heart is truly a slice of history, capturing a country very much in transition.

Feral and stray cats live and thrive in every landscape, from the inner city to rural farmland.

Naugatuck Veterinary Hospital is two hours from Boston and NYC, bordered by western and eastern CT rolling hills and rural landscapes.

For the vast majority of this time this highly adaptable species has lived and thrived outdoors in every landscape, from the inner city to rural farmland.

Back home in Toronto, a friend from Vancouver told me an apt description of the province's landscape: Rural Ontario is -LSB-...]

To the outdoor enthusiast San Diego is truly a paradise, with near perfect weather and diverse landscapes - including beaches, mountains, deserts and rural back country to choose from.

Ranging in size from one to nine bedrooms and boasting private pools, luxurious living spaces, equipped kitchens (with chef) and tropical gardens, our villas are situated in the heart of the action, beside blissful beaches, upon jungle - clad hillsides and amongst idyllic rural landscapes ensuring the perfect holiday experience for all.

The high vantage point from your coach's window means you can take in all the glorious scenery, whether it's a vast rural landscape or an urban city centre.

By contrast, as your train leaves the bright lights and busy streets behind, rural China reveals a diversity of naturally beautiful landscapes ranging from traditional stepped rice - paddies to the soaring peaks of the Himalayas and to the untouched white - sand beaches of Hainan.

If you can drag yourself away from the ambience in the pub, there is the option to cycle some more through sweeping rural landscapes and beneath rugged mountain peaks to Arthurs Pass.

After an early start departure from Cusco, we will travel through Andean landscapes composed of fertile valleys, high grasslands and rural communities.

From stunning coastlines and picturesque rural landscapes to bustling towns and cities, we've got much of England, Scotland and Wales covered as well as enchanting breaks to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

From capitals ancient and modern to Hoi An town, the Mekong, rural mountain landscapes and an overnight cruise in Ha Long Bay

Kirker Holidays» destinations range from the classic cultural centres and rural heartlands of Europe from Paris to St Petersburg and Venice to Istanbul to the dramatic landscapes of North Africa and the Middle East, India and Southern Africa.

«Exploring rural and «green» Germany will enable visitors to discover many fascinating regions and areas they may not previously have known, with picture - box villages, incredible landscapes and the chance to relax and get away from it all.»

From stunning coastlines and picturesque rural landscapes to bustling towns and cities and enchanting breaks.

Opening: «DE / CONSTRUCTING CHINA: Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection» at Asia Society Museum China has eclipsed the U.S. as the world's largest trading nation, and this exhibition looks back on the way this success has affected — and how it will alter — the physical and social landscape of the country (in particular, the socioeconomic divide between urban and rural areas).

Artwork ranges from drawing, photography, sculpture, installations, film and video to performance and social practice taking place in both urban and rural landscapes, and include works that are narrative, political, performative, and conceptual examples of contemporary art.

Artwork in the exhibition ranges in medium from drawing, photography, sculpture, installations, film, and video to performance and social practice taking place in both urban and rural landscapes.

Wylie's subjects are drawn from contemporary sport, film and news headlines; also the landscape of her longtime home in rural Kent and the commonplace particulars of her daily life.

Photographing in urban and rural industrial landscapes, Mthethwa documents a range of aspects in South Africa, from domestic life and the environment to landscape and labor issues.

«Gina Werfel, a New York painter relocated to the rural Sacramento area to teach at UC Davis, has changed in recent years from making plein - air landscapes to exploring abstract, ambiguous fields of colored plasma, «fragments floating in a fluid space.»

Their work is shown at Compton Verney this spring in an exhibition dedicated to rural life and landscapes, spanning from the 17th century to the present day.

Thus his subject matter varies widely, from landscape to cityscape, from rural vignette to Manhattan interior.

Drawn from the American landscape and still - life traditions, her works depict rural pastorals and coastlines, oftentimes with nondescript barns or cottages.

He has painted a wide range of subject matter from the landscape of the rural west to the cityscape of Brooklyn, NY as well as the still life.

Krišs Salmanis» Long Day, 2012, a 35 mm film (sound by Steve Roden), appears to be a single shot of a rural landscape, speeded up as we observe a day from sunrise to sunset.

The landscape is a Georgian rural scene outside Atlanta with the Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

Portraits of domesticated animals and their humans from the series «On the Sixth Day» document the ordinary labor of a small working farm — raising, caring, naming, killing — while excerpts from «The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams» capture ten years of play, improvisation, boredom, and friendship between two cousins, with the farm and rural landscape as stage.

The exhibition also features publications produced in the Hudson Valley on rural and urban food infrastructures installed in the CCS Bard Bulletin Board, and a presentation of objects from the CCS Bard library and Special Collections that deal with the transformation of landscapes via farming, architecture, ecology, mapping, and food culture.

The works leap from sweeping and empty landscapes found in rural Middle America.

Featuring artists from across Latin America who share an engagement with the landscape, whether urban or rural, are concerned with travelling or moving through the landscape, and frequently with walking, which is combined in their work with diverse approaches to drawing.

Her prints depict soldiers in Tahrir Square with rural landscapes taken from postcards.

The selection of artists is suitably eclectic, ranging from the political and canonical (Bruce Nauman; Georg Baselitz), to the modish and predictable (Oscar Murillo), while also delving back in time to singular figures such as Aboriginal landscape painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye or that other great chronicler of the modern rural, Walker Evans.

Salzinger explores fictitious, super natural landscapes with her lens, creating surreal environs that stretch from a rural tornado scene to the the depths of deep space.

Along with Kiefer's earliest book, The Heavens, the exhibition includes Cauterization of the Rural District of Buchen, 1975, seven books made from charred remnants of paintings, indicating Kiefer's longstanding interest in alchemy and his exploration into the possibility of metaphorically healing a wounded German landscape; and Twenty Years of Solitude, 1971 — 91, which uses unbound lead pages as a foundation for a series of white, semen - stained ledgers.

Rob Reep's journey to the world of landscape painting was a rugged, winding, and sometimes uphill path from his early years growing up in a rural South Arkansas town.

The Ground Around demonstrates that the landscape genre in its contemporary form is far removed from its seventeenth century heyday; those peaceful scenes of rural England have evolved into Manfred Pernice «s cement pot full of nettles.

In Critters, 2015, a work developed by Julia Crabtree and William Evans during their residency at Wysing late last year, an object struggles to animate itself within a landscape that couldn't be further from the green pastures of rural Cambridgeshire.

The latter work in loose daubs of paint or equip broad sweeps of charcoal on paper, they pinpoint isolated details from rural or semi-rural landscapes: a house with stacked chimneys; a bird landing on a branch; the occasional, isolated figure.

Each artist has chosen a different perspective on the landscape, ranging from rural to urban, abstract to literal representations..