Sentences with phrase «history as a lens»

Titled «Moments and Decisions,» the exhibit engaged visitors in the history of Mexico and Europe in World War II, utilizing Facing History as a lens through which they could examine the conflict.

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As such, no one has a «correct» or «right» faith; instead, people are free to choose to be taught classes without interference of the lens of faith unless they choose a religious studies or history of religion course.

For just as revisionist historiographers of the Cold War reread the history of the Truman administration through the lens of their own Vietnam passions, the new American Catholic revisionists view the episcopate of John Carroll — the paradigm in the classic story line — through the prism of their own agenda for Catholicism in the 1990s.

The intention of the workshop was to connect migration scholars across various disciplines including history, anthropology, political science and linguistics around a discussion of the conceptual value of the term «political remittances» as a lens through which to approach the study of political transnationalism.

It provides a glimpse into the history of war itself through the lens of an agency that bills itself as trying to «prevent and create surprise».

His lens introduced audiences to the cherished celluloid vehicles Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Genevieve, and as the last of «The Archers», the creative team helmed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, his place in film history is as indelible as his images are unforgettable.

Facing History and Ourselves» President and CEO Roger Brooks underscores the value of Holocaust - era rescuer stories, including how they can be used to inspire others to act as upstanders and «widen the lens» of Holocaust history and collective History and Ourselves» President and CEO Roger Brooks underscores the value of Holocaust - era rescuer stories, including how they can be used to inspire others to act as upstanders and «widen the lens» of Holocaust history and collective history and collective memory.

Other required basics such as English and history are taught through a technical or medical lens.

As a big - time history geek, I've always viewed history through the lens of storytelling.

It holds the original lens of the New Point Loma lighthouse as well as maps and more information about Point Loma and its history.

As video games become recognized as legitimate educational tools, we'll begin to see more games like Mulaka, which aims to convey the history of a culture through the lens of interactive entertainmenAs video games become recognized as legitimate educational tools, we'll begin to see more games like Mulaka, which aims to convey the history of a culture through the lens of interactive entertainmenas legitimate educational tools, we'll begin to see more games like Mulaka, which aims to convey the history of a culture through the lens of interactive entertainment.

Bangkok - raised artist Korakrit Arunanondchai engages a myriad of subjects such as history, authenticity, self - representation, and tourism through the lens of a cultural transplant.

Singh uses the history and physicality of materials as springboards for spatial interventions and philosophical inquiry, while Önürmen's work shares similar tactics as the other two artists in revealing the relationships and discrepancies between personal and public experience as seen through the lens of contemporary media.

Often, the group looks back, using the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts as a space in which to recontextualize a moment in history through the lens of their particular curatorial conceit.

These images utilise diagnostic lenses and contrast dyes to reveal erased and unknown histories, and toggle the lines between presence and absence, as well as distortion and illusion.

Featuring artists and art historians Cecily Brown, Emmelyn Butterfield - Rosen, and Nick Mauss, and moderated by Jutta Koether, this panel will consider different methods of reading Florine Stettheimer's work, through the lens of social and cultural history, or as an alternative example of modernism, creating its own series of networks from within.

In this interview filmed in 2013 at McCullough's Martha's Vineyard home, the author of The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris provides enlightening commentary on American art and history as seen through the lens of works included in a 2013 — 2014 Corcoran installation titled American Journeys: Visions of Place.

Since that time, she has continued to explore portraiture as well as produce landscape images inspired by her study of iconic imagery from art history, painting and landscape photography, as seen through the lens of her own experience of identity and culture.

Through an individual lens, Work Hard suggests an imaginary time and place in art history as past, present and future converge in a narrative of national identity and art production.

Kwon's text provides a useful lens for reading these works as well, offering a possible way for abstraction to engage with specific histories, politics, and identities.

This exhibition explores the history of perception through the lens of visual art and serves as primary source material for a University of Chicago class of the same title.

Titled «Human Interest,» this installation, which opened in April and will remain up until next February, treats the portrait as a lens through which to view both the unfolding of modern American art and the history of the Whitney collection itself.

Exploring how artists interpret urban and rural landscape through the lens of their own cultural, political or spiritual ideologies, the exhibition reveals the inherent tensions between landscape represented as a transcendental or spiritual place, and one rooted in social and political histories.

A visit to Wave Hill give students an opportunity to learn about their city using the history of Wave Hill as a focusing lens.

The first project to explore the visual art, poetry and music of one of America's most inventive yet under - recognized contemporary Native American artists, this exhibition will survey Cannon's highly productive but short career; his development of a unique and hybrid visual vocabulary; and his combination of irony and wit with a reverence for community and tradition to interrogate American history and popular culture; as well as the issues wrought by colonialism, hegemony, and historical amnesia — all through his Native lens.

The paintings meander through various systems of knowledge and representation such as Tantric iconography, a landscape in the isolated dictatorship of North Korea, illustrations of cellular generation and radical cultural histories seen through the lenses of fellow artists Emily Roysdon and Cameron Rowland.

The gallery's exhibition «Mindful Savage's Guide to Reverse Modernism» consists entirely of recent work that critiques — and has a good deal of fun with — the history of art as seen through a Eurocentric lens.

Paradoxically, they offer new ways of seeing and interpreting the work — in the same way that the History Series uses the past as a lens through which to reconsider the present.

In keeping with Modern art history, the works selected stand up to a fine art lens: composition, color, texture, surface combine in purposeful ways as part of the artist's intent.

With a title inspired by the psychedelic track produced by the groundbreaking musical legends Pink Floyd, (featured on the album, «The Piper at the Gates of Dawn «1967), and with content driven by Zodiac and Chinese astrological calenders, Hippocrate's four temperaments, and artists such as Bruce Nauman and Piero Fornasetti; this exhibition inherently commemorates and examines the great explorers, philosophers, creators and thinkers through time, and even more specifically, through the lens of one of history's most infamous maritime disasters.

The next several hours I spent examining his art, and what I found was rather curious: the lenses that proved most helpful in understanding the paintings were those that at first glance seemed the least important, namely my own experiences as a European expat, my history as a lover of all thing classical music, and my scholarly expertise in a number of nonwestern art traditions.

From renowned series such as Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say, to the Family Album series of self portraits of the artist wearing masks disguised as her family members, Wearing explores these important issues through a lens of personal history, and a unique and compelling psychological resonance persists throughout.

It's very interesting to consider the current state of the legal industry with this lens as the threat of new entrants, substitutes, competing peers and other pressures are more prevalent among the incumbents than any other time in history.