Sentences with phrase «how modern conventions»

But again, forgetting how modern conventions have impacted this, have you ever heard of something called birth control?

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It's a tiny but telling example of how keen director Lisa Cholodenko is to shed the conventions and clichés of modern Hollywood drama, and of the many subtle strands of realism she brings to a project whose storyline a lesser filmmaker would have played as melodrama.

It makes the place, its people and its problems very real, far removed from the «which tribe, how many dead» convention of modern journalism.

It did adhere a bit too much to modern conventions in terms of how heavily scripted it was for my tastes, but it was still a fantastic return to form for Lara Croft.

(5) This awareness of context and how a room (or a gallery) can be approached holistically as a distinctive experience for the viewer has been a hallmark of much modern and contemporary art — from Marcel Duchamp's Sixteen Miles of String (1942) to Yayoi Kusama's dotted and mirrored rooms to Olafur Eliasson's immersive environments — and Holtzman brings his rare sensibility to this convention.

Cindy Sherman, in her artistic practice, has examined how different roles and conventions are significant for the modern person's — and particularly women's — self - image and self - understanding.

While previous publications have focused on European and American modernism, this one considers what it meant to be American and to be modern, exploring how these artists challenged convention without abandoning recognizable elements from the world around them.

The connections across time of the physical space of the old Mt. Zion church where the South Carolina Black Convention was held in 1865 and the modern A.M.E. churches at Mother Emanuel and Mt. Zion in Charleston that I discussed in my prior post have led me to think about how the voices from that convention 150 years ago still spConvention was held in 1865 and the modern A.M.E. churches at Mother Emanuel and Mt. Zion in Charleston that I discussed in my prior post have led me to think about how the voices from that convention 150 years ago still spconvention 150 years ago still speak to us.