Sentences with phrase «iconic cultural images»

He is well - known for bringing to light important issues of consumerism and politics; he is also fond of utilizing iconic cultural images and advertising media.

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If you read Carl Jung, you can come to understand the images of Jesus» death and resurrection as iconic and as archetypes, as stories that simply «had to be told» because the world, in a cultural sense, just needed to give voice to this idea.

He created iconic images of mid-Century buildings that help define the cultural memory of structures such as the Saarinen's TWA Terminal, Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building and Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum.

One of Anderson's most striking and iconic paintings, the green and red image is rife with cultural symbolism.

Featuring iconic words, numbers or dates - One, Utopia, Riot, 1968, 1980 - these works reclaim the commercial landscape of signage in order to underscore the cultural potency of language and image condensed together into singular phases and shared historical moments.

, Cruz» selection of images and objects (from art and historical to pop cultural) sourced from site visits to Germany and New Mexico, eBay and his studio, privileges the everyday over the iconic.

There are many references to art and popular cultural imagery that have permeated the Chinese creative subconscious, be it an iconic Andy Warhol portrait and images of the twin towers with smoke pouring from them culled from print media, or the enduring allure of Hollywood and cinema's role in both reflecting and shaping the image of America in the minds of people outside it.

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.

The emphatic isolation and repetition of iconic elements (in this instance the circle) leads one to suspect that these images were not chosen merely for their aesthetic value, but serve as illustrative material to expose an underlying (and for us, foreign) cultural system.

In particular, Eddie Adams» Viet Cong Officer Executed (1968) is an iconic image whose status may actually obligate visitors to visually study it in order to know it more thoroughly than our cultural memory has allowed us to.

In particular, Eddie Adam's Viet Cong Officer Executed (1968) is an iconic image whose status may actually obligate visitors to visually study it in order to know it more thoroughly than our cultural memory has allowed us to.

The exhibition traces how iconic works from Western modern art have been interpreted or «twisted» in a different cultural context to create images and ideas clashing with orthodox interpretations of art history.

Margaret Harrison tackles gender politics through the use of iconic characters such as Captain America and Playboy pinups, Meriem Bennani's animations explore Muslim cultural taboos, and Jamian Juliano - Villani's surreal paintings distort familiar images from pop culture and comics.

Iconic works from ancient civilisations are juxtaposed with striking modern artworks; imposing large - scale paintings and sculptures are set against more intimate, personal images; diverse artistic practices and cultural traditions are compared and contrasted.

Abstract Expressionism employs these three types; gestures are «indexical», some images are «iconic», in that they resemble their referent, and some are «symbols», related to their referent by cultural convention.