Sentences with phrase «lasting cultural movement»

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Last year's crackdown on social media in China was merely the opening salvo of the Party's war on Western cultural influence and opposition movements.

Would either the suffragist movement of the last century or current feminism have emerged from another sort of cultural climate?

The European Renaissance, a cultural movement that lasted from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century is said to have originated in Florence.

The alternative - space movement of the last few decades has been characterized by artists developing their own cultural infrastructure to support changing methods of production, in particular performance and emerging technologies.

The effort represents a new collaboration with the Italian Embassy, whose Cultural Attaché, Dr. Renato Miracco, came to Pratt last spring to lecture on his area of specialty, the Arte Povera movement.

OCMA presents Alien She, the first exhibition highlighting the lasting impact of the pioneering punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl on today's artists and cultural producers.

Likewise, in the last decade, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago has organized broad surveys on contemporary art in Mexico City and on the Brazilian cultural movement Tropicalía.

Yet the artistic practice of mashup — where an artist fuses a found object with another to create something new — has a long history in the arts, its roots in a variety of prominent cultural movements from the last 100 years.

His cultural circle also included the choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919 - 2009) and the composer John Cage (1912 - 92)- later to become influential in the Neo-Dada and Fluxus movements - as well as the Belgian sculptor Georges Vantongerloo (1886 - 1965), the great Romanian modernist Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957)(whose simplification of natural forms had a lasting influence on Kelly), and the American inventor of mobiles and stabiles Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976).

David Hockney's career has spanned and epitomised the art movements of the last five decades; his story is one of precocious achievement at Bradford Art College, the Swinging 60s in London where he befriended many of the iconic cultural figures of the generation, to California and the cool of the swimming pool series of paintings, through the acclaimed set designs for countless operas around the world and major retrospective exhibitions.

As the director and curator of Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery she curated Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men, the first solo exhibition of the internationally renowned culture - jamming group; Whatever It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions, which explored sports fanaticism as a significant form of cultural production; and Alien She, a traveling exhibition on the lasting impact of the global punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl, among other exhibitions.

The mainstreaming of affordable and energy - efficient small and tiny homes into our cultural consciousness has picked up tremendous momentum in the last few years, leading many to characterize it as a movement in its own right.