Sentences with phrase «major cultural movements»

New York City is the home to many of America's major cultural movements.

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They represent the culmination of a cultural change that began as the 1980s indie film movement shifted control of American film production away from the major studios to the entrepreneurship of individual (not necessarily «independent») outsiders.

Since 1877, the historic American Humane Association has been at the forefront of virtually every major policy movement, legislative effort, and shift in cultural attitudes aimed at improving the lives of children, and protecting pets and farm animals from abuse and neglect.

Pioneering conceptualist Jiro Takamatsu (1936 — 1998), a major influence on the artists of the Mono - ha movement, had a career that spanned forty - plus years, during which time his considerable influence as an artist, theorist, and teacher extended across the Japanese postwar cultural landscape.

Curated by Okwui Enwezor for the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, The Short Century is the first major survey to examine this dynamic and politically - charged era in African art and history, and how liberation movements and art have been bound together in the forging of new cultural identities.

Many of the artists in the Manhattan Gallery played major roles in the movements that made New York City the cultural destination that it is today.

Women Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the Feminist Art Movement of the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movement and explains how historical events, such as the all - male protest exhibition against the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against major cultural institutions.

Deeply involved in the legacy of Post-War American art, «Glenn Ligon» highlights the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement and features many major figures such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Chris Ofili.

The abstract art that he called «perceptual painting» — sharply delineated lines and sections of color that seemed to change or move based on the light and the viewer's movements — made a major cultural impact when Stanczak's first show, Optical Paintings, opened in New York in 1964.

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.

While not a cultural movement per se, Distrowatch is a major driving force for a user base that concentrates and shifts over time.