Sentences with phrase «modern mythology»
"Modern mythology" refers to stories, ideas, or beliefs that are widely recognized and influential in our modern society, similar to how ancient myths and fables were important in past cultures. These modern myths can include fictional characters, cultural symbols, or even famous individuals who capture our imagination and hold a significant place in our collective imagination. Full definition
This exhibition is part of NSU Art Museum's Modern Mythologies exhibition series, and runs concurrently with three other exhibitions in the series: Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road (February 12 — June 18, 2017) and David Levinthal: Recent Acquisitions (February 12 - October 8, 2017) and Human Animals: The Art of Cobra (May 14 — October 8, 2017).
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If there's a specific modern mythology to which this series most obviously hews, it's the Arthur myth, and in Thunderdome, when asked if he's the return of the fabled Captain Walker, Max responds that he isn't.
David Leventhal: Recent Acquisitions is part of NSU Art Museum's Modern Mythologies exhibition series.
If we tried to use it as such a vehicle would not the Biblical material burst through the very form of the modern mythology?
This temporal limitation is a hard nut, for the world view which provides the mythological framework of the Biblical narratives can not be corrected or translated into a modern mythology.
The form of modern mythology, as we have seen, has the merit of being compatible with the modern world view.
This Call has beckoned and inspired heroines and heroes of ancient and modern mythology to leave their day to day lives in search of «Something Else Our Hearts Believe Is Possible.»
Comic books represent a huge part of our modern mythology.
I like comic books, particularly superheroes, because they are modern mythology.
Three themes that emerge from her work are explored in Outcasts: finding a voice, the process of constructing multiple perspectives on female identity; hybrid alternatives to the status quo, harnessing ancient and modern mythologies to subvert the established social and cultural order; and healing and empowerment as pathways to resistance, inclusiveness and recovery from loss and trauma.
The exhibition continues the programme Barney has developed over the last seven years in which narrative sculpture is generated through a complex system of storytelling that intertwines personal, historical, and modern mythologies.
The gallery press release mentions Norman Mailer, Egyptian mythology, and a Chrysler Imperial in an attempt to describe «a complex system of storytelling that intertwines personal, historical, and modern mythologies.»
The photographs were part of a recent gift to NSU Art Museum by New York collector and film producer Donald Rosenfeld, and is included in the Modern Mythologies exhibition series that explores the power of myths in contemporary times.
The exhibition is part of the Museum's Modern Mythologies exhibition series that explores the power of myths in contemporary times.
Here the ceilings overflow with a modern mythology of the War in Vietnam and opposing peace movements of the 1960s and»70s, subjects that — as in much of the artist's best - known work — speak to the enduring significance of the Vietnam era as a nexus of imperialism and resistance.