Sentences with phrase «negotiate issues of identity»

Both of these approaches pay attention to the way in which societies create «symbolic universes by which to negotiate issues of identity, legitimacy and the creation or resolution of conflict.

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Nitarudi Ninarudi expresses the complexity of longing for a place that is alive in the memory in a very different way than in the physical reality — a place as evasive and fleeting as the identities one negotiates when they are relocated, bringing into play issues of transformation, translation, and even personal survival.

Featuring more than fifty artworks ranging in date from the early 1930s to our own time, Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA demonstrates how artists interested in issues of identity have negotiated a vast array of European, African, and American visual - cultural forms to redefine what it means to make a portrait.