Sentences with phrase «on blackness»

In this scholarly volume, Jordana Moore Saggese considers how literature influenced Jean - Michel Basquiat's views on blackness, creativity, and the parameters of American art.

Toyin Odutola Talks About Her Work in New Mexico An artist - in - residence at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico, Toyin Odutola spoke about her work — pen - and - ink drawings that focus on the blackness of skin color as a point of departure to explore matters of identity and experience — at at the campus musuem on Sept. 18.

Her second book, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, was published by Duke University Press in November 2016 and was named in the Guardian newspaper and The Walrus as one of the best books of 2016.

painfully physical performances addressing immigration and xenophobia to Clifford Owens» similarly endurance - based performances on blackness to

The newer works range from Carlos Martiel's painfully physical performances addressing immigration and xenophobia to Clifford Owens» similarly endurance - based performances on blackness to Kameelah Janan Rasheed's prints, which question the slow march of progress through reappropriated quotes by Nina Simone and James Baldwin.

How did you first come to focus on blackness in abstraction?

For an artist so often tagged as post-black, Rashid Johnson has a clear eye on blackness.

Parks himself may be best known for cashing in on blackness with Shaft, well before his death in 2006, but there was more to him than that and more to Harlem.

When he settles on blackness, like Franz Kline before him, a title proclaims The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, and that seems right as well.

Since Venice Biennale in 2003, Wilson's Murano glass chandeliers, with their shifts in scale, color, and complexity, have become vehicles for the artist's meditations on blackness, death, and beauty.

The exhibition considers how color — as spectra, chroma, saturation, and vessel — is a utility of / on blackness.

Playing with forms taken from the Minimalist tradition — Sol LeWitt's white open cubes come to mind — Johnson turns them into a reflection on blackness by breaking the rational structure open and embedding loaded objects within it.

It's like a church running a program for black folks — telling them that even though they are black, they shouldn't act on that blackness.

Not exact matches

Friday, March 6, marks the first annual BlackOut Day, a day dedicated to «celebrating the beauty of Blackness» on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms of choice.

Hawthorne, for example, in 1859, on the very verge of the Civil War, saw «that pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere.

Daisy and the five go on to have their own respective kids, those kids have their own kids, and so on and so on, up to the moment where the sun burns out and the universe experiences heat de.ath to what remain are cold, cosmic cor.pses and eternal blackness for everything residing, de.ad or alive at the time.

So what is the best course of action when you find yourself in a place where you are just holding on in the blackness.

This is it, I thought as I stood up, back straight, because this is my favourite sight: the inky blackness of pine trees, black lace relief burned out against the western sky as the last guardian of this date on the calendar cedes.

Oh the insane things that pop into my head in the middle of the night and make me get up from my warm bed and leave my wife to scrawl in pencil on a blank sheet of paper in the pitch blackness the silliest images that seem to perplex and plague me just so I can hopefully bring a smile to your face and maybe occasionally make us think a little bit world without end.

The creators of black theology disagreed with both Martin and Malcolm and insisted on the importance of bringing blackness and Christianity together.

On Saturday night of a holiday weekend, only the occasional yellow streak of a speeding taxi obscures the slick blackness of the asphalt.

What those who deny Obama's «blackness» seem to ignore is that categories like this are inherently social and political constructions with a high degree of arbitrariness (on which, see, amongst many writings, Hari Kunzru's wonderful book, THE IMPRESSIONIST, and E.M. Forster's war - time essay, «Racial Exercise»).

View keynotes and programming on our This Week in Blackness stage streamed live from Netroots Nation 2014 in Detroit, MI.

Two ladies out for a walk by Blackness Castle, a beauty spot on the south bank of the Firth of Forth, are more gently dismissive.»

The Kent, Washington - based Blue Origin is currently developing a vehicle called New Shepard that is designed to take passengers on short suborbital trips so they can experience the thrill of weightlessness and see the blackness of space without the filter of Earth's atmosphere.

JANUARY 1910 WAVE VS. SHIP — «Was it a last despairing protest of Old Ocean, when he lifted his giant hand in the blackness of night on January 10, and smote the Cunard liner «Lusitania» a blow which racked and splintered her lofty bridge and pilot house, 75 feet above the sea, and crushed down her forecastle deck and decks beneath, giving them a permanent depression of several inches?

Importantly, those catastrophes that do not come hurtling out of the blackness of space depend on us.

Somehow and someway we move, we carry on, we persevere - even though, in times such as these, it feels like we are swimming through tar, barely able to keep our heads above the blackness.

I was on the look out for something that stayed put and had a glossy, rich blackness to it.

The blouse is darker and when paired with complete blackness below the waist, it brought the whole outfit down (in a depressing, I listened to heavy metal screaming on the way over, kind of way).

The perfect choice is sunglasses with «lace» details on the sides to add some fun to all blackness.

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When Sam isn't hosting her show, making shorts like Rebirth of a Nation (a post-Obama repurposing of minstrelsy), or literally writing the book on how to sustain one's blackness at a white - dominated Ivy League school, she's bedding Gabe (Justin Dobies), a white TA.

From the blackness of space to incredible views of the Earth's surface, and the claustrophobic space capsule interiors, Gravity delivers one of the most impressive visual and dramatic stories put on film.

The comic enabled dignified, empowered, positive representations of blackness deployed on a global level: Black visual pleasure and desire for escapism through fantasy cinema recognized and served.

And this brings us to the critical backlash to this film: a feeling in some quarters that for all its powerful and compelling female lead, the movie appears obtuse on race and blackness by making it a subsidiary function of the white characters» moral journey.

The son questions why anyone bothers with cave diving, and, with these shadowy recesses leading to blackness and constricted tunnels that seem to go on forever, we can only ask how anyone can have the gastrointestinal fortitude to do it.

#BlackPanther is a love letter about blackness, to a world that often ghettoizes it without realizing that it is on black backs that this planet revolves.

Films have on occasion broadened the scope, perhaps none as widely as Blindness (2008), Fernando Meirelles's failed attempt to translate the devastating dark beauty of José Saramago's novel to screen, in which all of its many characters — except for one, played by a miscast Julianne Moore — lose their sight not to the usual blackness but a bright white light.

Del Toro uses a lot of old - fashioned camera tricks like wipes (as transitions from scene to scene), and there are also multiple iris wipes (where a circular shape surrounded by blackness homes in on one small image).

As an outsider to Wakanda and a black character getting acclimated to a new world filled with other black people from a different culture, Queen Divine Justice could offer an amazing perspective on various aspects of the African diaspora, proving further illustration that blackness is not a monolith.

Barry Jenkins lovely observed movie portrays how a man makes peace with his sexuality, while negotiating the parameter of blackness and masculinity that society imposes on him.

«Bachelorette» is just one of several videos on this compilation that look as if the color has been sucked out of them, while others fade out to pixilated blackness.

En route to a surprising resolution, director Simien pulls a couple of rabbits out of his hat while lacing his dialogue with pithy lines («Learn to modulate your blackness up or down depending on the crowd and what you want from them.»)

The color accents recall the Dodge Dart interior, and liven up the bleak blackness of the whole, as do the color stitches on the seats.

I'm accustomed to rather bleak trimmings from lower - priced German cars, but the Audi A3 dash is like a telescope image of deep space; just inky blackness that goes on forever, punctuated occasionally by a bit of bright trim.

They rode out on the high prairie where they slowed the horses to a walk and the stars swarmed around them out of the blackness.

It insists on the important historical role of black liberation movements for other pursuits of social justice and requires that attention be paid to the diverse experiences of blackness and American citizenship within our country.

When the blackness came upon her, her mind turned heavy and stubborn, like one of those cement mixing trucks you pass sometimes on the road.

The award - winning poet on why she's using her MacArthur genius grant to explore whiteness, her questions for Lionel Shriver, and how an Ohio prison explodes the idea that blackness equals criminality