Sentences with phrase «other cultural icons»

Over 40 years ago, Andy Warhol promoted the concept that artists are celebrities, just as worthy of portrayal as other cultural icons.

UNDERCOVER designer JUN TAKAHASHI blinds prophets, dignitaries, and other cultural icons in a series of black - and - white illustrations; writers and graffiti artists NUG & PIKE collide tagging with trance rituals; photographer ALASDAIR MCLELLAN finds adolescence's last idyll; artist MATTHEW BARNEY takes us behind the scenes of his CREMASTER CYCLE; writer EMILY KING digs up ASPEN magazine's protest against uniformity;

The position of the Government and of such campaigners and many other cultural icons in our society is that the rights of active homosexuals to be unimpeded in having their relationship treated as normal trump the rights of Christians not to so cooperate.

Not exact matches

As fans mourned the loss of the 91 - year - old cultural icon while others were critical of his exploits, speculation began almost immediately over who would inherit the magnate's remaining fortune, with several publications estimating Hefner's net worth at upwards of $ 45 million.

The writer / director, who's known for the epic samurai flick 13 Assassins among many other films, has pulled together a stellar Japanese cast, with talented youngster Hana Sugisaki starring alongside the action icon / cultural phenomenon Takuya Kimura.

It doesn't leap to top of mind as other such Canadian icons as the maple leaf, hockey, maple syrup, Mounties or the inukshuk, but Honda's seemingly omnipresent Civic — over the years in sedan, hatchback and wagon guises — comes closer to achieving cultural status than just about any other automobile out there.

Through visual recognition of cultural icons, William Coupon mimics such childish storylines with his Polaroid portrait series, intimately portraying every player on the 1979 New York Yankees team during spring training in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, including Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson, Billy Martin, Bucky Dent, and others.

And finally, artist John Baldessari is the latest in a line of cultural icons honoured with a guest appearance on The Simpsons (he joins Art Spiegelman, Frank Gehry, Thomas Pynchon and Shepard Fairey, among others)-- in a recent episode, Baldessari appears in a flashback scene with a young Marge, then a news reporter, who hopes to interview him.

The officially landmarked building is recognized as an American cultural icon and renowned for those who have lived and created there, including Sir Arthur Clarke, Bob Dylan, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Miller, Joni Mitchell, Dee Dee Ramone, Larry Rivers, Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Milos Forman, Janis Joplin, Donald Sutherland, Patti Smith, Philip Taaffe, Dennis Hopper, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Eugene O'Neill, Jane Fonda, Larry Rivers, Leonard Cohen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tom Waits, Courtney Love, Sam Shepard, Charles Bukowski, Julian Schnabel, Jasper Johns, Viva, Quentin Crisp, Jimi Hendrix and many others (some of whom will appear in this film).

And that has a kind of African context too in that the African artists or the medicine men and others who were involved with creating things — cultural icons and other things — would determine the value of something and place it in a different context; such as the use of objects from nature.

Her recent work functions as a call to confront the dissonances of our own daily performances, considering how these re-performances of social icons (for example, the figure of the white woman) can become erasures of other cultural narratives.