Sentences with phrase «own cultural critique»

In new book, Billy Graham's oldest son, Franklin, combines lessons from his father with cultural critiques.

When he turns to theory and cultural critique, however, his writing becomes less fine - grained.

Its ideological presuppositions are difficult to specify: the author takes his theoretical framework from the radical historians Charles Beard and William Appleman Williams, but much of his cultural critique of modern American society carries echoes of Pat Buchanan.

Blending laugh - out - loud moments with serious cultural critique, Evans discovers that living the actual teachings of the Bible means surrendering idealized role - playing in favor of becoming an eshet chayil — a woman of strength and wisdom.

Whether or not the deliver will depend largely on your musical pallet and willingness to dive into the cultural critique of Butler and Co..

One fears that Smith and More, perhaps like their author, are drawn to Christianity mainly as a transcendent means for making their own cultural critique.

But little else about Atán and Pivato's debut feature compares to Federico Fellini's masterpiece, which is distinguished by its regional detail and cultural critique and culminates in an honest, earned conclusion of hope mixed with despair.

Every once in a while a reasonable, down - to - earth person will crystallize in the form of James Franco, which makes all of his absurd, vapid artistic pursuits and «cultural critiques» about Kristen Stewart in Snow White and the Huntsman that much more frustrating.

Space Station 76 is a postmodern snafu of the most intolerable sort, the kind of hokum that increases one's appreciation for successful comedic cultural critique, if only for the severity of this film's failures.

Its underlying thematic framework, only vaguely hinted at in the previous two Thor efforts but fully articulated now, is one of thorough historical and cultural critique.

Our reviewer writes, «Along with his pointed cultural critique are stark, electrifying pieces like «Ode to a Drone» and inventive, playful poems like his celebratory ode to grammar in the sly «His Love of Semicolons» («The comma is comely, the period, peerless, / but stack them one atop / the other, and I am in love»).

But as poetry readers know, its lyrical gifts can be an antidote to many of life's woes, offering calm waters of meditation, razor - sharp cultural critique or a playful celebration of language.

Part memoir, part cultural critique, and part genetic travelogue, Beyond the Pale is a brave, intimate investigation into the secret histories that each of us carries in our genes and an inspiring and beautiful memoir about parenting a child with a disability — and building a better future for that child.

Biographies (books about a person's life written by someone else), autobiographies or memoirs (books about a person's life written by that person), research - based books (medical textbooks, historical books), and cultural critiques are just a few nonfiction books that benefit from the presence of an appendix.

You're very likely to find bibliographies in the back pages of textbooks, historical nonfiction books, biographies, cultural critiques, essay collections, and research - based nonfiction books.

Referencing the history of painting, particularly the fraught legacies of hyper masculine artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, her canvases combined figuration with feminist cultural critique.

The exhibition's title, I KILLED KENNY, invokes the vernacular of «South Park,» framing Pensato's visual vocabulary within the cartoon's sardonic wit and cultural critique.

Referring to Doomocracy as an act of «political catharsis,» Reyes leverages political, social, and cultural anxiety — and fear itself — as the media for participation and cultural critique.

The weave of visuals creates a cultural critique that questions ownership of image, disruption, interpretation, politics, and human nature.

Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique examines the artistic aims of the New York School of painters within the context of left - wing political discussions during the 1940s and 1950s.

A radical conception of human subjectivity was embodied in the process of composition itself, enabling painters to produce works in which personal expression and cultural critique were condensed onto the single act of painting.»

Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida's large - format C - prints mounted on aluminum from the Cosmococa 5: Hendrix — War series (1973/2003) were originally conceived as projections in multi-sensorial, built environments designed as cultural critiques demanding viewers» direct involvement and consideration.

Apparatus 2.0 expands on its predecessor by initiating long - distance working relationships between the same artists, asking them to consider their experiences — in different cities, under respective historical and sociopolitical conditions — and see how these aspects shape their understanding of images as a form of cultural critique.

Emerging from the dynamic arts program at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in the late 1980s, Gillick expanded into social sculpture, cultural critique, and «Relational Aesthetics,» the critic Nicolas Bourriaud's term for art within a context of relationships.

A lot of them are really funny cultural critiques, riffs on advertising and fashion magazines, or art nerd in - jokes.

A self - described artist of the «absurdist cultural critique,» Solien invites you in with brightly colored compositions filled with farcical figures and fanciful objects.

Facilitated by a diverse roster of teaching artists, scholars, writers and educators working within the field of comics, Skin and Bones Comic Con seeks to expose audiences to diverse approaches to visual storytelling, and contextualize comics as a powerful tool of social commentary and cultural critique.

Never intended for public exhibition, the first Jokes nonetheless maintained the strong sense of otherworldly removal and latent cultural critique that defined Prince's seminal photography of the early «80s, and represent an important shift in the artist's process that would lead to the Hoods.

Matthew Darbyshire's work explores notions of social and cultural critique through playful approaches to urban architecture and design.

The anthology features both artists and art historians writing on art, media and popular culture — oftentimes infusing a new kind of humor into their cultural critiques — as well as original pictorial contributions.

Möller's sculptural installation «Katzenbaum» incorporates both popular design theory and feminist cultural critique.

Through her lyrical videos, Behbahani stages a contemporary cultural critique by layering and juxtaposing allusions to past and present sociopolitical circumstances with a language that she draws from her experience as a painter.

1970); S. Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art (1983); W. C. Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America (1983); F. Frascina, ed., Pollock and After (1985); D. Anfam, Abstract Expressionism (1990); S. Polcari, Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience (1991); A. E. Gibson, Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics (1997); D. Craven, Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique (1999).

Opening December 6 at the Rubell Family Collection, Allison Zuckerman's fusions of historical tropes and digital art offer wry cultural critiques.

Cattelan's subjects range widely, being derived from popular culture, history and organized religion; while bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing cultural critique.

She engages with the tension between a personal investigation of eroticism, black femininity and beauty and a pop - cultural critique of the overt sexual imagery prevalent in the media — from Blaxploitation film heroines like Cleopatra Jones to the construction of middle - class, African - American taste in Ebony magazine.

Founded in June 2004 by Glenn Alderson and Brad Simm, BeatRoute Magazine continues to provide a healthy dose of cultural critique while exercising rock»n' roll ethics.

Not exact matches

A justified process - rooted philosophical appreciation of social canons can be taught through a pedagogical strategy that begins with their critique, that expunges them from the natural given furnishings of the immediately real in order to rediscover them as the inherited cultural accretions by which we transform the immediately real into a world of enduring meanings and human significance.

His stout anti-communism, critique of loosening sexual mores, and cultural conservatism ran squarely against the academic trends of the time.

Second, Jewett adopts whole - cloth the latest fad in New Testament scholarship, which broadly terms itself as postcolonial, and reads virtually everything in the New Testament as a coded critique of the Roman Empire and especially of its claims of cultural superiority elaborated in the civic cult of the early empire.

The communitarian critique of liberalism, whatever one may think of it as philosophy, has succeeded in reminding liberals that liberalism does have social and cultural presuppositions, and that these must be attended to if liberalism is to survive.

It is easiest to critique Bingham by chiding him for ignoring the great stories that have been told over the millennia by Socrates and Aristotle, Moses and Jesus, Muhammad and Siddhartha, the Gitas and the Tao — all of which have nontrivial implications for the process of cultural evolution.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

Like the Gulag, Sartre's Critique is an encyclopedic work that examines the foundations of social order and attempts to think beyond cultural relativism to a new ethic based upon a universal conception of humanity.

Even «conservative» Christians who deplore the cultural costs of late modernity treat any critique of its obvious material basis as practically blasphemous.

Neveldine «Taylor don't yet work in 3 - D, but they've mastered the previous standards of digital - era filmmaking as part of their constant critique of media overload and cultural excess and moral anarchy.

From the time Morrison took the helm, the growing edges of social critique and cultural criticism began to take definite shape.

The result of this is that the «thinker» occupies an altogether unassailable position, from which he is able to discern and pronounce upon the limits of every other discourse (scientific, metaphysical, religious, cultural, or what have you), without himself being subject to critique from any other quarter.

By juxtaposing the concerns of Dawson and Eliot to the cultural criticism of the Frankfurt School and other social critics like Neil Postman, one can begin to see an emerging critique of the forms of modernity during the first half of the twentieth century.

«25 This archaeology is aided by two approaches: a sociology - of - knowledge analysis of the cultural role of biblical criticism and a psychoanalytically informed critique of the way we read the text.