Sentences with phrase «question gender representation»

Her strongly associative and visceral images were intended to question gender representation and the nature of desire.

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This resource includes a sample question for the A level paper 2 on gender and representation and the accompanying essay.

The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture.

There's no question that the original show continues to be a significant feat in the representation of sexuality and gender in art up to the 1990s.

Kehinde Wiley's work raises intriguing questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture.

David Castillo Gallery will present works that raise urgent questions about representations of race, sexuality and gender in today's society, including a live performance by Kalup Linzy (b. 1977), as well as photographs by Lyle Ashton Harris (b. 1965) and Xaviera Simmons (b. 1974).

A stark contrast to her well - known abstract, spray - painted works, these prints retain a sense of self - portraiture that transcends gender identity, presenting fluid, dynamic bodies that provoke questions of artmaking and representation.

Through this participatory project, Shrigley questions the cult of artistic genius, plays with power and gender dynamics, and reveals the inevitable breakdown in representation between imitation and imagination.

One of the most important and celebrated contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has for over thirty years investigated issues of race, gender, and class, and her artwork continues to raise important questions about cultural identity and the politics of representation.

No subject was safe from their intuitive and enigmatic lens, from the myth of the artist, the role of mass media, and the relationship between the body and identity, to questions of gender and sexual representation, and perhaps most famously, the HIV / AIDS activism of the 1980's, a mode of critique that the group were pioneers of during an era of intense repression and governmental silence.

Like Ligon, these and other artists explored loaded questions around representations of race, gender and sexuality during the reactionary aftermath of the «Culture Wars ‟ and the AIDS crisis at the close of the Reagan era.

By replacing the typical European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, Wiley is able to draw attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives and raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation.

Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture.

These images employ representations of individuals to reflect and interrogate questions of class, style, gender, emotion, and many other facets of the human condition.

Embodied Spaces draws from the diasporic context that has informed a gender - oriented curatorial practice and engages with Walsh's piece through body narratives that question past and present spaces of representation.

The course will also explore key themes that intersect with questions of gender roles and representation, including the domestic sphere, fashion, politics, and craft.

From semi-fictional to historical representation to self - representation, Beloved Martina... layers narratives of past and present to question gender norms, desires and the potential of real freedom through a politics of self - representation, resistance and critical difference.

Simpson's striking juxtapositions of text and staged images raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race, and history; concerns that are reflected in the artist's expanding and multi-disciplinary practice today.

One common question about this unequal gender representation is whether it is a reflection of unequal active citizenship in lower - stakes areas of political participation.