Sentences with phrase «recent cultural history»

Can we begin to map recent cultural history?

Created under the shadow of Reagan - era conservatism and, later on in the decade, the increasing anger, confusion, and tragedy of AIDS, Tseng's work reminds us of an extraordinary period in our recent cultural history — exuberantly relentless and insolent, but also full of humor, pathos and life.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

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We withhold a third cheer — partly because at the present cultural moment it seems inappropriate to give three full cheers for anyone or anything, partly because we remember too well recent history's oppressive misuses of Thomas's thought.

Four recent major studies of human problems support a measure of optimism in human affairs: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crisis.

In the 1940s Eric Voegelin wrote that a solution to the modern crisis would require, among other things, a «new Christian philosophy of history» adequate to the full range of political and cultural developments of recent centuries.

[5] Both The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity [6] and Christianity: Social and Cultural History [7]-- two of the most ambitious recent surveys of Christianity — tell the Christian story in a manner that diverges markedly from the book I just quoted.

According to the recent work, Christianity: Social and Cultural History.»..

Whitehead is free from «cultural lag» — that is, he, «far more than most recent writers, [is] acquainted with the relevant history of ideas and with the results of analytic exploration» (1:111).

I develop quantitative methods to elucidate recent population histories, and interpret these histories in the context of demographic, cultural, and environmental pressures.

In a recent conversation, a colleague of mine mentioned that what and how he would teach a class would depend on the students he was teaching: he would adapt what he taught to what his students found to be interesting or relevant because he wanted to use history to help them explore and determine their personal and cultural identity.

Recent discoveries and expanded analysis have led many archeologists and cultural anthropologists studying Mayan history to conclude that the center of Mayan civilization was, in fact, Belize!

Recent solo exhibitions include the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia (2012); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2012); State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); the major touring exhibition Between You and Me (Kunsthal Rotterdam, Musée d'Art Moderne De Saint - Etienne and Artium, Vitoria, Spain, 2008 — 2009); MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico (2008); the Hayward Gallery, London (2007); MADRE, Naples (2006); the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2004); the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2003) and the National History Museum, Beijing (2003).

The East End of Long Island has a cultural history that's both «traditional and radical,» a phrase critic and artist Fairfield Porter used to describe Jane Freilicher's painting that was quoted in a recent remembrance of her by the Parrish's chief curator, Alicia Longwell.

With their obsessive nature and encyclopedic magnitude, Darboven's visualizations of time and recent history, as well as the collection, selection, and rearrangement of knowledge in form of handwritten excerpts, photographic, literary, and journalistic documents of cultural history, bear witness to the artist's attempt to counter the information flood and the alleged chaos of the (post --RRB- modern world by creating an autonomous classification system and by placing herself in an individual framework of meaning.

The project draws attention to the roles that certain artefacts have played in the recent history of the Philippines, specifically in shaping the cultural legacy of former Philippine dictators Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and the absurd postcolonial ideology they enforced under the auspices of capitalist democracies during the Cold War.

From focused exhibitions on the work of Cuban painter Amelia Peláez and Haitian born, Miami - based artist Edouard Duval - Carrié to thematic presentations of the Museum's permanent collection to major retrospectives on artists Ai Weiwei and Beatriz Milhazes and group exhibitions on the exchange of ideas between the Caribbean basin, Europe, and North Africa, PAMM's upcoming projects serve as critical frames through which larger dialogues about recent history, migration, new cultural formations, and diverse ideologies can be structured.

In a recent episode of his absorbing podcast, «Revisionist History,» cultural critic Malcolm Gladwell interrogates a statue modeled after a news photograph of a confrontation in 1963 between a police officer with a dog and a young black boy in Birmingham, Alabama.1 Made by African American sculptor Dr. Ronald McDowell, The Foot Soldier (1995) is far more horrific than the photo, Gladwell convincingly argues, because it bears an added imaginative potency: the narrative is told by a traditionally silenced voice, and for Gladwell this «is just what happens when the people on the bottom finally get the power to tell the story their way.»

Gaitán's presentation will contextualize the recent history of the Berlin Biennale, its international relevance and comprehensive impact on the cultural life of Berlin, introducing his curatorial research and the artistic team he has invited for the 8th edition.

Stephen Lapthisophon is a multimedia artist and writer whose recent work addresses questions of language, history and cultural memory.

In an effort to review race politics in the context of Canada's colonial and immigrant policies, the exhibition Limits of Tolerance examines a period in recent history when cultural diversity became Canada's state policy with the 1988 Multiculturalism Act.

Keynote Talk + Discussion Dave Beech Thursday 12 December, 6.00 pm - 7.00 pm, Lecture Room, IMMA Beauty and the Revolutionary Subject In this talk Dave Beech (London - based artist, writer and Senior Lecturer, Chelsea College of Art,) discusses the emergence of the modern conception of beauty and the cultural politics of this recent phenomenon, as well as contextualizing contested debates on beauty in artistic practice within the broader history of aesthetics.

In recent years, Kentridge has dramatically expanded both the scope of his projects (such as recent full - scale opera productions) and their thematic concerns, which now include his own studio practice, colonialism in Namibia and Ethiopia, and the cultural history of postrevolutionary Russia.

2008 Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK A Recent History of Drawing & Writing, ICA, London, UK Playtime, Betonsalon, Paris, FR Panorámica ciclo de video, Bailando sin salir de casa, Museo Tamayo arte contemporáneo, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico, MX Wouldn't it be nice, Somerset House, London, UK Out of sight, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico, MX AWOL — Biennale of Young Artists, META Cultural Foundation, Bucharest, RO Wouldn't it be nice, Centre d'art Contemporain, Zurich, CHSelf Storage, Curatorial Industries, San Francisco, US I desired what you were, I need what you are, Galleria Maze, Torino, IT Within the big Structure, Megastructure, Berlin - Mitte, Berlin, DE Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, CN Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US Revolutions — forms that turn, 16th Biennale of Sydney, AU As it presents itself, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK Featuring, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR The flight of the Dodo, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE One of these things is not like other things, Unosunove Gallery, Rome, IT Art Now Curate, Tate Modern, London, UK Inaugural Show, Marz Galleria, Lisbon.

He analyses the mechanisms of cultural diffusion; the ambivalent, if not contrary relationships between memories of recent history and those of actual experience, in addition to the relationships between political power, religious power, and civil society.

Each of these series investigates particular regions or precise moments in our recent history with an aim to answer the artist's social and cultural questions and contemporary geopolitical scenario.

Annie Leibovitz's «Isabella Rossellini and David Lynch» is about the closest Masters comes to the post-Warholian pop cultural obsession of emerging artists scattering the Frieze London tent, a collective fascination with the Kanyes, Clintons and #NSFWs of recent, to extremely recent history pointing to the total infiltration of mass media, post-2000.

Traveled to Grazer Kunstverein, Austria and The Studio Museum, New York Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2000 Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900 - 2000, Section 5, 1980 - 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue) 1999 Through the Looking Glass, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY 1995 In a Different Light, (co-curator), University of California, Berkeley Art Museum (catalogue) Into a New Museum - Recent Gifts and Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1994 Body and Soul, (with Cindy Sherman, General Idea and Ronald Jones), Baltimore Museum of Art Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (catalogue) Black Male, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) 1993 Building a Collection: The Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston I Love You More Than My Own Death, Venice Biennale 1992 Translation, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw California: North and South, Aspen Art Museum, CO Recent Narrative Sculpture, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI Facing the Finish, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalogue) Nayland Blake, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, Gary Hume, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, Portland Art Museum, OR The Auto Erotic Object, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York 1991 Third Newport Biennial: Mapping Histories, Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA (catalogue) Facing the Finish, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Louder, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago The Interrupted Life: On Death and Dying, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Anni Novanta, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna.

Once a traditional private hunting club — now led by Claude d'Anthenaise — the recent re-installation of the Musée's permanent collection interrogates modes of natural and cultural history displays and the very nature of a museum.

As with her more recent ventures, Macuga explores the cultural history of the venue and melds it with recent events.

The title, «Waves,» alludes to these cultural relations, as well as to the organization, study and production of feminist theory and activism — and how it has been grouped in recent history as first, second and third feminist waves.

So much of this precious heritage has been tragically lost through the destruction of its fabled cities of Palmyra and Aleppo, as well as countless other cultural heritage sites, during a bitter civil war, almost unprecedented in recent history.

Each programme features a dynamic set of activities - from exhibitions to artist talks - presenting emerging artistic networks, strategies and projects that explore the recent cultural and social trajectory of each city, steeped in history and shaped by current events.

A highly specific chronology charges these works not only with a certain absurdity, but also an unexpected poignancy: the Lakes act as poetic sarcophagi, cementing bygone moments in recent pop cultural history as well as the technology which helped generate them.

In response to critique of this history, which included displacing a generation of Aboriginal children into boarding schools where they were stripped of their linguistic and cultural heritage, Australia has in recent years represented itself internationally through a collection of symbols drawn from indigenous sources.

Whether touched directly by the Cultural Revolution or not, many Chinese artists work with that bloody, turbulent time as recent history.

Two recent books bring Wonder Woman's ambiguous relationship to feminism to the fore: Jill Lepore's The Secret History of Wonder Woman, which looks at the character's creator, William Moulton Marston, focusing on the history from which Wonder Woman emerged and the cultural meanings that have coalesced around her, and Tim Hanley's Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine, which gives a history of the character rather than the cHistory of Wonder Woman, which looks at the character's creator, William Moulton Marston, focusing on the history from which Wonder Woman emerged and the cultural meanings that have coalesced around her, and Tim Hanley's Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine, which gives a history of the character rather than the chistory from which Wonder Woman emerged and the cultural meanings that have coalesced around her, and Tim Hanley's Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine, which gives a history of the character rather than the cHistory of the World's Most Famous Heroine, which gives a history of the character rather than the chistory of the character rather than the creator.

In modern times, real estate developers have attempted to raze these traditional neighbourhoods to the ground to make way for high rises, but the local government has taken steps in recent years to preserve the hutongs for their cultural history.

History has shaped cultural attitudes towards marriage over time, resulting in very different priorities in contemporary times, than in the recent past.

In the course of the interviews, culturally meaningful and important categories are meant to emerge so that an appropriate idiom or dialogue is developed.49 This approach generally requires a social scientist on the team who has a first hand understanding of the qualitative research methodology involved, as well as staff with a first hand understanding of the communities to understand the group's recent history and cultural context, and be able to correctly evaluate what norms and values underlie a particular person's expressed opinion or action.50

History has shaped cultural attitudes towards marriage over time, resulting in very different priorities in contemporary times, than in the recent...

Despite these findings, concerns remain that ethnic minority populations, particularly those with relatively recent migration histories, may benefit less from parenting interventions that are developed in dominant cultural groups in North America and Western Europe (e.g., Miranda et al. 2005).