Sentences with phrase «social document»

These photographs form a unique social document of this fascinating period of history, as well as representing a profound achievement of technological innovation and artistic originality.
Painters don't look at paintings as social documents.
P. teaches economics and theology at Providence College m Providence, Rhode Island, and is the author of Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy (Georgetown University Press).
In the best part of a century, or perhaps even sooner, Rampage might look like the defining social document of our moment.
All in all, however, the film plays more like a revenge thriller than an emotive social document — losing a lot of its power, and all of its resonance, in the process.
Other foreign sector must - sees were Cannes favourites Leviathan and Winter Sleep; the dialogue - free social document, Manakamana; the 5 1/2 hour Filipino drama, From What is Before; and, Ida.
I don't think it's the greatest of the 25 titles listed here, but it's an inarguably fine film that embodies the restless spirit of mid-1990s Britain from its whip - smart dialogue to its mega-selling soundtrack: its lightning - in - a-bottle blend of thrilling cinema and social document assures immortality.
It could have functioned adequately as a missing father figure, homoerotic, drug - culture social document but instead bypasses all invitation to stereotype and goes steadily and spellbindingly for the transcendent experience of developing an inner life.
For the second year running, the Cannes Palme d'Or victor proved more than worthy of the title, as Cantet bounced back from the curious diversion of «Heading South» to make a boundary - defying social document, impossibly rich in its scope, compassion and obsession with the limitless possibilities of language and conversation.
This course will use this particular project as a research tool to think through a collective approach to creating a «social document collaboratively
However commonplace these kind of adolescent drawings might be, they are a precursor to Dawn's concern with celebrity and fan culture; also functioning as subjective social documents.
Given that exhibition curator Marvin Sadik wrote that The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting was conceived to be a «social document dealing with one of the decisive issues of our time,» it seems appropriate to investigate additional museum exhibitions that focused on not only the representation of African Americans, but also the work of African - American artists.
Ms Walker, a social worker with long experience in social justice advocacy and initiatives, says the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody is «Australia's most significant social document», and that many of its recommendations remain relevant today.
In literature, the close reading of the text offered a way to move beyond two reductive fallacies: 1) taking the work merely as a historical or social document and thus an example of what «great men» thought and said; 2) seeking the poem's meaning behind the text in the author's intention.
You did not include John XXIII's two encyclicals often cited in this context, Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris, the Second Vatican Council's attempt at a social document, Gaudium et Spes, or Paul VI's Populorum Progressio.
John XXIII may have had many fine qualities, but his social documents are rather weak.
There is a lot of repetition in the social documents of the magisterium, partly because there seems to be an unwritten assumption on the part of later popes, a slightly odd one if you ask me, that none of their readers has bothered or will bother to read the earlier stuff, so each pope needs to spend a lot of time summarizing everything that came before.
The groundbreaking way of «social documenting» gave the courageous shots of Diane Arbus, whose photos «beyond normality» portray transvestites and mentally challenged people.
On view November 10, 2013 through January 19, 2014, the exhibition highlights the tremendous depth and breadth of the museum's collection and includes photographs made as works of art as well as advertising images, social documents, and more.
Andrews's presentation recalled Robert Smithson's «Site / Non-Site» installations of the late 1960s, in which the artist assembled a variety of maps, social documents, and physical materials to create a rapport between a distant outdoor site and its representation in a gallery.
Brimming with Gilbert & George's unique visual vocabulary, it functions as a social document of life in our modern urban world, examining issues of nationality and individuality, class tensions, and the artists» preoccupations with religion, politics, sex, death, and human existence.
The relationships between mundane and discarded materials can be read as a social document that presents a narrative about consumer culture.
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