Sentences with phrase «such cultural objects»

His series of crystal - embellished mirrors mimics the security gates of Puerto Rican houses, contradictorily alluring and keeping people away, while a series of ornate sculptural works reference the belts and trophies of boxing culture; such cultural objects allude to Dzine's time spent watching boxing matches with his father as well as an out - of - reach upper - class lifestyle.

Not exact matches

Some other researchers object to this framework because, they say, it doesn't reflect the cultural pressures that influence such choices.

And while it has been popular of late to display actual handmade African - American quilts, such as the ones exhibited in upscale New York galleries, Huckaby's act of repainting quilts disarms them as fetishized aesthetic objects while folding their weighted cultural meaning into the history of painting.

After moving to New York in 1974, he began employing objects and found materials in his work, resulting in such creations as the «Dreadlocks» series of 1976, which used collected barbershop hair, a medium that he believed had spiritual associations in addition to cultural ones.

Curated by renowned museum director Prof. Dr. Martin Roth before his passing, it features numerous design objects loaned from some of Germany's most significant cultural institutions such as the Vitra Design Museum, Neue Sammlung,

Born in Turkey and based in Berlin, Nevin Aladağ employs practicable objects such as carpets, wire, and instruments in her two - and three - dimensional works and video installations that engage purposefully with meditations on cultural heritage and identity.

For artists practicing in city centers such as New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, etc there are insurmountable financial restrictions forcing cultural practitioners into a complicated relationship with objects, one that more often than not results in an immaterial object that transcends spatio - temporality.

With a penchant for non-heroic, «anti-art» materials such as spray foam and aluminum, and a keen eye for cultural objects bemired in symbolic notions of power, Bäckström's deeply tactile works create a rich interplay between association, meaning, and materials.

She often combines ceramic elements, beautifully handcrafted, with utilitarian items, such as toilet plungers or buckets, to create pieces that call into question the cultural and historic meaning of particular objects or images.

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.

She has authored and contributed to publications for the Guggenheim Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, Walker Art Center, and Yale University Art Gallery, as well as journals such as Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism and Object Magazine.

Incorporating tools and other familiar objects, such as chains, locks, and ax heads, Edwards's Lynch Fragments are abstract yet evocative, summoning a range of artistic, cultural, and historical references.

She creates conceptually based socio - political, cultural and environmental objects, installations and performances that take on broad subjects such as feminism, national identity, climate change, war and the economic crisis.

Often working with readymade objects such as Barbie dolls, fishnet stockings, opera costumes, and wedding dresses, sculptor and installation artist E. V. Day delves into the cultural fetishism by manipulating women's fashion and undergarments.

The works incorporate urban objects such as concrete slabs, taxi cab fragments, and garbage cans and are created using Greco - Roman techniques; this juxtaposition suggests parallels between the steady decay of contemporary cultural capitals like New York, with those now extinct, such as Rome.

Featuring over 50 masterpieces of modern Japanese art from the Tokyo National Museum, the exhibition includes six objects designated «Important Cultural Properties of Japan,» including Dancing Lady Maiko Girl by Kuroda Seiki and the iconic Portrait of Reiko by Kishida Ryusei as well as other important works in Japanese modern art history such as Mount Fuji Rising above Clouds by Yokoyama Taikan and Spring Rain by Shimomura Kanzan.

Characterized by themes drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects, the exhibition, Subculture Capital integrates subculture and mass culture, pop art and post modernism.

Together, tactics of queerness such as humor, subversion, caricature, exaggeration, and others, can be used to disorient objects themselves: to see them anew, to give them new context, to understand how they perform as socio - cultural representations.

Lee is known for using everyday objects such as soda cans, light bulbs, socks and tambourines to evoke the familiar and explore affiliations between materials and their coded cultural and sexual meanings.

Thanks to donors such as Sylvia and Warren Lowe, Sarah Jane Stephens, British Petroleum Corporation, and many others, the museum will continue to develop areas of cultural significance so that future generations are able to learn about the objects and their creators.

Influenced by the cultural landscape of the early sixties, particularly the burgeoning Pop Art movement, these works pre-date more familiar works such as the non-site objects and the seminal, outdoor earthworks.

Pruitt, whose interests in cultural excess went unappreciated in the era of political correctness, combined traditional objects like quilts with iconic styles of presentation, such as those employed by Felix Gonzalez - Torres.