Sentences with phrase «upended tradition»

Taken out of its original context, reimagined, and signed by the artist, the readymade upended tradition and artistic convention — transforming an everyday, ordinary object by virtue of the artist selecting it.

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The co-founders not only have to outpace their new competition, they have to upend the most stubborn tradition of all: the curse of the low - cal - food fad.

I think a lot of religion is tradition based on experience and reaction, sometimes primitive and uninformed, and its hard to break free from that without upending families sometimes.

That would upend New York's 50 - year tradition of forcing counties to pay for as much as 25 percent of the cost of Medicaid, which offers health care to poor people and nursing home care to seniors without resources.

In the tradition of Shaun of the Dead, T&DVE lovingly sends up a familiar subgenre with insightful, self - referential humor, upending expectations by taking the point of view of the presumably villainous hicks.

Therefore, the artist's works are, on the one hand, evocative of the Western art historical canon, while on the other, they upend engrained traditions as they vividly investigate the grey area between so - called «objective» history and subjective memory.

By engaging the personal and the private, and subverting patriarchal and historical representations within the Indo - Persian miniature painting tradition, Sikander's work upends gender - specific assumptions while contributing fresh feminist discourse from multiple perspectives.

These movies expand on many of the themes of her visual art and interactive projects, playfully upending cinematic traditions with artistic approaches rooted in cutting - edge technology and feminist activism and theory.

Positioned on billboards in downtown Toronto and in eight cities across Canada, Erizku's photographs upend still life traditions and visual marketing strategies.

Employing and upending documentary traditions as a means to disrupt media stereotypes, Frazier collaborates with her mother and grandmother as fellow artists, giving them agency in depictions of themselves, their family, and the broader community.

Just as the once - feared «death of painting» has yielded an ongoing tradition of painting, so the deconstructive art of Broodthaers has become part - and - parcel of both the gallery system and the public art museum, though he certainly aimed to upend this dialectical narrative by such acts as the destruction and / or reuse of his own previous work.

In her work, Fishman upends that tradition, appropriating medical representations of the human interior to suggest that there is no unmediated representation of mental states as well as to make the connection between abstraction and the body concrete.