Sentences with phrase «urban modernity»

Patricia McDonnell, ««Portrait of Berlin»: Marsden Hartley and Urban Modernity in Expressionist Berlin,» in Marsden Hartley, ed.

Through depictions of bustling city crowds and breathtaking metropolitan vistas, 25 black - and - white prints in this exhibition explore the spectacle of urban modernity.

Inspired by American Abstract Expressionism, popular culture, and urban modernity, they recognised abstraction as their only conceivable route.

Not exact matches

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

Whether it's the ever - present pull you see and feel between ancient Japanese tradition and the realities of modernity, the experience of walking through chaotic cityscapes then finding yourself in a serene Shinto shrine, or the sensation of sitting down to a meal completely foreign to you but at the same time feeling like you're home, all I know is that after numerous once - in - a-lifetime meals, several laser - emitting robots and one urban kimono wandering later, my trip to Tokyo will be hard to forget.

At the heart of this new brand architecture, ibis Styles is defined as a cheery brand, which captures the values of pleasure and modernity for customers looking for an offer that is continually diverse, highly urban, stylish and all inclusive, whilst remaining economical.

As the name suggests, W Hong Kong speaks of urban glamour in its contemporary modernity.

Occupying the top six floors of the massive Otemachi Tower, Aman Tokyo is an urban sanctuary high above the atmospheric whirl of tradition and modernity that epitomizes Tokyo.

Omnipresent plattenbau housing estates, monumental hochhäuser, cosmic milk bars; the post-war East Germany was rebuilt on concrete foundations to stand for the new modernity and shape the unique and no less controversial urban landscape of German Democratic Republic.

A number of distinct themes run through the exhibition: local responses to the international media and the touristic gaze; framing the African body; identity and postcolonial memory; urban sites; and the machines and institutions of modernity.

Can the «global village» stand in for some modernity's urban, intellectual, and artistic neighborhoods?

Tarek Abou El Fetouh (curator) John Akomfrah (artist and filmmaker) Rheim Alkadhi (artist) Noora Al Mualla (Curator of Modern Arab Art, Sharjah Art Foundation) Monira Al Qadiri (artist) Hoor Al Qasimi (Director, Sharjah Art Foundation) Saira Ansari (Researcher, Sharjah Art Foundation) Rasheed Araeen (artist) Marwa Arsanios (artist) Mohammad Ali Atassi (Director, Bidayyat) Sarnath Banerjee (artist, writer and graphic novelist) Daniel Blanga Gubbay (Researcher and Curator, Aleppo.eu) Yaminay Chaudhri (artist and Co-founder, Tentative Collective) Ali Cherri (artist) Manuel de Rivero (Co-founder, Supersudaca) Manthia Diawara (University Professor and Director, Institute of African American Affairs, New York University) Mona El Mousfy (Founder and Managing Director, SpaceContinuum) Shilpa Gupta (artist) Ayesha Hameed (artist and Lecturer, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College) Dale Harding (artist) Salah Hassan (Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University) Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (artist) Saba Innab (artist and architect) Eungie Joo (Curator of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) Butheina Kazim (Co-founder, Cinema Akil) Maha Maamoun (artist) Ahmed Mater (artist) Almagul Menlibayeva (artist) Sally Mizrachi (Co-founder, lugar a dudas) Naeem Mohaiemen (artist) Paribartana Mohanty (artist) Aram Moshayedi (Curator, Hammer Museum) Hania Mroué (Founder and Director, Metropolis Art Cinema) Neo Muyanga (composer and musician) Zeynep Öz (curator) Claudia Pagès (artist) Sharmini Pereira (Founder and Director, Raking Leaves) Filipa Ramos (Co-curator, Vdrome) Uzma Rizvi (Associate Professor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, Pratt Institute) Abir Saksouk (Architect, Public Works) Larissa Sansour (artist) Mario Santanilla (artist) Zineb Sedira (artist) Wael Shawky (artist) Reem Shilleh (Co-founder, Subversive Film) Martine Syms (artist) Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Co-founder, Atelier Bow - Wow) Alper Turan (Co-founder, DAS Art Project) Deepak Unnikrishnan (writer) Antonio Vega Macotela (artist) Hajra Waheed (artist) Ala Younis (artist and curator)

The language of his work is infused with influences of contemporary urban culture as well as the masters of modernity.

Bridging the natural and the artificial, the urban and the rural, Mediterranean life and Western modernity, Arte Povera's impact still resounds.

And then as he become more acclimated, he came to see that that, in fact, was the quality of modernity, that speed and simultaneity that were exactly what characterized modern urban life.

Not only a visionary architect, urban planner and theorist of modernity, but also a painter and sculptor, Le Corbusier made a profound impression on the 20th century in dramatically changing architectural design and the way people lived in it.

Through photography, drawing, sculpture, performance, and video, Clarissa Tossin explores the unseen aspects of modernity, urban life, and global identity.

«Archibald Motley offers a fascinating glimpse into a modernity filtered through the colored lens and foci of a subjective African American urban perspective.

Being drawn to their uneasy balance of modernity and nostalgia, these paintings reflected a complex and contradictory attitude toward urban society and fashionable resort life, keenly depicting the social changes that made the sea - bathing fad possible, while, at the same time, reaching longingly back to classical themes of the nude in an idyllic landscape.

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Matthew Kluber, curator, Jeff Fleming, (brochure), 2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Animamix Biennial: Metaphors of Un / Real, curator, Victoria Lu, 2010 Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, John F. Simon, Jr. and Matthew Kluber: Hybrid Media (catalog), 2010 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Borderland Abstraction, Curator, Hesse McGraw (brochure), 2010 Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, Matthew Kluber: Half - Day Closing, 2010 FOCUS09 / Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cool Stories for When the Planet Gets Hot II, curators, Corinne Erni, New York and Anne - Marie Melster, Spain; traveled to: Valencia Museum of Illustration and Modernity, Valencia, Spain: Pavilion City Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, UN Climate Conference COP 15, 2009 Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI, So Much Water So Close To Home, (film installation / exterior projection), 2009

This together with his conspicious modernity, his use of the banal vocabulary of everyday urban life, was a decisive influence on artists of the 1940s and 1950s and then on Pop Art.

I can't help but think that your work glorifies urban spaces and modernity, yet values the importance of real, in - person experience.