Sentences with phrase «various cultures and histories»

Each object in the painting contains significance from various cultures and histories.

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The Bible is, in reality, a complex collection of historical documents, written over the course of at least 1,500 years, which represents various literary genres (everything from history to parables, poetry to pastoral letters and legal code to visions of the future), worldviews, languages, cultures, agendas and opinions.

Accordingly, the inevitable historicity of all human proceedings does nothing to show that various beliefs and behaviors can not be more than the characteristic possession of a transient and temporary era in the history of a particular culture.

But our stereotypes of others don't have as much power over us when we're in relationship with people who represent various cultures, customs and histories.

As various audience members pointed out, California has a rich and historic culture steeped in wine: wine growing, winemaking, wine history, and the highest total wine consumption in the US.

Mother Nature, also by an anthropologist, shares experiences of motherhood as witnessed across the world and various cultures, across history and a variety of time periods, and even across species.

The idea of a social contract has a long history, dating back to various ancient cultures, ranging from the ancient Egyptians, Hammurabi, Greek, Roman, Chinese, Indian and the traditions of the three monolithic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

: the essential guide to customs & culture (Kuperard, 2009) Various, Ghana: An African Portrait Revisited (Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2007) Younge, Paschal Yao, Music and Dance Traditions of Ghana: History, Performance and Teaching (Mcfarland & Co Inc., 2011) Laura Burke; Armando García Schmidt (2013).

She examined imbalances in the ratio of men to women in various cultures and at various times throughout history and the effects they had on social systems.

Saunas and sweat baths have been used by various cultures throughout history to flush out toxins and disease and maintain optimal physical and mental health.

Emily received her M.A. in Food Studies where she spent time studying food through various disciplines, including business, culture, history, sustainable agriculture, and the journey food takes from production to consumption.

Gay history, gay art, homosexual mythology, gay love poems and articles on homosexuality from various world cultures, spanning ancient times to the present.

Hong Kong's unique identity with its fusion of Chinese and Western culture and complex history provides a culturally diverse space in which technology and tradition co-exist in various forms.

Students get involved in various interactive simulations, so, for our Southeast Asia unit, they do a mock United Nations session where they look at Myanmar (formerly Burma) and the human rights situation there; at the same time, we go into depth about the history of these cultures so they have a background and a context for understanding current events.

Students know that the visual arts have both a history and specific relationships to various cultures

As Banks (1995) has argued, the various White, European paradigms that dominate American history and culture are powerful and deeply entrenched in the U.S. social studies curriculum.

The search results are great and cover various categories such as classics, textbooks, math & science, children's books, philosophy & religion, plays, modern fiction, fantasy & romance, foreign language, history & culture, arts & entertainment, mystery and poetry.

Her articles on nineteenth century history have been published on various academic and history sites, including the Victorian Web and the Journal of Victorian Culture, and are also syndicated weekly at BUST Magazine.

The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.

The Westin Nanea Ocean Villas takes a unique approach to representing the culture of Hawai`i by sharing the history of the island through various architectural designs, décor and experiences.

If you're intrigued by the history and culture of the area you can easily delve into Malta's 7000 - year history, beach lovers will find a sunbathing haven across the various rocky bays (Spinola, Balluta Bay and Exiles Bay - watch out for the rocks, though!)

The Ecseri Flea Market Tour is brought to you by Fungarian, a team of enthusiastic language teachers, offering various informal, tailor made language classes and city tours with an insight into Hungary's history, art and culture.

Staged in various locations and venues around the town the Surf Festival is an opportunity to explore Byron Bay and a major part of its history and culture.

Marshall's subdued, slightly melancholy, slightly hopeful canvases are often allegories — they rethink various art - historical genres, such as history paintings and self - portraiture, by applying elements of African American culture to them.

He is currently completing A Distant Echo, a feature length film shot on 35 mm in various Californian deserts that explores themes of identity, culture and the construction of history in collaboration with musician Tom Challenger.

Uutinen and Reyle's works are based on various art historical movements but are also dealing with current themes, juxtaposing consumer culture with the history of art.

Covering the history, inventions, experiences and use of color in modern and contemporary Western art and non-Western cultures, the use of various shades is exposed, including philosophical, biological, anthropological, and neuroscientific perspectives.

Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.

Employing various strategies, including translation, history, performance, poetry, fiction, and mysticism, the works challenge notions of culture, origin, and belonging.

Romancing The Fragment presents works that are invested in materialist histories, reconstructing our vernacular visual languages in various forms, freezing its fragments and revealing our contemporary culture in ruin.

Artwork in several formats — including photography, film, installation and paintings — outlines various aspects of culture, history and everyday life in a multifacetted metropolis and in a country with European and oriental influences.

The exhibition features Schmidt's series of hand - painted silhouette cutouts that explore depictions of the female in various cultures and in moments throughout history.

By absorbing various alternative influences, refereeing to an art history momentous phenomenon, and interfering with pop culture, Sterling Ruby has made quite an effort to position his art practice as the communication tool not just in the purely aesthetic sense, but in social and political as well.

Covering the Fondation's entire top floor, complementing the two temporary exhibitions, is a selection of African works from the Collection which, through various media, explore the history and identity of the African continent and cultures, which today are essential to understanding the world's artistic landscape.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1968, Geers's work spans various mediums, employing forced confrontation with the viewer by subverting allusions to pop culture and art history.

Starling uses various research methods to draw out episodes and histories, exposing the changing relationships, conflicts and mobility of culture.

2011 Postcards from the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York, US Litos Grafere, Danish Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, DE; Museum of Stavanger, NO Freeriding, East / West Galleries, Woman's University, Denton, Texas, US Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960 - 75, Ziehersmith, New York, US Intrusions, Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris, FR Compagni Di Viaggio - Traveling Companions, Mestna Galerija Ljubliana, SI L'Insoutenable Légéreté de L'Être, Yvon Lambert, VIP Art Fair, Online Art Fair, New York, US Box is a Box is a Box, Librairie Florence Loewy, Paris, FR Drawn / Taped / Burned Abstraction on Paper, Kotonah Museum of Art, Kotonah, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Galerie Sonja Junkers, Munich, DE Works from the Pentti Kouri Collection, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, US Picasso: Guitars 1912 - 1914, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US Berlin International Film Festival, various theaters around Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, DE Observadores - Revelaҫões, Trânsitos e Distâncias, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT Market Art Fair, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE Feuille à Feuille, Musée de Vence, FR TextVideo / Female: Art after 60's, PKM Gallery, Seoul, KR Topography / Topography, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, US Bidoun Project, Mercer Street, New York, US Temporary Stedelijk 2 - Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, The Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Push Pull, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL Bild / Objekt: Neuere Amerikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH Tod's Art Plus Drama Party 2011, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Shelf Ramp Wedge Bridge, Fitzroy Gallery, New York, US CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US 100 Briques Pour Madagascar Œuvres Contemporaines, Hotel Marcel Dassault, Paris, FR Bomb 30th Anniversary Gala and Silent Auction, Capitale, New York, US Benefit Auction from the Icelandic Wetlands, The Culture House, Reykjavik, IS Locations, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Arratia, Beer Gallery, Berlin, DE After Hours: Murals on the Bowery, Festival of Ideas for a New City, New Museum and Art Production Fund, New York, US A Place to Which We Can Come, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, New York, US The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Designing the Whitney of the Future, Hurst Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, CN Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT Jeff Wall The Crooked Path, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE Through the Warp, Regina Rex, Ridgewood, New York, US Interloqui, National Glass Center, The University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, IT Arte in Movimento, La Galleria, Venice, IT Middle Age, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Brooke Alexander Editions, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, DE Void if Removed: Concrete Erudition 4, Le Plateau - Fonds Régional d'art Contemporaind «Ile - de-France, Paris, FR As Far as the Eye Can See, The Field Sculpture Park, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York, US 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, DE Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D'Arcangelo, 1975 - 1979, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny, FR Play Time, Lieu D'art Contemporain, Sigean, FR Plot: Plan: Process Works on Paper from the 1960's to Now, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, US Distant Star / Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US 15 Minutes Homage to Andy Warhol, Pollock - Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, US Seoul International New Media Festival, various cinemas in Seoul, KR Art = Text = Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Henrico, US Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Belvedere.

As a counterpoint to the story of modern art, and starting with the series of independent movements and individual geniuses who went their own way, the new collection display contextualises the various artistic highlights of the history and material culture of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Inspired by the history of various cultures, Irene combines her love of color and texture in her experimental collages and fluid, yet detailed, watercolors.

The brand has a long history of art world association, from the major exhibitions it underwrote in the 1990s, causing some uproar («Art is the domain of the minister of culture, not commerce,» Mr. Burke said, somewhat sarcastically), to the various artist collaborations the former designer Marc Jacobs instigated with Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince and Stephen Sprouse.

Born in India in 1977, Baptist Coelho frequently merges personal research with collaborations from various cultures, geographies and histories.

Each year the School of Art and Visual Studies sponsors lectures, exhibitions, and workshops by scholars and artists concerned with contemporary visual culture in cooperation with the Art History & Visual Studies program and its various courses in visual studies.

Cynthia A. Brinich - Langlois is bringing work she made during previous residencies at the Ucross Foundation in Clearmont, Wyoming — a collection of handmade artist books that address the history of various cultures, settlements, and range management techniques that converge in this place — to a group exhibition at the Ucross Foundation Art Gallery.

Inspired by the larger than life cinema history of Texas, Los Americanos explores the ephemeral through various cinema metaphors for identity, history and culture.

Working across various media in portraits, interiors, nudes and landscapes, Marshall conflates actual and imagined events from African American history and culture and integrates a range of stylistic influences to address the limited historiography of black art.

The Canadian artist has long portrayed himself as various fictional archetypes, using elaborate photographic self - portraits to comment on pop culture and the influence of art history.

Using computer - generated imagery, video, and installation, the duo examines how various technologies — motion capture, currency, routinization, and others — change the ways in which we perceive the world, other people, popular culture, history, and literary tropes.

Throughout history the beard has served as a sign of royalty, virility, and badassness in various cultures.

I hope that eventually this ongoing debate will lead to some consistency among the various times and ways to honor the rich and diverse indigenous Native American history and culture.

Most large companies will have a detailed section on their website about the company, comprising of various subjects — history, size, locations, structure, culture and share price, (if they are a limited company).