Sentences with phrase «vernacular traditions in»

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Wether in Latin or the vernacular, chant is an integrall and important part of our Christian heritage and living tradition.

It's bound to fail, just ask the Church how successful they were in trying to maintain power by keeping their books and traditions in a language other than that of the common vernacular.

His vernacular is eminently materialist and deeply rooted in a sense of place, celebrating the incidental beauty of Korean folk traditions.

«Souls Grown Deep: African - American Vernacular Art of the South,» a groundbreaking exhibition of over 450 artworks by some 30 contemporary artists, highlighting a significant artistic tradition that has risen in concert with the Civil Rights Movement.

New Orleans» location at the geographic fringe of the continental United States, in close proximity to Cuba, Haiti, and Mexico, has generated a unique blend of distinctions between artistic genres and vernacular traditions, and each of the artists in the exhibition has produced work that in some way challenges many of these time - worn distinctions.

A picture such as «Grind» playfully echoes the edge - conscious»60s abstractions of Frank Stella and Jo Baer while evoking the vernacular tradition of sign painting and the cross-fertilization of painting and graphic design that culminated in Pop art.

However, «Cowboys» can be seen not only as a cynical representation of reality, but also, in the critical tradition of Conceptual art, as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular, and even as the existential gesture of a figurative and realist artist.

Leigh's sculptural works in ceramic and other materials reference vernacular visual traditions from the Caribbean, the American South, and the African continent, as well as the black diasporic experience dating from the Middle Passage to the present.

Vernacular craft processes and folk traditions in combination with digital technologies raise socio - economic questions about women's labor and other cultural conceits.

By the mid-1990s Arnett's efforts resulted in an ambitious project to survey the visual tradition of the African American South: an exhibition and two - volume book, titled Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, which was ultimately presented at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and remains the most in - depth scholarly examination of its kind.

An English and Spanish word that broadly describes images and objects produced in the Americas and typical of American cultures, here it is specifically intended to evoke both North American vernacular art collecting traditions and a unique hemispheric perspective that reaches across national borders.

The exquisite lines of her hand - cut paper silhouettes speak to centuries of vernacular art tradition in the United States and Europe.

Whether rough - hewn beauties in earth tones or frenetic explosions of bright color, they reveal influences from southern vernacular art traditions and muralists such as Keith Haring.

Tapping the traditions of documentary and conceptual photography, Leonard's project, which she developed during a residency at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, is positioned within the genealogy of the grand visual archives that extend from Eugène Atget's Paris «then and now,» to August Sander's Face of Our Time, to Bernd and Hilla Becher's typologies of vernacular architecture.

They — along with many other artists whose works could easily have fit in this exhibition — are vernacular cosmopolitans of a kind, moving in - between cultural traditions, and revealing hybrid forms of life and art that do not have a prior existence within the discrete world of any single culture or language.

Stories are a starting point for all of Taus Makhacheva's works and they are told in local vernacular: ordinary people, everyday objects, works of applied decorative arts, landscape, traditions, family lore and institutional archives.

references to spiritual practices and vernacular traditions through her altar installations, articles, and exhibitions, and in 1992; she was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.

The resulting practice remains difficult to name and is quite distant to the academic sculptural traditions of the time, it links more to the vernacular traditions of making devotional objects in Podhale, the region of Poland where he lived.

His research and eventual film work will explore how the influence of these committed intellectuals reverberated widely in the post-war cultural arena, eventually giving rise to an emerging discipline of «cultural studies», that, in its focus on popular art forms and vernacular traditions, posed considerable challenges to the established academic elite of that time.

MG As much as your work engages with non-Western traditions, it is also very much rooted in American culture, where there is a long legacy of sculptures built out of found objects — not only in «high art,» but even more so in vernacular expressions, of which your work seems keenly aware.

His work also touches upon vernacular forms such as the muralist tradition and the comic book, as seen in his comics - inspired Rythm Mastr drawings (2000 — present), in order to address and correct the «vacuum in the image bank» — in other words, to make the invisible visible.

Drawing on the visual language of architecture and functional design, Djordjadze creates sculptural environments that foreground the lasting legacy of Modernism while evoking the vernacular and folk traditions native to the Caucasus region in the Republic of Georgia.

The space, tarred and feathered from top to bottom, becomes a stand - in for the body on which pain and humiliation is inflicted by the vernacular mob tradition.

Influenced by the folk aesthetics and history of her surroundings, Norton's work employs music, video, mixed media, and performance as her country - music alter ego Ninnie, in a manner that combines feminist thought with local and vernacular imagery inspired by the cultural traditions of the rural South and specifically of her native Kentucky.

Through the push and pull of cross cultural collaboration the group has balanced traditional cultural practice in the Caribbean and forward - looking design solutions; developing new methods and new vernacular that respects and elevates local traditions.