Sentences with phrase «which cultural symbols»

This work highlights not only the artist's own experience as a Korean artist acclimatizing to American culture, but also the ways in which cultural symbols are disseminated in a globalized world.

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There are cultural «repertoires of values,» says theologian Bernice Martin, which express themselves through a «hidden vocabulary» of symbols that saturate popular culture and structure its assumptions; We need, therefore, to look at

The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred, as well as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.

We live in the world which is in large part shaped for us by the system of cultural symbols and concepts which we inherit.

If it is true that symbols give rise to thought, then social thinking which has come loose from its cultural origins will eventually become thin and distorted, often with disastrous practical results.

«15 Moreover, Whitehead emphasizes that symbolic reference, at least in human symbolisms, is generally a two - way affair in which the symbol and the symbolized are frequently interchangeable, a situation that suggests a reciprocal interaction between secondary (poetic) imagination and the social or cultural aspect of symbolizing.16

In this cross-disciplinary conversation I turn first to what is known about the brain, then to what we understand about belief, and finally, on the basis of that convergence of ideas, to an examination of the cultural symbol - images of Byzantine and medieval architecture, which express both cognitive and cosmic ways of understanding human life.

Therefore, in proclaiming the Kingdom of God in our context should mean taking seriously the cultural and religious symbols and traditions which embody their vision of life and wholeness.

I think we should specify once again the cultural and philosophical background out of which the typical, psychologically biased understanding of symbols has arisen.

His theory of symbolism then, is not only compatible with feminist goals of revising and renewing cultural symbols, but also provides a systematic analysis which gives philosophical support and impetus to these goals.

The historian of religions finds himself in an analogous situation when he deals with archaic symbols that have been modified by cultural influences and events, for example, the World Tree, which in Central Asia and in Siberia received a new value by assimilating the Mesopotamian idea of the seven planetary heavens.

The Ed School students were divided into groups, with each group talking with one of the Japanese students about ways to improve learning and motivation in five areas addressed in the website, which uses symbols from the hiragana alphabet to introduce cultural topics.

Along with its privileged position in this cultural city, the hotel also enjoys sweeping views over the Ria, the Calatrava walkway and the spectacular museum which has become the symbol of Bilbao.

The typography was refracted by objects from London architecture: «We took models of the main architectural and cultural symbols of the city which echo the idea of Future London Academy — knowledge through the lens of London,» ONY explains.

Blue Poles (No. 11), 1952 (pictured below), which brought down the Australian government when the country spent $ 1.3 million on its acquisition, is a star of the Australian National Gallery in Canberra, and in retrospect a symbol of the country's cultural coming of age.

At the height of his career, Pollock painted in a barn in Springs, New York, but he was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912 and grew up in Arizona and Chico, California, experiencing Native American cultural symbols, which may have influenced his work as glyphs and motifs, what Jung called archetypes, emerged during his Jungian analysis.

In response to critique of this history, which included displacing a generation of Aboriginal children into boarding schools where they were stripped of their linguistic and cultural heritage, Australia has in recent years represented itself internationally through a collection of symbols drawn from indigenous sources.

Such a keen eye for the symbols constituting the American cultural landscape prefigures his successive series such as his Nurses paintings, which draw inspiration from pulp fiction cover designs.

This recent series brings together 14 paintings which continue Clemente's singular pictorial language, gathering together myriad cultural references and merging timeless symbols, iconic imagery and philosophies.

References to antiquity and the Renaissance abound in his art, which is characterized by a rich repertoire of marks, scrawls, scribbles, doodles, and scratches — at once expressive of a gestural approach and of cultural symbols.

«The Bridge» is a symbol for a cultural bridge which speaks to the...