Sentences with phrase «with cultural critiques»

In new book, Billy Graham's oldest son, Franklin, combines lessons from his father with cultural critiques.

Not exact matches

A justified process - rooted philosophical appreciation of social canons can be taught through a pedagogical strategy that begins with their critique, that expunges them from the natural given furnishings of the immediately real in order to rediscover them as the inherited cultural accretions by which we transform the immediately real into a world of enduring meanings and human significance.

Blending laugh - out - loud moments with serious cultural critique, Evans discovers that living the actual teachings of the Bible means surrendering idealized role - playing in favor of becoming an eshet chayil — a woman of strength and wisdom.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

The extremely complex equilibrium at display in this film is pleasantly surprising as it balances the critique of certain aspects of Holy Week with presenting a respectful view at its religious and cultural essence.

But little else about Atán and Pivato's debut feature compares to Federico Fellini's masterpiece, which is distinguished by its regional detail and cultural critique and culminates in an honest, earned conclusion of hope mixed with despair.

Our reviewer writes, «Along with his pointed cultural critique are stark, electrifying pieces like «Ode to a Drone» and inventive, playful poems like his celebratory ode to grammar in the sly «His Love of Semicolons» («The comma is comely, the period, peerless, / but stack them one atop / the other, and I am in love»).

Part memoir, part cultural critique, and part genetic travelogue, Beyond the Pale is a brave, intimate investigation into the secret histories that each of us carries in our genes and an inspiring and beautiful memoir about parenting a child with a disability — and building a better future for that child.

Referencing the history of painting, particularly the fraught legacies of hyper masculine artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, her canvases combined figuration with feminist cultural critique.

These new works take historical paintings and Internet culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits suffused with cultural and societal critiques.

Another typical house - setting is Alabama Song, a project that provides Houston with a place where people can converse about not - so - typical cultural things and experience a presentation of non object - based ideas: artist talks, critique and reading groups, screenings, workshops and performances.

Pascher has written on art, film, and a variety of cultural issues, with texts appearing in numerous publications including Afterall, Art in America, Springerin, Merge Magazine, Metropolis, «The Museum as Arena: Artists on Institutional Critique» (Verlag der Walther König), and «Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists» Writings» (MIT Press).

Xu Bing began an exploration of tobacco during an artist residency in the southeastern U.S.. His research and works engage with the physical and olfactory properties of tobacco and provide a critique of the multinational tobacco markets, labor issues and cultural implications.

For her solo show she has created large format paintings and sculptures using the foundation's main gallery as her studio this summer: these new works take historical paintings and internet culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits suffused with cultural and societal critiques.

His paintings and drawings are built up by combining multiple disparate references, often with the result of lampooning or critiquing politics or cultural norms through a method that has been termed «reverse anthropology.»

A self - described artist of the «absurdist cultural critique,» Solien invites you in with brightly colored compositions filled with farcical figures and fanciful objects.

Through employing the Nefertiti bust as a metaphorical thread, and by interrogating the contested history of Egyptian Museum collections from the 19th century onwards, the exhibition is concerned with the critique of museology, the staging of the artwork and the writing of art - historical narrative as a means of forming and informing cultural otherness.

Her vixen costume imbues each situation with sensuality, while her Mexican American identity inflects the work with a critique of cultural assumptions and stereotypes about Latina women.

Armed with incisive wits, Stamp and Johnson shrewdly observe and critique the aesthetic makeup and cultural history of their shared city.

Furthermore, Howardena continued to deal with broader cultural concerns and critique sexism, racism, and discrimination at large, creating some of the most important bodies of work of the 20th century.

Steadfast in her cultural, political and social critique for over 50 years, Bernstein surged into art world prominence in the early 1970s with her monumental charcoal drawings of penis - screw hybrids; early incarnations of which were exhibited at AIR Gallery; Brooks Jackson Iolas Gallery, New York; Brooklyn Museum; and MoMA P.S. 1, among other institutions.

His contemporary folk art approach plays with themes of cultural and political critique.

Through her lyrical videos, Behbahani stages a contemporary cultural critique by layering and juxtaposing allusions to past and present sociopolitical circumstances with a language that she draws from her experience as a painter.

Flood has been making his lace paintings since the early 90s; their process of manufacture and slightly kitschy image derived from actual lace encourages us to look at these seductive beauties with a jaundiced eye; 2) The exhibition includes site - specific installations made of absurd pseudo-posters, multi-media, ephemera, collages, text paintings, and documents from the last decade that remix pop culture and critique systems of mass cultural distributions such as rock videos and albums.

The broader residency programme at IMMA afforded me the opportunity to contextualise my practice in the wider contemporary world whilst aligning my personal philosophies with changes, critique and new ways of seeing; emerging through conversations and debate which fermented out of the cultural production of the IMMA programme.»

Stephen Prina's The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You: Mourning Sex (2005 — 7) has all the markings of a work of institutional critique, that loosely defined genre of contemporary art that seeks to evaluate and question the position of art in relationship to various cultural and political contexts.4 Looking beyond the frame of the artwork itself, works of institutional critique recognize that art exists within a discursive field and grapple with the concentric or overlapping circles of spatial, temporal, cultural, social, economic, and political structures — or «institutions» — that «frame» the work in other ways.

Our programs invite informed discourse and debate in the form of guest speakers, visiting artists, open critiques, lectures, and collaborations with other arts and cultural institutions.

She engages with the tension between a personal investigation of eroticism, black femininity and beauty and a pop - cultural critique of the overt sexual imagery prevalent in the media — from Blaxploitation film heroines like Cleopatra Jones to the construction of middle - class, African - American taste in Ebony magazine.