Sentences with phrase «with cultural objects»

Not exact matches

Nikki: Most of my interactions with cultural stereotypes have assumed that because I'm an Asian woman, I could be either a dragon lady, a newscaster, or a demure sexualized object.

Cultural imagination presents a world relatively preformed with objects, signs, and relevant respects of interpretation.

In addition to our culture's fascination with breasts as sexual objects, breastfeeding is also «modified by a wide variety of [cultural] beliefs, not only about infant health and nutrition, but also about the nature of human infancy and the proper relationships between mother and child, and between mother and father1.»

In a global world, where physical and virtual limits collapse, we are flooded with information and cultural references, data and objects that come from everywhere.

It isn't as good as Clueless, but just as that teen movie did a better job with Jane Austen than all the supposedly legit screen adaptations of her novels that flanked it, Cruel Intentions is less presumptuous than the efforts of Vadim, Frears, and Forman, which were all presented as prestigious cultural objects.

Solis» research focuses on children's cognitive development, specifically how young children play with each other and with objects to understand and build theories about the world around them, and how this is shaped by their cultural context.

This test consists of 20 items (with an associated answer key for the teacher) that assess the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural concepts listed below: Vocabulary Themes: History; Countries and cities; Communities Grammar Themes: Prepositions: Preterite tense in regular - ar, - er, and - ir verbs; Direct object pronouns Culture Themes: The Mayas and The Incas; Independence Age; Latin American and US Writing in Spanish: Punctuation and accents An alternate version of the test is also provided to the teacher, in case a student needs to re-take the assessment or for use in large classrooms.

The newly developed Citi Money Gallery secondary education programme delivers financial education in a historical context through objects in the collection, emphasising the development of money in society, various cultural relationships with money and the role money has played in the creation and destruction of entities.

Through engaging with artworks from diverse cultural sources, students are challenged to consider accepted roles, images, objects, sounds, beliefs and practices in new ways.

They may even argue about this with their friends and so make the beginning of an effort at rationalising their appreciation or dislike of cultural objects.

The cultural cues the designer puts into the game can have a huge effect — designing a testosterone - drenched game with scads of violence and / or women as sex objects (say, a Bulletstorm or a Duke Nukem Forever) is going to attract a very different audience, and have very different griefing thresholds, than online components for, say, the Settlers of Catan Xbox Live game or a more casual MMO like Maple Story or Free Realms.

Like Drake's claim over the valuable cultural objects he pursues, the sense of pedigree and authority he invokes by aligning himself with Sir Francis Drake probably sits more or less comfortably with players depending on their worldview.

When Sanic»06 imagines the Death of The Mascot, it imagines the death of key cultural constructions that came with objects like Sonic The Hedgehog.

In both the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» and the «Organ Pipes», the materiality of the objects open up to suggest a vast scope of cultural production — the elemental tin transformed into the majestic pipe organ, an achievement of pre-industrial design on par with horology; the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» echoing the stone surface of prehistoric cave paintings and also the modernist tradition of the monochrome.

Born in the early - to mid-20th century with no formal training, their creative spirits compelled them to make eclectic and found - object works steeped in religious, historic and cultural meaning and quilts with family and regional heritage literally sewn through the fabric.

The familiar digital arrows point to becoming - subject and becoming - object, charged with Art Historical and pop cultural attitudes toward the female body.

Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events.

Like many of their previous collaborations, the exhibition will experiment with the intersection of photography, painting, and sculpture focusing on the shifting cultural significance of ideas, objects and images.

VMFA also participates with the American Association of Museum Directors (AAMD) Object Registry: AAMD Object Registry which lists new acquisitions of archaeological material and works of ancient art and tracks resolutions of claims for Nazi - era cultural assets.

Contemporary heir to the pop artists, Da Corte combines these common consumer objects with pop cultural references, personal family narratives — and even other artists» work — in vibrant sculptures, paintings, videos, and immersive installations.

Sanné Mestrom's work with objects often involves invisible forces, references to art and cultural history, and explorations of the psychological or emotional significance attributed to objects.

The objects he creates are an attempt to form a physical manifestation of memory and reckon with ideas of personal history, cultural traditions, and belief systems in the contemporary world.

He often brings together evolving traditions with present - day concerns through a mix of cultural references and materials, from robotic constructions and found objects (work boots and sewing machines) to organic materials (seeds, soil, and feathers).

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.

The repetition of shapes allows Leigh to have a sustained, temporal engagement with the formal — and gendered — history of ceramics and the cultural histories each object represents.

Grounded in dialogue, their images, objects, and essays elucidate a new relationship to art, one in which information merges into matter, the biological merges with the cultural, and local specificity blends into the planetary.

As part of a new generation of artists associated with «New Materialism,» which proposes that objects and materials assert their own power over the viewer independent of subjective cultural interpretations, German and Mongolian - Chinese multimedia artist Timur Si - Qin is fascinated by the immediate visual and emotional power of brand logos and advertising in and of themselves.

Stockholder has long broken down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture to explore the body in social and cultural space — using found objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colors.

He imbues new meaning into objects that resonate with a history of modernism, while reaching back across continents and centuries to cultural roots in Africa.

Born in Turkey and based in Berlin, Nevin Aladağ employs practicable objects such as carpets, wire, and instruments in her two - and three - dimensional works and video installations that engage purposefully with meditations on cultural heritage and identity.

For artists practicing in city centers such as New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, etc there are insurmountable financial restrictions forcing cultural practitioners into a complicated relationship with objects, one that more often than not results in an immaterial object that transcends spatio - temporality.

This unruly object was complemented by a photocopied publication, which featured interviews (conducted by Cruzvillegas) with knitters, community gardeners, slam poets and other figures who issued from a cultural space that was alien to clichés of Parisian identity.

Cultural references abound — from Marcel Duchamp's engagement with everyday objects to filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard's fascination with the colors red, yellow, and blue.

In her photo - collage, painting, and sculptures, Surrealist visual tropes collide with minimalist forms and fetishized objects to explore what constitutes cultural ideas of femininity and personhood and psychology.

The museum's unique collection of international contemporary art is a selective collection of works created by artists who occupy key positions in the field, either because they have created a distinctive visual language, objects and images with great originality and quality, or because they have reinvented important aspects of cultural production.

Taking its cue from the resurgence of figurative sculpture in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and from Sigmund Freud's essay «The Uncanny» (1919), the exhibition brings together mannequin - related art works, mostly from the 1960s onwards, with objects from disparate cultural contexts that engender a similar sense of unease in the viewer: medical dolls, anatomical waxworks, religious statues, pagan figurines, ventriloquists» dummies, sex dolls, taxidermy and so on.

The works in the exhibition continue the artist's signature use of functional and found objects relating to his home country, drawing on both cultural and social shifts as well as considering these objects as vessels with personal and geological histories.

Exploring both personal and collective memories of black girlhood, the labyrinth reflects Stingily's poignant, referential found objects and architectural forms, which she compares with political and cultural threat.

With a penchant for non-heroic, «anti-art» materials such as spray foam and aluminum, and a keen eye for cultural objects bemired in symbolic notions of power, Bäckström's deeply tactile works create a rich interplay between association, meaning, and materials.

Objects are selected for their cultural resonance and are then subjected to a process of masking with synthetic rubber.

The methodologies implemented in this early work can be found throughout his career, with the artist repurposing found objects and placing them in juxtapositions that highlight their functional purposes, cultural associations, and metaphorical potential.

She often combines ceramic elements, beautifully handcrafted, with utilitarian items, such as toilet plungers or buckets, to create pieces that call into question the cultural and historic meaning of particular objects or images.

And that has a kind of African context too in that the African artists or the medicine men and others who were involved with creating things — cultural icons and other things — would determine the value of something and place it in a different context; such as the use of objects from nature.

Utilizing pre-existing cultural objects, movement, body fluid, space, and meditative processes, I continue to simultaneously grapple with and reprieve my poly - consciousness.

The display of seemingly unrelated objects in terms of spatial proximity, differences in scale, subject matter as well as the overall diversity of Birmingham's collection chimes with Jess's citation of many inter-connecting references in her work allowing innovative overlaps of visual, historical and cultural analogies.

With a deep interest in cultural anthropology and communication, Ramírez seeks to uncover a new interpretation of space and objects.

Painted with a font design similar to that of the mural, the objects are «desecrated» with what seems a provocative and cynical gesture, rejecting a cultural heritage that is perceived as oppressive.

Through their formal qualities, along with personal, cultural, and technological references, the works evoked questions about the physicality of the art object.

Since 1990 Sol» Sax has produced objects, images, and performances that fuse African - American cultural heritages like Hip - Hop, House, Reggae, Soul, Jazz, Blues, and spirituals with traditional African religions like Yoruba, Congo, Mende, Akan, and Fon.

He utilizes sculpture, installation, video and photography to traverse cultural boundaries and reconnect with often overlooked objects, materials and places found in the rural landscape.