Sentences with phrase «with cultural signifiers»

Not exact matches

Could Bay actually be deliberately making a metaphor with the nefarious and false «contamination alerts» — the Orange Alerts of the city — as opposed to his usual accidental stumbling upon some negative and evil cultural signifier, of which is own work is usually the best example?

Whether it's a T - shirt with «BOY» emblazoned across the front for Theron, or yet another tiresome pop - cultural signifier, his directorial hand is one blunt instrument.

Her parents fought the good fight to be treated with respect and equality and looked for any signs of backwardness they might need to root out of their daughters, who were alternately fascinated and repelled by the very cultural signifiers their parents feared.

His paintings contain a mash - up of historical and cultural references, combining elements of 18th and 19th century colonial portraiture and folk art with visual signifiers of contemporary urban culture, including jewelry and body art associated with present - day gangsters and hipsters.

On its own, a Polaroid image is fully identified with the artwork that ultimately grew out of it; the face depicted becomes a kind of signifier for larger cultural concepts of beauty, power, and worth.

Unlike Pop Artists who use cultural signifiers to ironically comment on culture, Thiebaud's work is more concerned with the formal issues of paint.

The artists in this exhibition produce works that explore the multi-faceted characteristics of the word «hood» in some fashion: a slang term for a Black neighborhood; a suffix in cultural theory concepts like «objecthood,» «personhood,» «negrohood;» and Trayvon Martin's hoodie, which, along with his being an objectified young Black male, served as a signifier in an act of radical injustice.

Fascinated by jewelry as a cultural signifier, she is influenced by both historical jewels and material hierarchies that she believes are both imbued with meaning far beyond their mere physicality.

Through re-contextualization, he endows adopted elements of cultural ephemera with a political charge, attempting to transform a battery of neutral art materials into signifiers of dissent.

He creates and repurposes images, films, structures, and objects that are full of established cultural signifiers yet totally empty of empirical meaning to endow these seemingly known forms with new possibilities.

In these works, such as in «Clearing Sky, Strong Blue over the Village Trees» (2006), Shils moves beyond architecture along with its cultural and social signifiers and into an untethered, unselfconscious realm of abstraction.

It is less interested in a play of signifiers within a supposedly neutral space than in what cultural resources are to hand (funds, status, accessibility, mobility, visibility) and of what is to be done with them.

From the poodle skirts and New Look dresses of the Fifties to the bell - bottoms and afros of the drug - fueled Seventies and the padded shoulders and fingerless gloves of the Material - Girl Eighties, the past has dutifully furnished fashion with recognizable signifiers that reflected changes in society and were driven by major cultural undercurrents of their time.

Best known for their performances, videos, and photographs that combine elements of S&M gay subculture with everyday domestic scenes, the artist team will further their ongoing exploration of power relations, as manifested in explicit cultural signifiers as well as clandestine -LSB-...]

He adopts and endows elements of cultural ephemera with a political charge, attempting to transform various materials into signifiers of dissent.