"Zeitgeist" refers to the general ideas, beliefs, attitudes, and cultural tendencies that are prevalent during a particular period in history. It represents the spirit or dominant mood of a specific time.
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Julius Shulman, Photograph of Case Study House # 22 (Pierre Koenig, architect, Los Angeles, 1959 — 60), 1960 October 7, 2007 — January 6, 2008 Birth of the Cool examines the broad cultural
zeitgeist of «cool» that influenced the visual arts, graphic and decorative arts, architecture, music, and film produced in California in the 1950s and early 1960s.
For a day date, you can't beat a Saturday morning at the Ferry Building farmers market, or a Bloody Mary at
Zeitgeist in the mission district.
These works weave together lettering and text throughout the image to create rhythm and visual vibrations whose psychedelic associations tapped into the counter
cultural zeitgeist of the 1960s and 70s.
In its second gallery exchange
with Zeitgeist Gallery, Atlnatas Whitespace is hosting an exhibition of work by the Nashville gallerys artists.
Laura Poitras, My Country, My Country, 2006, digital video, 90 min., a co-production of Praxis Films and The Independent Television Service (ITVS) produced in association with P.O.V. / American Documentary, courtesy of Zeitgeist Films
John Miller in
Zeitgeist at Musée d'art moderne et contemporain / MAMCO curated by Paul Bernard, Lionel Bovier and Fabrice Stroun.
With its carefully planned outfits, jokes, and acceptance speeches, the Academy Awards ceremony is a reflection of the
current zeitgeist in the U.S. And for better or worse, a major topic of conversation this year was — as in 2017 — women.
That Bad Company panders to the drool - cup and bib crowd is further supported by Jason Richman and Michael Browning's unforgivable screenplay and its propensity for narrating the very obvious while attempting to capitalize
on zeitgeist for a quick «Hello St. Louis!»
The opening of «Luminous Animals,» a group show featuring nearly a dozen artists from
Zeitgeist gallery in Nashville, happened to land on a particularly warm and clear night.
Best Documentary: THE OATH Directed and produced by Laura Poitras Released
by Zeitgeist Films and American Documentary / POV
Irma Vep is obviously a great film, but Demonlover is almost as great (and one of the decade's great
zeitgeist films), and Summer Hours makes the same concerns he's been mulling over since then fresh in explicit verbal formulations; it's consistent but not wearisome.
Then, he goes a little further in time to the X-Force's ill - fated attempt to parachute onto the convoy carrying Russell (Julian Dennison), where he stops Peter (Rob Delaney) from getting zapped by acidic vomit
from Zeitgeist (Bill Skarsgard).
Paranoid classics like Three Days of the Condor and All the President's Men oozed 1970s
zeitgeist like blood on bitumen.
A final reason is that we seem to have had be a sort of
zeitgeist change from the 1960s and 1970s into the 1980s and later.
David Humphrey and Ryan Michael Ford channel a
contemporary zeitgeist of psycho - sexual angst, desire and fantasy.
Born in Portsmouth and trained at the Slade and Chelsea Schools of Art in London, Le Brun first appeared in several group exhibitions, such as the influential
Zeitgeist exhibition at the Martin - Gropius Bau, Berlin, and from 1980 onwards, in many solo exhibitions in Britain, Europe and America.
The incredibly long time line has lead to accusations from Barry Turner, chief executive of the Packaging and Films Association, that the agency has tried to «suppress» the findings because they contradict the
political zeitgeist of our times.
Too multiloquent for 140 - character limits, McDonough doesn't use Twitter, and yet he's delivered a darkly satirical
zeitgeist movie that demonstrates how short, impulsive messages blasted out into the world can have real consequences.
Door handles, tents and garden hoses were to dominate De Keyser's work, anticipating the walking stick that appeared in his recent exhibition in Berlin — hardly inspiring images, but somehow in accord with the pop -
art zeitgeist of the 60s.
The curent trend of more realistic stock valuation that began with Jupiter / Saturn conjunction in 2000 MAY become lost with this
new zeitgeist shift.
Upstream Gallery
presents Zeitgeist, a solo exhibition of conceptual paintings, video and sculpture by Marc Bijl, that question the notion of truth in an overloaded stream of propaganda, tags and fake news.
I met David de Rothschild at the
Google Zeitgeist conference in 2007 where we both spoke during the session about Green Technology.
When the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in 2012, it had the weight of a legion of Suzanne Collins fans and pop
culture zeitgeist behind it, but managed to be little more than a vaguely interesting (if derivative) story told in a mediocre fashion by director Gary Ross.
But, more importantly, it captures a certain
zeitgeist among the artistic community at the time trying to live a Bohemian ideal by not selling out to corporate careerism.
Fortunately, progress in stem - cell research can still continue through non-federal funds, and the
prevailing zeitgeist does seem to favor an eventual nullification of the decision: Yesterday, another overreaching legal case bit the dust when an appellate judge dismissed a lawsuit that claimed CERN's Large Hadron Collider risked destroying the Earth.
For several years, Mitchell had been an ardent media supporter of the players, coaches and parents of Jackie Robinson West, well before the Little League on the city's predominantly black South Side burst into the
national zeitgeist.
The cultural and
artistic zeitgeist of New York City during the 1980s is unrivalled in the contemporary imagination.
If EA or Ubisoft R&D were to develop a machine capable of algorithmically combining all the crucial elements of the current PC
gaming zeitgeist in...
It is perhaps worrying that Christopher Wool's direct and assertive works speak to our own
zeitgeist most directly: his message of Riot finds many sympathisers in the febrile atmosphere of contemporary US politics, while Hole in Head — displayed right behind Noland's bullet - riddled cowboy — is a rather apt metaphor for many people's collective experience of Donald Trump's presidency.
The argument that Jesus is actually a pastiche of pagan deities with similar dying - and - rising myths has become popular among many atheists after a conspiracy theory film
called Zeitgeist amassed millions of views online.
The Sixth Sense was a sucker punch of a movie; I didn't see the quality or the cultural
zeitgeist coming.
Michael Moore tapped the
media zeitgeist with his surprise announcement earlier this week of a new film that would have a sneak screening at IFC Center in New York just a day later.
The so - called contemporary
zeitgeist artist joins Whitechapel Gallery curator Omar Kholeif for conversation about language, cultural identity and living in the thick of constant media and technology.
It is the first exhibition of its kind to focus on the intersection of indigenous cultures and
zeitgeist digital practices in contemporary art.
Note: After doing a lot of reading, research, and thinking on the topics in this post, I wrote a follow - up post about the pagan roots of Christianity here and some of my concluding thoughts
about Zeitgeist the movie.
Even
zeitgeist games like Street Fighter II, while technically violent, represented the benign violence of the playground.
But most of the before and after photos in the cultural
zeitgeist do.
While the Whitney Biennial is a survey of contemporary American art, not of the contemporary
American Zeitgeist, it's impossible not to read some index of the national mood in its propositions.
The shift from a litigation culture chimed in with the family law
zeitgeist more widely with the growth everywhere of mediation and collaborative lawyering: «we were inadvertent change agents,» Ms Mason said.
The end of 2012, that is — and the retrospectives are plentiful, from Google's tear - inducing annual
Zeitgeist video to lists upon lists of the best books, movies, and music.
For the next seventeen years, the changing
zeitgeist made the publication of personality research difficult.
From neuroses with regulating our babies» sleep habits, to insistence on antimicrobial everything, to the attempt to continue «babyproofing» our homes until our babies are well into elementary school, our current
parenting zeitgeist is competitive, market - driven... and exhausting.
The ultimate source of
sartorial zeitgeist, brands like Chanel and Dior have been directing the narrative on body shape since the New Look - defining beauty on a global scale with aspirational body types the driving force behind a culture bred on being thin.