Word: textual
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...artist. At its outset, street art was a component of the primarily signatory graffiti culture—an artist reflected his or her originality in the textures and contours of their own signature. As the movement has grown in numbers and sophistication, these personae have become less textual and more enigmatic. One of the most well known street art blogs, Streetsy.com, uploads daily photos of street art—postering, stensils, street sculpture, murals, decals, and other work whose merit transcends the pejorative “graffiti” label—in Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City...
...This is progressive art. If this is not truly modern art, I’m not sure what is. Xu’s is art that accepts flawless cross-cultural translation for what it is—an impossibility—and therefore embraces the inevitability that both textual and non-textual images will have vastly dissimilar impressions on viewers of different tongues and backgrounds. The unfortunate and unfair byproduct of not being born in an English-speaking country is that one cannot naturally create visual art using the ‘cultura franca’ of the day. China...
...revival of traditional Jewish mysticism recently linked in the tabloids to a love triangle involving the Material Girl and married New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez. Yet despite its high-profile Hollywood associations, the Kabbalah tradition--which involves the attempt to more directly understand God through contemplation and arcane textual study--stretches back centuries...
...Gabriel stone) than on the testimony of eyewitnesses to Jesus' post-Resurrection self. Finally, Witherington notes that if he is wrong and Knohl's reading is right, it at least sets to rest the notion that the various gospel quotes attributed to Christ foreshadowing his death and Resurrection were textual retrojections put in his mouth by later believers - Jesus the Messianic Jew, as Knohl sees him, would have been familiar with the vocabulary for his own fate...
...even though the director’s vision for the play was unconventional, he put us through our paces in a conventional way; for the first two weeks, all we did was just read the play at the table and discuss aspects of the play’s textual analysis. We had rehearsal eight hours a day, so by the time we started staging the play (in the third week) we had already almost memorized all the lines after two weeks reading out loud.THC: What was it like working with the director? How did you feel about the unusual style...