Abstracting the forms of vernacular Cuban structures -- lighthouse, factory, apartment house, church, jail -- into a collapsible city of tents, Mr. Arrechea, Mr. Rodríguez and Mr. Castillo have pared the inessentials and left only sleekly designed metaphors that have the surface clarity of work by Richard Artschwager or Donald Judd.
(Rosenberg) ★ El Museo del Barrio: 'Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression' (through May 6) The city's premier museum of Latin culture explores its holdings in urban folk art, so-called handicraft and other forms of vernacular expression and comes up with visual gold.
Now and then I've hit buried treasure in the form of vernacular word-lists or remarkable people – troves that have held gleaming handfuls of coinages, like the Lewisian "Peat Glossary".
McCarthyism was a populist attack on the élites; the campaign against comics, on the other hand, was "a kind of anti-anti-elitism, a campaign by protectors of rarefied ideals of literacy, sophistication, and virtue to rein in the practitioners of a wild, homegrown form of vernacular American expression".
John Adams's music has regularly flirted with the forms and idioms of a variety of vernacular musics.
Jews have always made a genuine effort to learn some Hebrew, and other sacred languages are archaic forms of the vernacular; the English of the Authorized Version of the Bible became the language of prayer in many Protestant churches.
The reforms of Charlemagne, reestablishing more classical standards in written Latin, may have been at once cause and result of the development of conventional written forms for vernacular Romance.
There is no obvious narrative or symbolic intention, but because Mr. Schramm uses the forms and materials of vernacular residential construction, his installation can't help but call to mind real-world anxieties about threats to our safety -- political, meteorological, seismic and otherwise.
The Bechers are cult figures, known in the photography world for their "typologies" of water towers, gas tanks, workers' houses, winding towers, and blast furnaces, among other forms of the industrial vernacular.
This study also identifies some further specific elements that are worth further investigation, including the shape of louvered windows, different forms of apertures and vernacular elements.
Those who consider Show Boat racially insensitive often note that the dialogue and lyrics of the black characters (especially the stevedore Joe and his wife Queenie) and choruses use various forms of African American Vernacular English.
