For Forman, Milda's parents — a pushy, overprotective mother and an indifferent father, collapsed in front of the television — represent the young lovers projected into the future, as the romantic idealism of youth gives way to the glum pragmatism of middle age. (criterion.com)
In doing so Simmons» work complicates notions of idealism as they have been illustrated through the representation of the human presence in the landscape and throughout art history. (davidcastillogallery.com)
I read Coleridge's Aids to Reflection, the poet - philosopher's rehash of German idealism, of which I had then read nothing. (religion-online.org)