Sentences with phrase «mythic past»

Dirt Meridian: Photographs by Andrew Moore Photographer Andrew Moore has worked along the 100th meridian for the past decade, drawn to its mythic past and the people who call the High Plains home.

Best - case scenario: You're mesmerized by Hou's vision of a mysterious lost world of pure values — a mythic past rendered even more remote by stylized performances and painterly camerawork.

The politics of Star Wars have long been cynical: The choice of government in the «galaxy far, far away» comes down to shaky, corruptible republics or space Nazis, and all ideals come from the mythic past.

When the times seem out of joint, human beings tend either to anticipate a future utopia or to dream of a mythic past when things were the way they ought to be.

We have always contemplated the night sky with awe, envisioning ties to mythic pasts or inspirations of space - bound futures.

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It is our duty as Americans to know and appreciate the systems of belief — the mythic cosmologies, the scientific laws, the common - sense attitudes — that in times past have served to give coherence and purpose to our life together.

Though the roots of this attitude can be found in ancient mythic and religious forms of thought, in the past three centuries the estrangement of human subjects from the natural world in turn has been built up in our imaginations under the influence of certain types of scientific epistemology and cosmology.

The cosmologies implied in mythic, religious and most philosophical systems of the past have been hierarchical in nature.1 They have usually delineated four realms of cosmic being: mineral, plant, animal, man.

The last 45 minutes are fully realized: the blitzkrieglike destruction of Hogwarts; the revelatory «pensieve» flashback showing Snape's tortured past; and the final duel between Harry and his nemesis, light on suspense but rich in mythic splendor.

«I, Tonya» ventures past an empathetic portrait of this woman into transforming her into a mythic anti-heroine, whose warrior spirit can not be vanquished.

A salesman from Ashland, Alabama, who, by his own confession, just wanted to be a great man, Edward is revealed in a series of amusing, backward glances as a man quick with a rib - splitting joke as well as full of wise if improbable tales of his heroic past that blend into the mythic, even fairy - tale - like material of transcendence.

A resident of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains herself, McCrumb has the unique ability to paint mythic portraits from the past and present of the people who call this region home.

As Mitch Cullin weaves together Holmes's hidden past, his poignant struggle to retain mental acuity, and his unlikely relationship with Roger, Holmes is transformed from the machine - like, mythic figure into an ordinary man, confronting and acquiescing to emotions he has resisted his entire life.

Over the past five decades, during which his explorations of race and urban experience have made him one of the most consistently provocative and influential of American artists, he's conducted only a handful of press interviews — this reticence of being merely one facet of a famed elusiveness that has reached almost mythic proportions.

According to the Times obituary, she later went on to create a series of paintings that «engaged female artists of the past, notably Frida Kahlo, the focus of several works with mythic overtones.»

Now in its second decade, the Armory Show — which in 1999 itself appropriated the name from the historic 1913 Armory Show — is far past its mythic origins of 1994, when the fair opened in the Gramercy Hotel and art was displayed on hotel room beds.

Drawing on mythic stories from various cultures, Jonas invests texts from the past with the politics of the present.

2002 Illustraded Catalog, Big Girl Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 2001 Included in exhibition, Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami 2000 Included in exhibitions: The International Festival of Contemporary Sculpture: Contemporary American Sculpture, Monaco; The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th Century Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta 1999 Included in exhibitions: The American Century: Art and Culture 1950 - 2000, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Bad - Bad: That is a Good Excuse, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden - Baden, Germany 1997 Included in exhibitions: The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992 - 1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; La Biennale de Venezia: Future, Present, Past, XLVII International Arts Exhibition, Venice 1996 Release of film, Basquiat, directed and produced by Schnabel 1994 Julian Schnabel: Retrospective, at the Museo de Monterrey, Mexico; included in exhibition, U.S. Painting of the 1980s, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 1993 Included in Drawing the Line Against AIDS, exhibition in conjunction with Art Against AIDS Venezia, under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Colletion, Venice 1992 Included in exhibitions: Le Portrait Dans L'Art Contemporain, at the Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, France; Manifeste, at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1991 Solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel, at the Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; included in exhibitions: The 1980's: Selections from the Permanent Collection, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Toward a New Museum: Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture, 1985 - 1991, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California 1989 Traveling solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Works on Paper 1975 - 1988, originating at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland 1986 Traveling solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Paintings 1975 - 1986, originating at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1985 Completes four etching, lithographs published by Pace Editions, New York 1984 - 2001 Solo exhibitions at PaceWildenstein, New York 1984 First solo exhibition at the Pace Gallery, New York 1979 First solo exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York