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Pharmaka is pleased to present «TRANS: formal» the Los Angeles manifestation in a series of traveling shows by nine artists from Germany, Japan and the United States who are all engaged in a dialogue about Abstraction in painting.

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Just as this article said, and my comment above, to solve the divide, we can: (1) Argue about the definition of Race / God (2) Argue about identification in a religion / race (3) Or realize the fundamental problem of prejudice that sneaks into human - made abstractions like «race» and «God».

Liberalism as an abstraction can be criticized at the edges, but never in a way that might raise a doubt about one's being a liberal.

All Biblical characters we read about are to some extent abstractions from the real person who lived in time and space.

All of the abstractions in the sermon must be about the text.

I am not talking about the corny jokes or funny introductions many preachers use as a lead - in for 30 minutes of platitudes and abstractions, but honest truth from a person who believes what they are saying and has seen how it plays out in everyday life.

In any case, at least the fallacy of simple location, and in part the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, two of Whitehead's most important critical ideas, arise from and are explicitly attributed to Whitehead's reading of and engagement with Bergson's philosophy.17 Indeed, these two critical ideas about failings in the history of philosophy are addressed by both Bergson and Whitehead with the same twofold strategy: (1) a common method designed to minimize the distortion that enters into our metaphysical descriptions while allowing us still to generalize (extensive abstraction); and (2) a common descriptive postulate or tool (the epochal occasionIn any case, at least the fallacy of simple location, and in part the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, two of Whitehead's most important critical ideas, arise from and are explicitly attributed to Whitehead's reading of and engagement with Bergson's philosophy.17 Indeed, these two critical ideas about failings in the history of philosophy are addressed by both Bergson and Whitehead with the same twofold strategy: (1) a common method designed to minimize the distortion that enters into our metaphysical descriptions while allowing us still to generalize (extensive abstraction); and (2) a common descriptive postulate or tool (the epochal occasionin part the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, two of Whitehead's most important critical ideas, arise from and are explicitly attributed to Whitehead's reading of and engagement with Bergson's philosophy.17 Indeed, these two critical ideas about failings in the history of philosophy are addressed by both Bergson and Whitehead with the same twofold strategy: (1) a common method designed to minimize the distortion that enters into our metaphysical descriptions while allowing us still to generalize (extensive abstraction); and (2) a common descriptive postulate or tool (the epochal occasionin the history of philosophy are addressed by both Bergson and Whitehead with the same twofold strategy: (1) a common method designed to minimize the distortion that enters into our metaphysical descriptions while allowing us still to generalize (extensive abstraction); and (2) a common descriptive postulate or tool (the epochal occasion).

Those are handy scientific abstractions, but even if they were provable in the terms science allows, it would not show that no broader set of truths about the universe would not render these proofs a special case of themselves.

For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

And, since laws of nature are abstractions from environmental order, the inference provides a context for inferring predictions about entities in the environment E as well.

Hopewell acknowledges that some degree of abstraction is inevitable in any program of graduate professional training, but he remains convinced that «we have done it to such an extent in most of theological education that we tend to forget about the local church.»

«My impression is that so much of the literature that has really dominated our thinking about the church derives from generalized abstractions about what the church ought to be or about what the evils of the church are by theologians who are at best uncomfortable in trying to apply that to particular congregations.

It was not a message about the interior life of the soul considered in abstraction from the public life of the world.»

If the theory of concreteness applies to concrete singulars in a way it does not apply to groupings of such singulars, or to abstractions, then there is a restrictedness about the theory.

«The poem, if it be a true poem, is a simulacrum of reality — in this sense, at least, it is an «imitation» — by being an experience rather than any mere statement about experience or any mere abstraction from experience» (WWU 194).

Although Schmidt derives his view from the SMW chapter «Abstraction,» he evidently finds the basis for his observation in statements Whitehead made about the relational essence of eternal objects, and this buttresses my own conclusions.

Therefore, a person could not know anything about a particular thing other than himself by knowing only the categoreal obligations in himself or in abstraction.

«In abstraction from the creative urge... this phase is merely a proposition about its component feelings and their ultimate superject» (PR 342).

Thus, «forms of abstraction» become «the way in which the forces and vitalities of nature [are] set before us as positive mysteries, echoing something about nature and about ourselves.»

I will say more later about how he shows approximation to this in his «Method of Extensive Abstraction» when we get on to how he tries to bound events.

DE: What continually bothers me is that he brings in far more abstraction than he allows for, when he talks about what is given in awareness.

The passage of nature also contains properties which we notice in sense - awareness, and we then go on to form abstractions about these, which are perfectly legitimate for their purposes.

Whitehead experiments for a while with deliberations about the various theories of the world with regard to the degree to which they abstract from the world, and about adjusting a sequence of more or less abstract perspectives on the world, oriented at the level of abstraction attainable in the mathematized natural sciences.

Members are less likely to speak in abstractions than in tales about their collective life.

While I am very sympathetic to this sudden interest in mutualism, I think you are right to enter a cautionary note about the level of abstraction at which the discussion is sometimes pitched - the detail is crucial.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

With his controversial new film Nocturama opening in theaters, French director Bertrand Bonello spoke with us about what inspires him as an artist and how he blurs the line between realism and abstraction.

It also serves as an underlying subversive streak, a unique and nagging abstraction about current war time politics, sandwiched into genre in the glorious tradition of horror films from days past.

By the way, Jimmy - Given what Chris Roberts says here about not liking video game abstractions like lives / score counters, that really, really puts the combat sim intro of Wing Commander in perspective - must have seemed like a radical move at the time!

There was no Kingdom Hearts-esque abstraction about manifestations of hearts or multiple universes crossed in a ship piloted by chipmunks.

«In the future, I hope when people talk about me, it's not as an abstract painter, but that I came to abstraction through the study of very concrete objects,» Zhang said.

Asked about the new direction of his work in the 80's Scully remarks: «I got impatient with the precious remoteness of high - end abstraction.

NEW YORK Thomas Demand, Tony Feher, Stan Douglas, Lynda Benglis, «Bad Conscience», Graciela Iturbide, Hans Josephsohn, Robert Bechtle, Emilio Perez, Reinhard Mucha, Sue Williams, Mike Cockrill, John Grande, Mark Fox, Domenico Zindato, Nicola Hicks, Alain Kirili, Bernardi Roig, Arahmaiani, «about FACE» NATIONAL Houston Wols Los Angeles Alexander Calder, Alan Shields, San Francisco Jim Campbell Washington, D.C. Wolf Kahn Philadelphia Nancy Graves Santa Fe «Atomic Surplus» Akron, Ohio Diana Al - Hadid Coral Gables, Florida «The Silent Shout: Voices in Cuban Abstraction 1950 — 2013» INTERNATIONAL Paris Robert Wilson, Raymond Depardon London Victor Burgin Dublin Leonora Carrington Toronto Dil Hildebrand Vevey, Switzerland Pierrette Bloch Beijing Not Vital

Together they confirm that a voice can still be found in purely formal painting about the process of abstraction itself.»

Joan Waltemath talks with Raphael Rubinstein about the exhibition Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s, a show he curated at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through August 30, 2013.

Asked about his paintings, in which gestural abstraction and imagery blend together, Berryhill remarks «There's something about the searching for the thing you don't know what it is, the invention part I like, so when I get something in a drawing, I like, to work on it until it feels like a thing.»

LOS ANGELES — Curated by Kristina Kite and Sarah Lehrer - Graiwer, the artists and works in About Face employ ideas of scale, zoom, and cropping to complicate figuration and portraiture in relation to abstraction.

Jose Angel Vincench «The Weight of Words: Golden Irony» March 9 — April 1, 2017 My abstraction starts with testimony of the violent actions on the dissidents, but more than a political statement I prefer to talk about the silence in the civil society and art.

Mark Skilton: What we are talking about is the degree of abstraction which is in the sculpture.

He comments on her approach to painting, about her influence on abstraction and regrets her passing (she died in 1992, when she was only 34 years old).

I was interested in how one person could concretize abstraction, because reification is about concretizing abstraction.

-LSB-...] «Painting Too, at Harrington Mill Studios, forms part - two of a duo of shows about abstract painting, demonstrating that, to quote its curator David Manley: «current abstraction is in rude good health».

Haynes is co-curator of an important Alma Thomas exhibition currently on view at the Studio Museum and is co-editing a comprehensive catalog about the artist known for her powerful use of color working in abstraction, which is expected to be published in November.

This will be after taking in Robins sculpture, and Gary Wraggs paintings in Deal.Great that there are two shows of British Abstract Painting and Sculpture on at the moment.With Bill Tucker at Pangolin and Sams cracking show of 60s colour in Liverpool, Abstraction is far from a dead issue.Indeed there is a symposium by Matthew Macauley at a northern university [to be confirmed] coming up, with requests for papers.Two very good painters rang me to say go and see the Picasso show at Tate Modern, which I did.It was stunning and there were probably eight or so masterpieces in one room from one year!Tony and Sheila Caros show in Peterborough and Graham Boyd at the Cut, Frank Bowling in Dublin and Scully in Newcastle, Mali Morris at Women can't Paint at Turps Banana, loads to see, enjoy, think about and stimulate new work.I hope there are all those hungry [artistically] young Abstract Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend the genre.!

The framing of a Hans Hofmann and Milton Avery exhibition is about one thing, the dazzling affect color has in abstraction.

The exhibition features the artist's bold and experimental work challenging traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction, and works that reveal her interest in how paintings function in a given room.

Associated with movements as diverse as Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Minimalism, Op art, and Postmodernism, the artists featured in Rothko to Richter were at the forefront of debates about the changing priorities and imperatives of painting after World War II, each seeking to redefine abstraction for new social and cultural milieus.

When Lisa Freiman, Senior Curator and Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum if Art, completed the jurying of our 2012 Midwest Competition, the results of which will be published in August as Issue # 102, we had a discussion about the overwhelming amount of abstraction in the applicant pool; indeed, the book will strongly reflect this.