They are much more elementally complex and
abstract than any of Man Ray's rayographs where we can recognize many of the employed objects.
Not exact matches
This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws
of morality, to which
man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement
of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable
than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable
than equality; the honor and duty
of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace
of a skepticism toward reason and
abstract principle.
God, transcendent and immanent, above all yet in all; God, forthgoing in the sublime and challenging character
of Christ; God, no
abstract essence only, but the Spirit who can strengthen us with might in the inner
man, so that, as Paul dared say, we «may be filled with all the fullness
of God» — if one is going to believe in God at all, what richer, more comprehensive, and sustaining idea and experience
of him can one imagine
than that?
Part
of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence
of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events
of ancient time God was at work among
men, and it is from his action in history rather
than from
abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with
men, now as always.
Then, pious as it is to think
of Him, while the pageant
of experiment or
abstract reasoning passes by, still such piety is nothing more
than a poetry
of thought, or an ornament
of language, a certain view taken
of Nature which one
man has and another has not, which gifted minds strike out, which others see to be admirable and ingenious, and which all would be the better for adopting.
Even when a
man says that science led him to God, it was probably less a reasoned conclusion from the
abstract symbols
of technical knowledge
than a total response to an experience
of beauty, order, and reverence.
No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich
man, nor the learned
man, nor the distinguished
man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the
abstract manhood itself
of the country,
man himself unqualified by convention, the
man to whom all these conventional
men have been simply introductory, the
man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer
of every other
man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture
of his nature
than has ever yet illustrated humanity...
An interesting study
of christological models has been written by John McIntyre.4 The «two - natures model» (which he takes as a single complex model involving both divine and human natures) has dominated Christian thought, but it has a number
of limitations; it is tied to the Aristotelian categories
of substance and attribute, and it tends to view the incarnation as the assumption
of an
abstract human nature rather
than the personal individuality
of a particular
man.
For most
of its running time, John Krasinski's adaptation
of David Foster Wallace's short - story collection Brief Interviews With Hideous
Men consists
of little more
than a series
of monologues, and plays like some
abstract theater exercise, hosted by a college coffeehouse.
In the work
of Rodney Graham, sound — be it the
abstract noise
of a 1950s Italian projector, as in his latest work, Rheinmetall / Victoria, or a song presented within a film, as in How I Became a Ramblin»
Man — is more
than an integral part
of the work.
One
of the few female sculptors
of her generation to have created the kind
of monumental steel, bronze, and stone works more often associated with
men, Pepper has been making site - specific, freestanding
abstract pieces around the world for more
than five decades, including numerous public commissions.
Although Roszak's welded sculptures continued to be
abstract, they were expressionistic rather
than streamlined, inspired by the organic instead
of the
man - made.
When I ask about Steciw's inspiration, Blomfield points me in the direction
of The Overloaded
Man, a short story J.G. Ballard in which the protagonist, suitably named Faulkner, narrows his perception
of the world which in turn becomes nothing more
than an array
of abstract forms and colours.
More
than a century later another critic and painter, Lawrence Gowing, staged an exhibition at New York's Museum
of Modern Art in which he presented the great
man essentially an
abstract artist, thereby turning him into a precursor
of Pollock and Rothko.
With the inclusion, more
than fifty years later,
of Unconcerned Photographs in the 2018 Tate Modern exhibition Shape
of Light: 100 Years
of Photography and
Abstract Art,
Man Ray finally finds himself in the company not just
of photographers, but
of the painters and sculptors who contributed to the invention
of abstract art.
Kelly, now a well - known
abstract expressionist painter, was one
of more
than 1,000
men who joined the 23rd.
We are thrilled to be bringing the work
of a
man described by the Washington Post as one
of America's «finest
abstract painters» to a UK audience for the first time in more
than 20 years.
Level 1 was «explicit endorsement with quantification»: i.e., the
abstracts stated specifically that more
than 50 %
of the warming since 1950 was attributable to
Man.
This would not be possible if, as you claim,
abstracts that «reject» the consensus claimed that less
than 50 %
of warming was caused by
man, and papers that «endorse» it claimed that more
than 50 %
of warming was caused by
man.
In a study from Spain,
men who ate about 4 tablespoons
of extra-virgin olive oil a day showed better language comprehension, attention, and
abstract thinking
than those on a low - fat diet.