It is not medicine or science that is the enemy, but the continued
abstraction from the real life of real humans of which they are both the parents and the children.
Not exact matches
All Biblical characters we read about are to some extent
abstractions from the
real person who
lived in time and space.
If the
life and rule of Jesus and his incarnation is to be normative in the church, then we must stand for
real people, not
abstractions: for soldiers, their families, congregations to which they belong, and the chaplains and pastors who minister to their needs
from near and far.
Tracing the influence of
abstraction through society and politics over the past century, the exhibition stands in ardent defence of the artistic practices of Malevich and his contemporaries, an ambitious attempt to corroborate his rebuttal
from more than 80 years ago that «the Black Square is
real life.»
The first essay is passionate and pointed, defending the «relevance» of
abstraction in pure 1960s ideological terms: «And to think we still hear people who insist that abstract art is divorced
from real life.»