Sentences with phrase «abstracts symbolic representations»

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Results indicate that bilingualism is reliably associated with several cognitive outcomes, including increased attention control, working memory, metalinguistic awareness, and abstract and symbolic representation skills.

What «Information Age» values tempt us to forget is that all of the information gushing through our electronic networks is abstract; that is, it is all representations, one or more symbolic steps removed from any concrete object or personal experience.

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

Over the past three decades, private collectors Peter and Rosemarie Ruppert have amassed an enormous range of works focused on the definition of concrete art as an aesthetic form that stands only for itself, and not for an abstracted or symbolic representation of the visually perceptible.

In this exhibition, established artists such as Betty Tompkins, Tom Burr, John Coplans, Donald Moffett and Nancy Grossman, coexist alongside an emerging generation of artists, including Wyatt Kahn, Xylor Jane, Robert Zungu, Dave Hardy, Michelle Lopez and Archangelo Sassolino, to deploy abstracted, allegorical and symbolic representations of the body within a post-historical culture.