Sentences with phrase «aesthetic contemplation»

He did not present himself to man for aesthetic contemplation but for dialogue and obedience.

Because of her, and with her, I am able — by moments — to move out of my own natural larval state and experience movies not just as deliverers of entertainment, conveyors of meaning, or objects of aesthetic contemplation, but as pure fields of emotional and sensory intensity, almost like rooms to which one can return.»

Whether in the realm of social justice, community building, spirituality or environmental concerns, the claim of art as a pure domain of disinterested aesthetic contemplation has been relentlessly challenged for over two centuries.

According to them, the work was too directly political and social in its content, and too ephemeral in its composition — leaving no room for the privileged space of neutral aesthetic contemplation that the modernist white cube had always provided critics in the past.

He had a lifelong desire to give the viewer something where one could lose oneself, offering images of such serenity that the outside world is lost, forgotten, so much so that aesthetic contemplation becomes everything.

Are they places to pacify political interests in name of aesthetic contemplation, or rather incite dissents and challenge our perspectives in a «post-truth» society?

Büttner offers up the contours of this monochromatic lump, like those of a scholar's rock, for aesthetic contemplation.

The conservative is not primarily defined by taking the right political positions but by recognizing and preserving the beauty the world has to offer, and by engaging as much as possible in activities that are worthwhile in themselves, especially friendship, love, aesthetic contemplation, conversation, and liberal learning.

Perhaps they can somewhat counter the residual presumption that thinking runs counter to aesthetic contemplation; that intelligence is not beautiful.

The Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition focused on the aesthetic contemplation of mysticism in both contemporary art practice and contemporary practices of looking at art.

Whether through paint or video, Pindell squeezes the spatial and temporal attributes of aesthetic experience, and finds new ways to disorganize, or at times even suffocate, the space of aesthetic contemplation.

Mortality and decay become visceral and affective forces outside the realm of aesthetic contemplation.

But to place this car in the gallery seems to miss the point, offering it as an object of aesthetic contemplation and period design rather than the embodiment of a particular kind of fantasy that suffused»60s culture, that often found its expression in a burgeoning ethos of conspicuous consumption.

Their components (lines, dots, curves, letters, numbers, and cartographic elements) are made clear and associated in a way that allows for a transparent understanding of the process of their execution and development without allowing a full rendering and aesthetic contemplation of a clear end result.

Seen en masse, Albers chromatic and compositional structures — always effective, invariably inflexible — lend themselves more to finger tapping and clock - watching than aesthetic contemplation.

His painting poses as a deceptive icon of aesthetic contemplation, punctuated with flirtatious eyes returning the viewer's gaze.