Sentences with phrase «aesthetic criteria for»

Together these texts appear as a parallel production to Beshty's artistic work: they reflect on the conditions of the realization and circulation of images, undermining distinctions between media, abstraction and figuration, and proposing new aesthetic criteria for the works examined.

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Instead I see the aesthetic teleological vision as one in which we may break out of the confines of the ethical criteria usually employed in theodicies that have proven to be unsatisfactory for the reasons outlined so clearly in Kushner's fine book.

I suggested in the previous chapter that an aesthetic perspective on the cosmos is better able to support the religious view that all is ultimately cared for than are the usually employed ethical criteria for evaluating things.

Since antiquity, philosophers and art historians around the world have searched for universally valid criteria for aesthetic principles — in other words, a way to quantitatively describe things like beauty and ugliness.

The origins of Sylvester's criteria for a modern realism with a strong formalist and humanist grounding were integrally bound to his formative experience as a young critic in Paris, as the art historian James Hyman has carefully detailed.17 With the re-opening of European borders after 1945, Sylvester enthusiastically crossed the channel along with British artistic peers including William Turnbull, William Gear, Eduardo Paolozzi and Lucian Freud to soak up the aesthetic and philosophical ideals of Paris.

Dominated by a small cadre of the white and wealthy, our cultural institutions are diluting their authority through their ongoing absorption of investment criteria rather than historical and aesthetic concerns for art.

This concept provides the aesthetic criteria and an instigator for interaction in Pink Noise Pop Up — a research project initiated by Instant Coffee that embraces colour and sound as conduits for emotional connection.

Indeed, as is characteristic of America as a whole, this polymorphous aesthetic confederation is predicated on a healthy tolerance for variety rather than on rigid doctrines or criteria.