Sentences with phrase «aesthetic realm of»

Burgin soon decided to use photography not simply to scrutinize the gallery, but to probe the connection between the aesthetic realm of the white cube and the world outside with a body of work that at once mimicked and manipulated the codes of commercial advertising.

One was that, in 1988, he unveiled his «Banality» series of sculptures — diving face - first into the aesthetic realms of kitsch tchotchkes and making unsettling monuments to subjects like Michael Jackson and his monkey and greeting - card pap (as in a appropriated image of a couple holding puppies on a park bench that led to a successful and lucrative lawsuit).

Not exact matches

In the midst of the awful realm of powers, and of the sacred realm of laws, the aesthetic creative impulse is building unawares a third joyous realm of play and of appearance, in which it releases mankind from all the shackles of circumstance and frees him from everything that may be called constraint, whether physical or moral.

That's what the Greeks and later Michelangelo and the sculptors he most deeply influenced were about: elevating the human figure above the realm of optical phenomena and thereby endowing it with a more visceral presence, a deeper aesthetic resonance, and a greater emotional significance.

This reality helps us understand Henry's exasperated incredulity at the spectacle of the nation becoming richer and richer while its public realm became poorer and poorer — his deep - seated anger at the inconceivably extensive degradation of aesthetic experience in postwar America.

Today it often seems as if truly aesthetic values have been moved out of the social realm altogether, into ever smaller private preserves.

Moreover, Hartshorne's optimism and his aesthetic passion are voiced in his declaration that the truth which metaphysics discloses is both good and beautiful and that it can never be evil or ugly or objectionable.6 In tones reminiscent of Plato, he affirms, «Metaphysical truth is in some fashion a realm of beauty unsullied by any hint of ugliness.

It is noteworthy that Jesus accused his contemporaries precisely of such a failure in the realm of the imagination, and linked it to a moral failure, for the moral and the aesthetic are deeply intertwined (Balthasar again).

In these noetic realms of rational skill, moral imperative and aesthetic delight — of encounter with the true, the good and the beautiful — other forces are at work to draw out and enhance distinctive human potentialities.

One of them, a priest at a Shinto shrine, answered that it is the devotion to the creative forces in the universe in the bodily, the cosmic, the ethical, the intellectual, and the aesthetic realms.

These examples of aesthetic creativity taken from the realm of human experience should not be disengaged from their cosmic setting.

Isle of Dogs falls somewhere in - between, as it is not one of Anderson's best films, yet it also puts on display precisely what makes him such a continually interesting artist, most notably his willingness to extend his familiar aesthetic into new realms.

There was an accompanying resistance to the split of art and life, this making of art into a distinct, separate realm with its own aesthetic jurisdiction.

We are entering the realm of aesthetic eternity, escaping the relentless onslaught of ephemeral novelty in everyday life.

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.

Alex Da Corte's wonderfully perverse photographic works take the kind of deadpan aesthetic perfected by Elad Lassry and Roe Ethridge and drag it through the looking glass into a strange new synthetic realm of product - pushing, memes, pop culture, and contemporary design.

Some of the most memorable art on view in this year's fair tackled issues outside of the purely aesthetic realm.

Her aesthetic vision signifies the importance, now more than ever, of the possibilities of paint and the place where duration, sustained contemplation, and perception itself, meld within the realm of art.

The artist's stated aim of circumventing meaning, however, leads her into the realm of the purely aesthetic, which can be a trap if not balanced carefully.

Through clever manipulations of cropping, ordering, and pagination, Printed in Germany offers readers an original aesthetic experience and comprehensive insight into the practice of one of today's most thought - provoking artists, while — through pure visual splendor — pushing the boundaries of the artist's book into new realms.

«While group exhibitions are typically built around a technique or aesthetic concerns, this show looks at models of engagement and cooperation between contemporary female artists, and the deeper kinds of networking and community building that happen today in the studios, galleries and across the digital realm.»

The contrasting delicacy of sensuous gold foil and batik flowers suggests the collision of economic, aesthetic and personal realms.

Focusing on the artistic impulse to seek out new places, experiences and dimensions, WANDERLUST invites guests on a heady journey through time and space in pursuit of aesthetic perfection — and to other - worldly realms that only artists can conjure.

He has done so in great contrast to his peers, and is known for willingly and repeatedly throwing himself into an aesthetic breech and so has opened up more new and exciting territory within the realm of abstraction than any other painter of his generation.

Looking at the intersection of social, technological and aesthetic debate, the show will «reflect on how comprehensively the digital realm influences every area of our daily life, our perception and our production of knowledge» and includes work by Sophia Al Maria, Auto Italia South East, Guan Xiao, Katja Novitskova, Yuri Pattison, Tabita Rezaire, and Rachel de Joode among others.

With the sensibility of a maverick architect, Marzouk envisions aesthetic systems that draw on a diversity of cultural traditions but which can only exist in the realm of the imagination.

The resulting volume (to be released in fall 2017) offers a resource for students, scholars, or any engaged reader, to consider dominant threads in aesthetic theory along side related works of art, including selections from structuralist and post-structuralist explorations of representation, to German media theory, the study of cultural techniques, and the still - burgeoning realm of new media theory, together offering a wide array of theoretical and methodological approaches to the world of images, and a sense of how those approaches have evolved over time.

Soft Scrub, Hard Body, Liquid Presence observes a shift taking place in the realm of our aesthetic and emotional sensibilities.

This exhibition is an impressionistic journey of sublime photographic imagery that evokes timeless emotion and takes the viewer into aesthetic realms.

Cannily incorporating a wide range of visual vocabularies drawn from the realms of cinema, advertising, communications, and the history of art alike, and strategically structuring both architectural environments and the editing of images and sounds in order to take in the viewer and overwhelm the senses, Aitken exposes audiences to ideas — and to each other, in communal spaces — by means of a nearly hypnotic aesthetic.

As part of the exhibition Soft Scrub, Hard Body, Liquid Presence, the performances and installations observe a shift taking place in the realm of our aesthetic and emotional sensibilities.

Soft Scrub, Hard Body, Liquid Presence, an International Collaboration featuring artwork and performances by artists Merike Estna and Maria Metsalu and guest curated by Maria Arusoo, Director of CCA Estonia, observes a shift taking place in the realm of our aesthetic and emotional sensibilities.

And why would the realm of aesthetic making and contemplation be considered paradisiacal?

I'm talking about capital «D» Design, which for the purposes of this piece refers to furniture and other functional objects that also assume a glossy aesthetic that reach beyond pure functionality into the realm of art.

This show is the next step in that meditation, and in the case of the abstract work, a departure from it, into the realm of pure aesthetic.»

In his synopsis of the Ask Chuleta series, Sirmans explains that by «using the easily accessible D.I.Y. aesthetic of much video art, Raimundi - Ortiz's performance explores the televisual world in a realm between public - access cable television and the confessionals of reality TV.»

The group exhibition invites seven international artists to examine the power of the image in the contemporary world, but «the real task for them is to filter the images, to recognise the systems that images operate within, to follow their paths of circulation in the contemporary (art) world, to predict their abilities and the sociopolitical, aesthetic and ethical dimensions images acquire as they traverse different realms of reality».

The Duchampian infra - thin as embodiment of the membranic in the aesthetic realm is of particular interest and functions as periodic influence in my work.

Her artistic practice is primarily interested in the historical cycles of toxins within military, daily, and aesthetic realms as well as the poetical recourse deriving from that shift.

Paul Kasmin Gallery - New York By Taliesin Thomas The art of Los Angeles - based painter Mark Ryden (born 1963, Oregon) is redolent of an Aristotelian fairytale: themes such as sense and sensibilia, memory, dreams, divination, physics and physiognomy blend together to illustrate Ryden's metaphysical musings and his aesthetic forays into the complex realms of fantastical -LSB-...]

Mounted onto plywood surfaces, Simmons» paintings reference hoardings and construction sites, reminding us of the temporality of culture, its questionable accessibility and recalling the objecthood and impact of these aesthetic interventions in the public realm.

This archival impulse revolutionized art production over the ensuing decades, paving the way for a conceptually driven use of photography as a means of absorbing the world at large into a new aesthetic realm.

The series provided Anderson with an aesthetic playground to explore the realms of detail, texture and abstraction.

Dated to the early 15th century (1404 — 1438), the meaning and origin of the manuscript has made it the subject of speculation in both formal scholarship and aesthetic realm alike, and its enigmatic contents have long held a fascination for the artist.