Sentences with phrase «as apotheosis»

Critics tended to describe these paintings as an apotheosis, a sign that art had reached a point of exhaustion.1 Artists offered more pragmatic explanations.

They are glorious, but I don't think of them as the apotheosis of Diebenkorn's career, as many have argued they are, for each phase of it produced its own astonishing treasures.

On one hand, his work has been hailed as an apotheosis of rigorous modernist painting.

I think we may eventually come to view the Race - to - the - Top and ESEA - flexibility requirements related to assessing teachers as the apotheosis of federal K — 12 technocracy.

Ley's role was complex, and his life took an intriguing and meandering path through many of the 20th century's key events: the rise of airborne technology after the first world war; rocketry's beginnings; the Nazis» ascent; the cold war; the popularisation of the idea of space travel; and, finally, as apotheosis, the first moon landing, which occurred mere weeks after his death.

The canonic story traces a self that declines tragically from a state misunderstood as apotheosis to total subordination, while the gnostic story elevates the self from a state misunderstood as bondage to union with God.

Not exact matches

It is perhaps well to remember that this Lincoln, who Nuechterlein reminds us mused over the implications of the awful arithmetic of Fredericksburg, was, before his apotheosis, hated by many in the North precisely for it and was known by many there as «the widow - maker.»

And it was in Italian that Orlando ultimately achieved his apotheosis as the supreme hero of chivalric fiction, in the three greatest Italian romances of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: the Morgante of Luigi Pulci, the Orlando Innamorato of Matteo Boiardo, and the Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto.

1:15 - 20), as preserved in the consequent nature of God, and from thence re-presented to the world as principle of its possible apotheosis, then individual «survival» is radically relativized.

We should add at this point that even as the earth shares in the ruin attendance upon the sin of humanity (cf. Gen. 3.17 - 18), so the world «waits» for the apotheosis of humanity in which it too shall be renewed and glorified (cf., Rom.

Barfield's conception of the incarnation as a freeing of man, in the course of time, to say the Divine Name («I am...») here coalesces with Altizer's idea that the death of God frees us to see the contemporary reality of a continuing incarnational kenosis leading to a nonhubristic apotheosis of man.15 Barfield has achieved with his metaphorical sensitivity a pre-view of a «final participation» which is the coincidentia oppositorum Altizer was insufficiently able to apprehend with his dialectical method.

What else could prepare us to apprehend the Apotheosis of the World, the manifestation of brute fact as final salvation?

of this program he enunciated several years later in his book on Christology, translated as Jesus — God and Man (Westminster, 1968): The resurrection of Jesus not only provides a preview of mankind's apotheosis and, as such, a mini-model of world history; it is also verifiable according to the usual canons of historical research.

The reigning tendency of current Protestantism, the so - called dialectical theology, denies every revelation of God outside the Christian Bible and looks upon the non-Christian religions as mere attempts at self - apotheosis which are under the judgment of God.

And as a cultural festival, it commands vast allegiance while dramatizing and reinforcing the religious myths of national innocence and apotheosis.

It is the apotheosis, as it were, of all that is best in the best of schools» rugby.

The model survived COMECON and reached its apotheosis in the creation of the WTO as a first fruit of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

A new generation of fans awakens for the franchise that was once the apotheosis of the «Con», as in «those «Star Wars geeks» at that thing in San Diego.»

It may be the apotheosis or culmination of all the Korines: a picture that starts off, as many have noted, like an arty «Girls Gone Wild» video, inflated to Hieronymus Boschian or Pieter Brughelian beach party proportions, and ends up doing a riff on the Al Pacino — Brian De Palma 1983 «Scarface,» mashed up into «Charlie's Angels» gone homicidal.

Equally indebted to Martin Scorsese, Guy Ritchie, and Giorgio Armani, London Boulevard represents the apotheosis of style over substance, the kind of gangster flick where the cut of a killer's suit is as important as the motive for his crime.

That same year after Five Easy Pieces's apotheosis, Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry trumped Nicholson's Hardhat Longhair as a Middle American culture hero.

A wry nod to the way that many films, not least his own, are seen in Iran, it's a point of grave concern, as well as vibrant humour; the apotheosis of another hallmark film in the career of a great filmmaker, and a resolute symbol of defiance.

It's a nice surprise, then, that It Follows plays neither as a childlike regression nor an apotheosis into serious filmmaking, but as an evolutionary early step in what ought to be a fascinating career: an impeccably crafted little thriller that's actually about something, if not too many things.

If nothing else (and there is quite a lot else) the film is at times perhaps the apotheosis of Wes Anderson's aesthetic: a glorious, mischievous sequence of pictorialist plays taking place in a world so perfectly contained it might as well be in a snowglobe.

The apotheosis of educational romanticism occurred on January 8, 2002, when a Republican president of the United States, surrounded by approving legislators from both parties, signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act, which had this as the Statement of Purpose for its key title:

This explains why the CBS interview was such quintessential Betsy DeVos, her apotheosis as it were.

This vision of isolation receives its apotheosis in A Bar at the Folies - Bergère [6], perhaps the most poignant image of alienation ever painted, a deadly serious spoof of Watteau's Gilles in completely modern «naturalist» terms, the anonymous yet concrete figure trapped between the world of tangible things and that of impalpable reflections, existing only as a way station between life and art.

While one might well reply that Ingres's Apotheosis of Homer is as irrevocably bound to the same historical moment as Courbet's Studio, even though it attempts to establish universal values and eternal verities, in the case of Ingres's work this is despite rather than because of the intentions of the artist; one might almost say that as far as Ingres was concerned, to be of one's time was a measure of failure rather than of achievement.

In the current «Apotheosis,» Korean artists Jinsu Han, an inventor of mechanical engines that do such things as make paintings untouched by the human hand, and Jong Oh, whose minimal interventions with string, Plexiglas, and weight reconstruct space in subtle but far - reaching ways, renewed the entire abandoned building into a grand art project.

Concetto spaziale, Attese is not only unique in Fontana's practice, but also stands as a supreme apotheosis of his philosophy.

Curiously some of the commercial galleries that represent the apotheosis of the contemporary art industry and market, such as, here in NY, Gagosian and Zwirner, have been able to mount museum quality shows the past few years, including for example excellent Picasso and Frankenthaler exhibitions at Gagosian and the recent exhibition of Ad Reinhardt's work at Zwirner, in spaces that either are as beautiful as any museum or that are just functional in a good way, with few frills, just good walls and space.

It is a manifestation of temps perdu, the shake»n' bake of a decade of weekends, the apotheosis — stage - lit, foyer - furnished — of the bits of life between the other bits of life occurring, as Chaimowicz says, in «gracious» time.

As a preacher, St John the Evangelist had a special significance to the friars, but his apotheosis was rarely depicted in Europe.

The precise relationship between artwork, gallery, and viewer, once known as scale, rarely obtains in those purported temples of Minimalism, the Guggenheim Bilbao and Dia: Beacon, where the orchestration of a giganticist aesthetic intended to dominate and impress, in distinct opposition to Minimalism's body - based phenomenology, has found its apotheosis.

Nauman's apotheosis as one of the world's most highly lauded artists came as he was ranked No. 1 in the world by Artfacts.net in 2006, and he was the sole US representative in the American Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Though my fragmented image was only a byproduct of the glass protecting the photos, for a moment I glimpsed an apotheosis of Baudelaire's «strange abominations»: As I walked through the gallery I was suddenly aware of how I, or rather my unintended reflection, added another layer of obstruction to the works in the exhibition.

What's more, constituting the most significant work by Brown ever to come to auction, The Tragic Conversion of Salvador Dalí (After John Martin) not only stands at the very apotheosis of the artist's extraordinary corpus of monumental sci - fi panoramas but also ranks as perhaps the most magnificent work of Glenn Brown's entire creation.

But the overall project — funded with $ 25.4 million from the state and $ 40 million in private donations — does something else as well: It marks the apotheosis of Thompson's strategy to fill the sprawling museum with exhibitions of large - scale works by well - known artists that can last for decades.

In fact, the present apotheosis of Broodthaers as an artist is a radical cultural transformation, just not the liberatory one that people of the arts so often talk of in vague and longing terms.

But The Tomb, a harrowingly realistic self - portrait sculpture as a beatnik corpse, is the undisputed apotheosis.

The combination of Art Basel's apotheosis as the one of the most recognized brands in art — it rivals the two tenured auction houses for public mindshare — with the sea change in the way retail is conducted around the world is both a tremendous opportunity for the art fair and an enormous challenge to become something more than what it has been, a producer of trade fairs.

While Knoebel was a child growing up in Dessau — home from 1919 > 1933 to the Bauhaus school — the non-representational abstract art that had been developed early in the 20th century via cubism and such artists as Robert Delaunay, Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian had reached its apotheosis in the 1950s New York - led abstract expressionist movement.

As art historian David Bourdon explained, the New Realists show was «the apotheosis of the emerging Pop tendency [and]... the most provocative art event of the season, marking one of the most divisive moments in the history of the New York art world.»

Of course Warhol's apotheosis as the savior of abstract painting has been coming for years now, ever since sundry dealers, curators, critics, and historians decided that his Shadows, Oxidations, Camouflages, and Rorschachs were in the great tradition of Kazimir Malevich, Jackson Pollock, and Barnett Newman.