Sentences with phrase «as iconoclasm»

The latter takes forms such as iconoclasm (smashing idols) and quietism (inner experience).

But a student of the history of that school of anti «art known as iconoclasm knows he must seek other game than the easy prey of nihilist art.

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(It is worth pointing out, as Koerner does, that a depicted crucifix is itself an image of a negation, simultaneously an icon and an iconoclasm, an image of God that violates all expectations about God, «a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the gentiles.»)

The implications of Israel's understanding of YHWH, as expressed in the first two commandments, are completely at variance with the way ancient man thought of the gods, and explain the iconoclasm which has been prominent from time to time in both Judaism and Christianity.

He attacks them by considering iconoclasm as the first act of the Christian life: the first and continuous act, the breaking down of images through the Word.

As everyone now knows, this movement eventually terminated in one more dreary episode of modernist iconoclasm.

This uneasiness with Christ's true flesh becomes especially clear in a passage from Origen that Besançon quotes as the most telling expression of Origen's implicit iconoclasm:

As it happens, the same hostility can actually be ascribed to all the plastic arts, as Alain Besançon demonstrates in his remarkable history of iconoclasm, a history he traces from Moses and the pre «Socratic philosophers down to the Soviet commissars of arAs it happens, the same hostility can actually be ascribed to all the plastic arts, as Alain Besançon demonstrates in his remarkable history of iconoclasm, a history he traces from Moses and the pre «Socratic philosophers down to the Soviet commissars of aras Alain Besançon demonstrates in his remarkable history of iconoclasm, a history he traces from Moses and the pre «Socratic philosophers down to the Soviet commissars of art.

But, claims Gorringe, professor of theology at the University of Exeter, there was a «pull» as well: «There is not simply an iconoclasm, but also an iconpoiesis in the Reformation which understands that the world mirrors the divine in its banal, day - to - day reality.»

Whether by way of the iconoclasm of the prophets of Israel or the logos of Greek thinking, the West has negated the immediate actuality of the world, and subordinated world as such to that which is apprehended as lying beyond or apart from it.

Eire first made his mark as a historian in 1989 with The War Against the Idols, a study of Reformation iconoclasm and the theology that underlay it.

Our inheritance of Reformation iconoclasm is usually put forward as the traditional reason for our discomfort; and in the mainline churches our commitment to social justice and our resulting decisions about stewardship are cited as contemporary explanation and justification.

The science shows, but only as a seamlessly spliced element of plot structure: Eleanor's attraction to Piper's iconoclasm has monumental personal consequences.

At his most lucid (a term applied loosely), Kilmer, with a touch of iconoclasm, imparts a little about Mamet's process, including the hyphenate playwright's use of his children as a barometer for material and preference for «traditional» filmmaking techniques.

As the international art world touches down in Turkey against a backdrop of ISIS iconoclasm, it's worth asking: Just where does festival culture leave us?

As the specter of iconoclasm continues to resurface in current events, «The Keeper» will present the complex lives of images and objects that have escaped a tragic end alongside the existential adventures of individuals driven by unreasonable acts of iconophilia.

Tate Britain's «Art Under Attack» fails to address acts of contemporary iconoclasm, such as the destruction of the Chartist Mural in Wales

In recycling historical materials, loaded with meaning, such as Han Dynasty vases or wood from destroyed temples, Ai distils ancient and modern aesthetics in works of salvage or iconoclasm.

His stainless steel series entitled Deflated Sculpture (2009) refigures Jeff Koon's iconic balloon rabbit in various stages of collapse; letting the air out isn't an act of iconoclasm so much as giving the original idea new life.

In the exhibition, Tate presents iconoclasm as largely a historical phenomenon, but in doing so overlooks acts of image - breaking that are taking place all too frequently today both outside and inside the gallery.

There, works by Turnbull — alongside others by Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Eduardo Paolozzi and Bernard Meadows — were immediately interpreted as a new generation's challenge to Henry Moore's dominance, an interpretation encouraged by the placing of a Moore bronze outside the pavilion to highlight the difference between his smooth, rounded forms and the spiky, disturbing iconoclasm of the younger generation inside.

Others, though, greeted it as a masterpiece and called for it to have a permanent life (which was not the artist's intention), comparing its destruction to the iconoclasm of the English Reformation.

Tate Modern on Fire can either function as a proposition or a warning — what initially seems as cultural iconoclasm is revealed to possess much deeper meanings.

MG On the other hand, many of your works appear to be broken, consumed, as ruins or victims of acts of iconoclasm.

The subject of iconoclasm was something Tate Britain «ought to do,» she said and had thought of it as a potential exhibition before she took over at the gallery three years ago.

Mr. Wekre, who paid for his house and car with cash, attributes this broad consensus to as the country's iconoclasm.

As I understand and vaguely recall my creative writing days, good writing requires some amount of iconoclasm, damn - them - all spirit, and dispensing with prevailing thought.