Sentences with phrase «as symbolic representation»

A selection of short - filmed performance is also featured as part of the exhibition; in the preview Starr gives a 15 - minute routine wrestling with a chair as a symbolic representation of the familial struggles with her grandmother.

He appropriates the allegorical image as symbolic representation of universal conceptions of the world (be it mythological or religious).

Built in 1918, this exquisitely restored pastel pink — painted as a symbolic representation of peace makes for an unforgettable stay.

Many scholars regard the figure of Jonah in this book as a symbolic representation of the people of Israel, and then the period of three days and three nights during which Jonah remained in the belly of the great fish represents the exile in which Israel was swallowed by Bel.

In this history, he claimed, we learn to see historical conceptions of God as symbolic representations of the human drama of cultural development.

The exhibition brings together a group of contemporary artists whose work looks to food, eating, feeding, and cooking as symbolic representations of exchanged emotion or power.

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One can not argue backwards and describe the characters as mere symbolic representations — that would shatter their individuality and literary impact.

These gods of the boutique can come from anywhere — native North American religion, the Indian subcontinent, some Pre-Raphaelite grove shrouded in Celtic twilight, cunning purveyors of otherwise worthless quartz, pages drawn at random from Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, or that redoubtable old Aryan, Joseph Campbell — but where such gods inevitably come to rest are not so much divine hierarchies as ornamental étagères, where their principal office is to provide symbolic representations of the dreamier sides of their votaries» personalities.

The gospel mandate to take the good news to the corners of the world and the symbolic representation of Eucharist as a cosmic banquet where people from the East and the West and from South and North participate with a sense of oneness and belonging epitomizes the urge for universalism.

When the constitution of 1917 was drafted, therefore, «Catholic» representation was nonexistent, and the resulting document not only repeated earlier material restrictions on the Church (such as government ownership of all church property, civil registry of priests, and making marriage a civil matter) but also got in a symbolic lick or two (for example, religious garb was not to be worn in public; worship was to be only an indoor affair; alien priests were forbidden; and no religious labels were allowed for political parties).

Stalin arose to lead communism as the «symbolic representation of the Lord of the Second Advent on the Satanic side.»

His current research focusses on the role of symbolic representations as projections of diplomatic power.

The picture, itself an iconic representation, became a symbolic reminder not only of Ojukwu's role as the father of APGA but also of his stature in Igbo history.

The truth is that APGA is viewed as part of Ojukwu's legacy and a symbolic representation of his leadership of the Igbo people.

I then show, using a reef fish as the empirical model, that the signals used during negotiation and commitment phases of the cooperative sex allocation strategy provide symbolic representations of the theoretical model's key functional parameters; individual dominance, individual body size, individual sex (i.e. the functional referents) and individual sex role in the future (i.e. the negotiated cooperative solution).

Resources provide opportunities to: - work to a brief as per industry standard - explore existing radio dramas - listen to radio drama with focus on The Archers - explore the history of radio dramas - explore symbolic codes - explore cultural codes - explore technical codes - explore conventions of radio drama - explore style and structure of radio drama - explore representation in radio drama

As students progress through the six levels of Modular Math: Functions they will have opportunities to develop the definition for a function as well as to work with and understand the notation and symbolic representations for various functionAs students progress through the six levels of Modular Math: Functions they will have opportunities to develop the definition for a function as well as to work with and understand the notation and symbolic representations for various functionas well as to work with and understand the notation and symbolic representations for various functionas to work with and understand the notation and symbolic representations for various functions.

Symbolic representation of problems, the mainstay of algebra, emerges as a logical extension of the bar - modeling technique.

For this study, this fluency was defined as simultaneous awareness of all representations associated with a mathematical concept, as measured by the ability to pass seamlessly among verbal, geometric, symbolic, and numerical representations of the same mathematical object.

Jaar's choice to use the frame of a silhouette as a source of light intensifies the symbolic representation of grief and loss.

«We can trace this theme throughout the exhibition — a testimony to the power of the use of nontraditional symbolic and conceptual portraiture as a means to reclaim the representation of self and other from inherited formulas that may threaten to suppress rather than express what it means to a unique individual.»

«We can trace this theme throughout the exhibition — a testimony to the power of the use of non-traditional symbolic and conceptual portraiture as a means to reclaim the representation of self and other from inherited formulas that may threaten to suppress rather than express what it means to a unique individual.»

As with Johns» interpretations of the flag, Young pulls the most symbolic elements and complicates its representation.

In borrowing Magritte's title, Demand alludes to the earlier artist's revolutionary approach to the meaning of representation, connecting Magritte's Surrealism to what Demand describes as «domesticated nature... potted plants, gardens, theme parks and models of wild growth» — the symbolic representations of nature that can be found in cities around the world.

A «feminist» artist in a post-feminist era, Smith's vocabulary has evolved over more than three decades from symbolic, sometimes disturbing, representations of the female body as a site of authentic, visceral experience, to a metaphorical, mystical world drawing upon literature, history and folklore.

In popular representation, the works are understood as «priceless» because of their historical significance, while also inconceivably expensive as evidenced in public market sales; their destruction becomes a symbolic erasure of history, as well as an assertion of a new currency and world order.

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

The title of the exhibition Archipelago is a symbolic representation of a relationship between the inhabitants of the Cape Verde islands and immigrants of the Lisbon neighborhoods, or those living in France as well as other EU countries.

I see medium and technique as being just as symbolic as representation is thought to be.

Later works of the 1990s and the 2000s, such as Mortal Coils (1995) and Vespers Pool (2000) are centred on symbolic and figurative representations of death, moving between conscious and unconscious worlds.

I am intrigued by his exploration of different dichotomies, double entendres, and symbolic artifacts — i.e. as representations of social - political constructs, like «knowing what blackness is or isn't.»

Over the past three decades, private collectors Peter and Rosemarie Ruppert have amassed an enormous range of works focused on the definition of concrete art as an aesthetic form that stands only for itself, and not for an abstracted or symbolic representation of the visually perceptible.

A confluence of scenarios and narratives, situated across «reality» and dreamlike states, come together in the photographs, which at once portray the familiar experiences of community members as well as symbolic or playful representations against the backdrop of their home and culture.

Highlights of the exhibition also include major works, such as Racconti di Guascogna (Tales from Gascony) 1951, and Ragazzo col Tacchino (Boy with Turkey) 1955, which show how Afro's more symbolic representation of objects and figures shifted to become a purely expressive and emotional form of abstraction.

This literal series of actions also serves as a powerful symbolic representation of process as we seek out and make sense of the places we inhabit.

In this exhibition, established artists such as Betty Tompkins, Tom Burr, John Coplans, Donald Moffett and Nancy Grossman, coexist alongside an emerging generation of artists, including Wyatt Kahn, Xylor Jane, Robert Zungu, Dave Hardy, Michelle Lopez and Archangelo Sassolino, to deploy abstracted, allegorical and symbolic representations of the body within a post-historical culture.

Furthermore, it is postulated that the crux of the attachment relationship lies not in the general attachment to a group, but in the specific and symbolic representation of the nation as an attachment figure.