Sentences with phrase «at autobiographical references»

All the artists share similar productive tensions within their practices: direct or hinted at autobiographical references synthesise with a distant, controlled aesthetic and emotional restraint; the obsolescence of the image is contrasted with the image as a source of hope, and even personal salvation; the apparent stability and naturalness of landscape is set against the urban environment and modern architectural practice and its accelerated entropy.

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This broadly phenomenological type of argumentation is necessary to the sort of «explicit» conviction that depends on direct and first - hand evidence, even while it properly recognizes that «our thought unavoidably moves within a hermeneutical circle which excludes any simple resolution of fundamental differences» (PP 87).11 Since it makes immediate reference to the evidence of one's own experience, a description of which is at issue, and only then is extended to all others one sympathetically imagines to be like oneself, it is essentially an autobiographical type of argumentation.

The title of the exhibition references Gerald Durrell's autobiographical account, My Family and Other Animals, The exhibition, at Victoria Miro's Mayfair gallery, runs from 13 October until 19 december and is accompanied by a catalogue with a text by Kirsty Bell.