Sentences with phrase «begin with modernity»

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Postmodernism, a critique of the over-ambitious nature of Enlightenment rationalism, is the beginning of an age deeply disenchanted with modernity.

It began with polite, urbane, well - educated, sophisticated people who saw «social hygiene» via, among other methods, euthanasia, as representing progress and modernity.

By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.

On the other hand, certain prominent forms of liberalism, with roots stretching back to the beginnings of modernity, have elevated privacy to the foundation of all rights and duties.

Now, with unseemly haste, the year 2000 rushes toward us, and with it what many sense to be the end of modernity as we have known it and the beginning of a world whose character we have yet fully to discern.

Nowhere in modernity is apocalypticism more open and manifest than it is in our great political revolutions, and if these begin with the English Revolution, this was our most apocalyptic revolution until the French Revolution, a revolution which innumerable thinkers at that time, and above all Hegel himself, could know as the ending of an old world and the inauguration of a truly new and universal world.

Farrell begins with Francis Bacon and Descartes and works his way up (or down) through all the mental benchmarks of modernity, from Hume and Rousseau through Nietzsche, exposing the essentially paranoid structure of the methodology of suspicion.

Whether they then date the beginning of modernity with the first appearances of the Enlightenment or earlier depends on their interpretation of Reformation and Renaissance.

But since the Renaissance humanists and the Protestant Reformers were each still trying to revive the past, many see the real beginnings of modernity with people like Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).

There are no new archival discoveries, but Williams brings a critical but fair assessment to the last British Prime Minister born in the 19th century, whose premiership began with calls for change and modernity and ended in what appeared to be failure and ridicule.

They both feature groups who have a code, those groups are skilled with a particular weapon, and their way of life has begun to fade as the frontier closes and modernity arrives.

The Shaped Canvas, Revisited / Luxembourg & Dayan / 64 E 77 / thru 7/3 Diane Arbus; Cady Noland / Gagosian / 976 Madison @ 77th (new location) / thru 5/23 (extended) Richard Prince; Alexander Calder / Ed Rusha / Gagosian / 980 Madison @ 77th / thru 6/14 Barbara Crane / Higher Pictures / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 6/21 Poetics of the Gesture: Schiele; TTwombly; Basquiat / Nahmad / 980 Madison — floor 3 / thru 6/14 Journal / Venus Over Manhattan / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/26 Opening 5/28 Lynn Chadwick / Blain - DiDonna / 981 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/25 Opening 5/29 Sigmar Polke / Werner / 4 E 77 / thru 6/7 Hugo McCloud / Roitfeld / 5a E 78 / thru 6/7 Andrew Kuo / Half / 43 East 78 / thru 6/2 Casting Modernity / Mnuchin / 45 E 78 / thru 6/7 Jean - Michel Basquiat / Acquavella / 18 E 79 / thru 6/13 Lucien Smith / Skarstedt / 20 E 79 / thru 6/27 Dean Levin / Blumenthal / 1045 Madison @ 80 / thru 5/30 Lucas Samaras thru 6/1; Dan Graham with Gunther Vogt thru 11/2; Goya thru 8/3; Etc. / Met Museum / 5th Avenue @ 82nd Italian Futurism thru 9/1, Etc. / Guggenheim / 1071 Fifth Avenue @ 89 The Annual: Redifining Tradition / National Academy / 1083 Fifth Avenue @ 89 / thru 9/14 Opening 6/11 Sophie Calle / Cooper + Perrotin @ The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest / 2 E 90 / thru 6/25 Mel Bochner thru 9/21; Other Primary Structures thru 8/3; Etc. / Jewish Museum / 1109 5th Avenue @ 92 Museum Starter Kit: Open with Care, Etc. / El Museo del Barrio / 1230 Fifth @ 104 / thru 9/6 Glenn Kaino; When the Stars Begin to Fall; Carrie Mae Weems; Etc. / Studio Museum / 144 W 125 / thru 6/29

Among the sights are Old Masterworks from all times and places — there are allusive ties to works as different as Flemish proverb pictures (most notably, Bruegel's ironical The Parable of the Blind, 1568), Gericault's unromantic portraits of mental patients, and Sargeant's peculiarly lurid romantic paintings — none the worse for wear, and as unconsciously striking as ever, but more adult, that is, dignified by consciousness, than the Abstract Expressionism with which Desiderio began his career, and thus less beholden to the tyranny of modernism, if still symptomatic of modernity.

The exhibition builds on a long Hamburger Kunsthalle tradition of highlighting the era of major transformation around 1800 as the beginning of modernity in art, a tradition that began with the legendary cycle Art around 1800 launched by former director Werner Hofmann.

Distant worlds and stimuli with apparently nothing in common attain a happily eccentric coherence in Ernesto Esposito's collection, in which can be felt a sense of vitality, albeit veiled by melancholy, which it is hard not to refer in some way to Naples, where the designer was born and has chosen to live, and where he very young began collecting in the 1960s in the lively climate of avant - garde modernity enjoyed in the city.

Opening 5/1 Idiosynchronism curated by Alex Glauber / Dickinson / 19 E 66 / thru 4/24 (extended) 1st 20 Yrs.: Selections / Baumgold / 60 E 66 / thru 5/3 Kan Yasuda / Eykyn - Maclean / 23 E 67 / thru 6/27 Opening 5/6 Mary McDonnell / Graham / 32 E 67 / thru 5/13 Emilio Chapela / Faria / 35 E 67 / thru 5/10 Hector Fuenmayor / Hunter / West Building, 68 & Lexington (SW corner) / thru 5/3 Mira Schendel / Hauser & Wirth / 32 E 69 / thru 4/26 Nalini Malani / Asia Society / 725 Park @ 70 / thru 8/3 Helen Frankenthaler / Jacobson / 17 E 71 / thru 4/30 Pierre Soulages / Levy / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 6/27 Opening 4/24 Pierre Soulages / Perrotin / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 6/27 Opening 4/24 Robert Rauschenberg / Starr / 5 E 73 / thru 5/23 James Brooks / Van Doren Waxter / 23 E 73 / thru 4/25 Carved, Cast, Chrushed, Constructed / Freedman / 25 E 73 / thru 5/31 Aftershock / Edelman / 136 E 74 / thru 5/12 Urs Fischer / Gagosian / 821 Park @ 75 (new, additional location / thru 5/8 Biennial; Etc. / Whitney Museum / Madison @ 75 / thru 5/25 Kim Keever / Waterhouse & Dodd / 958 Madison @ 76 / thru 5/6 Jasper Johns; Roy Lichtenstein / Castellli / 18 E 77 / thru 6/27 Opening 4/25 The Shaped Canvas, Revisited / Luxembourg & Dayan / 64 E 77 / thru 7/8 Opening 5/8 Diane Arbus; Cady Noland / Gagosian / 976 Madison @ 77th (new location) / thru 4/23 (extended) Victorire de Castellane / Gagosian / 980 Madison @ 77th / thru 4/26 (extended) Artie Vierkant / Higher Pictures / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 5/10 Raymond Pettibon / Venus Over Manhattan / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 5/17 Andy Warhol / Blain - DiDonna / 981 Madison @ 77 / thru 5/17 Sigmar Polke / Werner / 4 E 77 / thru 6/7 Rachel Harrison / Institute of Fine Arts / 1 E 78 / thru 5/11 Opening 4/27 Nicolas Pol / Roitfeld / 5a E 78 / thru 5/6 Peter Coffin / Half / 43 East 78 / thru 5/1 Casting Modernity / Mnuchin / 45 E 78 / thru 6/7 Reception 4/24 Jean - Michel Basquiat / Acquavella / 18 E 79 / thru 6/13 Opening 5/1 Martin Kippenberger / Skarstedt / 20 E 79 / thru 4/26 Ain'tings curated by Ryan Steadman / Blumenthal / 1045 Madison @ 80 / thru 4/26 William Kentridge thru 5/11, Lucas Samaras thru 6/1; Dan Graham thru 11/2 Opening 4/29; Etc. / Met Museum / 5th Avenue @ 82nd Carrie Mae Weems thru 5/14; Italian Futurism thru 9/1, Etc. / Guggenheim / 1071 Fifth Avenue @ 89 Philip Pearlstein; Anders Zorn; Edwin Blashfield / National Academy / 1083 Fifth Avenue @ 89 / thru 5/18 Other Primary Structures thru 8/3; Etc. / Jewish Museum / 1109 5th Avenue @ 92 Museum Starter Kit: Open with Care, Etc. / El Museo del Barrio / 1230 Fifth @ 104 / thru 9/6 Glenn Kaino; When the Stars Begin to Fall; Carrie Mae Weems; Etc. / Studio Museum / 144 W 125 / thru 6/29

The exhibition begins with an incisive yet comedic engagement with a past century of Western art - making as encountered through Kent Monkman's 2015 video and mixed - media installation Casualties of Modernity (2015).

If at the beginning of the twentieth century, Modernity was characterized as being a phenomenon of western culture and Postmodernism was configured with concepts, such as, origins and identity, Altermodern expresses the language of global culture.

The narrative of An Answer, begins with myths of classical antiquity, moves towards Renaissance intellectual history, modernity, and, ends finally, with an apocalyptic time beyond our time where that dripping paint has become the form of trees and archways.