Sentences with phrase «bourgeois culture which»

Their attitude to time is completely opposed to that of bourgeois culture which aspires to possession, that is to extension in time, best of all, to eternity.

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But it has now become clear to an ever increasing number of our contemporaries all over the world that this «profit system» of a «rugged individualism» must be replaced by an order which, without sacrificing the values and attainments of bourgeois culture, is impelled by a new cultural temper.

With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their longing for human - engineered salvation.

Lionel Trilling once observed that in Flaubert's novel Bouvard and Pecuchet «bourgeois democracy merely affords the setting for a situation in which it becomes possible to reject culture itself.»

Inspired by Alois Riegl's theory, which suggests that civilizations and cultures oscillate between two spatial conceptions: the «haptic», in which objects are isolated, and the «optic» conception, where they are combined in a continuous space, «Inhabiting Time» juxtaposes close to thirty, apparently autonomous, fragments (art works) by: Francis Alÿs, Carlos Amorales, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Moyra Davey, Jenny Holzer, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Joachim Koester, Gonzalo Lebrija, Richard Long, Gordon Matta - Clark, Jean - Luc Moulène, Rivane Neuenschwander, Steven Parrino, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter & Björn Roth, Robert Ryman, Robert Smithson, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West y Hannah Wilke, among others.

Hauser & Wirth features another art world grande dame, Louise Bourgeois, whose work is at the center of the gallery's thematic presentation, which spotlights the spider, an insect that's viewed as a positive omen in Chinese culture.