Sentences with phrase «by modernism within»

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Although the mode of thinking here is radically different from that of modern metaphysics, by following the lead of the new physics, it converges toward the latter in countering the positivism and the practically oriented modernism following from Darwinian evolution, with its stress upon «environmentalism» and «functionalism» as modes of adaptation within a secularized immediacy, an immediacy shorn of depth and ultimacy.

Nicholas Berdyaev the Russian philosopher was most critical of the traditional Christian ethics which confined itself to the ethics of law and ethics of grace and ignored the ethics of creativity, while secular modernity to which Christian modernism succumbed, elevated the human vocation of creativity as supreme and as capable by itself of solving the problem of destructivity within it without the need of grace and even of law in the long run Anthropology got perverted on all sides by converting Creation into an order of static laws which are only to be obeyed and perfected by grace in Catholic thought and by getting validated for collective existence without criticism but to be rejected as totally irrelevant in the realm of existence in grace in Protestant thought.

But the term «postmodernism» became current outside this general discourse, within artistic and literary criticism, and in this other more specialized discourse, the «modernism» to which «post -» was prefixed has meant the sensibility that emerged in the arts around the turn of the present century, in deliberate rejection of the world shaped by Enlightenment and Romanticism, i.e., of the world otherwise called «modern.»

He typically finds the sources for his work within the materials, advertising, and packaging produced by technology and media companies, and often deploys graphic interfaces borrowed from commercial display to highlight connections between the utopian goals of the new media economy and those of historical modernism.

However, if we adopt the assumptions of Ortegan modernism, we find that a good many younger artists, especially among those supported by post-modernist critics, are working within the assumptions of this fifty year - old theory.

Within their Bermondsey gallery, White Cube is currently exhibiting works by Josiah McElheny (Boston USA, 1966) narrating the last decade of McElheny's ongoing exploration of alternative histories of modernism and the politics of aesthetics.

Featuring artists and art historians Cecily Brown, Emmelyn Butterfield - Rosen, and Nick Mauss, and moderated by Jutta Koether, this panel will consider different methods of reading Florine Stettheimer's work, through the lens of social and cultural history, or as an alternative example of modernism, creating its own series of networks from within.

The event, the first of its kind to be hosted by the Barnes Foundation, will take place at the Foundation's Philadelphia campus and is designed to probe possible fresh approaches to Matisse's work, both with regard to his iconic works and within the larger context of the history of modernism.

Renée Green's (b. 1959) exhibition Within Living Memory is a meditation spurred by inhabiting an architectural icon — Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center — while exploring the historical and institutional legacies of modernism's other forms, including cinema, visual art, poetry, music, and literature.

These artworks reflect aesthetics that were already out of date within contemporary art by the time the episodes originally aired, but while they all relate to mid 20th century modernism, they are presented here as «futuristic» 24th century contemporary art.

If Abstract Expressionism and the contemplative work of Rothko encouraged the white cube display inherent to the reception of modernism, within this exhibition the white cube has been replaced by history and context.