Sentences with phrase «classical mythology as»

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The Biblical gospel has burst the bonds even of classical mythology, as may be seen from what happened to the idea of the Logos; but it has done so only by first taking that mythology up and using it.

This distinction between the scientific world view and its extension as a mythological Weltanschauung would, logically, apply to the classical mythology also.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

Mundane objects and everyday people took the place of long - established «high art» themes such as classical history and mythology.

And there is something like the heft of classical mythology in the resolution of their tale: in how the film is nearly a three - hour Mexican standoff between the three as they shuffle through betrayals and deceits and cheats and being horrible to those they love in the name of that love.

Spearheaded by Leon Golub and united by a shared interest in the figure during a period that is often seen as dominated by abstraction, the group created deeply psychological works that drew on classical mythology and ancient art.

THE OLYMPIC GAMES as we know them were born out of a late - nineteenth - century marriage of classical mythology and political science fiction.

The figure of «Neptune,» acts as a physical chimera of mythologies, conflating classical and Christian motifs into one «idol.»

The artist references classical mythology, Egyptology, graffiti, politics and poetry to present works that act as a meditation on the complexities of history across the worlds of politics and art.

In the Black Odyssey series, Bearden establishes an artistic bridge between Homer's poem — arguably the definitive work of classical mythology — and African - American culture by depicting Homeric characters as black players on the timeless stage of antiquity.

The museum describes Bearden's series as «rich in symbolism and allegorical content» creating «an artistic bridge between classical mythology and African - American culture.»

These include contemporary fields such as science fiction and modernist industrial design (during high school, Jaramillo and a selected group of other students would make weekly visits to the celebrated designer Charles Eames's studio) as well as Celtic and Greek mythologies, pre-Hispanic and non-Western systems of spatial organisation, and classical and sacred geometry.

The work reflects Chris Ofili's interest in classical mythology and contemporary «demigods» as well as the stories, magic, and colors of Trinidad, where he has lived since 2005.

A visual artist working primarily in the realm of self - portraiture and narratives inspired by classical mythology and allegory, Shimoyama seeks to depict the black queer male body as both desirable and desirous.