Sentences with phrase «classical sources»

Fusing archival material, readings from classical sources and newly shot footage, Akomfrah's piece focuses on the disorder and cruelty of the whaling industry and juxtaposes it with scenes of many generations of migrants making epic crossings of the ocean for a better life.

in a report published last year that put many educators on the defensive, researchers found that top education schools were not equipping their students to deal with the standards movement — nor giving them an understanding, going back to classical sources like Plato and Aristotle, of what constitutes an educated person.

[17] Twombly's move to Gaeta in Southern Italy in 1957 gave him closer contact with classical sources.

It implies a return to classical sources which imposed restraint and simplicity on painting and architecture.

Recently on view as part of Okwui Enwezor's All the World's Futures exhibition at the 56th Venice Biennale, the artwork unites newly shot footage from remote locations on the Isle of Skye, the Faroe Islands and the Northern regions of Norway with archival material and readings from classical sources.

The Bible limns a larger world, as do the classical sources from Athens and Rome.

It encouraged its participants to have a much less broken relationship to classical sources.

I have learned that many of the classical sources I was taught to rely on so heavily, from Augustine to Tillich, sound very different when they are read with women's questions in mind.

Where positivist reason dominates the field to the exclusion of all else - and that is broadly the case in our public mindset - then the classical sources of knowledge for ethics and law are excluded.

In his course on theological ethics he explicated agape in terms of the considerations of Anders Nygren, M.C. D'Arcy, Soren Kierkegaard, and Emil Brunner while referring to the classical sources in scripture, Plato and Aristotle.

Kazan's screenplay thus draws upon a classical source and modernizes it with a present - day understanding of the biggest challenge to any relationship: figuring out the difference between wants and needs, and accommodating them to the best extent possible, with the goal of reaching a mutually satisfying balance.

A poultice of garlic could have a natural antibiotic effect, and a rosehip tincture could deliver a whopping dose of vitamin C. Knowledge of herbs came both from the classical sources preserved and studied in monasteries (sources like the Greek Dioscorides herbal encyclopedia, De Materia Medica) and from local herbariums.

A classical source of infection is a child's outdoor sandbox, in which outdoor cats may defecate.

His practice is characterized by a devotion to the figure, an embrace of expressionism, the fusion of modern and classical sources, and a commitment to social justice.

His devotion to the figure, his embrace of expressionism, his fusion of modern and classical sources, and his commitment to social justice distinguish his practice as an artist.

His later work also draws from classical sources, as in his Venus de Milo sculptures, infusing his art with the influence of the past.

Fusing archival material, readings from classical sources, and newly shot footage, the work explicitly highlights the greed, horror and cruelty of the whaling industry, juxtaposed with shots of African migrants crossing the ocean in a journey fraught with danger in hopes of «better life» and thus delivering a timely and potent reminder of the current issues around global migration, the refugee crisis, slavery, alongside ecological concerns.

Leon Golub (1922 - 2004) was an artist who was committed to social justice, the depiction of the figure, expressionism and the fusion of modern and classical sources.

By the 1770s, in Britain, such architects as Robert Adam and Sir William Chambers were in huge popular demand, but they were now drawing on a great variety of classical sources, including ancient Greece, so much so that their forms of architecture were eventually defined as neoclassical rather than Palladian.

Drawing upon pre-Columbian and classical sources, they are often depicted as sensual, but always heroic.

Fusing archival material, readings from classical sources, and newly shot footage, the work explicitly highlights the greed, horror and cruelty of the whaling industry.