Sentences with phrase «conceived as an abstraction»

The notion of physical energy, which is at the base of physics, must then be conceived as an abstraction from the complex form of the final synthesis in which each occasion completes itself.

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What space is conceived to be must depend to some extent on what it contains and what it does; oversimplified abstractions defining location are a danger when science erects them into «theoretical» or when common - sense makes them into «practical» generalizations that are put forward as exhausting the concrete situation.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

In employing it he goes so far as to demand that in the end, «no entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe, and that it is the business of speculative philosophy to exhibit this truth» (PR 5).

The direct perception whereby the datum in the immediate subject is inherited from the past can thus, under an abstraction, be conceived as the transference of throbs of emotional energy, clothed in the specific forms provided by sensa.

The putatively unique «I» of a singular psyche, conceived as a dynamic sequence of private acts of representing, is in any case only a sequence of abstractions — there is no such thing as a whole and completed «now» of an isolated Self.

For, as we have seen, mental acting initiates by conceiving, i.e., grasping, the definiteness of the physical, and holding it in abstraction in its universality.

CAMH celebrated its 65th anniversary in 1993 with Outside the Lines, a six - part exhibition series conceived as an evolving dialogue on contemporary abstraction.

A champion of pure abstraction in an age that distrusts purity and prefers its art to be topical, he is a survivor from a bygone era when artists conceived their mission as a heroic and hermetic pursuit.

Presented on the occasion of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's 65th anniversary, Outside the Lines is a six - part exhibition series conceived as an evolving dialogue on contemporary abstraction.

Conceiving abstraction as the critical and poetic language of potential allows her to pierce the detached geometries of ordering structures, making them responsive and more pliable.

Approaching the site itself, Roysdon conceived of the square as both a panopticon and an abstraction, provoking questions about planned use and the representation of «free movement».

Organized by Chief Curator Emeritus Douglas Dreishpoon, this twenty - year survey explored how Frankenthaler's notion of abstraction expanded during the decades, the extent to which landscape persisted as subject matter in her works, how subtle changes of techniques affected the way her images were conceived, and how drawing continued to inform the creative process.

The Pompidou may largely be closed but it's not idle: Among recent undertakings, it has organized this exhibition of roughly a hundred paintings and drawings, charting the early development of the pioneering modernist, who conceived of abstraction in purely visual terms, quite distinct from the spiritual motivations of early nonobjective artists such as Kandinsky and Mondrian.

The works in Beyond the Spectrum attest to the array of approaches and styles within American abstraction, and they challenge two persistent tendencies: to conceive of abstraction as the purview of white artists and to limit notions of authenticity to figural representations of African American culture where black artists are concerned.

is a six - part exhibition series conceived as an evolving dialogue on contemporary abstraction.

Organized by Chief Curator Emeritus Douglas Dreishpoon, this twenty - year survey will explore how Frankenthaler's notion of abstraction expanded during these decades, the extent to which landscape persisted as subject matter in her works, how subtle changes of techniques affected the way her images were conceived, and how drawing continues to inform the creative process.

When he emerged in the early 1960s with his masterfully conceived and intricately constructed shaped canvases, Lukin, along with peers such as Charles Hinman and Richard Smith, was hailed for crucially expanding «hard - edge» abstraction, proposing a painted presence that metastasized into sculpture.

Conceived as the companion to Black in the Abstract, Part 1: Epistrophy, which explored the fragmentation of the figurative as well as the loose and expansive nature of abstraction, this section chronicles the history of black artists whose work relies on the drama of restraint.

Formed by Harvey S. Shipley Miller and donated to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2005, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection was conceived to be the widest possible cross-section of contemporary drawing made primarily within the past 20 years, surveying gestural and geometric abstraction, representation and figuration, systems - based and Conceptual work, as well as appropriation and collage.

Presented on the occasion of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's 65th anniversary, Outside the Lines is conceived as an evolving dialogue on contemporary abstraction.

«A champion of pure abstraction... [Frank Stella] is a survivor from a bygone era when artists conceived their mission as a heroic and hermetic pursuit.»

Rather than conceiving biology as one factor among many that influenced Martin's abstraction, Katz elevates it to the sine qua non of her art, his essay ringing of an agenda that seems, at best, peripheral to our understanding of Martin's oeuvre.