Sentences with phrase «contemporary languages using»

That's the conclusion of a study that assessed 103 ancient and contemporary languages using a technique normally used to study the evolution and spread of disease.

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When Church and kingdom are set against each other, then the language of the kingdom can be used, and is used, to sacralize whatever is the contemporary program for justice and peace.
By making language use its central object of study contemporary philosophy seems to have committed itself to an even more extreme form of that same anthropocentric orientation that Whitehead saw himself as combating.
When we use such a vocabulary, we find ourselves thinking about the world in different ways — and sometimes, at least, we may find common ground with other Christians from whom we were divided when our only language was that of contemporary politics.
Jesus is «speaking their language» so to speak, not using a contemporary swear word or call them idiots, evil or otherwise.
In this way the sound reasons for contemporary philosophy's attention to language use can be acknowledged.
First of all, responsible liturgical revision can not consist only in the use of more contemporary language or in the avoidance of what are known as «sexist» phrases (which are so dominantly masculine that women often feel excluded from what is going on) or in a return to biblical idiom to replace other (perhaps medieval) terminology.
In clear, idiomatic prose, deployed for both scholars and lay readers in fourteen dense but short and readable chapters, Jaki uses Aristotle's fundamental doctrine of noncontradiction to give a classic but also contemporary defense of the inescapably metaphysical character of will, mind, cognition, reason, and especially of language itself.
The 84 year old writer's popular contemporary language bible that was published in segments from 1993 to 2002, doesn't use the word «homosexual» or «homosexuality» in the text.
Few contemporary pastors use the language of damnation - «turn or burn,» converting «the pagans» or warning people they're going to hit «hell wide open» - because it's considered too polarizing, Leonard says.
I don't think we should uncritically use the language of contemporary culture.
Contemporary philosophers have also shown some of the varied ways in which religious language is used.
His understanding of the major elements of contemporary philosophy, his careful and penetrating analysis of the multidimensional nature of the religious use of language, and his grasp of the tacit and mediated character of religious awareness and knowledge all exhibit a kind of thinking badly needed in religious circles today.
Catholics have not used the language of primordiurn much because they see biblical history within the tradition and the tradition within history, but the conservatives are often primitive in their views about origins of episcopacy and papacy, and contemporary moderates often try to settle things by going back to biblical accounts of early ministry and communal life.
Besides giving students a doorway to contemporary culture in the target language, many sites offer something that used to be even harder to come by in the classroom: videos and audio clips, including podcasts, that range from real news items to fictional entertainment and multimedia language lessons.
The elements include the recognition and use of heritage languages; pedagogy that stresses traditional cultural characteristics and adult - child interactions; pedagogy in which teaching strategies are congruent with the traditional culture, as well as contemporary ways of knowing and learning; curriculum based on traditional culture that places the education of young children in a contemporary context; strong Native community participation in the planning and operation of school activities; and knowledge and use of the social and political mores of the community.
Using contemporary YA novels can also help foster a love of reading in teens who may have trouble relating to the more adult themes and antiquated language in some classics.
English as an additional language (EAL) is a contemporary term (particularly in the United Kingdom and the rest of the European Union) for English as a second language (ESL): the use or study of the English language by non-native speakers in an English - speaking environment.
His work shocked contemporaries and often sparked outrage — the flagrant Blue Nude, a provocative, perverse portrait of Amélie reclining in the garden sunlight was misunderstood and received by critics like a physical assault on the senses, language Matisse used himself to explain his almost violent process.
It brings together historical still life paintings and contemporary artworks that seek to use the language of the past for modern audiences.
Calligraphy, miniature painting, Sufi mysticism, and other traditions are the starting point for a new generation of artists from the Islamic world who are using the language of contemporary art to inflect their work with multiple layers of meaning.
At Fourteen30 Contemporary, Rafferty, a participant in this year's Whitney Biennial, presents new work concerning language and the body, a connection bridged through the concept of «figure drawing,» which applies both to the classical practice of artists observing and representing a model as well as using the innate elasticity of words to suggest multiple, sometimes contradictory meanings.
Her work addresses how the historical can be used as a material to address contemporary conditions such as loss, the swipe, the flatness and limitations of an image, emotions in classical sculpture, the use of models, muscle aches from using a computer, color as a language, and the democracy of materials such as clay.
The opportunity to develop additional programming as the result of the Tooker loan allows PAFA to pursue a symposium on a group of artists, including Peter Blume, George Tooker, Ivan Albright, and other Americans who used a realist method to invent their own worlds by transforming the symbolic language of Old Master painting into a contemporary idiom.
Through an effervescent use of language, the play deals with the themes of individual truth and brotherly love in an attempt to reconcile theatrical tradition and contemporary audiences.
McGinness creates paintings, sculptures and environments by using the visual language of public signs, corporate logos and contemporary iconography.
Using the language of contemporary social media, «spamming» the viewer with an array of seemingly unconnected images, she creates a contemporary narration whilst using the fundamental ideas found in seminal texts from Roland Barthes, Laura Mulvey, Susan Sontag and the SurrealUsing the language of contemporary social media, «spamming» the viewer with an array of seemingly unconnected images, she creates a contemporary narration whilst using the fundamental ideas found in seminal texts from Roland Barthes, Laura Mulvey, Susan Sontag and the Surrealusing the fundamental ideas found in seminal texts from Roland Barthes, Laura Mulvey, Susan Sontag and the Surrealists.
Plensa debuted the monumental sculpture Echo in Madison Square Park in 2011, and Rapaport was quoted in the New York Times article regarding the project, «When we think of great modern and contemporary public art, usually we think of work that uses an abstract visual language.
Many of the forms used to represent roads, buildings, and train tracks seem to derive from visual symbols used in contemporary printed Japanese maps, an early example of the interplay between painting and popular visual language and print media which is so important in contemporary Japanese work.
In How to See: Looking, Talking and Thinking about Art David Salle strips away complicated theory and describes contemporary art in the plain language artists use when talking to each other.
Through a precise examination of this distinct form of artistic practice in works by artists ranging from John Cage to Sanford Biggers, this exhibition provides a unique perspective on the ways in which modern and contemporary artists have used language, objects, and images to forge social contracts with their publics.
I thought, «My world will have relevance, and be contemporary, and have the language of its time, and I'll use the information that I want, and I'll just go forward.»
Much like the Baroque period, the diverse array of artists in this exhibition speak to contemporary political, personal and formal artistic concerns using a common, figurative language in uniquely personal styles.
«What's fascinating about Rafman's work is the way he uses the very familiar visual language of the internet, social media, and computer games to create immersive narratives that reveal the anxieties and desires of contemporary life,» says Maitreyi Maheshwari, program director at Zabludowicz Collection and curator of the exhibition, which also offered up a waterbed, ball pit, massage chair, and filing cabinets streaming video games in first - person shooter.
Moving between and manipulating various styles — primitivism, cubism, expressionism, minimalism — Prata's encyclopedic use of symbols and patterns grows into a language rooted in the history of visual art; however, in borrowing across time and style, Prata's distortion of form — hieroglyphs in symbolic space — proposes a reflection on how representations are read within a contemporary context.
This panel considers the contemporary way curators are using language in experimental ways to expand visual art practices, and what effects the crossover of these fields has had on each.
According to the curators, this mode claims neither to have inaugurated contemporary art's linguistic turn nor to have treated the use of language within art as something historical.
Xu Bing (1955) is a Beijing - based contemporary artist, best known for his astonishing, large - scale installation pieces and his extraordinary prints which explore the creative use of language and its profound effect on our understanding of the world we live in.
Entitled Iconic, the presentation at The Art Show will mark the debut of these intimately scaled portraits which use the visual language and gestures of 15th century icons to depict contemporary subjects selected by Wiley from the streets of New York City.
The language it is using to describe its curatorial approach is striking and should serve as a model for peer institutions dedicated to collecting insightful work by politically and culturally astute contemporary artists addressing substantive social issues.
In the exhibition we see the subversive creativity and the physical, ironic language used in Hail reflected in the work of contemporaries of Clark and Atlas's day, as well as among modern - day artists active in visual art and dance, music and pop culture, with their rebellious expressions.
Leveille: I speak in a language of pictures.In a similar way that contemporary figurative painters such as Currin, Kerry James Marshall, and Robin Francis Williams use a sense narrative, I also use it as an artistic tool.This is very inspiring in its own right to me, the exploration of an image, not in service TO narrative but that employs these things as tools to make an emotional connection with the viewer.
Lin's installation evaluates the traditional use of badges and appropriates these uniform emblems as markers of changing female roles and the language used to characterize women in contemporary cultures.
We worked with him in a group show approximately a year ago, and were profoundly impressed by his rigor, use of space, and the way his work is pushing the boundaries of contemporary language and abstraction.»
Using the language of contemporary art firmly positions them within the culture of modernity, with its emphasis on self - reflection, criticism, and skepticism.
AW: One curiosity about contemporary art is that there is a terrific interest in the old languages and devices of painting, but generally in the work of photographers and film - makers — or artists using photography and film — but contemporary painting itself sometimes looks back to the history and sometimes doesn't.
Another trend that has widened the definition and scope of contemporary art has been the conceptually driven use of both photography and language as the substance of numerous works of art — in Kiefer's photographic collages, in Kruger's words and photographic images, in Bruce Nauman's neon phrases, in Lawrence Weiner's painted words, in Holzer's billboarded, carved, electronically reproduced, or otherwise created linguistic neotruisms, and in many other artists» works.
From communication to transportation (of people, goods, and messages), from design to production, from political economy and capital regimes, our contemporary societies are guided by codes written in programming languages that use electromagnetic waves and computers.
Using this language, he reexamines our aesthetic awareness and challenges us to question our assumptions and rationale as to the parameters of art in relation to history and its imprint in contemporary culture.
Training Setting follows the debut of a collaboration between Maria Park and Branden Hookway at Cornell University in Fall 2017 that presented work using a diagrammatic language of flight cockpits and table settings to investigate the social and control protocols that underlie contemporary interfaces.
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