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.
Not exact matches
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 Surreal
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 Surreal
using 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.