Sentences with phrase «contemporary life concerns»

The confluence of identity issues and contemporary life concerns are what have made performance as an artistic practice immensely relevant for them as they explore the binary complexity of their identity and address new agendas, completely unrestrained by tradition and convention.

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Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

So that even though the center of gravity of the Christian's faith is not really in this world at all, yet as far as this life is concerned God is always his contemporary.

(2) His discovery of the concept «reverence for life» is a major addition to the contemporary literature aimed at deepening our concern for the cosmic biosphere's fragile balance.

So far as contemporary U.S. life - styles are concerned, one point he makes deserves special emphasis.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

The church's remembrance of Jesus Christ will come in contemporary terms, so that it will be able to say: «That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we have beheld and which our hands have handled concerning the Word of life — that declare we unto you.

Some of these concentrate on helping to place a passage in its original context so that the reader can be aware of the concerns of the author; others apply the passage to contemporary life; others, following the teaching of St Ignatius Loyola, encourage the reader to use her imagination to picture the scene described and thereby come close to Jesus.

As far as an environmental ethic is concerned, the still dominantly materialist orientation of contemporary science is unable to provide the cosmic vision essential for lasting commitment to the preservation of the earth's life systems.

Indeed, many of the contemporary activists and academics most concerned about the marginalization of religion in American public life frame their critiques as issues of free exercise and not establishment.

The Bible also rejects all contemporary pressure to confine religion to worship, so that the preacher will concern himself with getting us to heaven but will leave life on Main Street alone.

Since the 1980s, the country's leaders have been concerned about the quality of the educational system and its ability to prepare students for contemporary economic and social life.

The central emphases of classical prophetism are lacking — the passionate address to the contemporary life of the covenant nation; the cry for justice and righteousness in the theological ethic; and the consuming concern for ultimate meaning in the events of history.

Gregory does not, it turns out, base his critique on concerns about salvation and true doctrine, but instead on the inability of the contemporary world — having unjustly excluded religious ways of thinking from the public arena of the secularized university — to address and resolve adequately for people what he calls «Life Questions.»

While many of the mission objectives aren't fundamentally any different in this second outing, the prevailing vibe of mischief adds color and humor to contemporary security and privacy matters, concerns that we should be taking very seriously in real life.

«Frontier» at OCAT, Shanghai traces contemporary Chinese art's geopolitical concerns and the new complexities of living in a cosmopolitan world

Addressing the Ektachrome Archive in relation to the historical period in which it was produced and in light of contemporary political and social concerns, this series of talks examines how the archive has expanded from a personal document of a historically significant period to a contemporary living document, and how this work serves to complicate our collective memory.

Through the curatorial outlets of Unconscious Archives and OtherFilm, Golding presents live audiovisual and sound art performance as a means of examining: «liveness»; the synaesthetic concerns of audiovisual art; and the contemporary role of the audience.

Boettcher Foundation Education Gallery A place to pause and reflect, the Boettcher Foundation Education Gallery contains books, exhibition catalogues, and short videos concerning the art and life of Clyfford Still, as well as his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries.

«We are not in Rome and we don't want to go there,» he said, expressing his concern that artists should paint contemporary life as they knew it, instead of following the tradition of copying Italian Old Master paintings.

The mobius strip he has created that links his fine art practice, his urban planning concerns, and the financial viability of the neighborhood in which he lives is nothing short of revolutionary,» comments Michael Darling, chief curator at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.

Angela's practice is equally concerned with the current world wide mental health endemic, that is often associated with unresolved grief and the impact of contemporary living on the emotional state.

Through the curatorial outlets of Unconscious Archives (London) and OtherFilm (Australia), Golding presents live audiovisual and sound art performance as a means of examining: «liveness» the synaesthetic concerns of audiovisual art and the contemporary role of the audience.

At the time, students were concerned that naming the college after Emily Carr would detract from the school's focus on contemporary art and life.

The Korea Society's current exhibition of Korean ceramics presents the work of eight living artists through such a familiar opposition, implying that the dialectic between ancient practices and demands for innovation is at the core of contemporary ceramic art's concerns.

My principle concerns and what I believe emerges in the creation of my works include (but are not limited to): truth to the situation / subject, precision, playfulness, reflection of contemporary life, color, multiplicity of meanings, and having fun.

It goes on to indicate a deviation from the aesthetic concerns of her contemporaries in India, with the exception of VS Gaitonde, another Indian abstractionist who like Mohamedi did not receive the recognition that his work was legitimately due while still living.

But nonetheless it stands as testament to the enduring power of paint to express a multitude of different lived experiences, emotions and agendas and to chime with the most contemporary of concerns.

David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.

It allows equal latitude between these attributes, and recognizes not a single definitive element, but several factors — including high key light and hue, visual breakdown of detail, concern for contemporary life, and cultivation of direct and spontaneous approaches to a subject.

My current painting practice centres on the representation of objects and is inspired by the history of still life painting — in particular, 17th century Dutch vanitas paintings, a genre which employed objects as a kind of commentary on contemporary moral and social concerns, as well as exploiting their aesthetic potential.

The letter argues that Büchel's piece makes plain «the failures of Contemporary Art: concerned more with spectacle and irony than critically dismantling oppressive structures that undermine the lives of the most vulnerable....

The photographic project is a narrative concerning contemporary life.

Both of which can be seen metaphorically as social concerns in contemporary life.

Perhaps, as a growing number of museums focus their acquisitions and exhibition programming on contemporary art, the competing issues of curators seeking to examine the work of living artists from an historical vantage point and the career and market concerns of those very artists will result in other stand - offs.

Ideally, the task of conveying and communicating art reflects the complexity of contemporary life; rather than viewing itself simply as part of life, it should become actively involved in social concerns through exhibitions and events.

When he returned to Taiwan in 1997, endowed with hands - on knowledge of modern art and contemporary theory, kinetic art became the cornerstone of his creativity and the chosen language in expressing his visions on life, memory, and issues on social and political concerns.

Shezad Dawood's solo exhibition «Leviathan» is an episodic narrative around notions of borders, mental health and marine welfare issues of foremost concern, resonating profoundly with both coastal locations and contemporary life.

For contemporary artists the challenge lays now on experimenting new ways to engage with contemporary concerns, marking that line between the body as the living fulcrum of the action — as in performance art — and the paralysis of the sculptured figure, the representation's core.

Working in a range of media and formats, from works on paper and canvas to large - scale wall installations Walker is particularly concerned with social and political issues with particular reference to history and cultural differences in contemporary life.

For the artist, these gestures serve as metaphors for aggression, control, and self - preservation, as well as comfort, safety, and order — all omnipresent concerns of contemporary urban life.

Huang Yong Ping and Chen Zhen are Chinese - born artists living in Paris who share deep spiritual and metaphysical roots in Taoist thought and employ Western avant garde art strategies to explore such contemporary concerns as the interplay of nature and the artificial; tradition versus progress; and history and ideology in a worldwide consumerist society.

Photography was for him a tool to depict the discrepancy between «high» and «low» culture in Soviet society, balancing formal concerns with the interest of documenting the contemporary social and political life.

, at Artists Space in New York, these artists were concerned with how contemporary life is mediated and governed by pictures, specifically as we experience them in newspapers and magazines, on television, and in film.

First identified by curator Douglas Crimp in his 1977 exhibition Pictures, at Artists Space in New York, these artists were concerned with how contemporary life is mediated and governed by pictures, specifically as we experience them in newspapers and magazines, on television, and in film.

Instead of inviting artists to directly respond to the conundrum of the Belgian avant - garde, the exhibition brings together concerns and sensibilities shared among all invited artists: Voici des fleurs looks at art and life as a set of relations, exploring the production dynamics at play in contemporary practices, the principle of gesamtkunst rather than that of artistic purity or medium specificity, and the networks of relationships that produce and are produced by an oeuvre.

Course / workshop context may include the study of individual, interpersonal relationships (marital, parental, sibling), family development and life cycle, marriage, sociology of the family, families, family phenomenology, contemporary families, families and culture, aging and family issues, family violence and related family concerns.