Sentences with phrase «conventional ideas»

We challenge conventional ideas of difference and diversity and for the past 25 years have shifted the ways in which artistic practices have been understood within wider British culture.

And they are challenging conventional ideas about the evolutionary history of humanity.

He works with found industrial objects, combining them to challenge conventional ideas of reality.

Or is it a moment when he begins to reach beyond conventional ideas of female beauty, of personal worth, and begins to grow both morally and emotionally?

The unveiling of a 4,000 - year - old civilization calls into question conventional ideas about ancient culture, trade, and religion.

Questions about a woman's «place» resonate in our culture, and conventional ideas persist about the house as a feminine space.

When a person says «hell» there are certain conventional ideas that many are going to immediately go to.

We've seen plenty of independent developers throw conventional ideas out of the window in order to release something that's incredibly unique and its often made for some great gameplay experiences.

As a result, conventional ideas about retirement have changed.

Global artists in Women House recast conventional ideas about the home through provocative photographs, videos, sculptures, and room - like installations.

On the one hand, one of the most conventional ideas of campus pluralists is that all moral judgments are relative to particular groups; at the same time, many of these same people insist that within the university their own moral judgments should be normative for all groups.

In discussing McQueen's harrowing evocation of Bobby Sands's prison hunger strike, Shelton writes that the British filmmaker «had such a unique, singular vision for the film... He didn't lapse into more conventional ideas of how to tell a story.»

Atsuko Tanaka was a pioneering Japanese avant - garde artist, whose abstract works rejected conventional ideas of how art should appear or «perform.»

Painters and sculptors eliminate hierarchies among mediums by disrupting conventional ideas about women and handcraft.

Most persons live in quiet conformity, carried along with the stream of events which catch them up, adapting to what comes, appropriating conventional ideas and ideals, variously loving, hating, living and letting live, doing the best they ordinarily can, hoping for the best.

Theology herself has largely based this doctrine upon revelation; and, in discussing it, has tended more and more to substitute conventional ideas of criminal law for a priori principles of reason.

«Agriculture in China predates domesticated rice: Discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged.»

Bill Condon's «Kinsey» stars Liam Neeson as Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, whose research revolutionized conventional ideas about human sexual behavior.

This data can be considered as learning content, (quite unlike conventional ideas of what content should look like — video, audio, images, text, and now VR and AR) coupled with an understanding of context (next) can potentially transform learning and performance support at a very fundamental level.

Saban's work complicates conventional ideas about painting.

More interesting is the element of undoing in this work, the way in which the artist makes and then breaks down his source connections, so to speak, undoing and defacing conventional ideas of painting, beauty, form, and structure.

Yet moving among preparatory sketches, installation plans, instructions, studies, proposals for unrealized sculptures, and imaginative responses to existing works, this aspect of Nauman's production is difficult to categorize, encompassing a broad range of functions that surpass conventional ideas of the medium.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Othello's bodily depiction, a choice that revises conventional ideas of military valor tied to limited notions of physical perfection.

By bringing nature into the equation, art practices like Plant's help redefine conventional ideas about art as something static and unchanging, and into an ephemeral experience.

Claire Denis's film is a mesmeric, masculine ballet whose beauty and confident power, manifested in lugubrious scenes which suspend the normal rules of narrative procedure, simply go beyond conventional ideas of transgression or homoeroticism.

Similar to their artistic foremothers in the 1970s, the global artists in Women House recast conventional ideas about the home through provocative photographs, videos, sculptures and room - like installations.

Andrew Sendor plays with conventional ideas about museum and gallery displays.

For more than half a century, Uelsmann has challenged conventional ideas about what photography can and should do.

Grenville blithely leaves behind his idealism in favor of a more conventional idea of success, only to have his conscience pricked by Dalrymple's unconventional daughter, Charlotte, an activist for social justice, even as he's entering into a comfortable if passionless engagement with Dalrymple's other daughter, the passive, and much simpler, Emily.

Questions about a woman's «place» resonate in our culture, and conventional ideas persist about the house as a feminine space, 39 contemporary...

PROCESS Painters and sculptors in the Rubell Family Collection disrupt conventional ideas about women and handcraft.

«Our most conventional idea about art is from the Renaissance,» he says patiently, as if he's gone over this terrain before.

Bucher's work is currently included in the group exhibition Women House, on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., through May 28, 2018, which challenges conventional ideas about gender and the domestic space.

Moving beyond conventional ideas of the African continent and its «counterpart», «the Western hemisphere,» this year's Focus will provide a glimpse of international artistic production from contemporary African viewpoints: emerging curators, artists, galleries and art spaces that connect scenes and markets through global networks.

And he said, «Well, I don't want it to be a sort of conventional idea of what a robot should be in science fiction.

(v) The apparent rigidity of inflation expectations and insensitivity of inflation to measures of slack create extra uncertainties about the conventional idea that unemployment rates in the 4.5 percent range risk accelerating inflation.

As Colson and Neuhaus remarked in their 1995 volume, Evangelicals and Catholics Together: Toward a Common Mission, ECT was intended as «an invitation to reexamine stereotypes, prejudices and conventional ideas that have been entrenched, in some cases, for almost five hundred years.»

A sincere ecumenical dialogue would serve to overcome the «stereotypes, prejudices and conventional ideas» that had been entrenched for decades and, indeed, for centuries.

Happily, today those who are not blinded by uncriticized religious prejudice (including misuse of certain biblical passages) or conventional ideas of proper sexual behavior (as if morals were a matter of counting noses or following some social pattern without question) are ready to accept the fact of the homosexual orientation, and many religious groups are now prepared to adopt this positive attitude.

In a poem written in 1912 (when I was 14), I presuppose a conventional idea of heaven, but after encountering Whitehead on objective immortality I felt that nothing more was needed.

The fact that he did not conform to conventional ideas of what a religious teacher should do or should not do would be enough to evoke such opprobrious epithets.

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From the Amazon review of the book, «Andrew Solomon's tome about the ways in which children are different from their parents — and what such differences do to our conventional ideas about family.»

This method stands in contrast to the conventional idea of the clusters» initial stars shedding gas as they age in order to spark future rounds of star birth.

The information is crucial for understanding whether H. naledi is a primitive human displaying a behavior otherwise unknown until much later in hominin evolution, or a relatively modern human with a primitive anatomy that challenges conventional ideas about how our genus developed.