Sentences with phrase «conventional ideas of»

Stephen Madigan highlights a few primary narrative therapy ideas including how narrative therapy theory hinges on the idea that conventional ideas of the self as a separate, singular, coherent and readable entity is a normative psychological construct — but it is not an established scientific truth.

By entering the IMMUNE ZONE the visitors will find themselves within a scripted space, defined by imaginary laws that undermine our conventional ideas of protective measures

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

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.

Transforming existing forms to generate new ones and brusquely layering materials with rag applications, Tone achieves organic shapes and metallic passages that challenge conventional ideas of composition.

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

Co-presented with Performa, Artist Theater Program will be the inaugural program in the museum's new performance series, ICA PERFORMS, which is dedicated to challenging conventional ideas of performance.

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.

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.

He draws inspiration from the world around him, creating statements using color and form to capture the imagination, and catapult beyond conventional ideas of function and beauty.

But their ability to keep on inventing and their rejection of conventional ideas of what it is to be modern are all qualities that British architecture badly needs.

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.

Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong.

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.

The experiment in place - based education earned the 17,000 - student Grand Rapids school district a coveted $ 10 million grant from XQ: The Super Schools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high school is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But it is also exhilarating, as all good movies are, because we are watching the director and actors venturing beyond any conventional idea of what a modern movie can be about.

The conventional idea of school is that an instructor guides the process as an authoritarian figure.

We'd like to look at hidden litter boxes to be a novelty as these don't usually conform to the conventional idea of the object.

Fall is still the time when you are most likely to get surfing conditions that match the conventional idea of «good.»

This might mean you're playing a trivia game, an artistic game, a game where you have to lie to friends, or even one where you have manipulate what they say — it takes the conventional idea of a party game and add its own twist, ensuring that gamers are left laughing at the results of each showdown between friends.

Photographers from Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand to Daido Moriyama and Bernd and Hilla Becher were all resistant in different ways to the conventional idea of good composition.

«Throwing the objects together introduces an element of randomness and subverts the conventional idea of the sober, ordered still life painting,» Thane says.

Lin's work studies her own social role and the relationship between identity and social context, questioning the identity of woman and the conventional idea of the social role of woman as mother.

The show may not necessarily please every visitor who approaches it with a conventional idea of beauty, but each work of art, right down to what may be the most startling piece — Nancy Rubins's installation made up of about 200 mattresses ganged together, hung from the ceiling and smeared with cake — has something to say to the eye as much as to the brain.

Throughout his career, Marco Breuer has consistently challenged conventional idea of photographic image making.

Wade is working in what by now is a pretty venerable tradition, against the conventional idea of painting» (A. Temkin quoted in, R. Smith, «Dots, Stripes, Scans: Wade Guyton at the Whitney Museum of American Art.»

As an artist duo, how is it possible to frame an individual narrative beyond the conventional idea of the singular auteur?

Zarina Bhimji Artforum International; June 22, 2012; Jumabhoy, Zehra; 700 + words... Delhi based Amar Kanwar as well as the verbose London - based Otolith Group, who give the conventional idea of documentary - as - truth... and installations.

Then Analytical Cubism (1908 - 12)- probably the most intellectual of all the avant - garde movements - which rejected the conventional idea of linear perspective in favour of greater emphasis on the two - dimensional picture plane, scandalizing the arts academies of Europe - along with visitors to the Parisian Salon des Independants and the New York Armory Show (1913)- in the process.

Quite disparate from the conventional idea of a bio data, a resume is a more creative exercise where the facts and figures about one's educational background, personal details and work experiences are presented in a way so as to highlight his or her strengths and withhold the negative aspects or shortcomings.

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When you consider the expense of a conventional launch or startup, the cost of finding customers, the expenses associated with marketing and advertising, the time required to establish your own set of systems... the idea of «buy, build and sell» can be very intriguing, especially if you are just starting out in business.

Where conventional web browsers like Chrome and Firefox make no effort to conceal your location or identity, Tor is built upon the idea of preserving anonymity as aggressively as possible.

Turbulent times upend conventional thinking, and one of the most provocative ideas to surface in recent years is the doctrine of «free» — the idea that giving your product away is the surest, and perhaps only, path to success.

If there's any truth to the idea that Facebook and its ilk is accelerating divorce, it's probably based in the conventional wisdom that marriage and its delay or demise has traditionally correlated with an abundance of alternatives.

But there are ideas demonstrated in the laboratory that could bring the oilsands» carbon emissions and other drawbacks down to the level of conventional oil or even lower.

Challenging conventional wisdom and rational thought, non conformism, humility, independent thinking, intuition above induction, adopting a multi-disciplinary mindset, learning from mistakes and indeed, happily abandoning the ideas he knew were wrong; creativity and imagination and of course, curiosity.

Sam and Mary reject the idea of conventional investment in assets which produce interest, dividends or capital gains.

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.

Some influential books fade as their ideas become conventional wisdom, but Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities remains as startling as when it appeared in....

Thus, if it is true, as has been claimed, that the idea of Christendom and the doctrines of Christian orthodoxy, were not at all what the historical Jesus had in mind when he spoke of the Kingdom of God, we should not be surprised if the continuing stream of cultural influence which he was so instrumental in re-directing should in the future manifest itself in ways very different from the conventional Christianity it later became for a period.

Such brisk overturning of conventional perspective has distinguished Nussbaum's varied writings, which move easily from the ideas of Stoic philosophers to international development.

Definition of PLATITUDE an idea or expression that has been used by many people Synonyms banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché (also cliche), groaner, homily, platitude, shibboleth, trope, truism Related Words conventional wisdom, party line, routine; inanity; generality, generalization, simplification; adage, proverb, idiom, saw, saying; old wives» tale, stereotype Near Antonyms profundity