Sentences with phrase «defining new traditions»

Both galleries presented works by Latin American photography masters as well as the contemporary artists defining new traditions in Latin American visual culture.

Not exact matches

An immediate objection to the suggestion of a new idea of God will doubtless be that the term God as defined by usage properly means the God of the religious tradition.

In the early modern period, political thinkers formulated a new conception of natural law, whose distinctive character has defined a distinctively modern tradition of thought about natural or human rights.

The republicans (i.e., the reluctant supporters and anti-Federalist opponents of the new Constitution) supported a tradition of political thought that wanted to see government «make of its citizens the best people they are capable of becoming,» to inculcate moral virtue as it was defined by each concrete political community.

If the tradition of women's use of new technologies continues, women will have little chance to define their role in cyberfuture.

This is to say, then, that the classical prophet, although highly creative and proclaiming a new word, was debtor, and certainly conscious debtor, to a core tradition already long established.1 This is also to say that one must of necessity define the essentially prophetic quality in pre-Amos Israel by the standards of classical prophetism, and further that no history, and perhaps least of all biblical history, may be appropriated in sterile chronological fashion.

Chandra rugs is committed to promoting the tradition and culture of the handmade Indian rug, while defining a new era in design.

There's no mistaking you're still in the Marvel universe here, but this entry sweeps you off to a part of it you've never seen: a hidden lost world in Africa defined by royal traditions and technological wonders that open up refreshing new dramatic, visual and casting possibilities.

Subtlety isn't the defining feature of political point - making in New Jersey, so a move by Gov. Chris Christie landed squarely in a grand Garden State tradition.

During this century, a fundamentally new way of perceiving the world emerged as reason rose to prominence over tradition, and the rights of the individual took center stage in philosophy and politics, a paradigmatic shift that would define Western thought for centuries to come.

In his New Yorker article, Dalrymple states, «In the nineteenth century, India was still a place where traditions, languages and cultures cut across religious groupings, and where people did not define themselves primarily through their religion.»

«The Children's Hospital, a sprawling and impassioned morality tale in which a catastrophe of biblical scale wipes out nearly all life, human and otherwise, on Earth... despite its weaknesses, The Children's Hospital establishes Chris Adrian as a remarkable American fabulist in the tradition of Melvin Jules Bukiet and Tony Kushner, writers who define and confront the terrifying moral choices of a new century.»

The major part of this exhibition is devoted to contemporary African artists who grapple with vanishing places, traditions and cultures, while defining new ones.

The New York Times art critic John Canaday was highly critical, but Clement Greenberg proclaimed abstract expressionism in general and Jackson Pollock in particular, as the epitome of aesthetic value, enthusiastically supporting Pollock's work on formalistic grounds as the best painting of its day and the heir to an art tradition - stretching back to the Cubism of Pablo Picasso, the cube - like pictures of Paul Cézanne and the Water Lily series of Claude Monet - whose defining characteristic is the making of marks on a flat surface.

But as industry encroached deeper into the natural world, a new legal movement emerged to end the centuries - old American legal tradition that defined nature as property.

'' [O] ur findings indicate that robbing and bartering is a good candidate for a new behavioural tradition defined as a group - / population - specific practice, socially transmitted among at least some group members, persistent over several generations, and possibly locally adaptive,» the team writes in their paper, published in the journal Primates.

Continuing a tradition that had begun to define Dragon Quest, and has since then, the game built upon its traditional facets, holding to a lot of the previous design and refining it, while adding new mechanics on top of it.