Sentences with phrase «for autobiographical»

In so doing, they challenged the notion of art as the expression of a singular, heroic author, recasting their works as repositories for autobiographical, cultural, and historical information.

Tracey Emin, CBE, RA (born 3 July 1963) is an English contemporary artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork.

Hence plan for autobiographical investigations.

Mor, focusing on Kozyra's project for an autobiographical film, will be juxtaposed with her ongoing project Looking for Jesus, a documentary film in which Kozyra is not an actor, but a spectator who investigates the effects and «faces» of the Jerusalem syndrome through the eyes and actions of people who believe themselves to be present - day Messiahs.

Bourgeois» sculptures time and again underscore the artist's penchant for autobiographical references and her role within her family.

She is best known for her autobiographical and confessional works that span a variety of media including painting, drawing, video, photography, sculpture, neon text and sewn appliqué.

Watch for autobiographical works by McFarland that explore the ideal of a pristine object or trophy, and products of intuition and impulse by Kom as part of «Bushwick Basel.»

It is unusually personal, even for an autobiographical artist, and details what Mr. Tillmans's work has always implied: Photography has no limits.

He is known for his autobiographical explorations of identity and sexuality that blend fact and fiction into rich, absorbing narratives.

unbroken view November 10, 2000 - January 2, 2001 Created by Kansas City, Missouri, writer Debra Di Blasi and Philadelphia artist Sharyn O'Mara, unbroken view looks to the environment of the prairie, particularly the constant winds and the flat terrain, as subject matter for this autobiographical installation.

Tiny Cooper, of Levithan and John Green's Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010), claims center stage in this title, presented as a two - act script for his autobiographical musical.

In the early 1950's, the psychological study of a few neurosurgical patients (including the now well - known patient H.M.), all of whom exhibited a profound anterograde amnesia following bilateral damage to the medial structures of the temporal lobes, revealed the importance of the hippocampal region for autobiographical memory.

Not exact matches

If you know much about Steve Taylor's story, I believe this song is autobiographical for him.

(For a couple of autobiographical accounts along these lines, see the introductions to Donald Dayton's Discovering an Evangelical Heritage and Jim Wallis's Agenda for Biblical PeoplFor a couple of autobiographical accounts along these lines, see the introductions to Donald Dayton's Discovering an Evangelical Heritage and Jim Wallis's Agenda for Biblical Peoplfor Biblical People.)

But to call the album autobiographical misses the point that Stevens himself lays out in Pitchfork's review: «It's something that was necessary for me to do in the wake of my mother's death — to pursue a sense of peace and serenity in spite of suffering... This is not my art project; this is my life.»

For example, I was struck by a provocative comment he made in a 1981 autobiographical book, By Way of Response.

For most Niebuhr - watchers, however, the rather autobiographical introduction was of most interest.

It is a kind of autobiographical journal of her search for Jesus... where she doesn't find him and where she does.

In Whitehead's «Autobiographical Remarks,» and in Russell's Portraits from Memory5 each, with Edwardian grace and dignity, comments on the attitude of affectionate respect for the other, on the growth of that respect to friendship and collaboration on the monumental Principia Mathematica, 6 and on the subsequent dissolution of the collaboration and cooling of the friendship.

I suggest you read Scott and Kimberly Hahn's autobiographical book on their conversion story and search for truth, «Rome Sweet Home.»

Yet Browning sees no way to proceed in this task with the necessary rigor, so he resorts to an autobiographical account of how various inquiries gained importance for him in the course of his intellectual pilgrimage.

Autobiographical fallacies aside, I can now only repeat something Borges said, a paraphrase of Mark Twain he cited in reviewing Kipling's autobiography (Something of Myself) in El Hogar: «It is not possible for a man to tell the truth about himself, or to keep from conveying to the reader the truth about himself.»

In «My Search for Truth,» the moving autobiographical sketch which he contributed to a volume entitled Religion in Transition (1937), he reports how the challenge by Christian critics of Hinduism, his own faith, impelled him at the time of his student - days at Madras to «make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it.

Teaching Catholic non-fiction does not mean teaching theology (or hagiography) but that does not mean that great Catholic theologians and priests need be excluded from the curriculum either: there could well be room for extracts from St. Augustine's Confessions or Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan's The Road of Hope when looking at autobiographical writing, for instance.

There may well be good autobiographical reasons as to why one or more of these options appeal to one, but such reasons are not to be mistaken for metaphysical principles.

My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

Adoptive Parent: person who legally assumes responsibilities of parenting an adopted child Adoption Profile: autobiographical letter created by hopeful adoptive parents for prospective birthparents.

Indeed, reading Homage to Catalonia alongside 1984 is instructive, as in the autobiographical work Orwell clearly charts his growing distrust of the Communist forces and his growing admiration for the anarchists who were of course betrayed and in many cases murdered by their Stalinist «allies».

Judge who was jailed for lying to police over Chris Huhne case plans to continue series of autobiographical books

Reviewing the pictures may be a form of brain calisthenics for enhancing the mental process known as autobiographical memory, recalling the time and place of past events.

Persons with highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM, also known as hyperthymesia)-- which was first identified in 2006 by scientists at UC Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory — have the astounding ability to remember even trivial details from their distant past.

10 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELF Autobiographies are made of personal memories, the sum total of our life experiences, including the experiences of the plans we have made for the future, specific or vague.

After establishing a baseline for each patient, AM and EFT were assessed using an adapted version of the Autobiographical Interview.

Invited Speakers: Martin Conway — Autobiographical memory and self http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/academic-staff-profiles/profe... Nick Chater — Self and Other in Joint Action http://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/ Kevin O'Regan — Phenomenal experience of self http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/ Giorgio Metta — Physical Self and Peri-personal Space http://pasa.liralab.it Yiannis Demiris — Motor Self and Development of the Mirror system http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis Paul Verschure — An Architecture for Self specs.upf.edu Peter Ford Dominey — Construction of the Narrative Self over Time http://pfdominey.perso.sfr.fr/RobotDemos.htm

Their interaction covers a lot of mental territory, including recalling autobiographical memories and semantic information (the president's birthday, for example), thinking about or planning the future, imagining new events, inferring the mental states of others, reasoning about moral dilemmas, reading fiction, self - reflecting, and appraising social and emotional information.

When experiencing trauma, the hippocampus, responsible for memories and spatial mapping, and the thalamus, which integrates the experience into our autobiographical self, shut down.

In his autobiographical sketch written for the Nobel Foundation of Sweden *, biologist H. Robert Horvitz outlines three dreams:

, co-written with Lee McCormick, isan essential and life - changing resource that is half autobiographical journey and half medicine bag filled with spiritual healing practices for those who are struggling with any aspect of life.

For example, total vegetable consumption had the strongest positive associations with executive function, perceptual speed, global cognition, and semantic, or fact - based memory, whereas total fruit intake was more consistently associated with visuospatial skills and autobiographical memory.

While there is no need to add an autobiographical essay about yourself, the site does ask for information about things you love, loathe and can't stand.

For the many mavens who aren't familiar with Varda, this autobiographical documentary will be puzzling, in the best and most literal sense.

«For Emma, Forever Ago» was a brilliant album full of intimate lyrics with a very autobiographical approach and it is undoubtedly one of the greatest releases of the 21st century.

For those who wish to decode The Names of Love, there's a sharp commentary on French prejudices, character types, history, and culture embedded in Michel Leclerc's droll autobiographical French comedy.

James Franco brought the autobiographical work to the screen in last year's «The Disaster Artist,» which earned Franco a Golden Globe Award for his performance as Wiseau.

Best bits of a packed commentary go to Perkins, however, revealing the parts of the flick (more than comfortable) that are actually autobiographical for either Perkins or Thom.

Since his autobiographical 2006 debut A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, director Dito Montiel has been able to acquire impressive casts for his often problematic but sometimes compelling examinations of fractured masculine psyches.

For one, Baumbach is working in a less explicitly autobiographical vein.

In actress - turned - writer / director Greta Gerwig's autobiographical coming - of - age drama, Ronan is Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson, a Catholic high school senior who longs to escape her stultifying lower - middle - class Sacramento environs for East Coast college life.

The Piano Teacher, based on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek (apparently largely autobiographical, which is disturbing news in itself), is much more classical in style, though as before it demands considerable input from the viewer: Haneke deliberately avoids making any comments on the film's action, letting the audience judge for themselves.

Individually, the men recall Fox passing on Williamson's outline for episodes one through six, the audition period (almost 500 actors tried out for Dawson), Joey's real - life counterpart «Fanny,» other elements of the show autobiographical to Williamson, and the hype leading up to the series» launch; as you may surmise, this is a breathless and edifying eight minutes.