Sentences with phrase «for iconoclasm»

That night, two enduring fashion figures, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan, carried the torch for iconoclasm at a reception for Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone's Fifth Avenue showroom.

Seventy - five educators picked for their iconoclasm in pursuit of reform met for three days at the Lansdowne resort here last month to dream up the ideal school system for the coming century.

Not exact matches

They recognized their shared iconoclasm, and saw the potential for inspiring other partnerships nationwide.

From my admittedly limited vantage point, the gravest dangers for us seem to be not legalism but antinomianism, not intellectualism but sentimentalism, not scrupulosity but laxity, not despair but presumption, not all - out retreat but all - out assimilation, not pharisaic ritualism but anti-liturgical iconoclasm, not missionary timidity but evangelical over-hastiness, not self - referentialism but self - forgetfulness (and not the good kind), not stifling uniformity but disjointed miscellany, not clericalism but, for lack of a better word, laicism.

For perhaps more than any other philosopher of modernity Nietzsche espouses the fiercest version of iconoclasm, an attack on the image that, for sheer ferocity, has its only philosophical counterpart in PlaFor perhaps more than any other philosopher of modernity Nietzsche espouses the fiercest version of iconoclasm, an attack on the image that, for sheer ferocity, has its only philosophical counterpart in Plafor sheer ferocity, has its only philosophical counterpart in Plato.

For Besançon makes clear that without the tremendous hold that Origen's Platonism held on all the Eastern churches (despite his condemnation two centuries earlier), iconoclasm would have been robbed of its most plausible argument.

Indeed, this complex mixture accounts for the frequent outbursts of iconoclasm that have punctuated Church history down through the ages in both Eastern and Western churches.

She continues: «The justification for the literal iconoclasm in Catholic churches could hardly have been more clearly expressed by Cromwell's Roundheads after they had systematically beheaded every image in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral or smashed all the stained glass windows at Canterbury, although Cromwell's soldiers were undoubtedly responsible for destroying far fewer sacred images than the liturgical «experts» who imposed their views of renewal on the Catholic churches across America.»

This iconoclasm stemmed from the second of the Jewish Ten Commandments: «You shall not make for yourself any graven image, or any likeness of anything which is heaven, or earth or under the earth, you shall not bow down to it or serve it.»

Our inheritance of Reformation iconoclasm is usually put forward as the traditional reason for our discomfort; and in the mainline churches our commitment to social justice and our resulting decisions about stewardship are cited as contemporary explanation and justification.

Yet his theory fails to account for Luther's indifference and Calvin's outright iconoclasm.

It has often been noted that an earlier Protestant reverence for the Bible was later transformed into an equally Protestant disintegration of the Bible at the hands of the «higher critics» in nineteenth - century Germany, with the bibliolatry of the first three centuries of the Reformation transmogrifying into the biblical iconoclasm of the last two centuries.

An old dream come true for its director, John Krokidas, who spent years raising the money (the film was eventually produced by Killer Films, Christine Vachon's production company), Kill Your Darlingsreturns to 1944, at the time of the meeting between Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe, shedding his Harry Potter virginity to embody an icon of sexual iconoclasm), Lucien Carr (an alluring Dane DeHan), William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston).

At his most lucid (a term applied loosely), Kilmer, with a touch of iconoclasm, imparts a little about Mamet's process, including the hyphenate playwright's use of his children as a barometer for material and preference for «traditional» filmmaking techniques.

Both artists are no stranger to iconoclasm and have a strong predilection for the application of scientific techniques within their artistic practice, be it the use of X-rays on paintings or diamond turning on an antique bronze mirror.

«The Zone» forms part of Ortega Ayala's current research project «From the Pit of Etc.», which deploys methodologies used in History and Archaeology for an ongoing series devoted to the concept of absence, trace, and iconoclasm.

Plainly speaking, once the initial bombast and controversy surrounding Rivington Place's construction died down, regard for Iniva has been allowed to slide from recognition of its initial iconoclasm and brilliance to an informal consensus about its current inconsequence and irrelevance.

He is currently exploring other methodologies used in History and Archaeology for an ongoing series «From the Pit of Etc.» devoted to the concept of absence, trace, and iconoclasm.

A rare phenomenon for contemporary art exhibitions were the queues that formed soon after the show opened, in response, no doubt, to the positive press reviews, testament to the fact that Duchamp's ironic iconoclasm is still relevant.

One of the inspirations for this return to drawing was, in fact, an act of erasure - Robert Rauschenberg's Erased De Kooning Drawing (1953), an act of seemingly destructive iconoclasm that itself became an iconic moment in 20th century art history.

According to James Simpson in Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo - American Tradition, Pope Gregory declared famously between 599 and 600 that images were like books for the illiterate.

In three essays and an extended interview, he makes a compelling case for the renegotiation of the stakes of art after the long period of postmodern iconoclasm.

Others, though, greeted it as a masterpiece and called for it to have a permanent life (which was not the artist's intention), comparing its destruction to the iconoclasm of the English Reformation.

From the state - sanctioned zeal of religious reformers and the symbolic statue - breaking that often accompanies political change to attacks on art by individuals stimulated by moral or aesthetic outrage, this study aims to present the rationale of iconoclasm and how it has become a productive and transformational practice for some contemporary artists.

Iconoclasm and Ruin Lust both failed because the organisers fell for the recent fad of including modern and contemporary art in shows where it doesn't belong.

In fact, staging a limited but razor - sharp exhibition about iconoclasm in parallel with one about the taste for ruins actually makes a lot of sense.

Her theatrical velvet objects from the 1980s echo the legacy of the Flemish Primitives, but also emanate from the hunger for images following the iconoclasms of Minimal and Conceptual Art.

Your arguments can only improve if you actually learn the laws they are currently flouting, and while I fully understand your lack of respect for «authority» — while respectfully suggesting that it edges well over into iconoclasm for its own sake when you make statements that violate the experimentally verified laws clearly explained in every thermo textbook.

Mr. Wekre, who paid for his house and car with cash, attributes this broad consensus to as the country's iconoclasm.