Sentences with phrase «for polemical»

Although Steinberg, for polemical reasons, strongly advanced the notion of the flatbed picture plane, he nonetheless also stressed the need for a high level of attentive observation throughout his able defense of the complexities of Old Master painters against Clement Greenberg's reductive oversimplifications.

In other words, all truth formulated for polemical reasons is partial — albeit true.

Smith says that this reticence isn't limited to the Olympics, and says there is a lack of equipping for polemical engagement with Muslims.

In the last analysis they form a unity in tension Hence we shall use them as a guide for our own consideration of the problem, not for any polemical reasons, but because they lay down the best lines for its treatment.

For some years now, a raft of distinguished scholars (Heiko Oberman, David Yeago in this journal, Bruce Marshall, Christine Helmer, and Paul Hinlicky) have been showing how Catholic the real Luther was» contrary to the portrait of Luther used for polemical purposes by too many evangelicals and even Lutherans.

But it is a shame that Ian Markham should be unfairly reviewed for the polemical company that he keeps.

Not exact matches

The book's most irritating flaw is the author's relentlessly polite Episcopalian - scholarly prose: readable and informative, but not the penetrating or polemical critical analysis for which this topic calls.

This is according to the «religionsgeschichtliche (History of religions) hypothesis», which presupposes that it was an intentional polemical fourth - century Christian replacements for popular Greco - Roman feasts in the ancient world.

I want to claim the tradition for our side, if that's not too polemical a way of speaking.

This call for change would be more persuasive if Mintz had not just spent an entire chapter insisting that recent accounts of a crisis in child well - being are nothing but a matter of moral panic and polemical distortion.

That is, if one's interlocutor is being threatened with violence, torture, or death at the same time as he is being confronted with a polemical argument, and if the outcome of the latter determines whether he is killed, tortured, forcibly converted, or whatever (this was, of course, the case for many Jews in medieval Europe), then it is exceedingly doubtful that the polemic is morally proper.

Catharine MacKinnon, to return to one of the examples mentioned earlier, is extremely unlikely to become a conservative Baptist as a result of apologetical engagement with Billy Graham; and I am rather unlikely to decide that I have no mental life and that disembodied existence is not a possibility for me as a result of polemical engagement with Patricia Churchland.

In what must surely count as the most polemical passage in the entire book, Besançon even makes bold to claim that iconographers have substituted their art for true religion and even believe that their art comprehends God:

He defends its application to Natural Family Planning (NFP), though three paragraphs later (for other polemical reasons, see below) he strongly denies its application to «Responsible Parenthood» as understood in the Catholic tradition.

Beneath her lament for the lost role of criticism and polemical take on contemporary literary culture (such as it is), Ozick offers something quieter.

Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation, 322 - 26, has shown how Second Isaiah is a reinterpretation of Genesis 1 for quite specific purposes in a polemical situation.

The casual reader of the introduction to The Five Gospels might suppose that no serious New Testament scholar would differ materially from the consensus represented by this book, were it not for the single telltale polemical reference to anonymous «elitist academic critics who deplored the public face of the seminar.»

I still remain uncertain whether the relaxation of the polemical attitudes of my youthful zest for various causes represents the wisdom of old age, the disengagement of a spectator, or an increasing awareness of the strange mixture of good and evil in all the causes and purposes that once had prompted me to carry the banners of religion against secularism, and of Protestantism against Catholicism.

As one who has been around the polemical track for more than fifty years, I don't take disagreements personally even when I feel that I have been misquoted inadvertently or otherwise.

The shortcoming of this brief book, perhaps inherent in the author's polemical task, is that it is negative, and to see how well Kimball conveys his own appreciations of great art a reader must look to his other works (his rich essays on Eakins and Delacroix, for instance, in his collection titled Art's Prospect).

Next, there are the literary sources, which can be mined for any number of bombastic or polemical gems.

It is hard to raise sufficient polemical steam over what many may consider a nice distinction, but Peter J. Leithart's «For Useless Learning» (November 2000) embodies such a peculiarly evangelical (i.e., skewed) approach to the arts and learning that I could not let it pass without comment.

Fins, the aforesaid Joseph Barton has been employed by the BBC, to act as a puppet for them, to fulfil the criteria of polemical sensationalism.

Yorktown Councilman Terrence Murphy is the Republican running for a seat that could swing either way and in a race that has seen its share of polemical debates and incendiary mailers.

Because communication channels between officials and civilians are blocked in China, in recent years Chinese citizens have increasingly resorted to social media as a means for expressing interest in polemical issues and engaging with sociopolitical mobilization.

The polemical political comment in earlier films such as Komsomol, Borinage and New Earth is not comfortably integrated into other aspects of the films, and for viewers today limits these films impact.

Reading The Day After Tomorrow as a 9/11 film, in fact, adds another level of polemical discussion in that the film's Vice President Becker (Dick Cheney ringer Kenneth Welsh) emerges as the «I don't believe you» villain endemic to disaster movies and, in this way, at least partly responsible for the number of casualties suffered on behalf of his myopia.

The film doesn't assume a polemical position regarding the death penalty — either for or against — though in the context of Singaporean authoritarianism it probably would have been banned, with writer - director Boo Junfeng imprisoned, had it taken an explicitly abolitionist stance.

The results of the tests, the behaviour of the subjects, and the ramifications of the results — 65 % of participants finished the test, knowingly inflicting needless pain on another individual — is the trigger for one of the most invigorating, intelligent, and polemical pictures of the year.

This is not the polemical drug - war drama you're looking for.

For all of Soderbergh's conceptual refinement and polemical subtlety buried within his most mainstream features, sometime you can't just help love the song.

But while Rhee's head - cracking, heresy - spouting attempt to revamp the school system was a major contributor to Fenty's electoral defeat, she left in a blaze of martyrdom, reveling in the extravagant admiration of national opinion - makers, as well as her commanding role in the polemical pro-charter-school documentary Waiting for «Superman.»

We don't read / listen to / watch Richard III for its (admittedly polemical and objectively inaccurate) data on the pre-Tudor succession.

It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction.In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality.

These last, well - worn references to «cosmic connectedness» are yet more material for Luna's polemical recycling.

A less polemical exhibition could have had room for sculpture like hers and Ferrara's cubes.

4 Films like John Akomfrah's Handsworth Songs (Black Audio Film Collective, 1986) and Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien's The Passion of Remembrance (Sankofa Film and Video Collective, 1986) positioned themselves at «the center of polemical debates in the mainstream and Black popular press that often do little more than bespeak critical assumptions about which filmic strategies are «appropriate» for Blacks.»

While some artists eschewed the language of abstraction for more popular or polemical forms, Whitten's engagement with the surfaces of his compositions grew more nuanced.

Despite having honed an intelligent yet boisterous painting process for the last 40 - plus years, Los Angeles - based art guru Thomas Lawson is just as likely to be known as a) the dean of the prestigious School of Art at the California Institute for the Arts and (b) the talented but polemical art writer who penned the potent 1985 comeuppance of Neo-Expressionism titled «Last Exit: Painting.»

Forget that Gropius, Corbusier and Perriand were also media - savvy; the point is polemical: they, the protagonists of modernist design, were cued by functional structures, vehicles, things, but we, the celebrants of Pop culture, look to «the throw - away object and the pop - package» for our models.

The above communication from Ad Reinhardt to Thomas Hess encapsulates some of the cross-currents that characterized the working relationship between a leading New York School artist who was also a prolific, polemical writer, and satirical cartoonist for ARTnews, and ARTnews's influential executive editor who was also a critic supportive of Reinhardt's art along with that of the other New York School artists.

The Futurist movement is easy prey for the kind of historical generalisation and polemical flourish that makes for a sellout exhibition.

Often times promotion and advertisement provide raw material for the artist's practice; the installation simultaneously exploits and reflects upon the polemical nature of propaganda — its power to politicize space and potential to actualize ideology — in order to interrogate the tendency of the built Capitalist environment to stifle and obliterate individualism.

MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN ART: THE WORLD OF BOB & ROBERTA SMITH (John Rogers, 2012, World Premiere) Bob & Roberta Smith, in reality one person called Patrick Brill, is an artist renowned for his humorous, polemical work.

What is left open by Joselit's brief and polemical text is how we might best use this diagnosis of the present possibilities and limitations for artistic production to analyze works of art themselves for, if After Art has a limitation of its own, it is in putting these provocative but abstract ideas in the service of contemporary art, rather than simply having the former represented or narrativized by the latter.

That is, he is concerned with the long history of painting as a platform for conveying an individual point of view, returning painting to its polemical status.

But I have seen dozens of polemical statements like yours — that Kyoto makes only 0.001 ºC of difference by then etc. — written by people who do not want to take responsibility for the future consequences of their actions.

But you seem more interested in polemically attacking others for being polemical than in following your own advice.

It was, he said, part of «a season of opinionated polemical films about global warming», and was balanced by a film I had made, broadcast in the same week, for Dispatches (17).

If you have hard evidence of scientific fraud then, assuming you wish to be taken seriously, you will of course contact the journal and present it, or submit a comment for peer - review and publication, rather than posting polemical blog posts.