These drawings are not studies for her paintings but rather a distinct
form of aesthetic inquiry, one that isolates the investigatory impulse that grounds Brown's art in general.
Through the activity of researching, collecting, re-staging and re-photographing, Collier reformulates original intent, re-distributes meaning and ultimately imbues her subjects with
a form of aesthetic and emotional character that is uniquely her own.
The use of sacred geometry and their own
form of aesthetic geometry are features in the work.
I love art, I love movies, and I consider films an important
form of aesthetic visual expression, and this one features the most disturbingly gorgeous, darkly lush, effective dystopian cinematography since 2015's «Mad Max: Fury Road.»
- the cruciform has not only molded the American landscape but also laid the foundation of art as a credible
form of aesthetic communication - example: The Renaissance: the enlightenment of art and science.
By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores
all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.
Much later, as a graduate student at Northwestern University's School of Speech, I began to develop some tools for investigating intersections between language and action, angling toward such
forms of aesthetic expression as oral reading, acting and directing in the theatre, and storytelling.
These two character types represent the extreme, pathological
forms of the aesthetic and ethical spheres of existence.
PRIMARY is a multidisciplinary project space, positioned at the heart of the Miami World Center — Downtown Miami, which aims to explore and promote multiple
forms of aesthetic expression from established and emerging artists, alike.
Members of the collective have been in residence in Rotterdam for two months to create video and sculptural installations, printed matter, sonic scapes and film shorts that situate different modes of perception as
forms of aesthetic and conceptual reinvention, protest, and disobedience to normative orders.
PRIMARY is a multidisciplinary project space in Downtown Miami that explores and promotes multiple
forms of aesthetic expression from established and emerging artists.
MORE About Primary Projects PRIMARY is a multidisciplinary project space, positioned in Downtown Miami — at the heart of the Miami World Center — to explore and promote multiple
forms of aesthetic expression from established and emerging artists.
Furthermore, performative gestures and practices - in the context of private, public and civic space - have been subjected to
forms of aesthetic, ethical and political critique that, to date, see them in isolation from the evolving global contexts that underwrite international developments in performance art.
Not exact matches
This was the need to include
aesthetic appreciation as an educational aim, a counterweight to words and numbers in the
form of attention to the concrete.
On the one hand, the comrades take refuge in outdated
forms of communication and esoteric arts and crafts instead
of occupying themselves with the contradiction between the present constitution
of the media and their revolutionary potential; on the other hand, they can not escape from the consciousness industry's program or from its
aesthetic.
The obvious problem
of dealing with such contrasts in the linear
form of narrative can be alleviated by pointing out explicitly what sorts or contrasts are being integrated, so that even if readers lose sight
of the particular information involved, they can still appreciate the
aesthetic transformation
of elements.
In modern societies, Weber argued, the biblical God must compete with worldly gods such as
aesthetic experience, material success, nationalistic fervor, erotic pleasure, and the many other
forms of self - transcendence and this - worldly immortality that call out to our inner demons.
A demand which admittedly is not made
of the medium from without; it is a consequence
of its nature, from which the much - vaunted open
form can be derived — and not as a modification
of it — from an old
aesthetic.)
His rejection
of independently existing substance in favor
of a universe in which all entities are related, the idea
of actual entities as valuing subjects prehending and creating themselves Out
of the feelings
of other subjects, the declaration that the most basic
form of order is
aesthetic, and the insistence that the lure toward beauty and adventure is a primary drive in the process
of reality, are all examples
of Whitehead's fundamental insight that to be is to be related, to exhibit some degree
of beauty in those relationships, and to have the power both to affect and to be affected.
Furthermore, the distinction between unilateral and relational
forms of power is directly relevant to the process concept
of value as
aesthetic.
If we take seriously Whitehead's claim that the fundamental
form of order and hence
of value is
aesthetic, and the accompanying principle
of relatedness, it is obvious that unilateral power (the ability to affect without being affected) inherently inhibits the growth
of value in human experience.
The special logic
of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «
aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages
of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things
of earth, back to finitude, back to the
aesthetic; having found the highest rationality
of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity
of flesh and
form, recognizes all
of creation as a purely gratuitous gift
of a God
of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity
of a world created and redeemed purely out
of God's «pleasure.»
The
form of the harmony is grasped in a kind
of aesthetic judgment, although «
aesthetic» should not be taken to refer exclusively to art or to imply that the value is actually appropriate to the situation.
The conditions
of synthesis are not the dialectical antagonism
of opposites, but
aesthetic contrast among ideal
forms, and between these
forms and the occasion's inheritance.
This includes not only simplicity
of mathematical
form, conceptual simplicity, and a minimum
of independent assumptions, but also an
aesthetic element.
Here, the psychic act
of distancing was applied to that quality
of experience which gives rise to man's sense
of the normative, and this was conceived as standing over against man, possessing just the objectivity that belongs to a visual
form when it is distanced in
aesthetic experience.
We must first achieve an inner relationship to this whole world; then we will be able to grasp the inner necessity, which rules here as in any organic structure and which,
of course, is also involved in the problem
of the relationship
of content to
aesthetic form.
The great, incontestable, and immediately evident value
of a noble expression,
of a beautiful
form, dare not be underestimated — and we are referring here not only or even primarily to its
aesthetic value but above all to its religious value.
The
aesthetic, the ethical, and the logical are conceived as
forms of order.
It is a
form of nostalgia, a kind
of pre-Raphaelite
aesthetic that sees the Middle Ages as a kind
of Eden.
From my viewpoint, what needs to die, or at least to be relativized, is absolute confidence in the religious intuition
of man, which in this
form I take to be a deifying
of the
aesthetic dimension
of the creature.»
Moreover, he corrects Plato, who said that love is the search for supreme beauty, and declares that love simply is the supreme beauty.39 In addition, he avers that the whole range
of emotional and
aesthetic experiences in whatever sensory
form can be interpreted most illuminatingly as the manifestations and self - enjoyment
of love.40
Hence we may therefore speak
of an «
aesthetic conversion'that takes place when we recognise beauty not merely as that which produces feelings
of pleasure, but as «
form», understood as «perceivable order, intelligibility and value».
He says «Just as in love I encounter the other as the other in all his freedom, and am confronted by something which I can not dominate in any sense, so in the
aesthetic sphere, it is impossible to attribute the
form which presents itself to a fiction
of my imagination.
If indeed we are to judge all thought by the way it «promotes the art
of life,» then I think that we must recognize that there are many ways in which that «art» can be promoted, just as there are many different
forms and styles within the fine arts, all
of which can give rise to particular kinds
of rich
aesthetic experience.9
This separability is a fault not only because it violates the
aesthetic principle
of unity, held in some
form by any theory
of beauty.
In this connection, he cites not only the Whiteheadian «emphasis upon the
aesthetic modality as a means
of defining the substance and
form of philosophic endeavor» (El 101), but also the whole American philosophical tradition (in which, correctly I think, he locates Whitehead's thought).
The claim
of Dewey and others that all knowing involves
aesthetic valuation is intimately associated with the idea that knowing is purposive, that it is guided and given
form by some end in view, some active concern
of the knower.
The
aesthetic integration
of order with freshness, stability with complexity, continuity with change,
form with dynamics, and unity with variety is preserved in God's experience in such a way that novelty does not mean loss after all.
«actual occasions» are shaped not only by logical reasoning, but includes all aspects
of one's subjective experiences, including the use
of ones imagination,
aesthetic feelings, and other
forms of non-cognitive and unconscious influences.
There are gradations
of aesthetic harmony Beauty, which is «defined as being the perfection
of Harmony;» comes in two
forms, minor and major.
He writes that «the term can be understood to refer to any attempt that would render the essence
of God accessible, bringing God into either
aesthetic visibility (in the
form of a physical structure, such as a statue) or conceptual visibility (in the
form of a concept, such as a theological system.)
The bottle caps and collars
of the Balenciaga Paris fragrance, as well as the caps
of cream jars from the same range,
form recent, commercial examples
of some
of the new,
aesthetic effects possible with DuPont ™ Surlyn ®.
For an
aesthetic element, they can also be written in various
forms of Japanese writing, like kanji or hiragana.
The work
of other artists who have worked with similar themes
forms an integral element to the study and informs the students» work within the context
of this
aesthetic discipline.
If it is in fact a new
form of Pan-Africanism, it is one that is rooted in a cultural
aesthetic more than a political ambition, its leaders run blogs rather than political parties, and it calls for a reinterpretation rather than return to African culture and values.
More generally, gender stereotypes are used to justify women's unlikelihood to speak up: the general perception
of women as instruments whose function is primordially to be used, as passive sexual objects than as active subjects, as bodies and faces that should be looked at and evaluated on the basis
of demanding
aesthetic criteria, as sacrificial mothers or as empathetic persons mainly attuned to other's people needs, is not very compatible with an assertive
form of communication.
Apart from their
aesthetic qualities, the oak meadows were easier to hunt in and provided additional calories in the
form of camas bulbs.
Depending on your particular
aesthetic, this may take the
form of a poem, a song, a piece
of art, or that houseplant you accosted a minute ago.
Perhaps the new business
aesthetic palpable through the looks in the
form of tailored checked suits was due to the fact that the Australian designer moved from Sydney to the Les Marais neighbourhood in Paris last year.