Sentences with phrase «from everyday reality»

Officially founded in 1924 when André Breton published his First Surrealist Manifesto, the movement of Surrealism sought to free one's mind from the past and from everyday reality to arrive at truths one has never known.

The Austrian artist Franz West, who has died aged 65 after a long illness, was profoundly impressed as a teenager by a trip to Rome, where public sculptures and fountains are social settings and not just precious artefacts divorced from everyday reality.

This distance from everyday reality was enhanced by McNairn's practice of creating triptychs or diptychs, in homage to Renaissance and medieval altarpieces, as in Through the Valley or In a High Place, both exhibited in 1997.

The property is built on an irregular pocket of land on the outskirts of Seminyak and provides sanctuary from everyday reality.

It is an escape from everyday reality to rediscover the simple pleasures of Mother Nature.

Terence Davies's A Quiet Passion is one such rarity, refusing to over-account for the sensitivities or attention spans of today's audiences in treating Emily Dickinson as a living, breathing human inextricable from her everyday reality.

The Queen Of Versailles gleans some big, guilty laughs out of its subjects» rampant egotism and surreal disconnect from everyday reality, but it's ultimately less interested in laughing at the Siegels» misfortune than in attempting to understand them.

Reporter 5: [One of the things that comes up in our newsroom a lot is that this stuff is so divorced from the everyday reality of people that don't wor in [your] field [When you're trying to explain it to people who don't work in your field,] what are some of the basic things you can tell them about how [their daily] life is connected to and important to [this]?

Now this seems an incredible avoidance of ones responsibility and an absolute mind twist from everyday reality.

Not exact matches

But even if Amazon's proposal becomes reality, it will likely be a while from now before drones flying in a special zone to drop off packages are an everyday thing.

Although the formulation of the question was not always precise, the everyday experience of black suffering, arising from black people's encounter with the sociopolitical structures controlled by whites, created in my consciousness a radical conflict between the claims of faith on the one hand and the reality of the world on the other.

Useful as it may be to abstract types of things from the welter of everyday experience, we must not commit what Whitehead called the «fallacy of misplaced concreteness» whereby these abstractions are treated as if they were the actual realities under consideration.

Helpful though this kind of analysis can be, it also can keep us from attending to the complex everyday realities of political life.

On balance, Berger's theoretical perspective has provided a modern apologetic for the value of religion, arguing not from theological tradition but from the secular premises of social science that humans can not live by the bread of everyday reality alone.

«We need training that is not divorced from the realities of everyday life,» she says.

As an African who sees the reality of everyday life, poverty and political dictatorship, it is not much different from our brother in Iran who pays the price of Islam dictatorship.

Thus, in his comments on defining religion, Berger approvingly refers to Rudolf Otto's idea of the holy, and suggests in the light of that concept that religious experience must be recognized as distinct from «the experiences of ordinary, everyday reality.»

Ordinary experience of mundane reality becomes more sharply distinguished from and relativized by the awareness of a realm of perfection or of supreme bliss far surpassing anything given in our everyday lives.

Our frequent mistake is to abstract one from the other, and in our everyday language and metaphysical thinking to misconstrue the nature of reality.

Soccer, here, is less a diversion from the realities of everyday life than it is a way the fragmented day - to - day existence can come together and take on some semblance of meaning.

«But our slum is better than yours» Football a temporary escape from the dreary reality of everyday existance.

Along the way, the hope is that the project will transform the technology of neuroscience — in the same way that the Human Genome Project (HGP) helped take genome - sequencing from pipe dream to everyday reality — and ultimately revolutionise our understanding of brain function.

Forget the LHC — from squished electrons to self - destructing protons, careful scrutiny of everyday particles acting strangely may refresh our picture of reality

All this activity is reflected in a shift in the public perception of space: from «heavenly realm» to everyday reality.

Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience.

My everyday outfits these days are pretty far away from Haute Couture, but it's the reality for most of us and that's perfectly fine too.

From there, Giuliana hired me to come out to LA for two - and - a-half weeks to style her for Giuliana and Bill reality show, her everyday E! News show, as well as Fashion Police.

You will also find news items from post-USSR countries relating to everyday realities of life and relationships, to make your understanding of these modern European counties more up to date.

Same Name prefers the usual bunk of the genre, smoothing over significant matters of a class chasm that is an everyday reality for all Americans with dreamy ideas of how we're all not really so different from one another.

There is something inspirational about watching Walter's daydreams shift into reality as he goes from living his everyday somewhat boring life and watching him take that leap and literally jump onto that helicopter.

As digital and virtual networks infiltrate our everyday lives and subjective experiences, our relationship with technology manifests less as the fear of invasion by mysterious foreign forces, and more as an intimate grappling with newly mediated realities of time, space, and interpersonal relationships — i.e., less as the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more as the metaphorical «black mirror,» the small, hyperconnected screen prone to catching us in moments of accidental self - contemplation.

Those working in administrative positions within the bureaucracy of most districts are far removed from the realities of the everyday happenings within the classroom, even when the «district» refers to and relies upon their «so - called» experts.

Participating for the first time in the Design Challenge, Infiniti designers from its San Diego studio looked toward the future in which augmented reality, 3D hologram and wearable technologies may be a part of the everyday driving experience, creating a seamless interaction between man and machine.

Infiniti added designers from its San Diego studio looked toward the future in which augmented reality, 3D hologram and wearable technologies may be a part of the everyday driving experience, creating a seamless interaction between man and machine.

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world... all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms.

Add to that the idea, prevalent then, that survivors from Europe - survivors of the camps - needed to leave their old lives (and sorrows) behind and become new, stronger people to help create a new reality, and you can see how one's identity could become tenuous, especially with one's everyday life dependent on the movement.

For those who love to escape into their reading, this book will serve you well as it offers a true, unputdownable distraction from the reality of our more regular and everyday lives.

Starting out from a close reading of Observatory House, a lesser - known work by the artist that also doubles as his holiday home, Lily Cole develops a persuasive account of the momentary utopias that are opened up by Orozco's playful experiments with everyday reality.

We are trying our best to remove the fantasy from the equation and deal with the everyday reality.

Surfacing from beyond our everyday reality, the works presented here question an instant and truthful depiction of the world as proposed by the «decisive moment» of street photography.

In fluenced by western modern and contemporary art, Chinese artists start applying new concepts, such as symbolic elements and inspirations from everyday life to create unique works, which focus more on specific questions than the conceptual ones and keep shaping the relationships between art and reality.

The exhibition title, Diaristic Indulgences (taken from a line in Carolee Schneemann's Interior Scroll and Kitch's Last Meal), refers to the exploration of the discomfort in the physical reality of the body that permeates everyday life.

Using photography to dislocate the collected object from a sense of time or origin, Chu's surreal vignettes will transform the everyday into a moment abstracted from reality, coaxing the viewer's experience of perception to the space between foreign and familiar.

From the perspective of the so - called post-internet generation, his sculptures, films and online projects — often arranged as installations — are concerned with the relationship between real and virtual everyday worlds, that is, with life and experience in the internet age and the effects this has on social reality.

Solely featuring work made since 2000, this exhibition highlights a wide range of contemporary approaches to art making, and explores thought - provoking ideas about our everyday reality, from the various ways we experience time to the personal impact of migration, loss, and desire.

like · ness emphasizes this disjunction from reality and provides insight into the societal and political aspects that affect everyday life.

Often collaborating with other artists, or enlisting large groups to create «reality directed» performances and video works, Althamer has traveled around the world, staging major performative events that range from obviously constructed spectacles to more subtle interventions like Motion Pictures, in which he hired actors to perform everyday acts, such as greeting a friend, in a public square.

Among the works on view at Gladstone gallery will be Reality Painting # 6 (A Wall in My Bedroom) part of Aldrich's «Reality Painting Series,» a body of work that playfully adopts the art - historical idea of a series as a way to organize ideas, and which depicts scenes from Aldrich's everyday life.

Wall was arguing for a type of art that is surprising and strange, seeming to emanate from beyond our everyday reality.

With simple material tools drawn from everyday life such as paper, neon, texts, flags and music Dekyndt immerses the viewers in atmospheric relationships between art, science and reality.