Sentences with phrase «from polemical»

This exhibition examines the intertwined arts of etching and writing, from the polemical beginnings of the Etching Revival in the 1850s to its twentieth - century afterlife.

Oulipian poetic theory ranged from the polemical language of early manifestoes to elaborate formulations of a literary aesthetic based on algorithms and re-combinations.

Cotter finds that the exhibition carries «a spectrum of meanings that runs from polemical to personal and poetic.»

From polemical pieces to extensive theoretical essays to studies of Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Richard Artschwager and John Baldessari, the texts collected here respond to the ongoing collision of aesthetics and exchange value.

The result is a show that isn't reductively «racial» but includes race on a spectrum of meanings that runs from polemical to personal and poetic.

At the same time, throughout August, Luther was composing a formal and personal letter to the young Emperor and a public Offer and Protest — these were personal matters and both texts he discussed in detail with Spalatin in sharp distinction from his polemical works about which he seldom consulted anyone once he had settled the truth of the matter in his own mind, and the text began to flow like molten metal.

Not exact matches

The tone of what they opaquely advocate sounds moderate, and they contrast their own reasonableness with selected polemical rhetoric from some Christian Zionists.

In their reaction against liberalism, they may move from Wesley's irenic approach to difference to a more polemical one.

I have suggested, first, that polemical argument and confrontation are integral and essential to the intellectual life, and that any attempt systematically to remove them from that life is dangerous and, in the end, incoherent.

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

This charge, drawn from Robert Katz's polemical book Black Sabbath (1969), has been reproduced by many of Pius» recent critics, despite the fact that it is based on thirdhand information that has never been verified by historians.

Far from being just another polemical rant, Art's Prospect takes us inside the heads of those who execute and market contemporary art, helping us understand what they think they are doing, and why doing it is such a profitable business.

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.»

Funny, exhausting, polemical and poetic, it is a joyous assertion of Gomes» belief that storytelling serves as an escape from reality, and a way to confront and transcend even the most difficult of times.

Reviewing a few selected, representative pieces, I will trace the evolution of their thinking since the 1980s, although there is relatively little observable change, given not only the constant polemical tone that has remained at the core of their work but also the similar language that appears throughout the corpus of that work; they unabashedly acknowledge their frequent borrowing, almost verbatim, from previously published essays.

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.

The path - breaking essay, «Some Aspects of Color and Red and Black in Particular,» and the polemical essay, «Una Stanza Per Panza,» is joined with hundreds of selections from Judd's handwritten notes and manuscripts from Judd Foundation Archives, encompassing art, architecture, design, and activism.

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.

Mixing anecdote and advocacy, the first section of this two - part polemical essay offers an introduction to the concealed history of do - it - yourself publishing — as undertaken by some of the most revered writers in the modern Western literary canon, from Laurence Sterne (1713 — 1768) to Irma Rombauer (1882 — 1941) via Virginia Woolf (1871 — 1922) and Derek Walcott (1930 ---RRB-.

Turning its back on illusionism and allegory, this kind of art attempts to define its own universe of meanings, and in the polemical act of purifying itself from extraneously derived languages and imageries, aspires to ineffability.»

The striking early - and mid-twentieth-century black and white photographs by noted photographers are interspersed among polemical quotes from Weil.

The piece has drawn objections from bloggers, artists, and activists, including a polemical critique by Eunsong Kim and Maya Isabella Mackrandilal publicly endorsed by another artist presenting at the Whitney Biennial, Pedro Vélez.

In this sense, the racially tinged titles of Bradford's paintings — including Them Big Old Titties — seem more propositional than polemical in their oblique allusions to the complex mesh of ethnic, racial and gender desires and tensions that course through the neighborhoods and communities from which Bradford sourced his scavenged materials.

The trailer (above) is overheated and polemical, mashing up risks from climate change driven by accumulating greenhouse gases with the deep and inherent climate and coastal vulnerability from New Orleans to sub-Saharan Africa (vulnerability that is mainly created by poverty, a lack of governing capacity, poor planning and / or population growth, not by changing environmental risks).