Sentences with phrase «hierarchical distinctions»

The amazing advances in molecular biology blur the traditional hierarchical distinctions between man, animal, plant and mineral; and the neurophysiological «explanation» of human consciousness in terms of the components and machinations of the brain even more dramatically illustrates how pure «matter» has assumed dominance in any attempt to make sense of our universe and its manifestations.

These objects, often made with natural materials, conflate hierarchical distinctions between high art and craft, while referencing storytelling and folk traditions.

Tolkien was an unapologetic monarchist as well, believing that hierarchical distinctions are necessary for the flourishing of any polity, whether academic or ecclesial or governmental.

We must ask whether the physical and historical continuity that evolutionary theory posits, in its picture of life and consciousness arising from a soup of chemicals, rubs out the hierarchical distinction of levels.7

And even evolutionary theory continues to rely upon the hierarchical distinctions of levels, though it envisages them as stages in a horizontally linear movement with the lines of demarcation somewhat blurred.

It seemed to me that we had an opportunity to change the narrative a little bit, so we started to work with self - taught artists, with communities of artists who had developmental or mental disabilities, and with a lot of older artists, and we started to present all of this work simultaneously without making any kind of categorical or hierarchical distinctions.

«Taylor drew no hierarchical distinctions among the different media he used.

«Looking Back» seeks to eliminate any categorical or hierarchical distinctions we might place upon artworks (e.g. based upon the circumstances in which they were originally seen, or the seniority of an individual artist, etc.) These works might have been originally encountered in exhibitions at institutions, galleries, and not - for - profit spaces, or during visits to artists» studios etc.....

He views art largely through the perspective of design and architecture, and making no hierarchical distinctions between his paintings, sculptures, installations, buildings or lamps.

Numerous pictorial works clarify how central the arbitrary is to Armleder's ouevre, works made with neon lights revive the minimalist tradition of employing ready - made industrial materials, the multimedia installation in the Fridge will incorporate a variety of soundtracks and videos in an accumulation of audio - visual information without any hierarchical distinctions.

Shapiro therefore resists the classical understanding of sculpture, which propagates the unity of the form and the hierarchical distinction of front and reverse sides in favour of non-hierarchical, dynamic, all - over structure.

K.O. - That description to your approach to making music seems so aligned with your visual work where you make these formal and conceptual comparisons across periods and discourses, eliding any hierarchical distinction.