Sentences with phrase «historical construction»

The first is that the Modern art historical construction of abstraction (via Clement Greenberg et al) ignored a centuries - long history of abstract and formalist practices from around the world.

Observing western art historical constructions, modalities of thought and contemporary discourse informs Benzant's practice while centering his work in community practices and rituals, drawing personal inspiration from the spirit and the oral traditions of the African ancestors that came across the Atlantic Ocean during the middle passage slave trade.

First, a realization that modernity itself is a relative historical construction: that someday the Newtonian world - view, and that material image of reality, will seem as quaint as the Ptolemaic world - view does to us, as it already does amongst theoretical physicists, that reality undermines modernity's skepticism about God.

However, if what is meant by integralism is simply the conviction that regardless of particular historical constructions, social order, as human, has in its very nature both spiritual and temporal elements that can not be coherently divorced from each other, then my work can be seen as integralist.

Despite the many books that continue to be published on the topic, «New Testament ethics» is a misleading category, confusing historical constructions with normative judgments, eliding difficult questions about the nature of a scriptural canon, and above all failing to take with sufficient seriousness the dialectic between the formation of a community and the development of the community's norms of belief and behavior.»

You can find the answers to these questions in a hands - on way with the new historical construction kit of the canal - side house at Prinsengracht 263.

The addition, housing the restaurant and a social space, is conceived with an appearance intentionally different from the calm and precise form of the adjoining historical construction, so to create a fascinating and dynamic ensemble of an early 19th century architecture and a contemporary 21st century one.

Gloria and the surrounding Santa Teresa are regions famous for keeping historical constructions which bring back the city's old charm.

For this arrangement, she said, has «the potential to expose and denaturalize the historical construction of gender at the heart of marriage.»

Lucinda Wright: There were two areas of research that needed to be fully explored for this particular production; the historical construction and style of the clothes of 1860 and secondly, to examine all the detailed accounts about the real life characters — Jack Whicher, Constance and all her family, with exposure of the Road Hill House Murder.

Nicole Furman: «I think that the content of the work I create is unique, as I seek to challenge a lot of societal preconceptions and ruling institutions through common «symbols» (from gender preconceptions, to the mere existence of innocence, to historical construction and reconstruction), which is conceptual, yet always maintaining aesthetic priorities (which conceptual art seems to disregard, and which for me define art).»

In these digital paintings, Mestrich weaves her interest in the «interplay between social representation and memory in relation to the historical constructions of race and gender as seen in children's play.»

Rosenberg's work probes sexuality, gender, childhood, artistic identity and historical construction.