Sentences with phrase «historical reference points»

As historical reference points, Apple also banned all Bitcoin wallets from its app store nearly three years ago, but reversed its decision shortly thereafter.

Other historical reference points of the interaction of climate with society emerge from analysis of the little Ice Age.

Historical reference points for the emerging young artist didn't exist.

Somewhat macabre in appearance, Paulina Olowska's sculpture at the Metro Pictures booth is a layer cake of historical reference points — it's based on a collaboration that Isamu Noguchi and the choreographer Martha Graham did in 1946, where the sculptor created a starkly pared - down tree - like sculpture that the dancers would encircle, letting their clothes get tangled in the branches.

Celebrated for his renaissance - like intelligence, Lagerfeld's aesthetic is imbued with cultural and historical reference points.

While also held together by shared processes and materials, the artists respond to their common art historical reference point individually, some with subversive wit, others through their use and juxtaposition of materials.

Not exact matches

Forty - five years after Humanae Vitae, it now seems clear that the invention of the oral contraceptive pill (to adopt one reference point for the broader contraceptive revolution) was one of the three achievements of 20th - century science with truly world - historical impact, the other two being the creation of the self - sustaining nuclear chain reaction and the unraveling of the DNA double helix.

The editors clearly hope so, but they express that hope with a sober realism: «To the extent that the Constitution still matters — as a framework, as a statement of broad purposes, as a point of recurring reference, as a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautious.

We could point to examples of semantic structure, grammatical style, references to culture, and a whole host of other historical critical standards to prove by scholarly consensus that the author whose name is on the book did not actually write it.

This human point of view calls for further elaboration, for one often sees reference to the cultural and historical conditionedness of Scripture as though it were a cause for concern.

It is fairly easy to look that up and find a secular historical reference to verify that point (Wikipedia).

In a pointed reply to Henry, for example, Frei admonished that such terms as «truth» and «reference» and «historical fact,» which Henry relied on, are more ambiguous than is often recognized.

[39] Regarding chronology, Timothy Barnes, in Tertullian, op cit., points out that this treatise, which comes from the period before Tertullian became a Montanist, does not yield more precise information when the criteria regarding historical allusions, references to other works, doctrinal progression and style, are applied.

The element which most clearly distinguishes myth from an historical narrative is the reference at some point to God.

While my point of reference historically and theologically is the early church, most evangelicals make their historical and theological criterion in a much later time, say with the Reformation, with seventeenth - century orthodoxy, with Wesley, or with nineteenth - century Princetonian theology.

based on a fundamental presupposition that there is a metaphysical - moral realm that is real, transcendent to the empirical world, and simultaneously sufficiently present to human reflection and experience that it can be taken as the decisive point of reference for the understanding and guidance of empirical life and historical existence.

The double saying has no earlier history in the tradition; the point at issue is the question of repentance in face of a challenge, certainly a major concern of the message of the historical Jesus; the references to the queen of the South and the men of Nineveh are vividly apposite and absolutely in accord with Jesus» use of unlikely good examples in his comparisons (the Good Samaritan); and the element of warning in the saying coheres with a major aspect of the message of the parables.

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That's because Verizon's 5 - year historical P / E has averaged out to 14.8, which is practically the same as the ratio of 15 that was used as a reference point in the first step.

All of the best financial planning books, at some point reference the historical performance of the S&P 500.

This study of key moments in the history of ready - made and object - based art features Damien Hirst (London), Gerhard Merz (Munich), Jeff Koons (New York) and their shared historical point of reference, Marcel Duchamp (Paris and New York, 1887 - 1968).

Black Dada references social and historical conditions through the formal methods of conceptualism, producing a point of convergence — the artwork, which sieves and questions matters pertaining to the freedom of abstraction in language and visual art, the animating force of blackness, and the strategies of experimental avant - gardes.

Appearing as an exponent of the Neo-Expressionism when the painting was considered to be overdated medium, Kiefer brought the innovative point of view by using the materials partially borrowed from Robert Rauschenberg's combines and unconventionality of Art Brut and Arte Povera in a combination with symbolism and mysticism, deeply imbued with historical references.

The blazing colors in Beverly Fishman's Untitled (Anxiety)[Zanax Bar] are sensuously arousing — they give a kind of knockout punch to the eye — and the four squares that form the rectangular bar seem to allude to Albers's Homage (s) to the Square even as they acknowledge Frank Stella's Protractor paintings by way of the curves of the two end squares, but all that art historical referencing seems beside the point of the irony built into the work, for Zanax is an anti-anxiety pill.

Anton Ginzburg uses an array of historical and cultural references as starting points for his investigations of art's capacity to penetrate layers of the past.

Was there a critical entry point into Cosima von Bonin's reference - laden retrospective, or have we reached a historical condition in which the «handmade readymade» — a couture item especially manufactured for the museological context that also refers to the stream of mass - produced commodities — is all we have at our disposal?

What is most refreshing here is that the historical reference is not the point, but merely an aspect of the painter's vision.

Thus, «New voices: a dslcollection story,» reveals the practice and works of China's youngest generation of artists, who have distinctly different points of cultural and historical reference in comparison to their predecessors.

Each of the contemporary works is paired with historical points of reference: a Bill Viola video titled Catherine's Dream hangs next to Goya's powerful image The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters; Rachel Whiteread's Untitled (Felt floor) is paired with Ralston Crawford's photographic study of the New York City 3rd Avenue elevated train tracks; Wim Wenders large format photograph of the Australian outback is installed near Edward Hopper's haunting graphic image titled Night Shadows.

Once a year Sutton Lane organises an exhibition which serves as critical reference for the contemporary programme of the gallery and which informs the practice of its artists from a historical point of view:

A historical piece by Andy Warhol was included as well, acting as a reference and starting point.

The special site - specific commission that she will be creating will strikingly transform the exterior of the building in a manner that is both pointed in its historical references and visually charged.»

This reflects almost entirely upon the inadequacies of the historical observing network and points to the need for future network design that provides the reference sonde - based ground truth.

There are so few data observation points anyway, that water level data is surely as anecdotal as when I make references to actual historical events demonstrating sea levels over extended periods in mans recent history?

In the event of municipal RFPs, you might even get access to historical RFP responses as a point of reference.