Historicization refers to the process of studying or interpreting events, ideas, or actions in the context of their historical period. It involves analyzing and understanding how different factors of a particular time period influence or shape a specific event or concept.
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Through the weaving of these mythographies one can find the creative and imaginative dynamics of an attempt
at historicization.
15 On the other hand some have sought to avoid the difficulties for preaching that have come with the
radical historicization of man by trying to secure an area for faith free from the contingencies of historical investigation.
With the phasing out of the one - child policy in China, an irreplaceable national biopolitical experiment, the millennial generations» unborn siblings
await historicization.
The symposium invites scholars and practitioners to frame a broader enquiry into this expanded role of exhibitions in the reception and
historicization of art in Asia.
And this «
historicization» was occurring while there were still living people able to provide the sense of immediacy that is missing from historical abstraction.
This epistemology produces
a historicization of reason because reason attains knowledge not by going outside time but by incarnating itself in time, since knowledge as future can only be attained through the present.
In other words, the pericope about David's son is a «
historicization» of an early Christian exegetical tradition and a product of the early Church; it is not a historical reminiscence of the ministry of Jesus.
(Rather, it would be more accurate to speak of a Christian «
historicization» [in the sense of Heilsgeschichte] of the Greek ideas.
This movement is in both directions: towards a Pentecostalization of historic Protestantism and
a historicization of Pentecostalism.
A parallel tendency is
the historicization of the Pentecostal field.
These personalities linger in the space of the gallery while inhabiting another, active moment of
historicization: the 1980s.
Rosenberg's scenes of destruction and anachronism confound the logic of
historicization and invoke the possibility of redemption in the web of a history that is an ever - expanding constellation of fragments.
«I can understand the so called «pessimism» attached to
the historicization of the «institutional critique genre» of visual arts, but I refuse to believe that it only exists in the past or that it has lost its potency as an impactful modus operandi.
Expanding on much of the research he recently conducted on the history of Vancouver's Gastown — a local neighborhood where a sense of history and authenticity was falsely constructed in order to give a patina of «olden times» — Morrison has created a number of new works that observe the visual intricacies of imitative misappropriation and what they reveal about processes of
historicization.
Her work focuses on the role of
historicization and memorialization in the politics of identity and confronts experiences of historical domination and marginalization by recontextualizing, reimagining, or restaging those processes in the present.
Toward the end of their talk, the conversation turned again to the museum's role in the early development of a individual's sense of self, as the two discussed
the historicization of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, and their closeting by historians and museum curators.
But Craven also investigates the processes and patterns that gave rise to the old content in the first place — the symbols and visual language of
historicization.
As a participant in the women's art movement of the late»60s and early»70s, I have decidedly mixed feelings about
the historicization of feminism.