Sentences with phrase «history of aesthetic»

These are just two examples of the long history of aesthetic prejudice black abstract artists have run into.
This group exhibition presents a comparison of Picasso's works with those of non-Western artists «to put into question a history of aesthetic appropriations and re-appropriations in contemporary art».
From Picasso to Pollock highlights the history of the aesthetic vanguard from early Modernism through Abstract Expressionism.
This rejection of the Parangolés has inscribed Oiticica's work into an avant - garde history of aesthetic rejection and belated valorization.

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Japan — which has its own troubles with perfectionism — has a gorgeous history of wabi sabi, an aesthetic sense wherein cracks in clay or wrinkles in skin are signs of beauty.
The interplay of the various sources is subtle and the judgments are often «aesthetic» and dependent upon a variety of factors that include the personal history and psychology of the theologian as well as the extent to which the sources have been grasped and understood.
Further, stature was for Loomer an aesthetic reality and was rewarding enough to let one face the difficulty of living through a wild history.
We may note that, in the history of theistic argumentation or «proofs for the existence of God,» axiological considerations find expression above all in the tradition of «ontological,» «aesthetic,» and «moral» arguments, cosmological considerations in «cosmological» arguments.
It must take into account not only all the history of mankind in its multiform manifestations — political, religious, economic, aesthetic, social, and intellectual — but what to human beings, with their limited outlook and endowments, is the staggering and unimaginably vast cosmos in which they are set.
The «sense of mystery, spirituality, and aesthetic beauty» which supposedly accompanied childbirth «throughout human history» is mostly a figment of NCB advocates» imagination.
Working together, mathematics, biology, and art history researchers from San Diego State University, the Getty Research Institute, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography created a tool to computationally measure the aesthetic appearance of coral reefs.
The mention is not mere art history fuss: the peculiarity of the local art, and even the local light, clearly made a deep aesthetic imprint on the young Roversi.
«I'm really interested in revolutionary fashion — how people in history have used personal aesthetic to resist,» says Desirée Venn Frederic, a founding member of Artist Union D.C. and founder of the cult «eclectic world vintage» boutique Nomad Yard (now an online destination).
The high aesthetic values of returning director Shekhar Kapur's 1998 historical drama are in tact here, and screenwriters William Nicholson and the returning Michael Hirst continue to make history more accessible to the masses by focusing on conspiracies, unrequited and jealous love, and wartime politics.
These films contain aesthetic, narrative and / or thematic parallels that can erase decades of separation and show how ideas and styles echo across cinema history.
Contemporaneous with the French New Wave, there were many filmmakers working in France of African origin whose work has rarely been absorbed into the cultural and aesthetic history of the movement.
Its a sort of alternate - history, steampunk inspired aesthetic that really shines and is wholly unique.
It goes without saying that there's a lot to talk about regarding their unlikely aesthetic sensibility (sales presentation meets Leni Riefenstahl meets Michael Bay meets Vic Berger ECUs) and their characterizations of history and reality.
The costumes had to reflect the history and aesthetic of the comic books, be believably African in terms of color palette, and vibrant enough to stand out in a film with gorgeous scenery and dazzling special effects.
The aesthetic is unmistakably Zelda, though that naturally covers quite a variety of visual styles spanning the decades long history of the series.
In examining the Bisbee deportation of 1917 — a shameful chapter in America's labor history, when 1,300 striking miners were forced out of the town under threat of violence — he's found a subject that perfect matches his larger philosophical concerns and aesthetic tendencies.
In 100 Years of Japanese Cinema he basically turns himself into an academician, and not a very good one at that, giving us a pocket social history of 20th - century Japan in relation to film, in which aesthetic issues play almost no role at all.
Elsewhere in the video a few choreographed slow motion shots show the car's motorsport - inspired aesthetic and finer visual details of the most powerful V8 Ferrari model in history.
The company has a history of building beautiful cars with a performance aesthetic, but that history also includes a long absence from the US market.
The highly valued profession of a fashion designer needs vast knowledge in different areas such as art, cultural heritage, history, aesthetic theories.
For years Samsung has been heavily changing Android's look and feel to match more of an aesthetic they thought would work better, and for the most part Samsung has been on the wrong side of history in this regard.
The series has an aged, weathered «feel» to it, perfectly encapsulating Jasper's themes of artistry and history, and giving In Maps & Legends an aesthetic unlike anything else currently on the web.
As described by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): «It provides a classic example of the evolutionary history of reefs, contains superlative natural phenomena and areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance, and is one of the most pristine reef ecosystems in the Western hemisphere».
A nod to the island's Dutch history, the Eagle Beach hotel is an aesthetic departure from many of the predictable super-resorts nearby.
Designed by New York - based firm Roman & Williams, the Ace has a truly unique design aesthetic: the lobby reflects the building's history with a mural of filmmaker and painter Harry Smith who lived in the building when it was the Breslin Hotel, while guest rooms have a more utilitarian feel, with repurposed pipes serving as everything from a makeshift closet to desk legs.
The site, of outstanding aesthetic beauty, also bears testimony to the history of the planet, its features and processes.
A fine example of monastic architecture, the Byzantine Tower of Ouranoupolis is not only a beautiful reminder of that history in its aesthetic but also the site now serves as a museum where you can learn even more about the area's rich history.
An alternate history, Victorian - era London filled with anachronistic technology, a storyline wrought with secret sects and ancient monsters, and a stunningly rendered Steampunk aesthetic with a graphical fidelity heretofore unheard of on home consoles?
Its a sort of alternate - history, steampunk inspired aesthetic that really shines and is wholly unique.
The familiar inspirations come from a wider history of the franchise, encouraging new aesthetic details that flourish within the typically clever stage designs — stages that claim as much space for frantic multiplayer sessions as they do for those looking to painstakingly search out more solitary secrets.
It feels like a history museum of video game references with a fun aesthetic.
Some of history's greatest artists explored such an aesthetic, among them Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cézanne.
In this exhibition, Thomas Houseago presents a body of work that not only testifies to his continuing interest in the history of sculpture, but also hints at the emergence of a new aesthetic sensibility within his oeuvre.
Whether the body at stake constitutes a material engagement with Art History or an ecosophy of subjectivities, social relations, environments, symbolic codes, rhythms, and aesthetic patterns, Amerika presents a poetics of non-arrival - an insistence upon the performativity of plurality rather than its ontology.
Local History brings together rarely seen early works of the 1950s through early 1970s by Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd, and Frank Stella, and juxtaposes them with important later examples that reveal each artist's distinct evolution and the varying degrees of reverberation from their brief aesthetic collision in the 1960s.
Coventry noticed that the yellow and red of the company's visual identity align with aesthetic elements in modern art history.
As a result of this particular history, photographic images still bear a strong aesthetic kinship with western painting.
PLAKOOKEE is a collaboration between artists Rachel Debuque and Justin Plakas which explores the aesthetic history of science fiction films through an installation titled Cosmic Modules.
Pettibon's aesthetic embraces a wide spectrum of American high and low culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, sports, religion, politics, sexuality, and literature.
And while it has been popular of late to display actual handmade African - American quilts, such as the ones exhibited in upscale New York galleries, Huckaby's act of repainting quilts disarms them as fetishized aesthetic objects while folding their weighted cultural meaning into the history of painting.
The AAA has been for most of its history, a remarkably democratic organization tolerant of many points of view and, in recent years, the scope of its exhibitions has seemed to widen, including a variety of styles, attitudes to form, and a broad philosophical base which can include the aesthetic, the mathematical, the scientific and even the mystical.»
These include autonomous recording and narrative systems, the investigation of temporal structures, and the material - based aesthetic and media - spanning conflation of personal time concepts and of contemporary history and current events.
Although Gueorguieva's work engages with the history of art in subtle ways, her work also evinces aesthetic similarities to many other Los Angeles - based artists, particularly in her use of a brilliant color palette, and her tendency towards thin, attenuated forms, in both her paintings and sculpture.
It doesn't matter if she hews to a feminist reading of history, self - consciously apes historical modes of abstraction, or engages in Warholian strategies, the «post -» artist will happily jettison aesthetic engagement for the opportunity to pontificate in the service of self.
Finally, due to both the rational structure of her media - spanning, multi-layered works and her diverse spectrum of subject - related references to music, literature, and European cultural history, Hanne Darboven prefigures strategies and discourses of aesthetic knowledge production and mediation in current art.
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