Sentences with phrase «human fascination»

Behind the altogether human fascination with power games that turns the visual arts into journalistic cotton candy, ancient debates still percolate and shape what we are seeing and what we understand.

~ Milo Kundera The human fascination with the face has been thoroughly documented in art history, with the oldest, highly abstracted portrait drawn on the wall...

Curated by Butterfly Art News, the show explores notions of anthropomorphism, human fascination with oddities or monstrosities and our fragile relationship with the natural world.

Next week in the UK will be opening «LUSUS NATURAE» in London Shoreditch, a duo exhibition with French artists 100TAUR and Hisham Echafaki featuring a series of new paintings, drawings.Curated by Butterfly Art News, the show explores notions of anthropomorphism, human fascination with oddities or monstrosities and our fragile relationship with the natural world.For the first

«As a studio, we've always been obsessed with games that explore topics of human fascination», said Bohemia Interactive's CEO, Marek Spanel.

You need only open a fashion or style magazine to appreciate that throughout history there are indications of a profound human fascination with the large and small wild felines that inhabit the jungles and forest of the world.

With such a powerful human fascination for miniaturisation, and our natural nurturing instincts for tiny animals, it isn't surprising that we have brought our power over dogs to bear.

Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil.

So why the eternal human fascination with blood - sucking monsters who look just like us?

Not exact matches

That lifelong fascination with human behavior has informed his work with the world's largest corporations, first at Amherst Consulting Group, which he founded in 1983 and sold in 1999, and more recently with 180 Partners.

First I like to see a fascination with human behavior -LSB-...]

We humans seem have a fascination with war, battle, bloodshed, violence and killing our enemies, don't we?

As someone who has taken more than 25,000 calls from his listeners (more than 7 million tune in on a weekly basis) the stories and quirks that make us human are also a source of endless fascination for the radio host.

The bottom line here is that the Republicans» fascination with an unfettered free market and their lack of faith in the government's ability to provide any benefits to our common life (except to assist business in making money) is no more consistent with Catholic teaching than the Democrats» emphasis on individual freedom in social questions and their faith in human perfectibility through government action.

But we have to set against this the fascination of the small, so that in itself, the size of insects doesn't explain much about human attitudes toward them.

A private student of Otto Dix, Jörg Madlener has remained faithful throughout his long career to his original fascination for the human face.

In spite of his fascination with theory, Jung observed: «It is a remarkable thing about psychotherapy: you... can cure only from one central point; that consists in understanding the patient as a psychological whole and approaching him as a human being, leaving aside all theory and listening attentively to whatever he has to say.»

In addition to our culture's fascination with breasts as sexual objects, breastfeeding is also «modified by a wide variety of [cultural] beliefs, not only about infant health and nutrition, but also about the nature of human infancy and the proper relationships between mother and child, and between mother and father1.»

It's about demonstrating that scientists can be celebrities, and that we can earn admiration and fascination in the same way other human beings can.

Just how you should draw inspiration from the Discovery Channel's hugely popular weeklong coverage of these stealthy carnivores is open to interpretation, but there is no mystery to our enduring fascination with sharks: Their razor - sharp teeth and uncanny ability to sniff out prey remind us that there are still some places on Earth where humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain.

«Part of its intrinsic fascination is, of course, that we humans can't do it.»

The Victorians» fascination with Human Monstrosities got off to a rollicking start with the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

The study of human evolution, Tattersall notes, holds «a special fascination for human beings, who, of course, are a very egotistical species.»

Sommer is not alone in his fascination with the stranger corners of the human mind.

We humans have a love - hate relationship with our guts, and Roach's latest book capitalizes on that mix of fascination and repulsion to lure us into reading about the digestive system.

Dr. Jill Tarter points to the fascination of the recent solar eclipse that swept North America and reminds us that «For millennia, across the world humans have looked to the sky to navigate their world.

Mars, despite its inhospitable climate and heavily irradiated surface that would kill humans in a matter of minutes, has been a source of unending fascination for scientists and science fiction writers alike.

While walking around sans - shoes, Linde developed a deep fascination with the interplay of plants and humans, and how healing these natural things could be if we humans only let them in.

Jobs had a longstanding fascination with the book The Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret (1866 - 1922), who claimed the human body is an «air - gas engine» that runs well only on fruits, starchless vegetables and edible green leaves.

Her fascination with the human body came to a forefront during her years as an established vegetarian body builder and personal trainer.

Fact is I am human, with all the faults, phobias, and fascination.

An excerpt from Magnolia's description of the film says: «Following a long fascination with [Scientology] and with much experience in dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behavior, the beguilingly unassuming Louis Theroux won't take no for an answer when his quest to enter the Church's headquarters is turned down.

Refn's latest and best, The Neon Demon, is the culmination of his decades - long fascination with human nature in its darkest, most destructive form.

The ghastly bear - dinosaur hybrid with a human voice is a notable highlight, while Lena's particular fascination with cell division is mirrored in the way a thing might become a multitude of similar things.

Horrorshows like this prequel to 1973's genuinely scary The Exorcist have become ever more literal and physical, dominated by a Grand Guignol fascination with the myriad ways the human body can be mutilated.

That it remains at least partially watchable is entirely a product of the sick fascination / tolerance one develops for Keanu Reeves's mind - numbing inability to act, for even a moment, like a human being.

Guillermo del Toro infuses the grotesque with innocence and wonder, as if he has slipped into our dreams and fascinations, not to judge, but to find truth and grace in the dark furrows and creaky hallways of human nature.

Checking off a list, there are maybe three substances the human body produces that aren't exploited for cheap laughs during the course of Along Came Polly, fashioning a weird entendre out of its title and providing a little fascination at how a four - year - old's delight in excretion is poised to gross millions of dollars this weekend; ideally, only demographics incapable of buying tickets in the first place (lobotomy subjects, toddlers) will be able to brush off the screaming inadequacies of the picture.

It's also a very physical performance — the title is quite deliberate, and there's almost a Cronenbergian fascination with the human body at play — and Johansson is game and fearless to do whatever Glazer has asked her to do.

Wiseau's poignant lack of comprehension as to what makes us human has made him a figure of mockery but also of intense fascination.

The simple pleasures of a twisty plot work in concert with Soderbergh's fascination with the visual textures of ordinary human spaces, resulting in a film that feels lived - in, even at its most cornily artificial.

But his fascination with pop culture extended beyond a critique of hyper - consumption, and always found its way back toward what it means to be a real human being despite our grotesquely materialistic culture.

Prior to this role, Seth led work on the Teach For America — Bay Area teacher support team before heading up national recruitment efforts, leading to his fascination with talent and human capital, leadership development and the intersection of education and technology.

Uckfield College's History Department believes its pupils should develop an ongoing interest and fascination with the past and an appreciation of human achievements.

Few subjects have such intrinsic fascination to middle - grade kids (and everyone else, really) as the concept of death and the particulars of how humans deal with it.

Near the end of Chapter 4, Rossi says, «Human history's full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.»

I think this is one of the fundamental things that make us human — our fascination with mysteries, real or fictional, solved or unsolved — and the whole crime genre has grown from that fascination.

While a horrible and shocking topic, humans seem to have an underlying fascination with the grotesque — making shows like Law and Order and CSI hits.

My fascination with the sciences has long since outpaced my facility with their technical intricacies, and while these poems do not confine themselves to any single subject, very few pieces of writing have spoken to me of the deeply human need to look up the way that this book does.

Proulx's signature passion and concern for nature as well as her unnerving forensic fascination with all the harm that can befall the human body charge this rigorously researched, intrepidly imagined, complexly plotted, and vigorously written multigenerational epic.