Sentences with phrase «human scale viewing»

Located in SoHo, The Drawing Center's galleries provide an intimate and human scale viewing experience.

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Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

Here is the basis of Augustine's view that virginity is the highest human state, celibacy next, and that there is a scale of nobility in relation to continence after bereavement, with renunciation always receiving the highest honour.17

To get some closure on the nature versus nurture debate in human aesthetics, researchers asked 547 pairs of identical twins and 214 pairs of same - gender fraternal twins to view 200 faces and rate them on a scale of one to seven, with one being the least attractive and seven the most attractive.

«This long - term view shows that the next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large - scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far,» the team concluded.

«All we're saying is that to adopt the full - scale human resource practices of another entity means you have not developed your own point of view on those critical employment issues,» said Jed Wallace, president of the association.

Satellites give volcanologists a good overall view of the volcano, but can't supply human - scale details.

In the late 18th century, British artists developed the large - scale panorama, all - encompassing bird's - eye views of the rivers and their lands that made humans seem the center of the universe.

These artifacts shift scale from biological processes to human habitation, huge earth forces and aerial views.

Paintings are of human scale, anticipating the viewing experience and inviting engagement in the forward and back, side to side «dance,» as one would with a Barnett Newman work.

With most pieces scaled to human size or smaller, the viewing experience becomes more intimate.

After seeing James Bishop, which is currently on view at David Zwirner (September 6 — October 25, 2014), I would urge anyone who cares about what an artist can do with paint to go and immerse themselves in this beautiful, sensitive, astringent exhibition of eleven mostly square, human - scaled paintings in oil and four small works (all are less than six inches in height and width), done in oil and crayon on paper.

On view are large - scale drawings by Janet Culbertson revolving around the effects on widespread pollution and human interference on the environment.

Viewing elements of the Maine landscape from different levels of scale — from great distance to close - up, each artist explores a different aspect of the boundaries and interrelationships between human activity and the natural world.

The dominant view, even then, was that increasing levels of greenhouse gases were likely to dominate any changes we might see in climate on human time scales.

Even with human moderators on hand, some of these conspiracy theories have scaled to the top of YouTube's prominent list of trending videos, and earned millions of views in the process, before being taken down.