Sentences with phrase «hyperactivistic bourgeois culture»

Karl Barth recognized that liberal theologians provide theological justification for Kulturprotestantismus, an establishment mentality eager to adjust Christianity to suit bourgeois culture.

Their attitude to time is completely opposed to that of bourgeois culture which aspires to possession, that is to extension in time, best of all, to eternity.

It often seems as if it were precisely because of their progressive potential that the media are felt to be an immense threatening power; because for the first time they present a basic challenge to bourgeois culture and thereby to the privileges of the bourgeois intelligentsia -.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise, Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah and half - hearted about the demand for single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

He saw in petty - bourgeois culture a moral realism that recognized the cost and limits of human existence, reinforcing a healthy skepticism of progress.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise — Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah, and half - hearted about the demand for a single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

Both Anderson and Fukuyama virtually blame «the bourgeois culture» for getting us into this mess, but both overlook or downplay other forces at work.

By strenuously insisting on the transcendence and integrity of the divine object, he tried to liberate theology from its bondage to philosophy, bourgeois culture and church tradition.

But it has now become clear to an ever increasing number of our contemporaries all over the world that this «profit system» of a «rugged individualism» must be replaced by an order which, without sacrificing the values and attainments of bourgeois culture, is impelled by a new cultural temper.

We are immersed in a thoroughly secular bourgeois culture, and so we have to will ourselves, again and again, to recall our religiously formed and religiously ordered rights and responsibilities as parents, as families.

There were good functional reasons why the rising bourgeoisie emphasized the virtues of frugality and literacy; it would be hard to detect a comparable functionality in the particular manners and canons of aesthetic taste that came to be associated with bourgeois culture.

Generally, it took outside authors to note that articulate «Negroes» like James Baldwin, Dick Gregory and James Foreman «do not share every value of white bourgeois culture,» and that black power must be seen as «a reaction to inaction» rather than «reverse racism or some ugly form of nationalism» (C. Lawson Crowe, November 4, 1964, and Margaret Halsey, December 28, 1966).

It starts off as a heist comedy but then becomes a class satire, with Allen playing a working - class criminal who longs for wealth but distrusts the bourgeois culture that comes with it.

In the politically radical 1960s and 1970s, it once again became fashionable to toll the death knell for painting, perceived as a product of bourgeois culture.

She has made them from plywood and a dismantled piano, noting that through art history — from Joseph Beuys to Nam June Paik — men have destroyed pianos, always as a final gesture putting an end to bourgeois culture.

Despite Koons» infamous reputation for banality, Bigman reminds us that much of his work involves sophisticated critiques of the very bourgeois culture it purportedly celebrates.

The works are culturally coded and can be viewed as a critique of bourgeois culture from the period since the 1960s.

It might seem peculiar to be proposing that all of this, apocalypse too, be projected backward but in fact the conditions of bourgeois culture have not changed all that much in the past two hundred years.

Coupled with a sly sense of humor, he shrewdly claws at the grand pillars of bourgeois culture: art history, literature and philosophy.

Bourgeois culture was always a little too crude to be believed.

«Büttner has remarked that throughout art history — from Joseph Beuys to Nam June Paik — men have destroyed pianos to symbolize the death of bourgeois culture — a violent last gesture in the face of its end.

Not exact matches

His thesis, fiercely argued, and indeed with an extreme of rhetoric faintly reminiscent of Nietzsche, was that the culture of his day, both bourgeois and modernist, was in fact so thoroughly feminized as to make the redemption of masculinity impossible outside of an apocalyptic scenario; and that this, and not some alleged patriarchal bias, was the root of all modern decadence (and violence).

For all their rhetoric about the «New Hebrew Man,» their culture and self - image was still perceptibly bourgeois.

The nineteenth century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche shrewdly observed that in his day the bourgeois elites of Europe wanted the fruit of Christianity (i.e., moral culture) without the tree itself (i.e., the actual doctrine and practice).

His theory is that our culture was once split between the bourgeois and the bohemians.

The bourgeois spent their money on obvious luxuries like boats and furs; bohemians created an alternative culture that disdained overt displays of wealth and instead embraced a romantic view of the common life.

As a college professor, I've been blessed by living in abundance with very little real work, but I haven't used my leisure to be a voracious consumer of French culture, as our libertarians or bourgeois bohemians might have predicted.

With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their longing for human - engineered salvation.

Lionel Trilling once observed that in Flaubert's novel Bouvard and Pecuchet «bourgeois democracy merely affords the setting for a situation in which it becomes possible to reject culture itself.»

This confusion has left church leadership open to ideological distortion by its host culture as it «conforms to expectations established for it by a bourgeois society» (93).

With a combination of royal decor, elegance, and refinement, guests are treated to the same upscale experience of bourgeois traditions and culture from the Russian Empire.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder plays a working - class gay man hoodwinked by his uppity bourgeois lover in this unsparing portrait of queer culture in 1970s West Germany.

Probably the most thought - provoking portion of Professor Wax's essay is her discussion of how both models — no - excuses and income mixing — «assume that, to succeed in school and in life, poor children need to be taught bourgeois, middle - class values — and socialized away from their culture of birth.»

As noted, both income mixing and no - excuses schools assume that, to succeed in school and in life, poor children need to be taught bourgeois, middle - class values — and socialized away from their culture of birth.

Inspired by Alois Riegl's theory, which suggests that civilizations and cultures oscillate between two spatial conceptions: the «haptic», in which objects are isolated, and the «optic» conception, where they are combined in a continuous space, «Inhabiting Time» juxtaposes close to thirty, apparently autonomous, fragments (art works) by: Francis Alÿs, Carlos Amorales, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Moyra Davey, Jenny Holzer, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Joachim Koester, Gonzalo Lebrija, Richard Long, Gordon Matta - Clark, Jean - Luc Moulène, Rivane Neuenschwander, Steven Parrino, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter & Björn Roth, Robert Ryman, Robert Smithson, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West y Hannah Wilke, among others.

Caroline Bourgeois is the curator of the Pinault Collection in Paris and has organized numerous exhibitions around the world, such as Passage du temps (2007) at Lille's Tripostal, Un certain état du monde (2009) at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, Qui a peur des artistes?

Bourgeois's legacy is being thrust back into popular culture.

Lucas Blalock explores contemporary culture, Louise Bourgeois has a show in the UK, Mark Bradford talks about Caillebotte, and more in this week's roundup.

As well as being deeply affected by the traditional culture of Odisha in India, Panda cites as influences Conceptual artist On Kawara and the French - American artist Louise Bourgeois.

Today, it is hard to deny the similarity between the bourgeois museum and the contemporary liberal dogmas of open - ended contemplation and abstract self - realization that guide curatorial and museum culture since the dismantling of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.

Alongside an assortment of historical art objects from different periods and cultures, this volume features work by an assortment of international artists including Marina Abramovic, Antonin Artaud, Francis Bacon, Hans Bellmer, Michaël Borremans, Louise Bourgeois, André Breton, Cai Guo - Qiang, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Fischli & Weiss, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti, Anish Kapoor, On Kawara, William Kentridge, Yves Klein, Man Ray, Piero Manzoni, Gordon Matta - Clark, Pablo Picasso, Robert Raushenberg, Medardo Rosso, Richard Serra, James Turrell, Andy Warhol and many more.

Marshall had recently organized international exhibitions of Louise Bourgeois (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; and Contemporary Art Museum, Seville, Spain); Edward Ruscha (Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid); Alexander Calder (Japan Art and Culture Association, Tokyo); Robert Mapplethorpe (Mitsukoshi Museum, Tokyo); Jean - Michel Basquiat (Serpentine Gallery, London); Joan Mitchell (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain) Georgia O?Keeffe (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia); and Jack Pierson (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin).

Bourgeois was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French minister of culture in 1983.

Mamma Andersson's paintings seem to embody a duality that is central to Swedish culture: the interplay of rural and urban aesthetics and the clash of the bourgeois with the everyday.

Hauser & Wirth features another art world grande dame, Louise Bourgeois, whose work is at the center of the gallery's thematic presentation, which spotlights the spider, an insect that's viewed as a positive omen in Chinese culture.

She has no qualms about injecting the pop culture of comics into an exhibition that also includes a Samuel Beckett play, Rem Koolhaas's architecture and installations by esteemed contemporary artists like the nonagenarian Louise Bourgeois.

The Lebanese Minister of Culture Raymond Araiji, French Curator Caroline Bourgeois, Tony Salame

Kevin Bourgeois presented by Causey Contemporary, New York Kevin Bourgeois assembles At Play in the Fields of the Lord, a site - specific and interaction installation that furthers his investigation and critique of unseen policing and social fragmentation within «The Cloud» of anonymous, ephemeral contemporary culture.

«Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious is part of a series of cultural initiatives organised by the Qatar Museums Authority to promote and support local and international art, foster conversations about artists and popular culture, and build bridges between cultures,» said Qatar Museums Authority Chairperson Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al - Thani.

Piercing lights refer to our surveillance culture and the installation incorporates gargantuan animal sculptures including a 65ft flamingo — a copy of a work by Alexander Calder — and a replica of a spider by Louise Bourgeois that stood outside the gallery last year.