Sentences with phrase «idealized representations»

Her critique extends as well to our expectation that these idealized representations should offer a transcendent, even life - changing experience.

As thin doilies of color or tufts of mold - like growth spread over the object's surface, these hybrids work like a counterpoint and respond to the idealized representations of nature found in domestic patterns.

Histories and theories of Western sculpture have typically favored idealized representations, as exemplified by the austere, white marble statuary of the classical tradition.

Why not make the photograph stand as an idealized representation of the departed, not in a state of decline or debility, but at the pinnacle of physical strength and beauty — even if the face being rendered thereby is a face from thirty or forty years ago, a face much more attractive and cheerful, but one that almost no one still living would recognize?

SH: I use «myth» to denote an idealized representation of a phenomenon, either by a collectivity as a whole, or within a specific ideological framework — it can refer to a historical moment, like the French Revolution; certain moral and political values («we are a freedom - loving people»); exemplary social groups like the bourgeoisie or the proletariat; or leaders like Napoleon or de Gaulle.

And although the images weren't the idealized representation of children in a pumpkin patch, they epitomized the chaotic reality of parenthood.

To compare charter schools to other public schools, I'd compare the actual representation to that idealized representation.

Andrés Bonilla's artist's studio painting series presents an idealized representation of the mystified creative setting of legendary master artists.

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So, while social media «stories» are certainly creative endeavors, they are made in hindsight and are linear representations crafted to project an idealized version of a person's interests and lifestyle.

While all characters are based on aspects of their creator, if you're a new writer you'll create characters who are Mary Sues or Marty Stus: idealized people, representations of yourself, and your counterpart of the opposite sex.

These personages address Christian history, contemporary representations of Latin Americans and images of the idealized male body in art.

Siegel exposes and montages increasingly elaborate layers and strategies of representation, re-creation and simulation, alluding to the potential of these idealized spaces to be blank canvasses for the projections of prospective buyers.

The idealized, abstract quality of the forty - five objects displayed, including sculpture, paintings, and several funerary masks, demonstrated the Egyptian belief that figurative representation was not only the physical record of an individual, but his / her link to immortality.

Homing in on media representations and their distortions, French artist Valérie Belin and Japanese artist Kazuna Taguchi each consider the ways in which women are idealized in popular imagery.

Drawn from the museum's permanent collection, this wide - ranging exhibition looks at the representation of the self, examining the idealized and mythicized ways that artists have portrayed pop and cultural icons, from Malcolm X to Thelonious Monk to a New Orleans grand marshal.

Singer is able to introduce, as she put it in an interview with Lauren Cornell, «representations of idealized sculptures and monuments, with figures and still lifes» into «the realm of unrealized buildings.»

Is it a playful allusion to the impermanence of Classical materials and the oft - idealized historical representations of the female body, or is it a bizarre new sales approach at the vase store?

For someone to claim Yamal - this or CET - that is some sort of idealized global representation is so bogus mathematically as to inspire nausea.

In fact, in the beginning, she may be the perfect client — up until something happens to upset her idealized form of your representation.

EITHER the positive representation area is active, in which case the negative representation area is entirely turned off (i.e., creating the all - good, perfectly nurturing, and idealized extreme), OR the negative representation area is active, in which case the positive representation area is entirely turned off (i.e., creating the all - bad, entirely devalued, and demonized extreme).