Sentences with phrase «illusory nature of»

The resulting images had an immediacy and unpredictability that drew attention to the illusory nature of the nascent endeavor.

While activating the picture plane, they also succeed in offering a deeper contemplation of the illusory nature of time and space.

Photography's tenuous relationship to truth and reality is a fitting metaphor for the illusory nature of property valuation that first propelled the ongoing recession.

«It is as though he [Joan Miro] had decided to condense all that he loves most — women, the night, stars, birds, dewdrops at dawn, into small paintings, while emphasizing the precarious illusory nature of our existence.»

Through the conjunction of and the cross between Willy Loman, the legendary anti-hero of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Dante's Inferno, the photographic recreation of Gustave Doré's etchings of Dante's work and references to the US multinationals Chrysler, General Motors and Ford, the British - Nigerian artist suggests, on one side, the illusory nature of the «American dream» and, on the other, the parallel between Miller's exploration of greed and the human condition in the 20th century and our present situation, projecting it as its perverse, ill - fated legacy.

The work involves the creation of prismatic halos that follow the viewer, paired with the illusory nature of visual depth.

Make fake decisions that reveal the illusory nature of choice!

And in «Blade Runner» fashion, the illusory nature of identity and reality is examined, during an expansive 163 - minute runtime.

Those who see neuroscience and free will as incompatible argue that demonstrating the predictability of our brain should reveal the illusory nature of free will, and lead people to reject it.

He gives the impression that society has become so abstract that even events and activities that we take as quite «normal» are simply another form of the illusory nature of our culture.

I experienced a blessed clarity, freedom and relief, and a stunning sense of the illusory nature of the life I'd left behind.

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Or, as the French Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain put it nearly a decade later, «There is nothing more illusory than to pose the problem of the person and the common good in terms of opposition,» for in reality, it is «in the nature of things that man, as part of society, should be ordained to the common good.»

It is not merely a subjective need, but rather a need so completely interwoven throughout our rational, moral, spiritual, and sensible nature that if it is illusory, then we are comprehensively false, we are creatures of mauvaise foi.

The Lutheran view says that a change in God takes place, and that the real humanity of Christ is illusory.17 The human nature of Christ is taken up in the attributes of deity.

Lynch's preoccupation with other worldly character or places that represent humanity's darkest nature is this time reserved for Hollywood, the greatest illusory world of all that destroys far more souls than it makes dreams.

Prayers for all beings to recognize the illusory, temporary nature of samsaric existence and to buckle down (or ratchet up) to be on the path to individual liberation.

Apart from the evident holographic nature of the piece, apart from the illusory scientific quality, the work of Eric Lei...

Her staining method emphasized the flat surface over illusory depth, and it called attention to the very nature of paint on canvas, a concern of artists and critics at the time.

By making something fake or synthetic feel even less convincing, I aim to create a more «authentic» rendering of the illusory nature we experience.

Perry is guided by music or speech, repetition, focalization and deceleration, revealing the strength of our personal investment in images of the illusory (youth, power, sex, taste, lifestyle) as well as the prescriptive nature of these desires.

The artist's Day Dreaming See series, begun in 2012, evokes the illusory and associative nature of dreams and memory, and invites viewers to construct their own unique meanings inspired by the images and sensations experienced therein.

Monumental in size and visual impact, yet illusory, transparent layers play in the changing light to describe: material / immaterial, being / non — being, and the transitory nature of form.

«Not Really»: Fictive Narratives in Contemporary Art explores the «illusory, fabricated, and contrived nature of our mediated and digitalized contemporary world.»

The film noir nature of the city inspired elements of the illusory and stunning video installation The Berlin Files by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.

It is the fungible nature of the workers that renders illusory the access to permanent residency.