Sentences with phrase «imagination of western»

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While Western Australia is a lot bigger than one man and one company, with a bit of imagination it is possible to see the state through the financial health of a firm that sells equipment to the mining industry, and the personal wealth of a man with the biggest stake in that business.

In Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination, he devises an elaborate framework to categorize passages from the whole sweep of Western literature: poems, novels, short stories, plays, essays, memoirs, and letters - whether in Latin, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, English, German, or Russian.

Based on Marjane Satrapi's auto - graphic - novel, Persepolis is the simple and bracingly beautiful tale of Marjane growing up in 1970s Iran, where her curiosity, imagination and love of Western pop - culture trash gets her in trouble with the police state imposed after the revolution.

She mentions «the redemptive wilderness of the Western imagination,» but her writing undercuts that romantic frontier narrative, just as it reveals the dark side of footloose wandering.

In the light of the above, I would suggest that to revive our Western culture what we really need is a synthesis of Faith, Reason and imagination, for «where there is no vision the people perish» -LCB- Proverbs).

Western culture has so thoroughly domesticated Christ that it takes some imagination to see the cosmic Christ of Colossians.

reaches back, perhaps unwittingly, to the deeper roots from which the Western literary imagination springs — an imaginative tradition that owes much to Paul's hermeneutic of trust in God and suspicion of ourselves.

Medieval depictions of the infant Christ are firmly fixed in the Western imagination.

And in the Church's annals, the professor of history found two millennia of events that shaped the course of the Western world, from Leo the Great riding out armed only with his scepter to meet Attila the Hun, to John Paul II traveling behind the Iron Curtain to his native Poland to bring down the scourge of Communism» an iconic event that seems to have captured the imagination of the recent convert.

The literature of Spain's «Golden Age» produced two figures — Don Quixote de La Mancha and Don Juan Tenorio — who quickly escaped the confines of the works that gave them birth and took up exalted but previously unoccupied stations in the Western imagination.

one of the more notorious western towns in America's collective imagination, claimed by its second year schools for one thousand children, three theaters, and a two - thousand - seat opera house where Italian operas were favored.»

Economic developments have brought people from many nations into close contact that has overcome much of the ignorance, suspicion, and contempt that long dominated the Western imagination with respect to people of other races and places.

In talking about «the imagination of a society,» one must not forget how the Western imperialist - expansionist enterprise of colonization, with its attendant construction of «Orientalism,» provided the majority - dominant community with a double - edged weapon - on the one hand to use the tools provided by such an enterprise to create a superstructure which suited its own legitimation of superiority; and, on the other, to claim to be the authentic dispossessed, struggling to reclaim its rights.

At any rate, it seems difficult to overestimate the importance of this confrontation between reason and imagination in western philosophy's quest to understand the world.

Theologians have had to go through a dizzying series of contortions in an often futile effort to implant a vital theology of incarnation into imaginations shaped in the context of Western classical philosophies of God.

The outcome of applying such an emancipated imagination to Samuel, Alter says, is «a will and testament worthy of a Mafia chief,» «the wisdom of a Tallyrand,» «the first full - length portrait of a Machiavellian prince in Western literature.»

In a sense, the historical process of alienation between the religious imagination and the dominant Western consciousness is similar to what happens when late adolescents attend college and are swept up in the tide of novel ideas.

[4] This genocide of the people of Western Cameroon has never been acknowledged by French political leaders and stories of the independence movement have been transformed in the Cameroonian popular political imagination as «trouble making maquisards».

New Western University research shows that neurons in the part of the brain found to be abnormal in psychosis are also important in helping people distinguish between reality and imagination.

Richard Slotkin, at the conclusion of his magisterial three - volume study of the West in the American imagination, notes that the western, appearances to the contrary, doesn't have a fixed ideological meaning.

Why anyone would trivialise, distract and dilute probably the most important naval battle in western history with the utter rubbish of CH's fictional part, (and the love sub-plot) beggars imagination!!

«We took a different point of view, which is that very occasionally westerns capture the imagination of the public.

Edinburgh Castle is one of the most exciting historic sites in Western Europe, Set in the heart of Scotland's dynamic capital city it is sure to capture your imagination.

Af Klint is now finally credited with making the first non-objective painting in the Western fine - art tradition, and it is both her grand imagination and sense of purpose, and the idea of how histories are and can be constantly re-written, that has informed and inspired McElheny's new works.

In paintings that have become increasingly ambitious and emotionally complex, Thiebaud takes on the iconic Western landscape, not by direct observation, but through the prism of imagination, casting himself as a teller of tall tales.

Having left the United States and moved to Bali almost twenty years ago, Bickerton is something of a postmodern Paul Gauguin, insofar as the subject of his paintings is not the alluring exoticism of the mysterious East as constructed in the Western imagination, but rather the underlying and sordid impulses of the fantasy itself.

In his latest series of paintings and C - prints, Bickerton focused in on the debaucherous side of the Western imagination, crafting dystopic back - alley worlds set somewhere in Southeast Asia and lit by tawdry neon signs, strip clubs, and sex shops and populated by scantily clad, hyper - sexualized bodies, Western transients and sex tourists.

The event launches Peter Davidson's new book The Last of the Light: About Twilight, a meditation on twilight in Western arts and imagination.

In addition to introducing audiences to the multiple imaginations and voices that constitute today's African artists, the book will explore the way that this body of photo - based art arises from the dialectic of traditional African aesthetic values and Western influences.

The announcement is introduced with a rousing text questioning the homogenous Western imagination of the Middle East, while referencing post-colonial critic Edward Said and Palestinian 2013 Arab Idol winner Mohammed Assaf among others.

Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight notes that the 10 feet - high and 30 feet - wide paintings point to the resistance of the medium to deskilling: «Within the rectangle of a painting, whether on paper a few inches square or wood panels the size of a ballroom wall, an artist can exert the absolute power — the Late Western Impaerium — of individual imagination.»

Intended to redress what cocurator Lynn Zelevansky calls Korea's «virtual absence from the Western imagination,» the show is accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Zelevansky, cocurator Christine Starkman, and art historian Joan Kee, as well as interviews with the artists and an informative time line of Korean art and politics from 1945 to the present.

As seen in this meditation on art and interpretation, Indian abstract painter Paramjit Singh's landscape paintings of the Kangra Valley open a free play of imagination, evoking diverse Eastern and Western, classical and folk associations, from Sanskrit poet Kalidasa and local myths and legends to haiku and Alice in Wonderland.

Omer Fast's new exhibition at the Chinatown branch of James Cohan Gallery, August, revels in the power of the Western imagination to utilize non-white cultures as a way to role play and «time travel» into playgrounds for voyeuristic pleasure - seeking that reinforce Western modernity's sense of superiority.

In a lecture at Oxford University on Nov. 2, Roger Payne — arguably the scientist most responsible for elevating the whale (and particularly the humpback) to a special position in the Western imagination — warned that the expanding Japanese killings were only one part of a broader assault that could finally silence the seas:

Cheap fossil fuels have allowed western society to become wealthy to a level beyond the imagination of all prior ages.

«We took a different point of view, which is that very occasionally westerns capture the imagination of the public.