Sentences with phrase «impulse behind»

I suspect something like this is what Schwartz had in mind, and it is certainly the impulse behind Malamud's projects for US law materials.

We have lost sight of the originating impulse behind copyright in the headlong commercialization of intellectual property.

The initial impulse behind these strategies was to craft a policy bundle to stabilize the climate — and at the same time create millions of jobs, especially in developing countries.

The show's title, «Jenny Holzer: Protect Protect,» sums up the frantic, maternal impulse behind the work.

In any case, could you describe the impulse behind those paintings and talk about how long you maintained that body of work?

Although Toby Ziegler's exploration of pictorial space — its artifice and illusion — leads him to make objects as often as paintings, the organizing impulse behind it is fundamentally that of a painter.

Finally, desire — especially with regard to the strong and wilful subjective impulse behind all of these projects which also holds an emancipatory potential.

If there was a single impulse behind Regionalism, it was a semi-patriotic rejection of European modern art (especially such abstract art movements as Cubism, Constructivism, De Stijl, Neo-Plasticism and Surrealism) in favour of a strictly American idiom - ideally one with roots west of the Mississippi.

The archival impulse behind her work stresses the visual catchiness and mutability of the digital image, as well as the delicate and self - conscious act of putting oneself «online.»

This is in fact the generating impulse behind some of the more radical of the recent art.

Reinstallations can occasionally feel like an Oedipal overcorrection, but the experimental impulse behind them is ultimately promising, allowing for any number of welcome incursions into a story that many of us assume we already know.

The impulse behind a work may be something surreal and surprising, like the works of Matthew Ronay or mysterious and immaterial, as we see in Trisha Donnelly's works.

Licht, a character of the novel, relies on this concept to describe the creative impulse behind his design of a gigantic park.

The Homages demonstrate another strong impulse in Hiller's work, a transparency about the collaborators and influences on her art, the same impulse behind Dedicated to the Unknown Artists (1972 — 1976 and now ongoing).

«The driving impulse behind the work is the interweaving of contrasts, oppositions, and normative coloration.

And what was the impulse behind it?

What was the impulse behind that urge to work from photographs?

The impulse behind the creation of She Roams Solo is to «encourage women EVERYWHERE that it is safe to travel alone.»

As long as we envision «the book» as that thing with pages — or its digital descendant on an e-reader or tablet — we're not giving the original artistry and impulse behind a new body of work a chance to live as the unique content it is in the context of its creation.

The awards, badges, prizes, and giveaways that ALLi is mounting might be seen by some, yes, as a kind of gatekeeping, although the impulse behind them is hardly that.

Chiasson never knew his own father, whose enduring absence seems to be the impulse behind works that explore symmetry and balance — poems in which equilibrium is achieved, and relationships are complementary.

In particular, I disagree that anti-Catholicism was the sole or primary impulse behind the development of the no - funding principle, or to a certain extent even the Blaine amendment itself.

The impulse behind this policy is understandable, but without a mechanism for providing support in implementation, it is a recipe for unintended consequences nationwide.

That feels unlikely, but the impulse behind his assertion — a desire to claim agency, independence, and authorship — is what makes Portrait of Jason such an enduringly fascinating film.

It was not without its practical uses though, as the Greeks generally felt Eros was the primary impulse behind procreation.

And it would be a powerful way of restoring that understanding of collective insurance against unemployment that was such an important impulse behind Beveridge's original plan but which today has been all but lost from sight.

But the impulse behind its approach to the world — the belief that America's exceptional character is the standard by which all political systems should be judged — is a baby that should not be thrown out with the bathwater.

The main impulse behind all this talk, of course, is a troubled feeling about the condition of the young, especially the young of the big - city ghettoes who have been making a great deal of trouble for themselves and others, but not about them alone.

The initiating impulse behind the conference was clear.

These actions derive from the same egalitarian impulse behind its attacks on successful companies at major social mood tops.

To me, the core impulse behind this movement is the feeling among young people all over the world that the future doesn't compute, that their lives will be full of ecological, political and financial crises, and that they will never have a life like their parents did.

Indeed, it would be a subtle historical task to determine whether the language of community arose as a protest against modernity or whether the language of modernity arose as a protest against what were taken to be the Utopian impulses behind the language of community.

Shared ideas aside, there is something more transgressive, however faintly, about the impulses behind Bad Moms.

On the other side, The Weekly Standard recently published a hard - hitting, but highly erudite critique of the technocratic impulses behind the standards.

The blind quest for money, the primacy of the drug trade, the concealment of base impulses behind the rhetoric of freedom: in River of Smoke the nineteenth and twenty - first centuries meet, and the result is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary resonance.

This essay explores the subconscious impulses behind aesthetic choice and offers a framework for a deeper understanding of contemporary representational painting.

by Elana Hagler This essay explores the subconscious impulses behind aesthetic choice and offers a framework for a deeper understanding of contemporary representational painting.

These works appear in «The Keeper,» a sprawling group exhibition that interrogates the impulses behind creating and, more specifically, amassing.

Like Rorschach tests (but much more engaging), each of these artists» works allows viewers the opportunity to investigate the impulses behind images that resist and also demand meaning.

Accompanying essays by the exhibition's curator, Laura Hoptman, explore eight themes that she perceives in the field — Drafting & Architecture, Mental Maps & Metaphysics, Popular Culture & National Culture, Fashion, Likeness & Allegory, Envisioning a City, Science & Art, Comics & Other Subcultures, Ornament & Crime — and provide key impulses behind drawing's recent resurgence.

These paintings depict our feelings and sentiments, our sense of belonging to a larger community in the contemporary world, while capturing the impulses behind the range of figuration presented by today's contemporary international artists.

He also explores the emotions and impulses behind his desire to use his own body as the starting point for his work.

The authors, poet Primož Čučnik and visual artist Žiga Kariž discussed the project with Dušan Dovč, explaining its background, the impulses behind its creation, its conclusion and potential future impact, as well as their great amazement at New York City, where the poetry published in Ode on Manhattan Avenue was created.

Not exact matches

Behind every vending machine that you pass there's an entrepreneur like you who is reaping the benefits of an impulse - buying business.

The only cult that can truly thrive in the aftermath of Christianity is a sordid service of the self, of the impulses of the will, of the nothingness that is all that the withdrawal of Christianity leaves behind.

Such an impulse might be said to motivate the quest to find the real Jesus behind the one proclaimed by the four evangelists.

What that means becomes clear only when the question is raised as to the impulse and intention behind this particular mode of thought and speech.

Not since St. Augustine's City of God have we had a theologian who so shifted the locus of sin from the visible misuse of natural impulses to the more subtle area of man's inflated self - assertion that hides behind claims of moral disinterestedness and superiority.

I understand that's not what you're doing here... so it's interesting to me that my first impulse isn't to notice the truth behind the easy and direct path of the enemy, but instead to notice my own reaction to the presentation.

In fact, the reasons behind bullying can run the gamut from lack of impulse control and anger management issues to revenge and a longing to fit in.