Sentences with phrase «influenced by contemporary»

Although the Mabo decision (50) was influenced by contemporary international human rights instruments and standards, especially in respect of the norm of non-discrimination, (51) and by the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice in respect of the doctrine of terra nullius, (52) it is the interweaving of international law and United States law (especially the Marshall US Supreme Court decisions in respect of Indigenous rights) that is more deeply embedded in the Mabo decision.

In the above video Benjamin Millepied — the acclaimed dancer, choreographer and founder of the innovative LA Dance Project (LADP)-- talks about returning from Paris (where he was Director of the Paris Opera Ballet) to refocus on Los Angeles, and how his work has been influenced by contemporary art.

His brightly coloured painting - with its flat, razor - edged imagery, influenced by contemporary techniques of Post Painterly Abstraction and the decor of pinball machines - typically uses single words, or commands, billboard - style - to highlight different aspects of American culture, including the illusion and disillusion of love.

These paintings were created concurrently with the United States intervention into El Salvador and were strongly influenced by contemporary headlines of the death squads and attendant institutionalized torture.

A solo exhibition of recent work titled «Altered Images» The work in this exhibition fits into the figurative tradition but is influenced by contemporary ideas related to Post Modernism.

His work utilizes a wide range of media and is about an increasingly complex awareness of objects as influenced by contemporary stressors, such as global warming, technology, the internet.

Influenced by contemporary production in Nicaragua the exhibition's central subject is the background, to comment on the global, natural, social and cultural schemes of today.

The Norwegian artist's use of vibrant color to explore dark themes such as alienation, sin, and vulnerability directly influenced and was influenced by contemporary Expressionist artists in Germany and Austria, such as Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gabriele Münter, Emil Nolde, Richard Gerstl, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele.

His work utilizes a wide range of media and concerns an increasingly complex awareness of objects as influenced by contemporary sources of stress.

Influenced by contemporary hot - rodding trends, the Camaro SS Slammer's low - slung stance is set off by custom 22 - inch front and 24 - inch rear chrome wheels.

They are interpretations deeply, even determinatively, influenced by contemporary church politics.

Some were also influenced by the contemporary Moslem philosophers and theologians, chiefly as they came in contact with them through the Iberian Peninsula.

This catalogue of the exhibiton begins chronologically with Pollock's early sketchbook studies based on old master paintings by Michelangelo and El Greco, as well as those influenced by his contemporaries, mainly the Mexican muralists Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Although the artist's ill - health and poverty eventually dictated otherwise, he spent a short but intense period focusing on carving, influenced by contemporaries and friends including Constantin Brâncuși and Jacob Epstein.

As a young artist searching for his own voice and style, Stella naturally was influenced by his contemporaries and found the urge to push the boundaries of the established and successful who came before him.

The artist derived much inspiration from primitive art and children's drawings, and was influenced by contemporaries such as Jean Dubuffet, the major exponent of Art Brut.

Not exact matches

Jeff Koons is a famous contemporary artist whose work is influenced by an eclectic array of sensibilities.

They would have been influenced by the role model of contemporary rulers.

While monasticism in modern times has been deeply influenced by Dom Paul Delatte's rather rigorous interpretation of the Holy Rule (he was Abbot of Solesmes from 1890 to 1921) we find in Hugh Gilbert's firm but gentle hands a rather more humane understanding of the contemporary mind, particularly in his substantial treatment of the concept of obedience (a minefield for any Christian apologist) which stands at the centre of this present work.

This is not to question their merit, although several are debatable, but to emphasise that contemporary culture, as influenced by successive governments and the mainstream media, has its own set of moral absolutes, usually underpinned by legislation.

In doing so this group is positively influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speak.

Part one will examine the extent to which both thinkers were influenced by the insights of contemporary physics in formulating their view of the human person.

Any children born in this day and age will grow up influenced not only by their parents, but to a much greater degree by the evils of contemporary society, which are now spread so quickly by our almost instantaneous communications.

More than they, Cobb is profoundly influenced by the problem of historical relativism and its contemporary derivation, the death - of - God theology.

Whatever the influence of this Enlightenment philosophizing on a Franklin, even then regarded by many contemporaries as a slippery fellow, it did not shape a Washington...

Most contemporary «American» theologies are still influenced by some unexamined philosophical assumptions about how truth is known.

Yet contemporary Hinduism is perhaps more influenced by them than by the other scriptures.

For an early work exploring the new physics and influenced by process thought, see Capek, Milic, The Philosophical Impact of the Contemporary Physics (New York: Van Nostrand Press, 1961).

Unusual for contemporary theologians, he is much influenced by the eighteenth - century Jonathan Edwards, and some readers will discern a strong affinity with Hans Urs von Balthasar.

Reacting against the doctrine that pride is always the essence of sin, and influenced by the findings of psychiatry concerning the opposite danger of excessive self - depreciation, a number of contemporary theologians have pointed to the need for self - respect.

Randall Balmer of Columbia University suggested that the most effective oratorical style in contemporary politics is strongly influenced by the evangelical Protestant tradition.

In the communities that comprise contemporary evangelicalism, doctrinal and theological leadership is exercised by individuals and institutions that have earned the confidence of Christians within their various spheres of influence.

The churches in Canada and the United States were still full (at least by contemporary standards); bishops and moderators had influence in high places; and the clergy were the bright, affable, well - spoken and of course (ostensibly) heterosexual young men (yes of course, men) who had chosen theology over law and medicine.

A somewhat younger contemporary, who was destined to live much longer and have a more lasting influence, was much impressed by it.

[t] hrough the colonially established apparatus of the political, economic and educational institutions of India, contemporary Indian self - awareness remains deeply influenced by Western presuppositions about the nature of Indian culture.

Another problem, particularly acute from a Whiteheadian perspective, is that reciprocal interaction requires that the interacting components be contemporaries, but by the special theory of relativity contemporaries can not causally influence one another.

In the language of many of those influenced by Barth, statements about what is real independently of human experience and thought are «metaphysical,» and these theologians hold that metaphysics is clearly disallowed by Barth as by contemporary philosophy in general.

Out of their respective experiences, both traditional and contemporary, and influenced by their education and their vocational commitments, they bring to their listening, consciously and unconsciously, meaning in the form of questions, hypotheses, affirmations, doubts, fears, and so on.

Herewith, twenty years later, reflections on the influence of the book and contemporary problems raised by its argument, with a response by Father Neuhaus.

Thus, Cox argued, the process by which the contemporary university had won its liberation from religious influence could not and should not be resisted.

There is no conceivable way by which the Word of God through the world can influence the church unless the preacher and other ministers are open and attentive to the word that may be spoken to them out of the contemporary context of the world.

First we need to examine the presuppositions that are held by many in the scientific community and which have influenced much of contemporary society.

Process theology, or what Charles Hartshorne prefers to call neo-classical theology, has links with the theology of the early church fathers who were influenced by Greek thought, Socinus in the sixteenth century and the philosopher A. N. Whitehead of this century, who took science more seriously than his contemporary philosophers and theologians.

Our theological perspective stands in a close relation to the movement of modern theology which was initiated by Karl Barth and Emil Brunner, and which has had a broad influence upon all contemporary theological thought.

Because cultures do not come into existence ex nihilo, all cultures are influenced and coloured by those that have preceded them and by other contemporary cultures with which they come into contact.

This last point has contemporary relevance in relation to China's rise as a great power, and its frustration at what it feels is the unfair denial of a status commensurate with its growing power and influence by the US and the West.

As such, fiscal conservatism today exists somewhere between classical liberalism and contemporary consequentialist political philosophies, and is often influenced by coinciding levels of social conservatism.

The band's members also write their own songs inspired by this popular genre and tailor them with assorted influences, creating a contemporary repertoire that captures the spirit of the traditional style.

However, future island vulnerability is a complex and arguably island - specific issue and will be influenced by various interacting factors that include the rate of reef growth, the rate of sea - level rise, reef evolutionary stage and thus accommodation space, island geomorphology, and the contemporary relationship between islands and their surrounding process and sedimentary regimes (Perry et al., 2011).

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