Sentences with phrase «made by contemporary»

However, the entire collection can be seen at the Whitechapel Gallery, which is running an exhibition, Beautiful Productions, of multiples made by contemporary artists.

A two - part exhibition incorporating objects of Jewish ritual made by contemporary artists and a survey of tree imagery in recent art.

Many of these books are made by contemporary artists who work primarily in the book format.

The ravishing fields of color that appear in Amm's gesso board paintings, which will constitute the entirety of this exhibition, represent one of the most sustained and sensuous bodies of work being made by a contemporary European artist.

: Constructing and Deconstructing Identities,» juxtaposes photographs made by contemporary African photographers with 19th - century missionary postcards to investigate how photography can objectify people — or whole continents.

I feel extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to select work by these two men; one of whom I consider a friend, and both of whom I consider to be critical to the discussion of work made by contemporary artists diagnosed with HIV and AIDS.

Inspired by the importance of vinyl cover art, the show organized by Artsuggest will present over 250 covers made by contemporary and graffiti artists.

Although his work exists within the German tradition — from Expressionism a century ago to the significant contribution made by contemporary artists who are his senior, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz and his teacher Sigmar Polke — Ackermann has found his own voice independent of his forebears and has become one of the most stimulating and important artists working today.

For certain, nothing made by contemporary humanity will be left at the surface that far in the future, even stone edifices like the pyramids or Mount Rushmore will be wiped away, though the fine imprints of plastic objects, like say a vinyl record, may be legible — and even perhaps listenable — in the rock like the fronds of a fern.

In addition to these are about a dozen of the artist's preparatory drawings, an etching, an etching and engraving made after him, and a handful of drawings and paintings made by his contemporaries Jean - Baptiste Joseph Pater and Nicolas Lancret, and a predecessor, Philips Wouwerman, whose Cavalry Camp, 1683 - 68, also belongs to the Frick.

In presenting historic paintings, such as Francisco de Zurbarán's A Cup of Water and a Rose (about 1630) from the National Gallery collection alongside works made by her contemporaries including Thomas Demand, Roni Horn and Wolfgang Tillmans and her own film Prisoner Pair (2008, 16 mm), the exhibition will demonstrate the continued importance of still life, as well as the National Gallery's collection, as a source of inspiration in contemporary artistic practice.

Not exact matches

«Impropriety in the Texas prison system goes unnoticed by museum visitors, making contemporary inmate battles for human rights seem unwarranted,» she reportedly wrote.

Perth - based artists are making an impact at home and abroad by pushing the boundaries in both the content and delivery of contemporary theatre and dance.

«They felt strongly that free admission was the best way to make great works of contemporary art accessible to all,» said a spokesman for the couple, who own works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jean - Michel Basquiat and Cindy Sherman.

The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils.

«Lear's counterpart in the contemporary Church,» writes Mankowski, «is a certain segment of clergymen which has made it a practice to vindicate its prejudices by affecting to consult with the faithful, to listen to their concerns, only to announce with astonishment that God's Little Ones are pleading for precisely those changes for which the Listeners themselves have a deep and discerning sympathy.»

Brinton says some contemporary Americans are making the same mistake their Civil War ancestors did by twisting the Bible to support their own battle cries.

When this is done, no argument is needed against the real presence of a past figure, for a past figure by definition is not the present subjectivity, is not contemporary, and is precisely one no longer subject to being presented through the senses.7 The presence of a past figure can be made intelligible and justified only by a quite different notion of presence specifically appropriate to the relation of the past to the present.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

Many parts of Finkelstein's critique of the contemporary Jewish world have been made before by other leftist Jews, for instance by Lenni Brenner in Jews in America Today (1986), while venomous anti «Zionism has been a stock «in «trade of the extreme left since the 1960s.

Just as being an evangelical does not make Wesley entirely supportive of all contemporary evangelicals; so being a liberal certainly does not mean that Wesley would support everything that is said and done by contemporary religious liberals.

It is his opinion that we can best state the evangelical message and the evangelical demand in the idiom of contemporary existentialism, more particularly by use of the analysis of the human situation made in the writings of the German existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger.

I am embarrassed to think about my initial contemporary music efforts; it took our church years to become reasonably good at it, but by then the first impression had been made.

He is depicted as making and losing a fortune, shocking his straitlaced patrons by having an affair with his housekeeper, and painting in a style too unconventional for his contemporaries to appreciate.

Yet because of the uniformity of contemporary culture by which all of us are shaped, we can make some suggestions that are likely to benefit most of us at one time or another during our lifetime.

Johnson examines in some detail two features that have made contemporary wars particularly horrific: wholesale warfare against noncombatants, and warfare fueled by religious and ethnic difference.

That any attempt by the state to legislate morals must be illegitimate has become a platitude of contemporary political thought, and Robert George's new book, Making Men Moral, challenges it directly.

By making language use its central object of study contemporary philosophy seems to have committed itself to an even more extreme form of that same anthropocentric orientation that Whitehead saw himself as combating.

Obviously the Jew did not think that in some outlandish way the past was actually re-played nor did he believe that what had happened in that past was, by its «being remembered», made in actual concrete fact a contemporary occurrence.

Such a «between - existence» poses a question to Buber's contemporaries — whether they will make use of it as a bridge of understanding between camp and camp or lay it aside as indifferent to all camps because it can be exploited by none.

The way similar references are made in contemporary documents leaves one wondering sometimes how far those who quoted prophetic texts meant that the precise fulfillments they saw or expected were intended by the prophets themselves.

On the other hand, it can appear that typical theology is being exonerated by showing how historical positions can be made compatible with a contemporary metaphysics that is itself critical of the past.

The assumption by theology of some philosophical perspective is simply unavoidable, regardless of what some theologians may deceive themselves into believing; therefore the most fruitful way for Christian theology to proceed is by recognizing its relative dependence and by adopting the philosophy which will be most fruitful in making Christian faith significant, meaningful and available to contemporary men.

Those who call our attention to contemporary social problems commonly try to heighten our concern by making often unjustified claims about the unprecedented nature of the challenges before us.

On the other hand, renderings of traditional church designs by contemporary classicists including Matthew Enquist, Dino Marcantonio, and Duncan Stroik make for an encouraging conclusion to this informative and eminently readable book.

Was it not said by His contemporaries, especially where the clever led the conversation, «The fool, he who had it in his power to become king if he cared to make use of his opportunity, if he had only half my cleverness, he would have been king.

The contributions made to black women's literary tradition by the pioneering folklorist / storyteller Zora Neale Hurston and contemporary novelist Alice Walker are assessed.

Let us continue to examine the nature of the synoptic tradition by considering the results of the work of the scholar who has probably done more than any other to make available to contemporary scholarship historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus, Joachim Jeremias of Gottingen, whom we are proud to acknowledge as our teacher.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A reassessment of the minister's role as preacher in contemporary society — a re-evaluation made necessary by developments in theology and culture.

Albert Camus's interpretation of the call to the contemporary artist to «create dangerously» is founded upon the spirit of protest made all the more convincing by Camus's recognition of the involvement of the protester in the evils which he fights:

Constructive theology, aware of God's continuing revelation in the present, is a hermeneutical mode of reflection that, by exploring our particular historical, social and cultural situation in the light of the church's tradition, attempts dialectically to make sense of both our contemporary experience - knowledge and our tradition.

Converts typically call themselves «Jews by Choice,» and Sarna appreciates the great contribution they have made to contemporary Jewish life.

If Christ was thought to be mad by his contemporaries for the claims he made then he would have found himself in a similar situation; that is not the case.

This made far too much sense, and Calixtus was largely written off by his contemporaries.

Christians who believe with Cullmann that «the whole thinking of the New Testament is governed by belief in the Resurrection» will no doubt join him in denouncing all attempts, ancient or contemporary, to make of death a natural phenomenon (Cullmann, p. 19).

He assumes that only products of imagination can be taken up by society, yet the contemporary situation makes quite clear that we are just as likely take up insane and destructive productions of the fantasizing ego.

A major problem is to tell the story in such a way that people hear it as contemporary and relevant.51 John Taylor pointed out that we could reach outsiders not by anything we do inside the church buildings but by crossing over to the outsiders and learning to be at home in that alien territory, as the more we are engaged in Christian witness, the more we shall recognize that it is not we who make or mar the future.

The current selectivity in church music, because it is more the rule than the exception, would be unremarkable except for the claim made by the Next Church and its contemporary Christian relatives: that theirs is the truly contemporary alternative for Christian music today.

Dualism could never provide a point of contact by which Paul's contemporaries might have grasped his claim that the creation which presently is the ground of human suffering will one day be made the ground of human redemption!

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.