The element of bad faith that Kelley describes, and the willingness to
make immoderate, even extravagant investments in bad faith, are the indispensable defenses art offers us against the exploitation of our deepest selves.
Not exact matches
The parishioner who can not meaningfully experience this deep dimension of forgiveness may fall into a habit that Gregory calls «
immoderate affliction «26 — forever overemphasizing one's deficits, always being too hard on oneself, seemingly
making it impossible for God to forgive.
However, fractures can be
made worse by
immoderate constraint.
In his short,
immoderate life Martin Kippenberger managed to test and probe just about every conceivable style of art
making — conceptual, performance, painting, sculpture, collage, video, drawing, and installation.
He is beloved for his teaching prowess, for his
immoderate love of art, for
making beautiful paintings.