Sentences with phrase «many epigones»

Now he is distressed that his academic epigones have extended deconstructionist theory to his socialist dream, and are not amenable to being converted to his messianic religion of America as the Redeemer Nation of limitless possibilities.

As Nietzsche had the wit to point out, such a God is not what anybody means by God and therefore, if Kant and his epigones are right, God is dead.

Across the pond, Englishmen like John Mayall, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton were «60s epigones of African American music who could somehow mechanically reproduce the sound of the American south, but who apparently had no real idea of what they are playing in that their experience (even as working class whites in an English class system) was entirely alien to the modes and mores of the American south.

A misguided, 150 «year «old stance taken by Darwin's «epigones» serves no purpose in current scientific inquiry as it relates to human origins.

But Newton's epigones soon saw no need for divine interventions.

The Milwaukee jury's refusal to accept his argument that he was only exercising his artistic freedom simply highlighted the hypocrisy of the damned human race that so appalled Twain's Satan and such of his epigones as the late Lenny Bruce — whose scatological humor, as the late Ralph Gleason once pointed out in Rolling Stone, «challenged society at its very roots.»

Like Wagner, Nietzsche was capable of callow monstrosity in his thought and rhetoric, and certain of his epigones were as loathsome as Wagner's; indeed, the same Nazis who loved one usually loved the other.

As he has beenreduced by Parkinson's disease to a dignified epigone of the beautiful athletehe once was, we resort to the recollections — the images, the stories, thevoice — that have become ingrained in our consciousness.

A bunch of ever - so - mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods....

I have to admit that when I have looked at some of Baldessari's pieces, I have had almost the same reaction, and even more insistently when I have been in the presence of the work of some of his most successful epigones like Richard Prince and the late Mike Kelley.

Saving Smith by reducing him to an epigone of Gonzales or Giacometti may have its insights, but it will not help people wondering exactly what happened in art between 1940 and 1965.

Ms. Yamaguchi is an heir of Tamara de Lempicka, epigone of Art Deco figuration.

There was also the epigones of Abstract Expressionism.

Like other successful painters Diebenkorn has inspired too many epigones: lesser Diebenkorns who have learned from his surfaces and subjects but not from his intellectual scrupulousness.