Students will examine the historical, social, and technological factors that contribute to understanding the function and
meaning of art in this course.
It symbolizes what Golden calls «an over-20-year constant conversation about art and art - making and
the meaning of art in the context of life» with an artist who has influenced her as a curator perhaps more than any other.
A more serious question concerns the longevity of his works and thus his reputation as an artist, and - by implication -
the meaning of art in the 21st century.
He focused on the modernism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and published an influential 1929 essay on
the meaning of art in The Listener.
Work in the collection often deals with race, gender and sexual identity, as well as
the meaning of art in contemporary society.
Born in 1936 in Tokyo, Takamatsu formed part of an active circle of artists in post-war Japan aiming to rediscover both the form and
the meaning of art in a rapidly changing landscape of industry and reconstruction.
Di Modca has expressed opposition to the idea as he contends the positional installation relationship alters
the meaning of his art in ways that is unintended, reported The New York Times.
MCNYC has an open yet critical approach to the possible
meanings of art in contemporary society.
Not exact matches
Which
means this uptick
in Art of the Deal - style pushiness — if it's a real phenomenon — probably isn't a good thing for the men employing it, their negotiating partners, or their companies.
All three
of these corporations have embraced the
art of reinvention as a
means to combat increasing competition, low crude prices, or to keep up with the latest developments
in technology.
Effective communication isn't just about talking; leaders who master the
art of listening authentically will have uncanny, X-Men-like ability to listen intuitively to the other person's story, asking questions, and searching conversations for depth,
meaning and understanding with their needs
in mind.
The prime location
in Manhattan's Gramercy neighborhood also
means the stores are close to corporate professionals and students — the school
of Visual
Arts and Baruch College are a block away.
«Skill set» just
means skill («A skill is a skill — that is it,» wrote Stephanie Hamm - Wieczkiewick from Litfield Park, Ariz.
in support
of getting rid
of the word), «curate» is too often an unnecessarily pretentious way
of saying «select» («It used to have a special significance reserved mainly for fine
art and museums.
«There's a lot
of stress out there for a lot
of art spaces, I
mean Red Gate's about to have to move and the Beaumont's got $ 100,000
in property taxes it has to pay a year,» he said.
This
means that the park will be torn down and a brand new, state -
of - the -
art playground will be put
in the same spot.
Shipments containing cash or other
means of payment, precious metals,
art work, jewelry, watches, precious stones or other articles
of value or securities for which,
in the event
of damage, no stoppage and no cancellation and replacement procedure can be carried out; for the avoidance
of doubt the following valuable goods are exempted from this rule: Shipments using the Registered Mail special service, which contain stamps, telephone cards, vouchers for goods and low - value goods
in these classes (e.g. fashion jewelry and promotional articles), up to an actual value
of 30 Special Drawing Rights
of the International Monetary Fund (SDR) per shipment, and individual tickets and entrance tickets;
In the Middle Byzantine period, from about 1000, it came to represent more specifically the throne prepared for the Second Coming of Christ, a meaning it has retained in Eastern Orthodox art to the presen
In the Middle Byzantine period, from about 1000, it came to represent more specifically the throne prepared for the Second Coming
of Christ, a
meaning it has retained
in Eastern Orthodox art to the presen
in Eastern Orthodox
art to the present.
Unless it was
meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name
of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer
of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom
of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live
in prosperity... Egypt is not
in the heart
of Egyptions only but as well
in the heart
of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers
in our schools and Egypt was the university
of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source
of islamic educations, Egypt was the face
of all
arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all
of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger
in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers
in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.
Christ step up the Catholic Church when he said
in Matthew 16 «Thou
art Peter (which
means «rock»
in aramaic) and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates
of hell shall not prevail against it».
I have by no
means mastered the
art of slowing down, but I have a few exercises to help move my heart
in that direction.
1) Just because you do not understand the cultural reference within the
art of the statue, does not
mean that the
art has less value, nor that the statue is,
in fact, «sticking it's tongue out at you».
In a time when the richness
of play (from recreational activity to the
arts) is available to an increasing number
of Americans, and when some are finding sources
of pleasure,
meaning, and power within such experiences, Christian theology is being challenged to reassess its suspicions
of play.
Until the recent past the main emphasis has been on apologetics, catechesis and other reasoned approaches, but there are complementary steps to be taken towards the expressive and inspirational by featuring less rational and doctrinal
means, such assacred
art, that can
in their distinct manner explore the way
of beauty.1
The contention is not that they are
art for
art's sake, to be enjoyed with no thought
of meaning, but that their
meaning is to be found
in their own form and content, not
in anything outside
of themselves.
The doctrine that sexuality is a primary
means of communication bears upon our appraisal
of the new freedom
of sexual language and imagery
in the literature and
art of our century.
Here then is a theology that either
means nothing certainly identifiable (without supernatural grace or high genius
in the
art of reconnecting with experience concepts carefully divested
of relation to it) or else
means that the world might exactly as well not have existed, or as well have existed with far more evil or less good
in it than it actually presents.
God himself passes through «Self - annihilation»
in Jesus» passion, and, as a result
of that passion, and by repeating Jesus» passion
in the actuality
of experience, the Christian can discover a new and joyous humanity, a humanity that is born only by
means of the death
of God: «Thou
art a Man, God is no more» (The Everlasting Gospel).
A book on practical theology now preoccupies me
in the same way that an earlier struggle for public criteria
in fundamental theology concerned me
in the early «70s and the struggle for criteria
of meaning and truth
in the disclosures
of the beautiful and the holy
in the classic works
of art and religion preoccupied me
in the late «70s.
«To try to grasp the essence
of such phenomenon by
means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics,
art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element
in it - the element
of the sacred».
In an important commentary on Newman's work, Rosenberg concluded that painting was for Newman a way
of «practicing» the sublime, not
of «conveying» it («
Meaning and Abstract
Art,» the New Yorker [January 1, 19721, p. 46)
Any specification
of the responsibilities that accompany our basic rights, any articulation
of the content
of the «laws
of nature,» any acknowledgement that the Church might be necessary for the state to judge and fulfill its obligations to the «power
in heaven,» or any specification
of the
meaning of «nature and nature's God» — though article 1, sec. 8
of the Constitution may provide a clue when it empowers Congress «to promote the Progress
of Science and the useful
Arts.»
Images and objects can symbolize a personal search for
meaning, and
in the sanctuaries
of museums people may almost genuflect before such
art works.
Both the impact and the
meaning of art are embodied
in the execution.
«Education is the guidance
of the individual towards a comprehension
of the
art of life and by the
art of life I
mean the most complete achievement
of varied activity expressing the potentialities
of that living creature
in the face
of its actual environment.»
(Translation is an
art in which complete success is impossible, since it is rarely that corresponding words
in different languages cover precisely the same range
of meanings.)
An
art work embodies such a proposition (or,
in the case
of music, a predicative pattern only2), and the proposition (or its part) is the real
meaning of the
art, distinguishable from the physical artifact itself.
Nevertheless, Sherburne, his colleagues, and even the particular Whitehead
of Process and Reality,
in their devotion to rationalizing the
meaning of the world, including the world
of art objects, fail to appreciate the aesthetic power
of the experienced world.
The conflict arises - with religion and much else - when
art is understood exclusively
in terms
of «individual creativity,»
meaning self - expression.
Tillich's claim that religion and
art are rooted
in one theonomous Logos is just the sort
of claim about «
meaning» that deconstruction wants to interrogate.
In understanding the work
of art as a language - event, an image - event, the hermeneutics
of Hans - Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur offered a critique
of the formalists» tendency to make «
meaning» a static object.
The
meaning of the liberal
arts as educating the «free adult male» was transformed into a program
of enhancing human freedom, but this was always perceived
in terms
of forming and shaping a person.
That is why students
in liberal
arts colleges are rightly concerned about the reality
of the freedom their education is
meant to exemplify and promote.
I finished my degree with a fairly good liberal
arts education (which
means a dangerous smattering
of familiarity with the
art, the history, the literature, the science, and the religions
of our world along with my own course
of study
in communications).
In our view, a liberal
arts approach also emphasises a respect for the past; the significance
of grammar, logic and rhetoric; and the notion, popularised by the historian Christopher Dawson, that ideas develop within cultures, which
means that a grand narrative must necessarily underpin the curriculum.
We can rue and remember with nostalgia the time when «Catholic»
meant generally one sort
of writer, but
in my view both the Church and its literature are far better off with far more practitioners making far more sorts
of art.
The images and conventions
of the
art forms (e.g. the editing technique involving long shots, close - ups, panning and montage
in cinema, TV and radio) have one
meaning in some cultures and a different or no
meaning in others.
In time it came to involve art forms of all kinds, (heiroglyphics, drawings and carvings, images, tools, etc.) and for all purposes (ranging from what we would call economic (making a living) to what we could call religious (giving him a sense of meaning in life)-RRB
In time it came to involve
art forms
of all kinds, (heiroglyphics, drawings and carvings, images, tools, etc.) and for all purposes (ranging from what we would call economic (making a living) to what we could call religious (giving him a sense
of meaning in life)-RRB
in life)-RRB-.
The task
of religious leaders is to call their people to live citizenship as discipleship, which
in this instance
means using the
arts of persuasion rather than the anarchic tactics
of disruption to do the work
of justice.
If
in one's mind
art and truth are so juxtaposed that the increase
of one
means the decrease
of the other, then
art must forfeit the contest for the sake
of the Gospel.
I propose that the more helpful understanding
of the relationship between the
arts and religion is
in the suggestion that religion, understood etymologically, is that form
of human expression that seeks to tie all things together and to provide an environment
of meaning to the otherwise randomness
of events.