Sentences with phrase «modern imagination»

In works that span drawing, sculpture, and video, these artists court intoxicating historical visions that haunt modern imagination in our perpetual quest for knowledge and enlightenment.

More emphatically, I submit that the skillful design and construction of the shaving brush may rank as one of the most difficult enterprises to which the modern imagination is fitted to undertake.

If anything, the fullest expressions of the modern imagination are even more apocalyptic in form, movement, imagery, and symbolism than is the New Testament; or so, at least, it would appear to the Christian today who inherits almost two millennia of demythologizing an originally apocalyptic faith.

If the modern imagination is eschatological or apocalyptic to the extent that it evolves out of a negation and reversal of our given world of consciousness and experience, then so likewise is it dialectical in the sense that it is grounded in a movement of negation and transcendence.

Much of the modern imagination comes close to such a vision, though in consciously secular terms and often without quite knowing it.

While such a «history» may indeed be present in the fullest expressions of the modern imagination, theology has only begun to understand that «history,» and thus I must respond that King's judgment is premature.

But the very notion that this glorious universe, with planets and winds, and laughing sky and ocean, should have been conceived and had its beams and rafters laid in technicalities of criminality, is incredible to our modern imagination.

Indeed, images of death or nothingness have dominated the modern imagination, and who can doubt that it is the power of such images which has opened our sensibilities to the world of Buddhism?

My second point is relative to the incredible and intolerable number of beings which, with our modern imagination, we must believe to be immortal, if immortality be true.

As love has increasing become the center of all emotional expression in the modern imagination — the quantity without which life seems forlorn — anxiety about obtaining it in sufficient quantities and for sufficient duration has increased to the point that that anxiety suffuses the population, and most of our cultural forms.

In The Seven Wonders of the World: A History of the Modern Imagination by John and Elizabeth Romer (Michael O'Mara Books, London, # 19.99, ISBN 1 854 79993 9), we have the book of his recent TV series, which I found eminently watchable.

Black holes are the bogeymen of the modern imagination.

He includes in his assessment of greatness both the hold of the religion on the modern imagination and its demographic future.

... Oedipus the King is more accessible than the Antigone, and this is principally because the single action which it imitates (the self - discovery of Oedipus) is able to command the modern imagination as the burying of Polyneices can not.

The installation forms part of The Classical Now, a major exhibition exploring the ways in which Graeco - Roman art has sparked the modern imagination.

In a way, science fiction can be defined as the modern imagination and the works of the artists presented here testify to this fact.

Presented in partnership with the award - winning Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), the exhibition traces the ways in which Graeco - Roman art has captured and permeated the modern imagination.

Nature, from being a terror, has become a tame toy in the modern imagination.