Sentences with phrase «more as abstraction»

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He starts, not with the purely concrete, for which abstractions are to be found, but with such more or less suitable abstractions as are already available, and seeks to improve them, having in mind experiences of the concrete.

When Whitehead describes the approach to intellectuality as a gain in the power of abstraction, so that «the irrelevant multiplicity is eliminated, and emphasis is laid on the elements of systematic order in the actual world» (PR 388), we take this to mean that mentality becomes habitually effective when its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower, more reiterative levels of conceptual functioning.

One major reform that Hegel seems to have taken upon himself to effect is the production of a logical hierarchy of being that in a sense reverses the direction of abstraction of the Aristotelian logical hierarchy, i.e., that becomes more differentiated and «concrete» as it rises in generality and inclusiveness, rather than more empty and abstract.

In other words, there is a complete paradox if we attempt to look at the ordinary physicist's view of time as anything more than an abstraction.

So long as there are those who identify God with some one - sided abstraction like infinity; absoluteness, or worst of all omnipotence (not even a self - consistent abstraction), we shall need the help both of more balanced theists and of nontheists to counteract these more subtle and intellectual forms of idolatry.

I do not argue that the reflexes of abstraction and generalization have no function at all, but we need to be more honest about their derivative quality and about the normalness of narrative or hortatory genres as good theology.

On the other hand, from the empirical side, Whitehead and his colleagues in radical empiricism, William James, Henri Bergson, and John Dewey, have insisted that cognition is only an abstraction from the more fundamental physical experience, and that to treat the cognizable as the more real is — with a truly Cartesian forgetfulness — to put the wagon before the horse.

Thinkers who have been more faithful to Thomistic Realism, with its a posteriori abstraction of the universal form, have rejected the idea that formality is a priori to observation in general but kept it as a priori to modern experimental observation.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

And, as the ego's shrill clamor for possessions, pleasure and recognition subsides, the voice of God grows more distinct and the concept of his guidance moves from abstraction to daily experience.

Regarding each of them as an abstraction from an abstraction, panexperientialism in effect combines them into a more inclusive stuff, 3 Whitehead's «creativity.»

Hopefully, by arranging theology this way, the study of theology leads us to action, rather than to more abstraction as commonly happens with current theological studies.

In his early research into the child's world - view, Piaget showed that the thing - concept, as Whitehead criticized it, actually appears rather late in a child's development and represents an abstraction from earlier and more concrete perceptions (RME) Not until around ten years of age does the child come to see «things» in reality in the way the adult sees «things» in reality and uses the thing - concept consciously, that is argumentatively.

More often than not philosophers of nature take the abstractions of science and secondary perception as the bed - rock of their speculations.

When Hartshorne speaks, then, of metaphysical factors common to all possibilities, we understand him to be referring chiefly to factors any conceivable actuality (more accurately, any concrete singular or particular) will exhibit, not to factors which characterize possibilities or abstractions as such.

Or, as Whitehead put the same point more simply in Adventures of Ideas, «I contend that the notion of mere knowledge is a high abstraction» (AI 225 - 226).

By understanding presence as something more than «mere appearances,» Dillenberger has come to consider abstraction the pictorial procedure by which artists penetrate beneath the visible surfaces of nature in search of a subject's «essence» or deeper truth.

Christian religious movements do not usually have as their central dynamic a theory of knowledge, an academic abstraction, but something more personal and affective, typically the example and spiritual guidance of a saint or charismatic leader.

First of all, his conception of reality as social process makes individual personal identity through time an abstraction from a more concrete network of social interaction which unites individuals.

Making sense of Christian history as a living resource, peopled not with venerated abstractions but men and women as alive and individual as you or I, seems critical at a time when storytelling and imitation are more the province of secular entertainment than sacred order.

But its positive strength is (1) to provide an understanding of God's identity as an individual through abstractions alone («This does not imply that God is a merely abstract entity, but only that what makes God God and no other individual is abstract «15), and (2) more specifically, to identify God as the sole individual with strictly universal functions, defined with relation to actuality as such and with respect to possibility as such.

It was not a mystical, Wordsworthian communion with nature as a personified abstraction, but a more common, everyday appreciation of natural beauty and awareness of the life about him.

As we have wrestled with the question over the years, we have slowly begun to realise it is more than an abstraction, the intangible concept embodying anything that can be expressed in strings of 1s and 0s.

As property became first a thing of importance in itself, and then an abstraction of powers, privileges and immunities, so the likelihood of developing more equitable and sustainable means to harness nature diminished.

«A clock is a symbol of continuity; one that lasts a really long time might give people a sense of perspective, help them think about the year 3000 as more than just an abstraction,» Hillis says.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

His portrayal of «landscape» ranges from the straightforward to the more oblique, sometimes rendering scenes as diagonal, geometric abstractions; where notions of framing become intrinsic to the composition itself.

The painting is an example of Phelan's early work which sought to reconcile painterly abstraction with process based minimalism, but in this context the cut surface feels more desperate, as if the painter were punching a hole through which to breathe.

Riffing on the past as it comments on our own time, contemporary abstraction evokes landscapes, bodies, signs, buildings, and much more Read more Read MoreMore

In terms of style and school, they are not thoroughly cohesive, embracing as they do geometric abstraction, gestural abstraction, realism, still life, seascape, and more.

Perhaps more than any other female artist, she succeeded in transcribing such natural phenomena as light, water, and plants into atmospherically charged paintings, whilst simultaneously maintaining a totally autonomous abstraction.

These foreshadow more contemporary works such as Syed Ahmed Jamal's «Rockin,» a medley of rich colors and bold brushtrokes, and Joanne Greenbaum's «Color System,» a maze of bright abstractions, pigments, and gridlike patterns.

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Describing a finished or successful painting as possessed of a nice awkwardness, differentiating an atypical abstract painting from a great one, conscious of existing within the cultural context of abstraction, which adds to our understanding of emotion, logic, sensation, and concrete reality while at the same time existing at a... Read more

The category of painting is examined more generally in the wood panels on top of the pedestals: straddling the line between abstraction and representation, they offer painting as both an object within sculpture as well as a discrete project central to the artistʼs studio practice.

Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.

The work he created led American art away from abstraction and personal expression and towards a more objective art that featured recognizable images such as targets, maps, and the American flag — «things the mind already knows,» as he describe them.

More painting, tending to semi-abstract, as imagery edged out abstraction; such were Chris Ofili's etched figurations that emerge as copulations out of a mottled blue backdrop, and Fondation Beyeler's three - wall installation of tiled pixellation that in photographs reads as porn.

His work fits, more precisely, in the Lyrical Abstraction school of thought, which is also promoted by painters such as Michelle Destarac and Pierre Célice.

When Pollock fully recast Surrealism as abstraction and drawing as all - over painting, he had little more to do than blow up work like this to human scale.

But the deep purple hues and gestural anomalies within Negative Value I, II and III, 1982 are not the result of the swashbuckling brushwork typical of abstraction; more accurately, they might be viewed as the divine accident in triplicate.

The Newport Street exhibition is the first major show since Hoyland's death in 2011 and will reaffirm his status as an important and innovative force within international abstraction, providing new insights into the way in which his work evolved from the huge colour - stained canvases of the 1960s, through the textured surfaces of the 1970s to the more spatially complex paintings of the early 1980s.

What makes de Kooning such a great artist may be something far more subtle, far more interior to painting itself and perhaps expressed best in his earlier works, those that are, again, often described as transitional, from figurative works of the early 40s to even abstractions such as Painting, Attic, or Excavation.

By the looks of it, we are at the tail end of another abstraction - heavy period, where the decorator - friendly approach to process - driven abstraction known as Zombie Formalism is now wending into something more hybridized still.

As more than one artist pushed realism to abstraction, I wondered if I had set my brain for too few colors or the wrong file format.

The first works in the series were debuted in Douglas's 2016 Hasselblad Award solo exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the compositions that will be on view in this exhibition represent a more expansive and nuanced investigation into pictorial abstraction as well as the complex relationship between technology and image making.

«Later, because he was interpreted as someone who paved the way for abstraction of the external world, [his still lifes and landscapes] were more easily related to his influence on Cubism and early Modernism.

As geometric abstraction became more prevalent in the 1950s, Peláez's works also see an uptick in geometric orientation, made apparent in her 1956 - 57 mural sketches.

Conceiving abstraction as the critical and poetic language of potential allows her to pierce the detached geometries of ordering structures, making them responsive and more pliable.

The first four works were developed as a result of my search for an expression of pure abstraction, beyond what I had achieved with my more surrealistic, base - bound objects.