Sentences with phrase «much contemporary interest»

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Though there is doubtless much truth in these claims, their validity is not the point of present interest, which is rather the further evidence they provide of the pervasiveness of vocational criteria and motives in contemporary education.

Isabelle Stengers, who is a close collaborator of Prigogine, and who, in fact, «holds the pen,» is very much interested in Whitehead's conceptual framework and feels that it is quite adequate to address problems raised by contemporary science, such as the emergence of order and newness.

When reading French contemporaries — Loisy and company — I am mainly interested in them as people, not so much in their ideas.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

We've had so much interest from customers on wedding attire that we felt the time was right to launch a contemporary collection of dresses for the modern bride.

Beyond that, it also speaks to contemporary issues of class struggle, segregation, ghettoization and most key and interesting to much of the conflict, an inter-ideological mingling transferred to black culture.

The attentiveness John has given to nurturing the mood and flavour of each painting as it develops is what makes his paintings so much more interesting, heartfelt and ambitious than so much contemporary painting that lays claim to being complex and diverse, see Sansom, Oehlen or Dana Schutz.

In works from the 1980s through the present, the influence of the contemporary art market seems to inform selections in painting and sculpture as much as, or more than, the interests of posterity.

It interesting to see these materials trapped inside the glass in a way mirroring how painting can be viewed in contemporary art, trapped in tradition and without much room to escape its own conventions.

Loudon sees the growing interest in such objects as a sign of the public's boredom with the inflated scale of so much contemporary art, «a reaction against Jeff Koons, if you will.

Don't get me wrong, I love Smack Mellon as much as the next guy, but isn't it a little ironic for an organization that cleaves toward site specific installations, and has little interest in contemporary painting, to rely on painters for fundraising?

The fair has done much to bring attention to African artists in a Western context, coinciding with an increased interest in the contemporary African art market in recent years.

His progression is far from a retooling of modernist approaches and much more an investigation of timeless and contemporary concerns from within his own highly developed interests.

«Continuity and Newness», the subtitle to the second edition of the review, emphasises the artists» interest in their forebears and contemporaries, as much as their own innovations.

Open to both undergraduate and graduate students, HAVC courses are rich and varied, taught by faculty scholars with fabulously diverse interests ranging from ethnomusicology to landscape in American film, the role of femme fatales in Western art, contemporary African artists, French surrealism and much more.

I'd like to revisit Sifang Art Site in Nanjing again as I am now interested in contemporary Chinese art than when I first visited two years ago and would appreciate it much more.

The work anticipated some of the interests that Fluxus artists would soon begin exploring in New York and Europe in the 1960s, and it feels very much in tune with works by young contemporary artists like Ragnar Kjartansson, who in 2011 staged a critically acclaimed 12 - hour performance of the denouement of Mozart's «The Marriage of Figaro,» by opera singers.

Macuga's practice is located at the intersection of two strands that have done much to define the landscape of contemporary art in the last decade: on the one hand, an increasing interest in research — specifically of the archival, historical kind — and on the other, a growing concern with strategies of display and the blurring of boundaries between art making and curating.

The four artists realized their common interest in painting contemporary life and landscape, and without much preoccupation on mythological and historical subjects.

Even now, in the midst of a resurgence of interest in abstract painting, it is unlikely the work in this exhibition will get the attention it deserves, yet any direct comparison with the Contemporary abstract art that today receives plaudits will confirm that the bold and lucid organizations of, for example, Gouk's Sea Horse Tenacity 1, Foster's Three Cornered, or Smart's Tamarind 5, are superior still.1 And whilst I'm in this territory, just look at how much more active, three - dimensional and downright sculptural Foster's use of I - beams in Three Cornered is, compared to anything Caro ever did with them.

Plant up a natural focal point for a super contemporary way to add interest while keeping much - needed floor space clear for patio slabs and super-sociable seating.

Both Edward and I weren't interested in the cookie - cutter, contemporary condo look, and save for the exposed brick walls, our unit pretty much had builder's - basic features.