Sentences with phrase «notion of modernity»

Recognized nationally and internationally for work intimately related to a certain expanded vision of the notion of modernity - with a particular understanding of what this means in Latin America, especially Mexico - Smith was chosen in 2011 to represent Mexico with Red Square Impossible Pink for the 54th Venice Biennale.

The works in this section of the gallery are all tied to the notion of modernity — a concept most often associated with rapid technological innovations that change society radically.

Shibboleth asks questions about the interaction of sculpture and space, about architecture and the values it enshrines, and about the shaky ideological foundations on which Western notions of modernity are built.

Lead Belly's artistic practice is concerned with the reworking of vintage source material to create original artwork and prints that effortlessly fuse notions of modernity and nostalgia.

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There is no chance for mastery in living, by working out what is properly credible on the basis of notions like demonstration, experiential tests, sufficient evidence, and so on» the fool's errands that modernity has sent us on, seeking a kind of legitimation that neither exists nor is needed.

A key element in Kurzweil's thinking is the notion of «late return,» which occurs when an individual, caught in the web of modernity, seeks to escape his situation by turning back to a life of pristine faith.

The base music of rap, hip - hop, shares quite a bit with disco, indeed grew directly out of it, and the identity / rebel / heroism focus of rap is a very specific one — rock rages in a broadly indistinct or middle - class mode, often against modernity, but rap's poetic world is «lumpen - proletarian,» and its archetypes and formulas are all about expressing certain notions of blackness and manliness.

The letter condemned certain «Americanist» propositions (about spirituality, ecclesiology, the Church and modernity, and church / state relations); but the pope also admitted his uncertainty that anyone of consequence in the American Church held to the proscribed notions.

The notion that one's ideas form the basis of religious identity and integrity is itself part of the bequest of emerging modernity: Bad ideas have consequences, so let's fix the ideas themselves.

The work evidences the legacy of modernity as a Western - inflicted — and imported — notion, in which frictions amid traditional and occidental societies occur.

His work, like a portal where the imagined and physical realms convene, intuitively explores notions of duality and repetition; tradition and modernity, the spiritual and the secular.

Her imagery merges traditional nonfigurative Turkish art with Western art historical references, while highlighting shifting notions of gender and class within the context of the struggle between modernity and tradition.

His practice is primarily concerned with how notions of artistic modernity could be demonstrated to be inherently related, or porous, to broader cultural developments such as music and the field of communications.

The emergence of modernist primitivism, which radically transformed the trajectory of modernity through its treatment of foreign objects, complicated a dialectical relationship between notions of the «primitive» and the «civilised,» and by extension, between fear and desire.

The art historical references allow Burtynsky to frame the terrible effects of modernity within received notions of beauty.

Together, they reveal the artist's quest to redefine the notion of a monument in a period marked by both intense historicism and the ever - accelerating rhythms of modernity.

The idea of domesticity as a counterpart to the work space is a feature of modernity, as are its close ties to capitalist economics, breakthroughs in technology, and notions of individuality.