Sentences with phrase «of aesthetic categories»

The emphasis on immanence, the rejection of any substance underlying the succession of experiences, the relation of man to nature, the primacy of aesthetic categories in the understanding of ethics, all have affinities to this or that Asiatic philosophy or religion.

Beauty, the name of this all - embracing value, can not be interpreted simply in terms of aesthetic categories.

In other words, Christian eschatology must be painted like creation in «the colors of aesthetic categories.»

Not exact matches

The sixth level of abstraction displays the categories of «forces» or «factors» traditionally used by historians to indicate their disciplinary perspective: economic, political, technological, aesthetic, psychological, social, or cultural.

The revolution in the conditions of production in the superstructure has made the traditional aesthetic theory unusable, completely unhinging its fundamental categories and destroying its «standards».

If the concepts of relational power and aesthetic value are accepted as more adequate categories for understanding human experience than those arising from substance metaphysics, then we must obviously change our images of ideal personhood and ideal communities.

Because I take seriously Whitehead's claim that the most fundamental order of reality is aesthetic, and the attendant doctrine that «The real world is good when it is beautiful» (AI, Chapter XVIII, Section III), I want to propose that we use the category of beauty as the norm in constructing our images of person - hood and of personal and communal relations.

Both Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne have repeatedly argued that art and aesthetic experience arise within a structure of contrast within identity, or unity in variety.3 This structure enables the mind, or the rationalizing self, to grip the beautiful, to hold it within a category, sometimes called a proposition.

Whitehead suggests that the fundamental category for understanding the universe is aesthetic valuation toward order and that the richness of creativity will sometimes produce aberrations as well as serendipitous outcomes.

The vibration and rhythm of these enduring objects is explained by the category of reversion, which is in turn explained in terms of Whitehead's aesthetic principles.

Many activities associated with technology, and many so - called «rational» processes, fall into the category of the tedious and the repetitive; they submerge aesthetic awareness in habit and routine.

Metaphysics has traditionally been understood as the search for a coherent set of general categories for the interpretation of the whole range of human experience — scientific, religious, aesthetic, moral, etc..

In the latter we find «The Category of Aesthetic Harmony»)

The findings will help marketing professionals make better decisions on aesthetic design, and can be applied to a wide range of product categories including electronics, wearable technologies and household appliances, Balachander said.

Like a lot of you, I'm sure, I don't think my personal aesthetic fits into a particular style category (preppy, all black, trendy, vintage, sporty...).

Isabel Marant has created such a distinct aesthetic to each and every one of her collections that it has become a culture, and can almost stand as it's own category.

Sally Potter: An English filmmaker whose intelligent and sophisticated film style often explores the capacity of aesthetic, and human intimacy to transcend categories such as gender, sexuality, religion, culture and politics.

Easily my favorite award category of all the year - end shenanigans, the Heterodox Award is designed for the brazen filmmakers who allow docu - form to enhance the narrative experience — essentially service narrative form who boldly incorporate a docu aesthetic and this year's batch of five noms do this serviceably in their own fashion.

Ever since Peter Schreyer — a former designer for Volkswagen and Audi — jumped on the Kia bandwagon to become its new design chief, the aesthetic quality of Kia cars have, to say the least, bumped up into the ranks of the «that's actually a pretty classy - looking ride» category.

Still, while advancements in product features and functionality are certainly helping to propel sales in this category, manufacturers also carefully consider the design and aesthetic qualities of the automated feeders and fountains that they produce.

Not surprisingly, the emerging elite of manufacturers in this category have embraced aesthetic appeal, durability and functionality.

Commercial blockbusters like Mega Man inaugurated the category (even if the term «masocore» appeared long after Capcom first released that title in 1987), and more recent independent titles like I Wan na Be The Guy and Super Meat Boy have further explored the idea of intense difficulty as a primary aesthetic.

But this in effect ruled out the possibility of making paintings that were sublime, an aesthetic category to which Kant dedicated a fascinating and extended analysis.

In an essay about the Quogue Gallery exhibition, Charles A. Riley II notes that the show «calls for an aesthetic that traverses the boundaries of artistic categories» and suggests that an understanding of the «tectonic» weaving together of materials as described by architecture professor Kenneth Frampton can be useful in enhancing the appreciation of beauty in different media.

Dunham's recent hybrid of landscape and figuration demonstrate his continued desire to transcend aesthetic categories.

De Kooning is well known for paintings of the female figure that transcend traditional figurative and abstract categories and break up conventional aesthetic frames of reference by maximizing the expressive power of paint in line and color.

The Letter Paintings, by incorporating the names of mainly male and female African - American musicians, undermined prevailing aesthetic categories by conflating many contemporary movements including Conceptual Art, Color Field, Pattern and Decoration, diary entry and social commentary.

Several artists in the exhibition reject traditional categories of painting and sculpture to explore new modes of art making which result in a plethora of unprecedented aesthetic and critical practices, ranging from industrially produced geometric abstractions, negating the hand of the artist, to text - based investigations.

Art conservators see variations of damage, but they all fall into one of two categories: structural or aesthetic.

This way of working does not produce a recognizable aesthetic, nor is it meant to reaffirm an historical category such as Process Art — to do so would be a contradiction.

He puts the political proposition of consumption into an aesthetic category by re-painting these weapon models.

In a series of manifestos, beginning with theManifesto blanco (White Manifesto) of 1946, Fontana announced his goals for a «spatialist» art, one that could engage technology to achieve an expression of the fourth dimension in a radical new aesthetic idiom that melded the categories of architecture, sculpture, and painting.

Beshty's work draws upon, subverts, and redefines traditional artistic categories to create an artistic practice built upon material qualities of the aesthetic object and its often contradictory uses.

Fuelled by a deeply felt antipathy toward nostalgia, and incorporating references to personal, folk, and collective histories, these works were formally realized in ways that evoked tropes of modernist aesthetic practice and theory, while critically reflecting on the criteria and categories through which recent art historical memory has been forged.

His distinctive aesthetic style set his work in a category of its own.

Perhaps the art market and institutions have by now weighed so much so on the freedom of aesthetic production, forming and informing our personal and collective comprehension of what constitutes abstract painting, that today abstraction as a formal category often lapses into familiar territory.

Admittedly, the differences between the two categories are pretty small, but unlike trailer homes, all but one of these tiny houses can be legally towed with a pickup truck or similar vehicle, and the aesthetic is also different.

There's not a single specific change that really stands out in this category — it's more the sum of its parts, small changes scattered throughout the shell that'll contribute to the aesthetic overhaul.

But apart from the obvious aesthetic advantages, glass wall tiles have other plus points which put them into the category of the most cross-functional finishing materials.