Sentences with phrase «of aesthetic contemplation»

But to place this car in the gallery seems to miss the point, offering it as an object of aesthetic contemplation and period design rather than the embodiment of a particular kind of fantasy that suffused»60s culture, that often found its expression in a burgeoning ethos of conspicuous consumption.

Whether through paint or video, Pindell squeezes the spatial and temporal attributes of aesthetic experience, and finds new ways to disorganize, or at times even suffocate, the space of aesthetic contemplation.

Because of her, and with her, I am able — by moments — to move out of my own natural larval state and experience movies not just as deliverers of entertainment, conveyors of meaning, or objects of aesthetic contemplation, but as pure fields of emotional and sensory intensity, almost like rooms to which one can return.»

Not exact matches

For example, every contemplation of truth involves aesthetic and moral aspects.

But it explains why contemplation of the majestic figures in Michelangelo's Medici Chapel is an experience more spiritual than aesthetic.

I see no consistent basis within the framework of Hall's own thought for asserting that this particular kind of experience is somehow «illegitimate,» that its aesthetic quality is greatly inferior to that which results from the experience of art or nature or interpersonal relationships or even of mystical contemplation.

Yet if we are to judge purely on the basis of immediate aesthetic quality, of «intensity» in a Whiteheadian sense, on what grounds are we to prefer the experience of «passive» contemplation to that which comes from the active exercise of instrumental reason?

Whether in the realm of social justice, community building, spirituality or environmental concerns, the claim of art as a pure domain of disinterested aesthetic contemplation has been relentlessly challenged for over two centuries.

According to them, the work was too directly political and social in its content, and too ephemeral in its composition — leaving no room for the privileged space of neutral aesthetic contemplation that the modernist white cube had always provided critics in the past.

Her aesthetic vision signifies the importance, now more than ever, of the possibilities of paint and the place where duration, sustained contemplation, and perception itself, meld within the realm of art.

The Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition focused on the aesthetic contemplation of mysticism in both contemporary art practice and contemporary practices of looking at art.

Sculptors like Jessica Stockholder, Rachel Harrison, and Jessica Jackson Hutchins make similar work with deceptively generic features, a more or less gloppy formlessness that resists categorization and herein lies the irony: these features, ineffably formed blobs, provocative agglutinations of commercial materials with infusions of color, don't easily fall into an aesthetic history, yet, their openness deems an interest not attributed to standard discourse that normally makes a contemporary form worthy of contemplation.

Integrating ideas about regeneration and transformation in art, «Shaping Time» reflects on the aesthetic appreciation of nature and questions about loss, fading, contemplation, and migratory processes in art.

And why would the realm of aesthetic making and contemplation be considered paradisiacal?

Each luminary features a myriad of colored lighting options and time lapses, creating space for individual aesthetic, emotional, and intellectual contemplation.

At the same time, he makes interactive video games of the carrier's image, which opens up the possibilities of contemplation from the aesthetic and cognitive level.

Their components (lines, dots, curves, letters, numbers, and cartographic elements) are made clear and associated in a way that allows for a transparent understanding of the process of their execution and development without allowing a full rendering and aesthetic contemplation of a clear end result.

Displayed in stark white - on - white galleries, the sealed vitrines become hermetic environments for contemplation or even mourning as these silenced objects of ritual, play, and aesthetic devotion seem to have reached some form of transcendent afterlife.