Sentences with phrase «of classical materials»

Is it a playful allusion to the impermanence of Classical materials and the oft - idealized historical representations of the female body, or is it a bizarre new sales approach at the vase store?
The other pivotal figure was Louise Bourgeois, who had inspired Capote through her use of classical materials like marble and bronze to express interior states of mind.

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In a word, the character of our student clientele and the changes within scholarship alike make our adherence to the classical paradigm of the historical - critical method problematic, and invite us to think of new ways in which to engage our students in critical reflection on materials they may be meeting for the very first time.
Furthermore, the classical physics of Galileo, Descartes and Newton, basing itself on this common sense view of matter, portrays nature as made up of hard, impermeable material particles or mechanisms obeying immutable physical laws.
The aim is, for the teacher, «covering the material»; for the student, speed and accuracy in «information retrieval,» The rigid application of this paradigm is well illustrated by the teaching of classical languages in the nineteenth century.
Ordinarily one would not regard the great national epics as scriptures though, in the case of the Iliad and the Odyssey, they come close to forming at least an equivalent of scripture for the Greek people, and to students of Greek religion they provide a rich mine of material with reference to the gods of classical Greek religion.
Unlike the pagan religions of classical antiquity, e.g. ancient Egypt and the Far East, Christianity does not seek to explain the physical phenomena of the material world as a dramatic struggle between warring gods and goddesses, i.e. μυθος (myth).
Nevertheless, every thoroughgoing metaphysics must assume or assert some eternal reality or realities, whether it be God in classical theism or the material universe in Marxism or the God - inclusive - of - the - world of Hartshorne.
Further, in the classical eighteenth century doctrine of space, space was conceived as a container, in which the physical material substances exist and move, itself, however, neither affecting the substances nor being affected by them.
In addition, when exposed to such hoary doctrines of some classical Eastern religions and philosophies as that of the fundamental unreality or illusory character of the entire material world and that of the all - encompassing reality of God, the average Westerner can only respond with astonishment and incredulity.
The «classical», idea of effective interactions was that of simple material causality, with one or two causes producing one or two effects in a simple linear manner.
[4] Furnish showed that Paul was a critical and selective user of contemporary material, that his exhortations are significantly different from classical paraenesis, and that his specific ethical teaching is inseparably linked to his theological teaching.
I also have forthcoming articles, which discuss the classical debates around the role of ideas in social change in the tradition of the Left and sketch an alternative approach that is critical towards determinism — the idea that human agency can be predicted by external material forces — but avoids falling into the common idealist trap when one tries to rehabilitate human agency.
As a foundational study, the research team investigated superionic ice treating the ions as if they were classical particles, but in future studies they plan to take quantum effects into account to further understand the properties of the material.
«It is «plastic material» in the classical meaning of the word,» Vezzosi says.
They suggested that three different stellar observations — bright classical nova explosions, dwarf nova outbursts and an intermediate stage where a white dwarf is not stealing enough material to erupt — are all different views of the same system.
So far, the basic question — how do these materials carry current without resistance at temperatures much too high to be accounted for by the classical model of superconductivity?
They do not compete nude like classical Olympians: they wear running shoes, they box with gloves, they vault on poles of space - age materials.
All these materials fall under the heading of «quantum materials,» ceramics, layered composites and other materials whose electromagnetic behavior can not be explained by classical physics.
«A classical framework doesn't apply to this complex system,» said Sankaranarayanan, who helped to create complex models of the perovskite's behavior at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, both DOE Office of Science User Facilities.
The material of their choice, the compound Ag2BiO3, is exceptional for two reasons; on the one hand it is composed of the heavy element bismuth, which allows the spin of the electron to interact with its own motion (spin - orbit coupling)-- a feature that has no analogy in classical physics.
For example, the classical equations used to predict the performance of such materials have indicated that the logarithm of the reaction rate should vary linearly as voltage is increased — but experiments have shown a nonlinear response, with the uptake of lithium flattening out at high voltage.
Ryu ponders materials beyond the scope of classical physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
A challenging topic of research has been the application of classical thermodynamics to out of equilibrium systems, e.g., granular gas and materials, the construction of phase diagrams in hard sphere packing in 3D, and plasma.
At about 50 qubits, many say a quantum computer could achieve «quantum supremacy» and do something beyond the ken of a classical computer, such as simulating molecular structures in chemistry and materials science, or solving problems in cryptography.
The material is an amorphous steel alloy, a promising subclass of steel alloys made of arrangements of atoms that deviate from steel's classical crystal - like structure, where iron atoms occupy specific locations.
According to Alex Parker, one of the people responsible for the discovery of 2014 MU69, the object «belongs to the «Cold Classical» Kuiper Belt, a population that appears to be a surviving remnant of the disk of material from which the planets formed.
Researchers are investigating whether these particles may have formed in classical novae explosions, ejecting stellar material in the form of gas and dust into the space between stars in the galaxy, eventually to be recycled in the creation of our solar system.
Recent analysis of 2006 SQ372, Sedna, and related object 2000 OO67 — all three dynamically linked to the inner Oort Cloud — indicate that a surface composition enriched in organic material (like the low - inclination, classical Kuiper Belt objects) may be a general characteristics of objects that stay far from the Sun (Scott S. Shepard, 2009).
There isn't a great deal of original material here — even when not quoting Mozart, Bernstein manages to build in an interpolation of Elgar's «Pomp and Circumstance» and a couple of other cod - classical moments.
He has a knack for this kind of fantastical material, as it brings out his kindness toward his characters and gift for classical storytelling.
There is a rising amount of local and regional companies which provide products and materials for online courses and exam preparations, the classical fields of mLearning.
Yes, arts learning may have social and moral and professional benefits, but if people don't value the materials of the fields themselves — if they can't say that if High School X doesn't acquaint students with Renaissance painting, classical music, and modern dance, its graduates will be undereducated — then arts educators lose in the competition for funds and hours in the day.
Most of those were selective - enrollment schools in CPS, including Skinner North Classical School, where, on a recent day this month, fifth - graders were working on sixth - grade material in social studies, weaving in the literacy goals and nonfiction text of the Common Core standards.
In classical physics a constant measure expresses the property (magnitude) of a quantity, such as the quantity of matter, which may also be called quantity of material substance and was called the mass of the body.
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In contrast to the occasionally faux and low - budget neo-eclectic detached homesteads, the term New Classical Architecture identifies contemporary buildings that stick to the basic ideals, proportions, materials and craftsmanship of traditional architecture.
This $ 60 million resort on Nassau's Cable Beach inspires with its classical design and architecture, the quality of the materials, the lush setting and the lavish attention to detail.
Moving between a graphic sensibility, an interest in creation myths and the use of found materials and detritus, the artists reference various classical tropes of blackness as sites of origin — fantastical and performed, important yet perhaps illusory.
Within two decades, she exchanged the language of classical sculpture with an idiosyncratic lexicon of new shapes, unusual materials, processes and themes that held a dialogue with the contemporary art scene and her own biography.
Her work addresses how the historical can be used as a material to address contemporary conditions such as loss, the swipe, the flatness and limitations of an image, emotions in classical sculpture, the use of models, muscle aches from using a computer, color as a language, and the democracy of materials such as clay.
Ephemera installed throughout the exhibition by Allison Rudnick, the department's assistant curator, supplied a sense of material culture on the home front: a group of nine chromolithographic postcards from several nations shows zeppelins looming cartoonishly over iconic landmarks, and two examples of printed cotton toiles de guerre from 1916, combining French patriotic and military motifs with a classical ornamental vocabulary.
A true product of a multicultural society in Ptolemaic Egypt, this statuette combines a classical image of the Greek goddess Aphrodite appearing from the sea, just born, with the typically Egyptian material, faience.
With the intention of creating work that could assume a direct material and physical «presence» without recourse to grand philosophical statements, he eschewed the classical ideals of representational sculpture to create a rigorous visual vocabulary that sought clear and definite objects as its primary mode of articulation.
«East - West / West - East towers with the grandeur of Stonehenge or the ruins of a classical city,» wrote Hyperallergic, «and more than any work of Serra's I've ever encountered it establishes an organic relationship to its surroundings, the steel plates as much a reference to the earth's elemental forces and materials as they are to human industry.»
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«Invocations of the Soul» will feature over twenty - five new works in marble and bronze, demonstrating Atchugarry's continued innovation in these classical materials.
Attuned to the history of his medium — and its resolute physicality — and inspired by classical American landscape photographs, Brandt traverses the West, photographing and collecting material samples from nature and cities.
Where there's little modeling in work by Leon Golub and George Cohen, Lerner's paintings and drawings have always had a sense of volume, and his work since the 1970s has continued to tap similar mythic and metaphorical material (mummies, hanged or tortured figures) but in a more classical figurative style.
Indeed, the gorgeous «Edge of Town» (1969) blends the absurdity of Guston's newfound characters with classical monumentality and the wet - into - wet cross-hatching of his elegant abstractions, creating a sui generis amalgam of image, mood, and materials.
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