Sentences with phrase «on ancient myths»

Drawing on ancient myths and symbols, he revived the Romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich and Richard Wagner, a tradition tainted by Nazism, yet which Beuys made vital again for a generation of Germans who were children in or after the war.

As such, an act of mass murder was played on an ancient myth: the myth of the destruction of the sinful city.

A unit of work which focuses on the ancient myth of Prometheus and Pandora (Pandora's Box).

I hope your readers will enjoy my twist on an ancient myth.

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Tryggve N. D. Mettinger in The Riddle of the Resurrection: «Dying and Rising Gods» in the Ancient Near East wrote: «There is, as far as I am aware, no prima facie evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the myths and rites of the dying and rising gods of the surrounding world.»

For example, modern knowledge based on scientific discovery shows us that disease is not caused by evil spirits, so why believe in ancient creation myths which are shown to be incorrect.

Religious myths have ancient books that are quoted as if they were unquestionable fact merely based on their existence.

- Stories vs. HistoryBesides all of this, the myths of the ancient world were never based on solid historical fact.

In this quite striking way the ancient myths did full justice to the reality and finality of death on the one hand and to the mystery, on the other hand, of how death gave rise to new life.

All of Christianity is built on a misinterpretation of an ancient myth.

Your examination of the etymology of the word «sin» is laudatory, yet your entire system, (the «salvation paradigm»), is built on a fallacious interpretation of an Ancient Near Eastern Choas Myth, (the «fall»), and the need for a «christ» / savior in the first place.

Hence, the majority - dominant community, by appealing to the romanticised myth of an ancient pristine society, provides legitimation and sanction for a discourse which calls into question those that appear to be impositions and accretions on such a society.

Questioning the nonsensical belief in fairy tales based on an ancient tribal myths, and encouraging the «believer» to employ reason and rationally evaluate his or her position, isn't an attack.

The story had its dim beginnings and it betrays its distant involvement in an ancient myth of creation out of the Near and Middle East which survived in various forms but best and most fully in the Babylonian Enuma Elish (a title derived from its opening words, «When on high»).4 Here chaos is represented in the goddess Tiamat, a name perhaps echoed in the Hebrew word for «deep» tehom (1:2).

From there, he turned to anthropology, holding in Violence and the Sacred that the myths of ancient cultures invariably show themselves to be based on sacrificial violence against a scapegoat.

The Old Testament almost completely lacks this mythological interest, one of the few examples being the prologue of the book of Job, and this is very likely an ancient myth which a post-exilic writer adapted to provide the setting for his magnificent poem on the riddle of human destiny.

The myths of ancient man were predominantly concerned with descriptive narratives of what went on in that divine world hidden from human sight.

Inspired by an ancient Celtic myth, the «Hawk of Achill» spot is set in a small fishing village on Achill, a rugged island — steeped in folklore and myth — off the coast of Ireland.

«I'm also working on ancient inundation stories and myths from India, and I've been trying to stimulate some interest among Asian scholars.»

The social network of characters in an ancient Irish myth is similar to actual social networks, suggesting it was based on reality.

If the ancient myths were based on real people, Kenna and Mac Carron expected to find the same patterns.

, the official web site of Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), provides information on the work of Dr. Mark Lehner and the international The Exodus is the founding myth of Israel, telling how the Israelites were delivered from slavery by their god Yahweh and therefore belong to him through

Branagh revealed: «It's an evolving adaptation that's based on being much moved by the ancient power of that myth.

Most of the humour stems from the wide - eyed dismay we read on Diana's face, but also from her fundamental innocence and conviction in the truth of ancient myth.

Thirty years ago, students with a paper due on a modern novel or ancient myth consulted encyclopedias, CliffsNotes, almanacs, Time - Life collections, and a dozen other reference works.

Essay on ancient Celtic medicine and myth with emphasis on the Druids in Britain.

He is on a long - term mission searching for the Kalpavriksh, the mythical wish - fulfilling tree of ancient Sanskritic myth.

Although I failed miserable at the language part, I did get my geek on by all the history, myths and influences the ancient...

Shown for the first time in the U.S., Gaillard's monumental work Artefacts (2011) imparts a reflection on the myth of Babylon takes form through a montage of scenes from post-conflict Iraq interwoven with images of the ancient civilization's antiquities, none more famous perhaps than the Ishtar Gate, reconstructed in an austere gallery of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin in the 1930s.

The artists in the exhibition inflect Modernist forms with contemporary perspectives on intimate subjects including: the poetics of domestic architecture, the pertinence of ancient myth, and the solipsism of art history.

• Génesis, el Don de la Vida (Genesis, the Gift of Life), the iconic 60 - foot - long glass mosaic mural by Miguel Covarrubias on permanent view at the DMA; originally created for another building in Dallas in 1954, the work is based on an ancient Mexican myth that four worlds preceded the world we currently live in, and incorporates imagery from numerous historic cultures in Central and North America.

At the time, Barney was preparing his recent exhibition at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery: a show based on myths from ancient Egypt.

The film transports the myth - laden narrative of Norman Mailer's novel Ancient Evenings (1983)-- itself based on the Egyptian Book of the Dead — into a contemporary American setting.

To this end, the vastness of Gagosian's 21st Street gallery is a fitting space in which to encounter the work of an artist deeply influenced by the storytelling richness of ancient epic and myth, and to be swept along on Twombly's own odyssey of pictorial exploration.

Though he produced colorful paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures based on the Ancient Greek myth of Cronus, Hare is most remembered for his welded - steel sculptural abstractions of the 1950s in which abstracted biomorphic forms are suspended or interwoven in complex symbolic arrangements, as in The Dinner Table (1950) and Windows of Moons (1951).

According to an ancient Greek myth, Tantalus, a mortal king and son of Zeus, was invited to dine with the gods on Mt. Olympus.

Installed on the seashore, three colossal horns activated by the strong winds of the Chubut province produce a sound that resembles that of whales and reminds the viewer of haunting ancient myths, and an echo of ancestral times.

River of Fundament transports the myth - laden narrative of Norman Mailer's novel «Ancient Evenings» (1983)-- itself based on the Egyptian Book of the Dead — into a contemporary American setting.

Now on view at the Museum of Modern Art, this addicting and idiosyncratic 13 minute film explores various creations myths, through a dizzying display of modern and ancient artifacts and images which open and close in windows on the screen, set against a hip hop beat and spoken word poetry on the origins of life, in some ways taking aim at the history and science of anthropological collections.

Modernism's fascination with ancient myth prompted Gottlieb to embark on a series he christened «Pictographs».

By the early 1960s Davie was drawing increasingly on myth and «magic symbolism», viewing himself less as an artist than as a medium, or shaman, borrowing signs and symbols from cultures as diverse as the Navajo Indians, the Caribbean islands, Aboriginal Australians, and the Ancient Egyptians, Celts and Picts.

A group exhibition exploring the influence of ancient myths and archetypes on modern artists at their moments of transformation from figuration to abstraction.