Sentences with phrase «on epochal»

Featuring images from the 1973 fashion show «The Battle of Versailles,» the exhibition showcases Cunningham's unique perspective on this epochal event in fashion history.

Mazda was playing a slightly different tune while Honda and Toyota were hard at work on their epochal coupes.

«It began with musings on epochal paintings and evolved with the photographs I had taken over the years,» said Kiarostami, «Each of these frames is in essence 4 minutes and 30 seconds of what I imagine to have transpired before and after a single image».

Its origins, however, were modest: While working on his epochal 2006 eco - horror / giant - monster movie hit The Host (the highest grossing South Korean film to date), Bong happened to wander into his favorite comic book store in Seoul.

How many remember the great Obafemi Awolowo lost the first election, after embarking on his epochal free primary education programme, no thanks the NCNC's scalding demonization, built on high tax and vanishing farm hands?

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Perhaps it hinges on a confusion between (1) the necessity for there to be a modal dipolarity between God and the World and (2) the necessity for there to be an epochal dipolarity within God, that is, for the moments of God to exhibit the fundamental dipolarity (expressed by the Category of the Ultimate) between the present moment of God - as - creating and all previous moments of God - as - created which the present contains.

He leaves us — a thousand pages into the story — in mid-course, on the eve of the epochal triumphs and tragedies of 1964 and 1965, but, happily, he promises a second volume.

This will obviously depend on our conception of time, and it is clear that the intelligibility of Whiteheadian concresence hangs on the intelligibility of an atomic or «epochal» conception of time, one that is very different from our usual way of thinking of these matters.

1 See David Sipfle, «On the Intelligibility of the Epochal Theory of Time,» The Monist, 53, 1969, p. 509; Robert Palter, Whitehead's Philosophy of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), p. 7.

Though his massive Church Dogmatics took on the appearance of an old - style dogmatism, his theological vision throughout this epochal work remained distinctively pluralistic and open - ended.

Especially at Vatican I and in the pontificate of Leo XIII (1878 — 1903), the Catholic Church embraced this epochal change, and began to work out in earnest a new, genuinely post-Constantinian teaching on the relation of Church, state, and civil society, a teaching above all concerned to secure the freedom and independence of the Church from the modern state.

On this point cf. also David A. Sipfle «Henri Bergson and the Epochal Theory of Time» in Bergson and the Evolution of Physics, ed.

I am in essential agreement with professor Sipfle on this point, but prefer to say that Bergson has a quasi-epochal theory of the duration of matter, to distinguish it from the epochal theory of Process and Reality with its absolutely distinct units of becoming.

The Badgers still haven't played anyone, but as if on cue: Iowa, fresh off that epochal cratering of Ohio State, comes to town.

The colts, two of the finest 3 - year - olds ever to appear in the same year, were set to battle at old Washington Park, Chicago's South Side course, in what was being whooped along as the greatest match race on the planet since Seabiscuit and War Admiral ran at Pimlico on Nov. 1, 1938, the epochal clash of regions, lifestyles and social classes.

His epochal text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often conceived as the starting point of modern astronomy, as well as a central and defining epiphany in the history of all science.

Yet an arguably more epochal event occurred the previous year, when the crew of Apollo 8 — astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders — embarked on the first voyage to lunar orbit.

Probe — that's the editorial page these days — was more interested in critiquing the quality of the British coverage of mankind's first step on the moon, than discussing its epochal importance to science and society.

It's a film our critic describes as «emotionally devastating,» and it's hard to see how any documentary that takes such an unflinching and deeply - felt look at the aftermath of such an epochal tragedy as the school shootings in Newtown Connecticut could not be — especially as the film focuses not on the killer or on the politics of the event, but simply on the children, in particular on three of the victims, and their families trying to cope in the wake of an incomprehensible loss.

The world - historical collapse of capitalism's longue duree regime of profitability and the epochal rupture of neoliberal accumulation by dispossession, is signaled by an endemic decline on the profit rates that has haunted the specter of capitalism for decades.

Just as the launch of The Chronicle had occurred on the cusp of an epochal period for higher education, the debut of the «chronicle of precollegiate education» came as the first stirrings of a remarkable age of ferment in elementary and secondary policy were being felt.

Leaning on its racing heritage, McLaren pairs the official film with a monologue from epochal racing legend Ayrton Senna, itself a sentiment that resonated throughout the development of the new 720S according to McLaren.

Space Harrier, Hang - On, Out Run, Virtua Cop, and the epochal Virtua Fighter series were all the work of Suzuki and his AM2 team, so the idea of a new title for home consoles was very intriguing.

Epochal artist Ed Ruscha has built an impressive body of work by staking a claim on the deceptively simple intersection of text and image, creating images that can be read instantaneously yet evade easy understanding.

Influences converged, passion and intellect were engaged, and seminal moments occurred to help shape the process: in 1962 when Irving Blum (who had taken over Kienholtz's position at the gallery) gave Andy Warhol his first solo gallery exhibition ever at Ferus (the Campbell's Soup Can Paintings); in 1963, when Hopps moved to the Pasadena Art Museum and presented the first retrospective of Marcel Duchamp in the US; in 1966 with Ed Kienholtz's epochal retrospective at the LA County Museum; and in the decade from the late fifties to the late sixties when Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, and Ed Ruscha among a handful of others were on center stage.

Various Small Fires presents LIFE: On The Moon, a group exhibition tracing the immediate influence and lasting significance of the epochal July 20, 1969 moon landing on the early development of Land Art, represented by Robert Smithson and Michelle Stuart, in dialogue with recent works by Christopher Badger, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, and Tavares Strachan... read moOn The Moon, a group exhibition tracing the immediate influence and lasting significance of the epochal July 20, 1969 moon landing on the early development of Land Art, represented by Robert Smithson and Michelle Stuart, in dialogue with recent works by Christopher Badger, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, and Tavares Strachan... read moon the early development of Land Art, represented by Robert Smithson and Michelle Stuart, in dialogue with recent works by Christopher Badger, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, and Tavares Strachan... read more

This exhibition includes two new groups of paintings: a selection of self - portraits and a series depicting the Million Man March on Washington, D.C. Displayed as counterpoints in two separate galleries, the self - portraits offer discrete views of the artist as a private individual with a public persona, while the Million Man March artworks — large, unstretched canvases screenprinted with mass - media images — portray arrays of anonymous individuals brought together at an epochal moment for the African American community.

Curated by the Museum of Modern Art's Jodi Hauptman and Samantha Friedman and the High Museum's Michael Rooks, Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 >> 2013 uses the collections of the Museum of Modern Art to examine six specific years in the history of artmaking: 1913 (the year of the epochal Armory Show), 1929, 1950, 1961, 1988, and 2013 (a.k.a. the near future, though it will have become the present by the time Fast Forward closes on January 20).

Here's what you need to know about On Kawara's One Million Years, a transporting artwork of epochal dimensions.

Kellie Jones is an art historian who grew up in the»60s and the»70s in New York with epochal parents — the writers LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Jones — and whose work as a curator and scholar has focused in part on hidden histories of African - American art.

An epochal struggle for dominance on the Venetian scene was thus taking shape when, in the autumn of 1510, Giorgione suddenly died — of the plague, Vasari says, contracted from his mistress.

There is a clear epochal shift from the perspective of planning urban development and the integrated model of creative city and how it impacts on the lives and working conditions of city dwellers.

While Oiticica's move to that city came close on the heels of his successful participation in the epochal Information exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, he failed to surface in any other significant exhibition in the United States over the next several years.

That pitch - perfect exhibition will forever radiate an incomparable aura of epochal inevitability, so Takashi Murakami may have been wise to bill his foray at the palace as a meditation on a transhistorical dreamworld.

The exhibition is kicked off in high style with a choice 1907 Picasso study for his epochal «Demoiselles D'Avignon»; Matisse's 1916 study for the «Portrait of Sarah Stein,» the finished painting of which is also in the collection; Amedeo Modigliani's 1913 «Blue Caryatid,» a figure study characteristic of the artist's archaicizing tendencies; a 1978 drawing of adolescent eroticism by Balthus; and a 1925 nude by Matisse of a mature woman luxuriantly spread out on a chaise for his personal delectation.

If 2016 endures in American history as a year of epochal disaster, then it will be fair to ask, in the grim years to come: how on earth could artists have joked around so much while the darkness gathered?

And you recently had an article on your own blog where you spoke of some recent developments in fusion power research by Dr. Robert Bussard as «the truly epochal moment of the 21st century; a liminal moment.»

In the latter two thirds of that time, warming and the effects on climate have been epochal, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.