Sentences with phrase «only aesthetic value»

Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8

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Not only did he maintain his aesthetic approach to value, but he even identified it specifically as beauty (NPR 58).

There is a temptation for members of a cultural elite to see their values as the only respectable virtues, a tendency that blinds the group to both cultural innovation and aesthetic dissent, especially from people deemed marginal to established intellectual society.

To say that aesthetic value can be comprehended rationally leaves out about as much as to say that Auschwitz can be comprehended as the misuse of freedom — in neither instance is the account incorrect; in both instances, when the account is the only account, the picture is distorted, and so are the actions which it might engender.

As his mind turned increasingly to philosophy, the physicist in him sought to understand the whole of reality and not only man, whilst the aesthete in him interpreted all reality by extrapolation from human experience, thus finding aesthetic value in all actuality.

The great, incontestable, and immediately evident value of a noble expression, of a beautiful form, dare not be underestimated — and we are referring here not only or even primarily to its aesthetic value but above all to its religious value.

For him, it is not the systematic world of the speculative philosopher that is of greatest value, but the natural, chaotic process which lies hidden behind the falsifying face of reason, a process whose true nature can only be known on a purely aesthetic level through experience in its immediacy («Beyond Good and Evil,» BWN Section 213; «Will to Power,» Section 794).

In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116).

Our primary perception, which lies beyond our conscious or willful control, organically relates us to the totality, a totality that exists only inasmuch as it is patterned, a totality whose reality is, therefore, its aesthetic value.

The created artifact needs only meet these criteria but does not need to have any aesthetic value.

This is a seldom and rare piece not only for its aesthetic value but for its importance in the sunglasses and fashion history.

This is a seldom and rare piece not only for its aesthetic value but for its importance in the sunglasses and fashi...

The Abarth prefix not only adds to the aesthetic value but also changes the character of the car altogether.

Although I never picked up the original game (the demo's cover system felt far too broken) the aesthetic values of the sequel really appealed to me, so I ignored the somewhat negative reviews and picked up the Limited Edition for less than half the RRP (rather worryingly) only two weeks after its UK release.

More and more investors are adding to their collections not only for the aesthetic value these works bring to their collections, but also as a hedge against inflation, economic uncertainty and market volatility.

The cut - outs were selected not only according to their aesthetic value, but also due to their economical, social and political content.

Not only are Francis's paintings valued historically for their aesthetic vision, but his inquisitive mind and spirit have solidified Francis's legacy as a contemporary renaissance man.

A text that is almost entirely, rather than only momentarily, diagnostic in orientation is Barbara Rose's excellent, and unfortunately little remembered, «The Value of Didactic Art» of 1967, which ambitiously lays out the terms of a particular shift where works of art — those inheritors of the precedent of Duchamp's unassisted readymade — began to derive their value and significance from visually presenting a particular argument, rather than by engaging the viewer in primarily aesthetic terms, which this didactic art rendered at best marginal or incideValue of Didactic Art» of 1967, which ambitiously lays out the terms of a particular shift where works of art — those inheritors of the precedent of Duchamp's unassisted readymade — began to derive their value and significance from visually presenting a particular argument, rather than by engaging the viewer in primarily aesthetic terms, which this didactic art rendered at best marginal or incidevalue and significance from visually presenting a particular argument, rather than by engaging the viewer in primarily aesthetic terms, which this didactic art rendered at best marginal or incidental.

Action painting is distinguished from the carefully preconceived work of the «abstract imagists» and «colour - field» painters, which constitutes the other major direction implicit in Abstract Expressionism and resembles Action painting only in its absolute devotion to unfettered personal expression free of all traditional aesthetic and social values.

It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on «absolute» or «autonomous» art: thus on visual art — including even architecture — that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.

A smooth driveway not only has aesthetic appeal, but could also increase your home's curb appeal and value should you choose to sell.