Sentences with phrase «philosophical investigations into»

But Pixley believes that «Whitehead's own philosophical investigations into culture and civilization, if not counterrevolutionary, are open to appropriation for counterrevolutionary purposes» (PS 4:174), while Williamson disagrees.

Strontium reflects Richter's interest in the dialectic of opposites and his longstanding artistic and philosophical investigation into the relation between the window and the mirror of representation.

The Chapmans» oeuvre represents a prolonged philosophical investigation into the turmoil and violence of contemporary existence, placing them in a tradition of protest and pessimism in the visual arts alongside artists such as Goya, Bruegel and Otto Dix (both Bruegel and Dix painted works titled The Triumph of Death).

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In so doing, the philosophical continuity of the artist's disparate visual strategies will be framed, strategies the artist has repeated and contradicted, as his investigation into the painted form has changed direction or reversed course over the past five decades.

Perhaps this search began in the mid-1980s, with Johns's cycle The Seasons (1985 — 86), in which picturing this venture of thought required a detour through picturing something like a self — hard to commit to it being Johns's self — through references to some of the artist's earlier image strategies (flags, devices) as well as icons of philosophical thinking such as the Platonic forms, Joseph Jastrow's duck - rabbit diagram (the latter made famous by Ludwig Wittgenstein's inquiry into «seeing as» in the Philosophical Investigations, 1953) and Pliny's origin story of the birth of painting as the tracing of a loved - one's silhouetphilosophical thinking such as the Platonic forms, Joseph Jastrow's duck - rabbit diagram (the latter made famous by Ludwig Wittgenstein's inquiry into «seeing as» in the Philosophical Investigations, 1953) and Pliny's origin story of the birth of painting as the tracing of a loved - one's silhouetPhilosophical Investigations, 1953) and Pliny's origin story of the birth of painting as the tracing of a loved - one's silhouette in shadow.

, a solo exhibition of new works by Alexis Dahan, continues Dahan's investigation into the experience of the city streets as a source for visual experimentations, a location for public art interventions and a place to disseminate philosophical content.