Sentences with phrase «physical traces of»

James Capper is known for his man - operated machines, which leave physical traces of their performances.

Built up into a thick impasto of rich colors, Pollock's brushwork is typical of Abstract Expressionist gestural painting, in which visible brushstrokes are seen as physical traces of the creative act.

In her series Blackboards, Meggan Gould documents physical traces of the creative process in various locations, from the fine art studio to the science lab to the corporate boardroom.

The semblances put forward by the figures and letters draw a closer correlation, as «Unsettled Alphabets» embraces the blurred, vanishing physical traces of Vogt's images.

This particularly holds true for Schulz, as he hopes his series will highlight how these physical traces of borders are impossible to forget.

However, the physical traces of the past can still be seen in work such as Jedrzej Franek's dizzying shots of Polish tower blocks and Michal Korta's striking black and white images of Brutalist buildings in Skopje, Macedonia.

In this exhibition, Sohrens explores the physical traces of the archive as well as broader questions about originality and authorship.

Many of the physical traces of Parkinson's had disappeared.

Today, Edgerton carries only a small physical trace of this childhood bout, in his slightly underdeveloped left arm.

Santiago Muñoz's recent work has been concerned with the material and physical trace of abstract political ideas, particularly post-military spaces, and the relationship between new landscapes and social forms.

By ALISE UPITIS In 1977, Richard Serra proposed that all drawing is the physical trace of doing, famously stating that «drawing is a verb.»

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I argue that the availability of the Greek language as a whole during acts of speaking or writing it would have to involve a high degree of conceptual entertainment; otherwise, speech would be an impossible foraging operation among physical memory traces.

The Christian indeed has always recognised the immediate primacy of secondary causes in the bringing about of natural phenomena, but as serial causes have been traced further back, and their astonishing inter-dependence demonstrated, the scientist has tended to proclaim either a mathematical universe in which theses secondary causes may be identified with some primary basic formula, or equation, synonymous in definition with a physical ultimate, a universe inwhich God has no place; or else he has preferred to identify intellect with matter itself and has come to accept that idealistic cosmic pantheism which is almost as common a philosophy today as evolutionary materialism.

«When the physical model of wave - motion in a material medium had to be abandoned in physics», writes Mary Hesse, «it left its traces in the kind of mathematics which was used, for this was still a mathematical language derived from the wave equations of fluid motion, and so, for the mathematician, it carried some of the imaginative associations of the original physical picture.»

Ford, in tracing the changes in the development of Whitehead's system, suggests that»... with the development of intellectual feelings, Whitehead could well have discovered that his conception of God as a synthesis of purely conceptual feeling was deficient... -LRB-(because)-RRB- without intellectual feelings, God could not be conscious, and these required a basis in physical feeling.

This implies another principle: «the causal closure of the physical domain,» which is «the assumption that if we trace the causal ancestry of a physical event, we need never go outside the physical domain» (SM 280).

For example, having said that «the causal closure of the physical domain» means that «if we trace the causal ancestry of a physical event, we need never go outside the physical domain,» Kim adds:

Perhaps nothing is more impressive, when read at length in the context of some definite medical case, than the intimate relation discovered between the psychological and the physical in man himself, and the detailed tracing of the organisation and operations of every organ of the body to the brain as their centre and control tower for stimuli both incoming and outgoing.

It may never be possible to say whether someone had a soul or not simply from their physical remains and the circumstantial traces of their lives many millennia later.

It is a definition that expands our understanding past the mere physical or biological of the human being, and traces its roots into the very being of the human species and individual.

It is the unique characteristic of mankind that although we live in the physical universe - indeed we can trace our material origins back through the evolution of life and the physical development of matter, all the way back to the Big Bang itself - we yearn for something more than matter, something greater.

If we suspect there is an execution behind this story, we can see many telltale signs: typical marks of the victim (he has a physical deformity, he is a foreigner), indications of social conflict (fire sweeping the city), traces of the accusations (incest, profaning holy things), the unanimity of the mob violence (stoning and burying the «seed»), and the positive benefits of the death.

Sadly, for this group of homeless people, problems of anti-social behaviour could be traced back through a lifetime of exclusion, characterised by traumatic childhood experiences, including parental addiction, bereavement, going into local authority care, neglect and physical and sexual abuse.

How do the demons of this invisible disease persist when no physical trace can be found?

The crime scene had shown a horrific act but carried no physical traces at all of the defendants.

As a prospective forensic - archaeology scholar, Sturdy Colls was learning the science of uncovering remains and trace physical evidence to outline the true facts of a crime.

We leave traces of bacteria on everything we touch — SkyMall catalogs, elevator buttons, the office coffee pot — but physical contact isn't the only way to make a microbial mark.

Before long Alvarez was writing The Mountains of Saint Francis, a book that traces Italy's physical and cultural past going back 250 million years.

By comparing relatively close clusters with those more distant, the physical evolution of these gargantuan structures can be traced over time.

Botstein and Davis» landmark conceptual breakthrough, published in 1980, gave researchers the tools to trace and map out the genetic inheritance of disease in humans, while Hogness» work provided the means of identifying the precise physical location of genes of interest on chromosomes.

The main objectives of the mission include obtaining new data on solar activity to help to better forecast space - weather events like solar flares which can directly impact Earth and orbiting satellites, trace the flow of energy from the Sun, better understand how the Sun's outer atmosphere is heated, and explore the physical mechanisms which accelerate the solar wind.

The fact that the risk elevation was apparent directly after cancer diagnosis, and decreased in magnitude over time, supports the conclusion that the risk increase may be traced to the diagnosis itself rather than the emotional or physical suffering related to progression of the cancer or to its treatment.

Pieralisi G, Ripari P, Vecchiet L. Effects of a standardized ginseng extract combined with dimethylaminoethanol bitartrate, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements on physical performance during exercise.

Jim Carrey plays it all with usual physical flair, but not everything without a trace of subtlety works as well.

It is bad enough that the police get involved in what is a natural death, subjecting Marina to both questioning and humiliating physical examination, but his family quickly erases all traces of her from the apartment she shared with Orlando, refuses to recognize her loss, and even denies her the small comfort of letting her keep Orlando's dog.

Benedict Cumberbatch played him in the 2004 made - for - TV film «Hawking»; 11 years later, Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar for his portrayal in «The Theory of Everything,» which traced Hawking's physical decline, tenacious intellect, infectious sense of invention and the technological marvel of his computer - generated voice.

Okay, enough heart - string tugging — Scientific American is ready to get physical with this video that traces the flow of chemicals through your brain in the different stages of romance.

In metrology, measuring sticks must be traceably calibrated against standard tools of measurement, which must further be traced to primary standards based on physical constants, such as units of wavelength of light that have low measures of uncertainty.

«Through three video installations — Grand Paris Texas, Movie Mountain (Méliès), and the premiere of their most recent film, Giant — Hubbard / Birchler frame the traces that filmmaking leaves behind in physical places as well as in people's psyches,» writes A+C contributor Nancy Zastudil.

As our relationship to history and the present change in an expanding field of information, Everything is Index, Nothing is History presents works that point to physical realities and trace purported histories through archives, found objects, photographs, material states, and physical actions.»

The plaster casts not only stare but actually redouble absence, by serving as the physical trace or mask of no face at all.

Unlike most printed photographs, Birchfield's are unique, as each sheet of paper retains traces of physical acts performed in the darkroom.

The bodily gesture in a performance carries with it a historical trace and movement knowledge, the linear gestures of drawing leave physical marks on a surface, and writing can be thought of as a form of drawing with language.

Lucy Raven is similarly involved with concepts of exchange and globalization in her physical and photographic tracing of copper wire manufacture routes from the mines of Nevada all the way to smelters in China in a work whose final presentation is formed from a sped - up animation of 7,000 still photographs that investigate what it is to be «wired.»

Rather than tracing the lines and shapes directly onto the canvas itself, he turns them into physical components of the artwork.

In Sticky Pictures, Werner makes visible the source material of her paintings — not only the subject in the photograph, but also the photograph itself; the material quality of the printed image, its traces of weathering, handling and use, its physical presence as an object lying on the corner of a table or hanging loosely on a wall, in a space that might be a studio.

Evocative of both Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass and later Minimalist sculptures, Beshty's glass boxes acquire additional cracks each time they are exhibited, thereby providing a visual trace of their physical movements, and, more broadly, of the trafficking of contemporary art objects.

In a series of works started in 2012 Thomas Ruff essentially takes an idea that was first introduced my artists like Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy - Nagy who simply placed objects of various shapes, textures and opacities onto photographic paper and captured their physical qualities through the optical traces they left on the light sensitive surface of the paper.

Making a point about a Prokofiev sonata playing on the radio, Bluhm began painting on a sheet of paper in his distinctive style of overloaded brushstrokes exploding across the surface and releasing rivulets of excess paint, the leftover traces of physical and emotional exertion.

Along with well - selected illustrations of works in different media, the catalogue traces Sillman's early exploration of cartoon imagery and the associative use of colors, her struggle for the unity of the physical legitimacy of the objects and the human body, her equally shared interest in figuration and abstraction, her attempts to reduce images that evoke the ambiguity of singular gestures in flux that are emphatically stable, and her «zines» and recent forays into drawings made with an iPhone.