Sentences with phrase «poetic tradition of»

She once said, «Punk rock is just another word for freedom,» but her best work, including «Mercy Is,» her lullaby for director Darren Aronofsky's Noah, is immersed in the poetic tradition of Blake and Rimbaud as well as the language of the Bible.

Not exact matches

It is highly poetic, and most religious traditions and religious rites were written using the King James Version of the Bible.

Now there are a number of important footnotes to Aristotle, but I simply wish to draw attention to the point of culmination of the tradition, that period bridging the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that saw the production of the grand synthesis of the Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, as well as its poetic embodiment in The Divine Comedy of Dante.

Certain aspects of that tradition remain vibrantly meaningful as psychological, ethical, social and historical insight, expressed often in irreplaceably poetic and mythical form.

But after years of work on the poetic, metaphorical nature of religious language (and hence its relative, constructive and necessarily changing character), and in view of feminism's critique of the hierarchical, dualistic nature of the language of the Jewish and Christian traditions, my bonds to biblicism and the Barthian God loosened.

On this wave of inspiration, Cædmon began to Christianize the Old English poetic tradition in keeping with the Icelandic view of poetry as the capacity to peer into the runes and find the meaning of the world.

Through Blake we can sense the theological significance of a poetic reversal of our mythical traditions, and become open to the possibility that the uniquely modern metamorphosis of the sacred into the profane is the culmination of a redemptive and kenotic movement of the Godhead.

Giving them a space to voice their own articulation of the faith is one of the greatest ways to explore the rich poetic heritage of the Christian tradition.

Kiarostami shoots Africa with an uncanny verisimilitude, coming close here to his idea of a «poetic cinema» indebted more to poetry and music than the theatrical novelistic storytelling tradition.

It is to Lynne Ramsay's credit that it is difficult, if not impossible, to slot her debut feature into any existing British genre or tradition, though there are echoes here of Ken Loach's early poetic social realism, of Bill Douglas's stark, painterly style, and of Robert Bresson's «pure» cinema, stripped down and sensual.

This is a film steeped in the nouvelle vague tradition, with poppy bits of poetic - seeming dialogue and pretty pictures of beautiful, pining people, shot on multiple soon - to - be-extinct film formats (8 mm, 16 mm, and 35 mm).

It is at once delicate and frank in a way that partakes as much of poetic as of cinema traditions.

In the bestselling tradition of novelists such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Marlon James, this urgent, poetic, and essential work announces the arrival of a fresh and talented voice in international fiction.

They all present a poetic re-working of Greek popular tradition, which develops around three themes: KARAGIOZIS, POSTCARDS of old Athens, the EVIL EYE, a bead charm used to guard against ill omen and bad luck.

As a result, the full - flung poetic beauty of these recent paintings shows that the artist is continuing to advance upon her achievements, deftly alluding to both Western and Chinese sources without succumbing to either tradition.

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.

A recurring principle of formal repetition speaks to her works» time based genesis, with the result that the perusal of their surfaces seems an act of reconstitution, or recovery of their poetic content from a state of preservation or repose not unlike how the reading of verses from the Qu «ran recalls their origins in a long tradition of oral recitation.

One - man shows include National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria, 1991, October Gallery, London, 1995, 1998, 2002, Contemporary African Gallery, New York City, 2005, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 2006, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, 2008, exhibited in group shows at Contemporary African Artists: A Changing Tradition, Studio Museum Harlem, New York City, 1990, Venice Biennale, 1990, 2007, Johannesburg Biennale, 1995, The Poetics of Line, National Museum African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 1997, Encounters with the Contemporary, 2001, Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Japan, 1999, Altered, Stitched and Gathered, Process Status 1 Contemporary Art Center, 2007, Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and Diaspora, Nelson - Atkins Museum Art, Kansas City, 2008.

Parallel to this great modernist tradition there is also an explicitly Brazilian conceptual art that was less dogmatic and structuralist than its counterparts in Europe and North America, but more open, more poetic and more politically engaged, as we can see in the works of Cildo Meireles.

In parallel with this great modernist tradition is also an explicit Brazilian conceptual art that was less dogmatic and structuralist than their counterparts in Europe and North America, but more open, more poetic, more politically engaged, as we can see in the works of Cildo Meireles and Vik Muniz.

In her use of contemporary technology, Aycock is advancing sculpture, taking up where artists like John Chamberlain left off, by utilizing the new processes of industry towards a poetic end, thus expanding the artistic tradition of turning technology back on itself.

Throughout his career, James Bishop has engaged with European and American traditions of postwar abstraction while developing a subtle, poetic, and highly unique visual language of his own.

Overton (b. 1971) works from the tradition of post-Minimalism, creating powerful, poetic situations from simple constructions and materials.

The Shaped Canvas, Revisited / Luxembourg & Dayan / 64 E 77 / thru 7/3 Diane Arbus; Cady Noland / Gagosian / 976 Madison @ 77th (new location) / thru 5/23 (extended) Richard Prince; Alexander Calder / Ed Rusha / Gagosian / 980 Madison @ 77th / thru 6/14 Barbara Crane / Higher Pictures / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 6/21 Poetics of the Gesture: Schiele; TTwombly; Basquiat / Nahmad / 980 Madison — floor 3 / thru 6/14 Journal / Venus Over Manhattan / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/26 Opening 5/28 Lynn Chadwick / Blain - DiDonna / 981 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/25 Opening 5/29 Sigmar Polke / Werner / 4 E 77 / thru 6/7 Hugo McCloud / Roitfeld / 5a E 78 / thru 6/7 Andrew Kuo / Half / 43 East 78 / thru 6/2 Casting Modernity / Mnuchin / 45 E 78 / thru 6/7 Jean - Michel Basquiat / Acquavella / 18 E 79 / thru 6/13 Lucien Smith / Skarstedt / 20 E 79 / thru 6/27 Dean Levin / Blumenthal / 1045 Madison @ 80 / thru 5/30 Lucas Samaras thru 6/1; Dan Graham with Gunther Vogt thru 11/2; Goya thru 8/3; Etc. / Met Museum / 5th Avenue @ 82nd Italian Futurism thru 9/1, Etc. / Guggenheim / 1071 Fifth Avenue @ 89 The Annual: Redifining Tradition / National Academy / 1083 Fifth Avenue @ 89 / thru 9/14 Opening 6/11 Sophie Calle / Cooper + Perrotin @ The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest / 2 E 90 / thru 6/25 Mel Bochner thru 9/21; Other Primary Structures thru 8/3; Etc. / Jewish Museum / 1109 5th Avenue @ 92 Museum Starter Kit: Open with Care, Etc. / El Museo del Barrio / 1230 Fifth @ 104 / thru 9/6 Glenn Kaino; When the Stars Begin to Fall; Carrie Mae Weems; Etc. / Studio Museum / 144 W 125 / thru 6/29

These dreamlike sculptures evoke poetic surrealist juxtapositions, exploring the artist's half - remembered childhood tales, as well as the constructed and fictitious memories of childhood, folklore, and tradition.

The exhibition presented a diverse landscape of masterpieces from the museum's collection that incorporate poetic inscriptions in their composition or have direct relationships to America's rich poetic traditions.

He is author of consent not to be a single being, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Hughson's Tavern, B. Jenkins, The Feel Trio, The Little Edges, The Service Porch and co-author, with Stefano Harney, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study and A Poetics of the Undercommons, and, with Wu Tsang, of Who touched me?

Poetic and ruminative without being bound to tradition, funny and knowing without being defined by the rhetoric of postmodernism, the works are stylish and relevant without being subject to the whims of art world fashion.

Finlay's poetic work with its focus on the language and beauty of the letter is particularly relevant to our region, where the tradition of calligraphy and the rich history of the written word are integral to Middle Eastern artistic canons.

Seeking to revivify and extend the conventions of ink and wash painting, Hao spent many years studying Chinese classical paintings, acquiring vast knowledge of historical works, as well as the many motifs and poetic traditions related to them.

It allowed me to reconsider certain positions regarding my own work and reconnect with a type of tradition I view as poetic in the making of images.

Considered metaphorically, the feathers evoke notions of fragility, the tradition of letter writing, or the freedom of travel, for example, but del Rivero neutralizes the poetic tenor by means of formal simplification.

For this project the artists are working at the intersection of poetics and politics, drawing on the multiplicity of African diasporic traditions, while anchoring music and language at the root of their collaboration.

In this project, the artists are exploring the intersection of poetics and politics and drawing on African diasporic traditions with an emphasis on music and language.

Titled after the 1960s literary journal founded by Scottish artist - poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, «P.O.T.H.» looks back at this tradition through a contemporary lens to assemble a diverse array of poetic, typographic, and textual works, from wall painting to sculpture, by nearly twenty artists and writers, including Carl Andre, Ferdinand Kriwet, and Frances Stark.

The exhibition presents a diverse landscape of masterpieces from the museum's collection that incorporate poetic inscriptions in their composition or have direct relationships to America's rich poetic traditions.

Known for his site - specific installations created from light and text, London - based artist Robert Montgomery follows a tradition of conceptual art often described as post-Situationist standing out by bringing a poetic and melancholic voice to the discourse of text art, primarily in public spaces.

Throughout his career, Bishop has engaged European and American traditions of post-War abstraction while developing a subtle, poetic, and highly unique visual language of his own.

And though it follows the age - old tradition of using rugs as a means of communication and mediums for cultural record, there are various other metaphors that can be inferred by NEL's poetic creation: Carbon footprints being the cause of Global Warming, our comfort directly correlating with the discomfort of other species, [insert your inference here].

Recently exhibited at Beijing Design Week, Hanna's curious device intersects the city's love for bicycles, along with DIY technology and a long - held tradition of transforming any public space into poetic places, using the ephemerality of water.