Sentences with phrase «polemical forms»

While some artists eschewed the language of abstraction for more popular or polemical forms, Whitten's engagement with the surfaces of his compositions grew more nuanced.

Under the pressures of the religious struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the fractured church turned to the arts a embellishers of the words that had severed the Word into sectarian and polemical forms.

Therefore, I felt obliged to ponder these criticisms with particular care, even if their polemical form made that more difficult than necessary.

Not exact matches

A third method might be described as polemical or partisan» according to the new epistemology, this is indeed the only form of scholarship, though it may be disguised in various ways.

In the last analysis they form a unity in tension Hence we shall use them as a guide for our own consideration of the problem, not for any polemical reasons, but because they lay down the best lines for its treatment.

This exhibition, along with a polemical article, «Anti Form,» in Artforum, focused attention on the emergence of a new way of making art:

The «prohibition against asking questions», currently being practiced by proponents of «consensus» Climate Science, is a polemical device of modern gnostics — i.e. of those who preach Salvation through the acquisition of Hidden Knowledge, in the form of Systems constructed by the Enlightened Elite — as part of intellectual swindles in a variety of venues, all focused on obtaining political power.