Sentences with phrase «polemical works»

In the case of less polemical works, it is even clearer that the political gestalt of the exhibition is polite.

Resentment and anger, always lying only half dormant, ready to be roused in many people, found a perfect symbol and stimulant in the anger and furious resentment which Luther expressed in his polemical works.

At the same time, throughout August, Luther was composing a formal and personal letter to the young Emperor and a public Offer and Protest — these were personal matters and both texts he discussed in detail with Spalatin in sharp distinction from his polemical works about which he seldom consulted anyone once he had settled the truth of the matter in his own mind, and the text began to flow like molten metal.

It will include many famous Pre-Raphaelite works, and will also re-introduce some rarely seen masterpieces including Ford Madox Brown's polemical Work 1852 — 65 and the 1858 wardrobe designed by Philip Webb and painted by Edward Burne - Jones on the theme of The Prioress's Tale.

MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN ART: THE WORLD OF BOB & ROBERTA SMITH (John Rogers, 2012, World Premiere) Bob & Roberta Smith, in reality one person called Patrick Brill, is an artist renowned for his humorous, polemical work.

He applies a refreshing directness to the evidence, allowing the scandals he relates to do the polemical work for him... elegant and convincing».

Not exact matches

A central work in the canon of popular atheism, it was a masterclass in polemical writing, cementing his self - description as an «anti-theist».

This work helped Protestant and Catholic scholars break out of tired, polemical post-Reformation patterns of interpretation (which were greatly reinforced by earlier, supposedly «scientific» Protestant historical critics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries).

Though the Puritans believed in the primacy of Scripture, they were not narrow biblicists and drew widely on early Christian writings in polemical, homiletical, and exegetical works.

This polemical analysis was in Latin because Dante knew that to beat those who exalted Latin, and scorned all who wrote in the «vulgar» Italian, he had to join them — at least when composing a work on such a subject.

Lindsell's book is a work of apologetics, a polemical discussion backing up his claim that to be an evangelical demands a commitment to the notion of inerrancy.

The shortcoming of this brief book, perhaps inherent in the author's polemical task, is that it is negative, and to see how well Kimball conveys his own appreciations of great art a reader must look to his other works (his rich essays on Eakins and Delacroix, for instance, in his collection titled Art's Prospect).

New additions to our Great Directors database include Christian Long on Albert Brooks and Steve Rybin on Alan Rudolph, and we also have reviews of recent books on filmmakers as diverse as Jim Jarmusch, Straub / Huillet and Jess Franco, as well as new work on contemporary Eastern European cinema and André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion's recent polemical title

New additions to our Great Directors database include Christian Long on Albert Brooks and Steve Rybin on Alan Rudolph, and we also have reviews of recent books on filmmakers as diverse as Jim Jarmusch, Straub / Huillet and Jess Franco, as well as new work on contemporary Eastern European cinema and André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion's recent polemical title The End of Cinema?.

Reviewing a few selected, representative pieces, I will trace the evolution of their thinking since the 1980s, although there is relatively little observable change, given not only the constant polemical tone that has remained at the core of their work but also the similar language that appears throughout the corpus of that work; they unabashedly acknowledge their frequent borrowing, almost verbatim, from previously published essays.

It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction.In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality.

The collective Occupy Museums has one of the show's rare polemical projects: a destroyed wall whose cavity contains works by artists in sometimes crippling debt.

The above communication from Ad Reinhardt to Thomas Hess encapsulates some of the cross-currents that characterized the working relationship between a leading New York School artist who was also a prolific, polemical writer, and satirical cartoonist for ARTnews, and ARTnews's influential executive editor who was also a critic supportive of Reinhardt's art along with that of the other New York School artists.

The title did, however, summarize the exhibition's polemical intent, glossed in the press release with the declaration «The selection of works in this show will serve to lay to rest one of

Such concise allegations elicit public discussion, directly engaging viewers in a larger discourse on society that often broaches polemical issues.The medium of modern computer systems became an important component in Holzer's work in 1982 when nine of her Truisms flashed at forty - second intervals on the giant spectacolor electronic signboard in Times Square.

Working in drawing, painting, animation, installation, film and video, and employing ideas that are often subversive and polemical in nature, Sikander creates vivid works that confront and interrogate the perceptual distances between cultures while deconstructing the genre of miniature painting itself.

These simple works re-postulate the restlessness set forth by the long - standing theoretical debates between the polemical conditions of representation and non-representation, relative and non-relative, material and immaterial, the measurable and the immeasurable.

With the largest, and most diverse, collection of Futurist works ever displayed outside of Italy, it is impossible to tie Futurism into a neat polemical bow.

The title they settled on in the end, Uptown, feels less loaded and polemical, definitely safer, but in a way, it works.

There are many artists, art groups, and collectives that are grappling with art history in diverse and interesting ways, but these kind of extreme statements reveal BHQF's strengths — polemical statements that make you want to believe them — and weaknesses — insularity that makes you wonder if they are looking at the work of other artists enough.

But rather than remaining polemical, Delvoye's work suggests an elaboration of meanings, where contradictory notions can coexist in a kind of exquisite harmony, or in what he has termed «emulsions.»

He participates in a dynamic, polemical, historically self - conscious resuscitation of representational painting currently occurring throughout the United States, and nowhere more than in southern California, where Williams currently lives and works.

But it is well done and visually polemical, a result of hard work, clear thought, a bit of courage and the trust and encouragement of Lisa Phillips, the museum's second and current director.

I remember bring impressed at how open he was to the work, not polemical or defensive.

Unique in its formal diversity, frequently polemical subjects, and conceptual rigor, Uklański's body of work has emerged since the mid-1990s as one of the most intriguing and original art practices of his generation.

What is left open by Joselit's brief and polemical text is how we might best use this diagnosis of the present possibilities and limitations for artistic production to analyze works of art themselves for, if After Art has a limitation of its own, it is in putting these provocative but abstract ideas in the service of contemporary art, rather than simply having the former represented or narrativized by the latter.

In the later»80s, after traveling extensively in Africa, India, and Asia, she embraced ethnic materials and techniques, opening her work up to still marginalized worlds of craft and handiwork, and prompting tangled flows of mythology, autobiography, and polemical contents.

Since his first solo exhibition at the Venezuelan - American Institute in Caracas in 1947, he has participated in dozens of exhibitions, including MoMA's polemical 1965 show of then - new Op work, The Responsive Eye.

Presented in two sections, curator Matthew Higgs highlights Childish's recent body of work and places it alongside his music, literary and polemical projects.