Sentences with phrase «political meanings of works»

But Bradford is right, I think, to be modest about the political meanings of works such as these.

Not exact matches

That means we could see more money for entrepreneurs working in the political world, and a whole new set of customer problems that savvy entrepreneurs might race to remedy.

Being the center of political activity in the U.S. means that this city is shaped by people from all over the country who move here to work as congressional aides, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters, elected officials, bureaucrats, organizers, etc..

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

For still others, it will mean working in the educational, legal, and political realms to reverse the judicial decisions and legislative and executive acts that have ushered in the «culture of death.»

Consequently, many of us spent the next decade working through an answer to the question of the meaning of religious language in terms of ordinary experience, in terms of a «revision» or «re-presentation» of the Christian tradition «intelligible to modern minds,» and worked on formulating an appropriate and strong political theology.

No creed or confession has been written without political influences at work, but Pelikan maintains that the meaning or importance of any significant creed can not be reduced purely to its political implications.

It is a particular imperative of the Christian conscience to have enough concern for persons to work for the correction of injustices by both personal and political means whenever these are perpetrated by any group upon another.

Provisions can be worked out to reconcile the past memories and amend past mistakes through religious values (repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation), socio - economic means (such as providing assistance to development, promoting fair aid and trade, restitution, and reparation), and by political goals (of consensus building and solidarity).

But because I believe that the entire Church, including the hierarchy, benefits from honest challenge and critique, I have not avoided what might be deemed «controversial» when I thought it important: during political campaigns, when grave moral issues were at stake; during the Long Lent of 2002; in the aftermath of 9/11 and the run - up to the Iraq War; in response to challenges to religious freedom in America that couldn't have been imagined in 1978, when «work for religious freedom» meant «work for prisoners of conscience behind the iron curtain.»

Just as, in general, good works are distinct from faith and not to be identified with it, and yet are also demanded by faith and not to be separated from it, so justice in its political meaning as right structures of society and culture is both distinct from faith and demanded by it, and hence neither identifiable with faith nor separable from it.

Just as MyBarackObama.com let the future President's supporters go to work on his behalf well before paid campaign staff arrived in their communities, the availability of distributed and effective online political tools gives ANYONE with an audience the means and opportunity to spark collective action.

I worry that unless the concerns of ordinary, working people are properly addressed within the political arena by a party that fully supports their aims and aspirations, the real issues of poverty, division and disconnect will mean the people of the United Kingdom suffer and the growing culture of greed and apathy will lead to politics becoming more distant and more irrelevant

Democrats are by no means the only ones who can contribute to that end but it would greatly benefit working families to have a DNC leadership committed to progressive political change; social, climate and economic justice; and the expansion of our democracy.»

The works of classical realists like Morgenthau sidelined much of the ideological component of political regimes, depicting inter-state affairs as obliging to a higher morality of state interests and survivability, which essentially meant minimizing risks and maximizing benefits.

Saraki in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu on Sunday in Abuja said that security agencies, political and religious leaders must work for the promotion of dialogue as means for tackling agitations, to ensure peace in the country.

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

Historically, of course, this meant that it held its ideological commitments lightly, recognising that doctrine and dogma — secular or religious — could blunt its effectiveness as a political movement dedicated to an improvement in the material conditions of working people.

If the proposal to mandate season shutdowns starting next year were truly meant to cripple Indian Point, it would represent the boldest assertion of political muscle by Cuomo in the service of that goal at least since his first year as governor, when his aides reportedly informed Entergy that the administration intended to work toward the plant's closure.

According to YYC, «It has come to our notice that a group known as Yoruba Progressive People's Congress, an arm of a political party (name withheld) led by one Pelumi Amodu is by no means a representative of Yoruba Youth Council or working for YYC.

While his father was focused on work, Cuomo said his dad enjoyed political conventions as a means of communicating a platform.

And he signaled his awareness of the potential political fight he might face when he tries to open new shelters across the city, promising that while he would work harder to communicate with local communities about plans to open shelters, that «doesn't mean there's going to be peace and love all the time.»

Former 1199 SEIU political coordinator Dell Smitherman, who lost a Democratic primary to indicted Brooklyn State Senator John Sampson last month, told the Observer that he plans to campaign for the seat again if the incumbent is convicted on any of the array of corruption charges he currently faces — even if it means running on the Working Families Party line.

Even the brain scan of a person looking at a single disgusting image was enough to predict their political tendencies, but more work will be needed to know exactly what these brain scan differences mean.

According to Gidon Bromberg, a lawyer for the Israel Union for Environmental Defence, one of the organisations behind Eco-Peace, political pressures on the Palestinian leadership could mean that work on the port might start before a solution to the sand flow problem is found.

Its objective is to encourage work of great value to humanity, of a mainly scientific, educational or artistic nature, and to reward such work by means of prizes or study grants, excluding any profit motive and regardless of political, trade union, philosophical or religious convictions.

Although there is a political element to this movie, however, it works on a primal level — that of a person struggling to find not only a path forward but some kind of meaning in an act that lacks reason, compassion, or sense.

It is the eve of the 1996 California primary and a slow pan over the environs of a well - appointed Senate office reveals the trappings of a long political life spent in well - meaning good works.

These are problems curable by personal means alone, without reference to a wider political context or much recourse to the sort of multilayered psychological ambiguity found in the work of Maurice Pialat or John Cassavetes.

And it undeniably plays differently in the wake of worker strikes today for «A Day Without Immigrants» and greater divides between the working class and the President of the United States than when the film premiered at Toronto last year (which is not meant as a political statement, just a fact, and not an alternative one).

A monumental yet light - footed work that remains absorbed in the minutiae of existence, Arabian Nights is an up - to - the - minute rethinking of what it means to make a political film today.

And it means to governor and the legislature, regardless of political party, working together to prioritize both teacher education and effective teaching across the state.

This means that the financial (and political) muscle of the two unions is far greater than that of school reform organizations such as Democrats for Education Reform, StudentsFirst (for which I used to work), Stand for Children, Black Alliance for Educational Options, and the American Federation for Children.

It's been a rough week for union bosses and their political patrons: On Monday, Wisconsin enacted a right - to - work law that forbids the conditioning of employment on the payment of union dues or fees, meaning that half of the states now forbid the so - called «agency shop.»

(c) The term «employment agency» means any person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer and includes an agent of such a person; but shall not include an agency of the United States, or an agency of a State or political subdivision of a State, except that such term shall include the United States Employment Service and the system of State and local employment services receiving Federal assistance.

Book Three of Robert A. Caro's monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson — the most admired and riveting political biography of our era — which began with the best - selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

I can honestly say I had never heard of Charles Marsh before I began work on the book, though he was not an unknown figure by any means, and appears in any number of political biographies, including Robert Caro's wonderful trilogy on Lyndon Johnson.

Williams» recent works continue to be inherently political but utilize the language of painted abstraction paired with explicit titles to convey meaning.

Artists from the 1950s through the present work in a range of mediums, finding personal, social, and political meaning in their medium's sheer materiality.

Godfrey added that they realised during the research that the artists took a very multifaceted approach to what it meant to be a black artist, who they should make their work for and how the omnipresence of the political struggle of the black community should be represented.

Taking the form of drawings, photographic series and video installations, his work consistently invokes the use of systems as generative part of the artist's practice, investigating the relationships between aesthetic experience, political beliefs and the formation of meaning.

In Liz Magic Laser's Kiss and Cry (2015), figure skating children voice their anger at being deployed as pictures of innocence and announce themselves as a political class; in Jesse Jones's The Struggle Against Ourselves (2011), dancers recreate études from Soviet biomechanical workshops in the style of a Busby Berkeley musical, highlighting aesthetic dialogues between ideological paradigms; whilst in Jibade - Khalil Huffman's IF THIS MEANS YOU (2016), a persuasive rhetorical poetry has been wrought from seductive advertising imagery.

Here, Artspace's Loney Abrams speaks with the artist about the influence of Abstract Experssionism, society's ever - changing conceptions of nature, and what it means to make work about the body and trauma during a moment in history when these topics are at the forefront of socio - political conversation.

If optimism fueled the impulse to create large, permanent works in the «60s and «70s, the artists in this exhibition are more likely to rechannel that optimism into collaborative and collective experiences; to dwell on memory and the ephemeral by charting the traces of the just - happened; and to embrace the rich social, cultural and political meanings of their throwaway materials.

1987 1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Reconstruct / Deconstruct, John Gibson Gallery, New York (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Extreme Order: Cemin, Gober, Halley, Lemieux, Steinbach, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples (curated by Collins & Milazzo, brochure) Primary Structures, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (curated by Robert Nickas) Avant - Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) Paint — Film, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (curated by Eugene Schwartz, catalogue) NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue) Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art at The Equitable Center, New York Similia / Dissimilia, Columbia University Art Gallery, New York; travelled to Sonnabend Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Rainer Crone, catalogue) The Castle, documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (curated by Group Material) Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Berlin (catalogue) Anti-Baudrillard, White Columns, New York (curated by Group Material) Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (curated by Jerry Saltz, catalogue) Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris (catalogue) The Beauty of Circumstance, Josh Baer Gallery, New York (catalogue) New York Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue) 1986 Admired Work, John Weber Gallery, New York Spiritual America, CEPA Galleries, Buffalo, NY (catalogue); travelled to Stavanger Faste Galleri, Stavanger, Norway (curated by Collins & Milazzo) New New York, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH Signs of Painting, Metro Pictures, New York, and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago Painting and Sculpture Today 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (catalogue) Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Collins & Milazzo) Political Geometries: on the Meaning of Alienation, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (catalogue) Post Pop, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (catalogue) Europa / Amerika, Ludwig Köln Museum, Cologne, Germany (catalogue) End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (curated by David Joselit and Elisabeth Sussman, catalogue) Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, Sonnabend Gallery, New York The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC Geometry Now, Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York Surfboards, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective (El arte y su doble), Centre Cultural de la Funcacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid; travelled to Fundación Caja de Pensions, Barcelona (catalogue) Rooted Rhetoric, Castel Dell «Ovo, Naples (catalogue)

Vo's conceptual work serves as a reminder of the personal and political meanings carried by the objects around us

Jones's deeply complex analysis cites numerous lushly illustrated works; her material, social, and political examination discusses the myriad ways African American artists, often segregated from the art world, articulated racial portraits of blackness as a means of accessing political authority.

His work is deeply informed by his upbringing in Brazil and the complex history of the country: its colonial past, US political interference, and the contemporary boom; while the thinking behind his work is concerned with the subjective understanding of what it means to be on the periphery and the conflict between western and non-western status.

Art and Resolution, 1900 to Today examines the dual meaning of resolution — as both «coming into view» and «overcoming conflict» — through works that touch on the pressing social and political issues of the 20th and 21st centuries.

I mean the whole group of works from Chromafesto, my first solo show at Canada in 2003, was about seeing if the audience could «read» political content in abstraction.