Sentences with phrase «presented as an illusion»

My work attempts to capture such a situation, caught in a perpetual state of transit where increasing complexity is often presented as the illusion of «progress».

Before even entering the gallery the binaries of «yes» and «no» are presented as an illusion of choice, but with no discernible question and no implication of the consequences after one is chosen.

Not exact matches

What Satan offers is the illusion of freedom, presented as lack of consequences, which leads to enslavement.

With Pearl Jam 20 he's a fabulist, and insofar as he continues the narrative that rock will save the world or yourself, he is a fabulist in a way that presents illusions that are untrue.

We are hopefully free from the illusion that there can be a «biblical theology» in the sense that all the themes and ideas present in the Bible can be brought to a harmonious unity, which can then be reaffirmed as true Christian theology.

The very fact that six historically influential ideas are presented in terms of development, with their later formulations on an altitude immeasurably higher than the lowlands from which they came, may produce the illusion of constant ascent, as though being posterior in time always meant being superior in quality.

Or, as Bergson said, it is a «retrospective illusion» based on the tendency of our imagination to project the actual present event into the past where it allegedly existed prior to its actualization as a «fully specified possibility» -LRB-!)

Even if it is an illusion, it presents itself as very real.

Consequently, this letting go takes up from and continues the Kantian meditation on the transcendental illusion as presented in the section on «Dialectic» in the first Critique.

Furthermore, there was no school of thought in China that would have presented a substantialist alternative to the view of being as change; the closest candidate would be the common - sense view of things attacked by the Buddhists as illusion, and even here it was the Indian, not Chinese, sources of Buddhism that became most exercised about criticizing the theory of permanent substances.

The absence of Gerrard and Torres were presented as a complication to the crash, while the appearance of Maxi Rodriguez on the bench represent the illusion of perceiving the winds of change in the Network team

One of my favourite quotes attributed to JFK is from early in his career, when he described himself as an «idealist without illusions» — in times like the present, we could all take a leaf out of this book.

Scientists presented various visual illusions to subjects, like one where two equal circles are often perceived as being different sizes.

But the nation preserves its power by presenting itself to the world as a secretive and remote land of poor pastoralists — an illusion that becomes increasingly difficult to keep.

And the illusions, as presented, are spectacular.

As an artist, he is attracted to dreamers and fantasists but can't resist puncturing their illusions and presenting them as loserAs an artist, he is attracted to dreamers and fantasists but can't resist puncturing their illusions and presenting them as loseras losers.

It can present the illusion of freshness for a tale as old as fuzzy cucumber slices underneath a car seat.

Both are diaries of the disintegration of illusion, the difference being that Married Life's nihilism is presented as a sly, pitch - black domestic manifesto that's scabrous enough to suggest that if you design your own cage, you'll forget that you're trapped.

A good handler can make a great deal of difference in the way a dog is presented, as can a good hairdresser with a stripping knife give an illusion of an arched neck and the position of the withers being correctly located when the neck is not arched and the withers not properly set.

«At times... they present the illusion of an almost corrugated surface,» he explained, «until the visible weave of the canvas tautens it, pulling out its creases, as it were.

In this new history, decoration, humor, femininity and masculinity, the everyday, sensual pleasure, artifice and illusion, and authorial control took center stage, as artists from the 1950s through the present explore the personal, social, and political meanings of sheer, gorgeous materiality.

As the flatness of the graffiti - like smile denies the illusion of depth presented by the scene, it makes a sly reference to the enigmatic grin captured in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait.

In this new history, decoration, humor, femininity and masculinity, the everyday, sensual pleasure, artifice and illusion, and authorial control take center stage, as artists from the 1950s through the present explore the personal, social, and political meanings of sheer, gorgeous materiality.

Fifty years after Interaction's initial publication, this new edition presents a significantly expanded selection of close to sixty color studies alongside Albers's original text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds.

His recent series, the «Demo» projects are interventions in the public space that use some of the same characteristics as a theatre set to create playful, surreal, large - scale illusions captured on video and presented as short films.

daily routines present a body of work addressing such themes as the perception of time, isolated consciousness, and the illusion of order, all of which depend on «social habitus.»

Over the coming decades, he continued to challenge the boundaries of aesthetic space, creating paintings that presented three - dimensional reality as a tactile, objective thing rather than an illusion.

Ondak presents the cages as a hypothetical habitat, with the implication that an animal inhabitant could experience the illusion of freedom, but without ever leaving the loop determined by the architecture of his environment.

This new paperback edition presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty color studies alongside Albers's original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds.

Palazzolo's play of illusion suggests memory, longing, distances, and loss, yet is tempered by reminders of a present physical reality such as the yardstick and paint, seen as simply paint.

As is typical for paintings from this period, the present work is characterized by the colliding of flatness with the illusion of spatial depth: while the folds in the tablecloth, modulation of the oranges and the cast shadows articulate Hockney's eye for veracity and imply three - dimensionality, the broad, simplified brushstrokes with which the gladiolus and the green backdrop are rendered essentially flatten the composition.

Illusion became allusion, RE-presentation became PRESENT - ation as artists sought to make art concrete through the manipulation of materials on their rectangular surfaces.

The resulting work, which pays homage to the decisive crossroad of the Civil War, shows how crafty Mark Bradford can be when he weaves past and present, as well as illusion and abstraction.

The outcome presents itself as something like a bargello textile pattern, almost unimaginable as the granular structure of television's engulfing illusions.

Could anything be more out of date, backward - looking, or antiquated in spirit than the Carlin report's repackaging of yesterday's denialist illusions and pseudoscientific nonsense about climate — fantasies that have been shot down time and again, that don't have a melting Greenland glacier's chance in a warming climate when exposed to the light of reason, yet which have been presented to the world as if they were a brilliant refutation of the CO2 - global warming link by the sharpest analytical minds in the field of climatological research?

You will ALL find that the fields listed (60 signatories include mathematicians, economists, anthropologists, geneticists, chemists, engineers and other interesting fields) ALL present situations that present SCIENCE that is contradicted by the attempts to platform a supposed «greenhouse effect» and the illusion of «science activity» made to appear as «climate science research».

The rays are actually parallel to each other and simply look like they get closer together as they recede in the distance, the same optical illusion presented by train tracks.

I'm glad that I started out with authenticity as a priority for this blog, otherwise I would have been in for an exhausting journey trying to hide the reality of the challenges in creating a home and presenting a perfect illusion for the past nine years hahahah.

Now, just as a warning, your family may fall for the illusion that there are more presents under the tree than are actually there!