Sentences with phrase «presented by modernity»

It is a quest focusing on one's experience of reality, a step towards expressing the idea of a foundation of our existence, which always seeks to sort through the realities presented by modernity: being, ground, or substance.

Not exact matches

By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.

The setting is the small village of Eichwald, a bucolic commune that, presided over by such stern patriarchs as the landowning baron (Ulrich Tukur) and the pastor (Burghart Klaussner), is presented as a 19th - century holdover inexorably giving way to the darkening modernity of new times.

«Being Modern» tells the story of this search for modernity through a selection of artworks presented in the catalogue in chronological order of purchase by the MoMA.

Visions of Modernity presents highlights from the individual compilations of these six collectors, ranging from the Cubist paintings of Picasso and Gris and abstractions by Kandinsky, Schwitters, and Mondrian to Modigliani's nudes and Calder's mobiles.

Lapthisophon achieves this not by looking at the present, but by acknowledging artists in the modernist canon who inspired him through their grappling with similar concerns about challenging dominant attitudes about lived experience in modernity.

The theme of the exhibition presented by France at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale is clearly anticipated in its title: Modernity: promise or menace?

MUMA, in association with Curatorial Practice, Monash Art, Design and Architecture [MADA] and MPavilion are pleased to present a special illustrated lecture by Claire Bishop, Déjà vu: Contemporary Art and the Ghosts of Modernity.

Stimulated by the centenary of what was originally called «The Great War», this work considers the conflict as a crisis of modernity, and suggests that its echoes reverberate into the present.

In Reviews, we present insights into Tarek El - Ariss's Trials of Arab Modernity, the 55th Venice Biennale, and an overview of three exhibitions at Tate Modern in London of work by Saloua Raouda Choucair, Ibrahim El - Salahi and Meschac Gaba.

«Bronze in the XXth Century: Casting Modernity,» at Mnuchin Gallery, presented a kind of alternative history, reminding us that while Picasso and González's exploration of open construction in iron and steel, in the late 1920s, gave sculptors a new formal vocabulary, innovative artists from the 1880s on — including some who later embraced the constructed method — continued to be fascinated by the age - old tradition of casting in bronze.