Sentences with phrase «purely aesthetic form»

In this work the artist blacked out the lines of Stéphane Mallarmé's eponymous poem to create a purely aesthetic form of concrete poetry.

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The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

Commingling artistic and scientific references, Zarka's new sculptures, drawings, and collages advocate the utility of forms that are ostensibly purely aesthetic and, conversely, emphasize the aesthetic value of useful objects.

He explains, «Two parallel desires drive these new Women drawings: My desire to simplify and iconify the underlying visually logical geometries inherent in my figure drawings in order to better understand my subject matter; and my desire to embrace and capture the purely aesthetic experience of graceful curves and sensual forms inherent in my models.»

As it had been for Fry, «aesthetic unity» was what mattered most to Greenberg, and aesthetic unity at its most subtle and refined collapsed the material terms into as concentrated and self - sufficient a form as possible, making the work seem autonomous and hermetic — at the least, totally independent of literary and anecdotal considerations, to recall Bell, and as such a purely aesthetic experience.