Sentences with phrase «sense of utopia»
However, by the time Sizer wrote his seminal 1985 report, A Study of High Schools, and A Nation at Risk warned of education failure and the need for deep reform, that earlier sense of utopia was slipping away.
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His aim is to take the commodification out of fashion and create clothes that, like Band of Outsiders strived to do, are meant to be lived in: «I started thinking about brands and how the greatest of brands can actually be something meaningful, how they can create a sense of community and commonality, entertain us and tell stories and help us escape — and so I started thinking about this idea of utopia, building a perfect world from scratch.»
For every joyous moment of Max and his new friends having a wild rumpus, throwing mud clods at each other, or witnessing Carol's vision of a beastie utopia, there is still Jonze's insistence that there's something deeper beneath the surface, and Jonze isn't afraid to beat that point home without attempting make sense of it.
NB: I hope the exhibition in London entails a postmodern approach to the idea of space in a good sense; it still allows the modern utopia of perfection or self - improvement, but it is also unafraid of the inherent problems and their subjective reflections.
His compositions are marked by a sense of magical realism, which he uses to capture timeless moments and mysterious utopias on canvas.
We are left with a sense of DIY utopia and the desire to create work that is immediate, sensorial, and at times simply fun.
At its best, her show conveys an exhilarating sense of the school as an educational utopia in which one might have helped to build a new seminar room in the morning, thrown pots in the afternoon, studied history in the evening, and criticized after dinner, just as one pleased, without ever becoming a builder, potter, historian, or critic.
Johnson's genius is that he celebrates these jettisoned utopias, yet despite the near - perfect beauty inherent in the details, one has the overall sense that their blissful disintegration is of our own making.
Bavarian - born artist and naturalist Nils Udo has been creating nature - based art for the last three decades and is known for his lyric and ephemeral art that captures a sense of «potential utopias» lurking behind every piece.