Sentences with phrase «so much contemporary»

So, why is so much contemporary art so fucking BORING!?

Instead of the viewer's gaze skimming off the surface like a skipped stone as in so much contemporary painting, Jake Berthot's paintings hold you — stop you and engage you, stir you and disturb you.

So much contemporary art in Ireland is contrived or experimental - it is produced simply for effect.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ «There's an exuberant, messy physicality to this work that flies in the face of the clinical neatness of so much contemporary art... A wonderland of trashed surfaces and junkyard materials.»

«Shiraga's and Motonaga's work expands our understanding of the global evolution of modernism, dispelling notions that movements such as abstract expressionism and the participatory and process - driven elements of so much contemporary practice are purely Western inventions,» said Ritter.

Mr. Dawson has shown all four years with Expo, and a gallery rep tells the Observer that collectors are drawn to the historic objects on view after seeing so much contemporary art across the aisles.

Derby's recently launched QUAD continues to establish itself as a contemporary art venue of convincing ambition with an intriguing and at times enchanting show charting the tendency of so much contemporary art to make magic out of the mundane and to tell lies that seem true to life.

The «I could have done that» factor, which prevents so much contemporary art from being widely accepted and engaged with, doesn't apply here: Hanson's skill in creating these sculptures is admirable.

Loudon sees the growing interest in such objects as a sign of the public's boredom with the inflated scale of so much contemporary art, «a reaction against Jeff Koons, if you will.

Given the media revolution brought about by internet - connected mobile devices in the past 10 years, it might be surprising to find so much contemporary relevance in the collective works of a group of artists who first garnered recognition more than thirty years ago.

«So much contemporary painting is not open,» Goodman told David Brody in an interview.

Asawa's work comes out of a practice — fiber art — that was long lumped in with craft but is now understood, in the context of so much contemporary use of alternative materials, as a serious endeavor.

The attentiveness John has given to nurturing the mood and flavour of each painting as it develops is what makes his paintings so much more interesting, heartfelt and ambitious than so much contemporary painting that lays claim to being complex and diverse, see Sansom, Oehlen or Dana Schutz.

So much contemporary work is a rehash of earlier work — without either the substance or the content.

A brilliantly imagined, gorgeously written novel, vivid and alive, utterly without the distanced irony of so much contemporary fiction.

Owst concludes that there could scarcely have been so much contemporary complaint of neglect if Coulton were not more nearly right.

While I sought to avoid the ultra-dull prose style in which so much contemporary moral philosophy is written, the quasi-mathematical coolness of the book's tone is an inherent feature of my chosen genre of analytic political theory.

The shallow novelty, the low - cost nihilism, and the vague and sentimental spiritual pretensions of so much contemporary art — in every medium — are the legacy of this schism, as well as the cynicism that pervades the arts world.

So much contemporary spirituality, ranging from the pantheism of «Gaia» environmentalism to the process theology and panentheism of some Catholic schools of thought, presume some variant or other of this view.

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The narcissism epidemic is the common denominator underneath many contemporary trends — from grade inflation, to the crass and aggressive tone of so much entertainment, to birthday gifts for high school girls that stupefy the imagination.

Posner is distressed that so much of contemporary legal scholarship elaborates or relies upon diverse moral theories that attempt, in highly abstract terms, to make normative claims about law.

Indeed, many of your comments alluded to the so - called «contemporary» (as opposed to «traditional») churches starting in much the same way every week and employing the same general service flow and song selections.

Michael Northcott, professor of ethics at the University of Edinburgh, illustrates the embarrassing silliness of so much of the contemporary professoriate.

On the other hand, what lends an air of unreality to Kierkegaard's works is that our problems are so much worse than those faced by him and his contemporaries.

In Turin, Benedict observed that «humanity has become particularly sensitive to the mystery of Holy Saturday,» because the «hiddenness of God» has become so much a part of our contemporary experience of Christ that it functions existentially, almost subconsciously, in our spirituality.

As a sensitive participant in the contemporary situation she is convinced that Christians should be involved in righting the social wrongs that degrade so much of humankind.

These changes signaled not so much a rejection of tradition as an attempt to renew the tradition by placing it in the contemporary language of the world.

Any children born in this day and age will grow up influenced not only by their parents, but to a much greater degree by the evils of contemporary society, which are now spread so quickly by our almost instantaneous communications.

He says it's not so much that young people are any less spiritual today, but the main ideals of Sikhism get masked by the complexities of the contemporary world.

Harvey concludes: «It is extraordinary how well Feuerbach's later views stand up when compared with those of contemporary theorists; so much so that one can, by adopting his position, mount important criticisms of these theories.»

The upshot is the suppression of political debate about the common good, which is why thorough - going libertarians are such a destructive force in our political culture, perhaps as much so as contemporary liberals whose main vice is the serene smugness that assumes that all we have left is administration because everybody worth talking to already agrees with them about first principles.

A view held by many contemporary metaphysicians is that the problem of induction, so much discussed by philosophers of science, arises only because of mistaken metaphysical views; in particular views (deriving from Hume) about the nature of the causal relation and / or about the internal relations among different entities.1 Contrary to this view, I will try...

It would seem that Ezekiel was in this, as in so much of his prophetic teaching, directly indebted to his older contemporary, his own contribution being merely that of expressing the idea in a form that seized upon general thought.

In his «friendly criticism,» which we enjoy, Ed regrets that we've given so much room to contemporary philosophers of religion, for example Richard Swinburne and Alvin Plantinga, who argue for «theistic personalism.»

So much that is wrong with contemporary Western society — radical individualism, consumerism, the glorification of choice for its own sake — represents the debased enactment of originally rich religious images and philosophical ideas.

And he does so in a sophisticated and elegant manner foreign to much contemporary work in philosophy.

Be that as it may, for the people of our age, likewise seeking Truth amidst the shallowness and relativism of the day, these solid and substantial meditations on the dogmas and doctrines of our Catholic Faith may well come as a refreshing change amidst so much that passes for «spirituality» in the contemporary Church.

Palmer calls this scheme «objectivism,» and he describes it not so much in terms of a history of ideas or a group of thinkers as in terms of a set of pedagogical practices that characterize the contemporary academy.

A fully «efficient» and «rational» technology will not waste resources or pollute the environment; nor need it require of human beings demanding and unpleasant labor or the sort of regimentation characteristic of so much of contemporary society.

When I see so much war and humankind's hatred for humankind I think wow — how can this ever stop, thinking of both contemporary life and human history.

Contemporary meanings have for both the preacher and his listeners more importance today than ever before because man's contemporary search for meaning confronts so much new data that has never been properly related to the traditional sourcesContemporary meanings have for both the preacher and his listeners more importance today than ever before because man's contemporary search for meaning confronts so much new data that has never been properly related to the traditional sourcescontemporary search for meaning confronts so much new data that has never been properly related to the traditional sources of meaning.

The longing to move out of time (which involves change and so is «bad») into a state of timeless permanence (which is therefore «good»)-- characteristic of most post-Aristotelian philosophy and much contemporary Christianity — is thus seen to have more in common with Platonic dualism than with biblical witness.

Like so much of contemporary discourse, image is used to good effect, more powerful in creating associations and prompting sentiment than any argument or syllogism.

When reading French contemporaries — Loisy and company — I am mainly interested in them as people, not so much in their ideas.

The Navarre Bible, that wonderful commentary which has done so much to seed the wasteland of contemporary Biblical scholarship, refers in connection with the passage I quoted from Matthew (9:36) to words of St Margaret Mary Alacoque: «This Divine Heart is a great abyss which holds all good, and he commands that all his poor people should pour their needs into it.

The Church is a field hospital, a temporary, moveable structure like so much in our contemporary world.

This was as true of early Jews in Galilee as it was true of nineteenth century India and is true of contemporary India: «In Jesus's world [just as in the Indian worldview], people were important because of who they were related to, or where they came from, not so much because of who they were in themselves» (Witherington: 35).

The doctrine of the Trinity keeps us from settling for a God who is too small or, as in much contemporary spirituality so big or vague that God becomes what a friend once dubbed «the Sacred Blur.»

The law does not affirm assisted suicide so much as tolerate it, a recognition that a significant plurality of contemporary Germans think suicide assistance morally licit.

Many home educators belong to sports teams or play in orchestras, and are generally far more relaxed about these things than their schooled contemporaries because they have so much more time available — and less need to compete.