Sentences with phrase «social utopia»
"social utopia" refers to an ideal society or community where everyone lives in perfect harmony, with equal rights, opportunities, and happiness for all. It is a vision of an ideal world where there is no discrimination, poverty, or injustice. Full definition
This hope, however, it not content with passive or quietistic complacency anymore than it is impatient with the absence of immediate achievement of social utopias.
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nick, I do not doubt your sincerity in the least, but we can attempt to create our little nonviolent social utopia here in NY state and it will just force our government to continue to tax everything they possibly can, more and more.
Through his «Passstücke» (passport pieces or adapters) of the 1970s, his furniture assemblies of the 1980s and bright exterior sculptures of the 1990s, West regularly irritates viewers with parody and outlandishness, and impresses with surprising solutions to the old social utopia of art and life.
Among those who worked in geometric abstraction at this time, a certain balance and visual tension was perpetuated between spiritual (mystic) expression and social utopia as evidenced by the containment of form within these artists» works.
The objects on the tables are a combination of prototypes, potential signage and models, and they have been developed around Gillick's ongoing engagement with writing on social utopias; in particular he has been working on a series of texts, exhibitions and lectures with the overall title Construcción de Uno for a number of years.
More than 100 paintings, photographs, installations, videos and other works, created by more than 50 artists who remained in Cuba after the 1959 revolution, demonstrate the ways they dealt with their aspirations for social utopia and with their disappointment over the failure to attain it.
Mamou's travels have allowed her to not only examine the implications of social utopias but also the struggle to create community through a dystopian future.
Unlike the champions of Modernism, he is not interested in a visual equivalent to an artistic theory, let alone a social utopia; he has apparently arbitrarily made use since the 1990s of a broad array of formal possibilities and artistic traditions.»
The theme of his work is the varied phenomena of social utopias that he stages via hypothetical social models, both visual and literary.