Sentences with phrase «structures as metaphors»

The artist's iconic installations highlight the importance of structures as metaphors of settlement and memory.

Parra's work centers on the the mid-century structure as a metaphor for the way major narratives about the «Greatest Generation» were shaped for public consumption.

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The author uses a theatrical metaphor, backstage, to describe the configuration phase, its steps being more distant to the customer, such as the profit model, structure, and process.

H. Richard Niebuhr's famous metaphor for the minister as «pastoral director, «5 and more recent variations of it, 6 continue to be useful in taking account of the two elements that distinguish the ministry from other professions, namely, the sense of a personal calling to be a prophetic resource to persons and to structures in society plus accountability to an organization that the minister both leads and serves.

The advantages of this metaphor are the combining of elements of structure (apostles and prophets as the foundation, Christ Jesus as the cornerstone), sequence (from foundation to complete temple), and organic growth (the whole structure is joined together and grows).

«What we discovered was that the local church had a culture of its own and that seminary graduates needed to be prepared to cope with the congregation as a very complex social reality with deep structures and metaphors by which it lives and moves, a social reality which is affected by forces and dynamics of which we know almost nothing.»

At some point, to extend an earlier metaphor, we may see a phase change — just as water goes from liquid to gas at the boiling point, this explosion of new niche audiences may create a political environment that is so changed that it's clearly a new structure.

Even Jessica Asato's glancing reference to producer capture is at least useful both as metaphor for New Labour's corruption of earlier party structures (see above) and as a partial description of how economic reality has altered, assisted by New Labour, over the past 12 years, though she goes on to muddle the point.

The topic was the future of higher education in Europe, and the castle — a majestic but confusing maze of structures that inspired Franz Kafka's classic novel about modern alienation and bureaucracy — served as a metaphor for the Kafkaesque labyrinth facing students who want to transfer degrees or credits between colleges in different European nations.

When you have studied HIV's structure as long as Dennis Burton has, the search for metaphors to describe its unusual architecture becomes irresistible.

From its use of static takes, to structuring a familial drama around class conflict, to homing in on a family's swimming pool as its central metaphor, The Second Mother borrows shamelessly from La Ciénaga.

You see I want to talk about the film's structure, how its episodic and unfocused storyline actually points toward its origins as a manga, and how while having little in the way of actual plot the film uses metaphor and subplot as text rather than subtext.

In a sense, the fragile structure of the title acts as a double metaphor: for a barrier between enemies that keeps them from killing each other, as well as one that must come down if true understanding is ever to occur.

Morrissey has a number of critiques of our articles, but the main one, as the title suggests, is that our metaphors are inappropriate, and there is nothing at all «peculiar» about the structure of retirement incentives in teacher pensions.

Reading is a complex and ill - structured domain; it cries out for the sorts of multiple models and metaphors documented as necessary in other ill - structured domains such as medicine and film criticism (Spiro & Jehng, 1990).

This door slam that marks her departure might have been literal, but it has been held as metaphor for a woman breaking free from the structure of traditional marriage.

Descriptive language can be characterized as structure independence, slow manner of description, unexpected deviations from the topic, association, metaphors, rhetoric devices, possible variations of word - combinations — everything confirms to the style of writing descriptive essays.

Speaking of her work, she said: «I see my knitted work as metaphor for social structure.

Architecture of Life, the inaugural exhibition in BAMPFA's landmark new building, explores the ways that architecture — as concept, metaphor, and practice — illuminates various aspects of life experience: the nature of the self and psyche, the fundamental structures of reality, and the power of the imagination to reshape our world.

Officially known as metamechanics, Tinguely's sculptures appear light - hearted and fun, yet the dangerously spiked tail of the mobile and the metallic grinding — even self - eroding — structure serve as an ironic and satirical metaphor for commercial machines, overproduction and consumerism.

The memory palace also serves as a metaphor for the academic experience: In an MFA program, the school supplies the quantitative structures that order the experience — the space, the time, the schedules, the deadlines — and the students furnish the bureaucratic boxes with color, with strangeness, with life.

As a spatial metaphor, the spiral actually makes complete sense — as well as echoing the labyrinthine structure of many of Oiticica's own installations, it both illustrates the widening scope of his progressively interdisciplinary, radical work and reveals a clear through - line of concepts and concernAs a spatial metaphor, the spiral actually makes complete sense — as well as echoing the labyrinthine structure of many of Oiticica's own installations, it both illustrates the widening scope of his progressively interdisciplinary, radical work and reveals a clear through - line of concepts and concernas well as echoing the labyrinthine structure of many of Oiticica's own installations, it both illustrates the widening scope of his progressively interdisciplinary, radical work and reveals a clear through - line of concepts and concernas echoing the labyrinthine structure of many of Oiticica's own installations, it both illustrates the widening scope of his progressively interdisciplinary, radical work and reveals a clear through - line of concepts and concerns.

Lauren Carter is a Chicago - based visual artist whose current studio practice incorporates anthropomorphized representational structures and objects as metaphors for the corporeal experience and notions of degeneration, nostalgia, and anxiety.

Water, which can hide by covering up, reveal by erosion, or act as a medium for mixing disparate elements, has become a powerful metaphor in his present series, which suggests the interpenetration between urban social exchange and physical structures.

Many of the works on view in By the Book employ metaphor, allusion, and allegory as structures to evoke a powerfully symbolic visual language, while others are inspired more directly by literary texts and fictional narratives.

Biography: In her ongoing series The Structure of Uncertainty, Eeva Hannula explores psychoanalytical method and the concept of Freud's uncanny using a combination of staged photography and material from her personal archive, covering and hiding parts of the images as a metaphor for repressed or incomprehensible experiences and perceptions.

In her ongoing series The Structure of Uncertainty, Eeva Hannula explores psychoanalytical method and the concept of Freud's uncanny using a combination of staged photography and material from her personal archive, covering and hiding parts of the images as a metaphor for repressed or incomprehensible experiences and perceptions.

Matias Armendaris» practice focuses on exploring the formal structures of language and the metaphor of translation as a method of representation.

Throughout the body of work, Graf employs mesh as a metaphor for structure, order, and systems, and light as a variable element.

Fusing the words «building» and «bouldering» (a type of rock climbing performed without harnesses or ropes), «buildering» serves as a metaphor for the creative misuse of built structures to circumvent their intended function.

Full of ghosts, demons, and other eccentric characters, these stories have frequently functioned as metaphors for power structures and defiance.

In works such as The Place, geometric abstraction becomes a metaphor for the isolating effects of these new structures.

Thus the crystalline structure acts as a metaphor for art — through a static object it simultaneously refers to both how one sees and to nature.

If you're looking for more serious or structured works on the site, you might find them in his «locative» section, which in some sense takes advantage of maps and geography, either literally or as a metaphor we're all familiar wth.