Simply put, while artworks always reflect the personal
subjective vision of the artist, the environment becomes a touchstone from which the work derives much of its singular measure of sincerity and power.
When the citizens of a republic or a civilization become merely self - interested (or equally worse, interested in nothing at all) the center fails, and chaos conquers — until a man rides in on a white horse and reestablishes an order based not on nature or on God's will, but on his own
subjective vision of the world.
Not exact matches
A review
of Kierkegaard's treatment
of the temporal «moment
of vision» or «instant» (Augenblick) in this work is probably the best insulation against supposing too quickly that what Heidegger means to bring out about Dasein by insisting that in each case we «are» it is the simple
subjective immediacy
of psychic life.
(Though to call them
visions» is to emphasize unduly the
subjective element in the experience, and to raise a whole series
of modern questions.
The historian can perhaps to some extent account for that faith from the personal intimacy which the disciples had enjoyed with Jesus during his earthly life, and so reduce the resurrection appearances to a series
of subjective visions.
The question
of the nature
of such
visions is more difficult, for it involves criteria by which
visions are to be distinguished from invented ones or those due to mere
subjective human conditions.
The dreams
of the poet, the
visions of the artist, the «pattern» apprehended by the truly religious man, have all to be explained as purely
subjective phenomena within the material setup.
For my part, when I look at the way events unfold in the world, I do not see any evidence there
of the kind
of divine activity called for by the Whiteheadian notion
of God's consequent nature weaving itself across his primordial nature and then returning the «superjective»
vision back to the world in an operative, effective manner through the shaping
of subjective aims.
This
subjective immediacy
of decision, could it be experienced by God, would be the most fitting complement for God's all - inclusive
vision by» providing the contrasting opposite
of exclusive experience.
With regard to justice, I can only agree that the
vision of subjective immortality is absurd or selfish if in fact all persons are as privileged as most philosophers and theologians.
The wholeness
of an occasion in its
subjective unity is the vital and exclusive actuality which is completely lacking in the inclusiveness
of the primordial
vision taken by itself.
To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus as a figure the story
of whom we objectify with peculiar vividness as a result
of his power to grasp the successive
subjective aims
of generations and generations
of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight
of the ideal
vision which he has presented as a lure promising richness and depth
of feeling in human satisfactions.
Some have called it a
subjective vision, some a mere legend, some a resurrection - appearance, here out
of place.
God offers as its
subjective aim a
vision of what that entity might become, disclosing relevant novel possibilities that would provide «ideal» opportunities for the concrescing subject with the maximum enjoyment
of complexity and intensity.
It is oblivious
of the cosmic
vision according to which human creativity is first
of all a property
of the universe and not simply our own
subjective self - expression.14
Specifically, we shall discuss (A) the relationship
of God's general purposes, or his «primordial
vision,» to his purposes vis - à - vis particular standpoints, or his «
subjective aims» and (B) the nature and extent
of God's freedom.
A person deprived
of eyes or
of the region
of the brain where
vision is involved must have a
subjective experience that differs from the person equipped with these organs.
They were
of human
vision and human experience; they began from the
subjective and worked towards the objective.
° (51) 37: 10 — «The
subjective ways
of feeling... clothe the dry bones with the flesh
of a real being... The miracle
of creation is described in the
vision of the prophet Ezekiel; «So I prophesied...»» (PR 131).
The definiteness, however, depends upon the primordial satisfaction and is mediated through the mutuality
of subjective form by which God feels every prehended occasion in light
of all others and in light
of the primordial
vision.
This pattern
of activity runs through
vision - and taste - processing brain regions, indicating our
subjective feelings are actually intertwined with perception.
We utilize the
vision of those who interpret the egos and lives
of others through their own
subjective perspectives.
Gilbert returns to his dark, claustrophobically overdecorated Victorian house, hangs a kabuki sword on the wall
of his study, and, in one
of the most perfectly implausible and liberating
subjective flash - forwards in cinematic history, has a five - minute
vision of a fully staged scene from The Mikado, sung by soloists and chorus on a dazzlingly bright stage decorated in eye - popping pinks and greens.
The
subjective tendencies
of Bertolucci's films have always been evident, but Luna provides a perspective from which we can more fully grasp the dynamics
of the earlier films that groped so eloquently for a
vision that somehow always ended up out
of reach.
All the while, he maintains a
subjective point -
of - view that keeps us with Kate, who is often behind and in the dark (literally, during the tunnel raid, which cinematographer Roger Deakins captures through night -
vision and infrared scopes).
Providing a harsh, crude
vision of city life and the chaos
of everyday existence, strange worlds, and unusual characters, his work occupies a unique space between the objective and the
subjective, the illusory and the real.
The exhibition catalogue included a statement in which the artist declares that, as he recreates a landscape on canvas, it «undergoes a free transformation from objective reality to a
subjective realization
of personal
vision.»
The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections, 1940 — 1980, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983 (Catalogue)
Subjective Vision: The Lucinda Bunnen Collection
of Photographs, High Museum
of Art, Atlanta, 1983 (Catalogue) American Super — Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Terra Museum
of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, November 4 — December 7, 1983 (Catalogue) Self - Portraits, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, August 4 — September 11, 1983.
We know that
vision is unstable, since it is
subjective, and depends on our state
of mind and what we project onto the object we see.
Through a new installation, light - boxes, watercolours and pastels, Finch analyses the points at which conventional
vision vanishes to become something else and examines the
subjective lens
of each individual through discrete bodies
of work.
From masquerading in disguise before the camera to turning mirrors on the audience, she turns doubling and reflection into metaphors for the tenuous divide between
subjective and objective
vision, and the loss
of fixed identities.
This fictional and
subjective world
of habitats escapes replicating real places but rather function as artistic reenactment
of the
visions behind the chaos, with the strong relation to the primary source
of inspiration — imprint
of real places around us.
These painters» Post-Impressionist successors can be viewed as more clearly modern in their repudiation
of traditional techniques and subject matter and their expression
of a more
subjective personal
vision.
During the twentieth century several important British artists began to paint features
of visual experience rarely ever painted before, including
subjective curvature, double
vision and the body seen from the first person viewpoint.
The qualities and intentions attributed to Denny's paintings,
of an interactive dialogue between the observer's perception
of quotidian architectural space within which they meet the painting and the spatial illusions created by the paintings themselves — are actually qualities Denny had imbibed from Barnett Newman, in his paintings and his professed intentions (amongst other qualities)-- and so, to denigrate Newman's (and Rothko's) as
subjective, «private»
visions is completely unwarranted, but it chimes with Bunker's wish to portray «publicly engaged» art as somehow an advance on «high modernist» subjectivity.
For Buren, works
of art falsify reality by projecting a purely
subjective vision upon it, and, especially in the context
of a gallery or museum, they undermine the freedom
of thought and perception in viewers by imposing a false, ideological illusion.
More supportive spouse behaviors were associated with higher functional limitations in the case
of poor
vision (
subjective and objective).
Two separate moderated regression models were tested for each indicator
of quality
of life using the SPSS 17.0 statistical software package; one model tested the moderating role
of marital quality in the effects
of self - reported (
subjective)
vision controlling for visual acuity (objective
vision) and the second tested the same in the effects
of objective
vision controlling for
subjective vision.
Such discordance between
subjective and objective assessments
of vision has been reported in earlier research (Fors, Thorslund, & Parker, 2006) and thus including both assessments when available in statistical models is desirable.