Sentences with phrase «such apotheosis»

I'm a total fan, but, outside Switzerland, he's not exactly the most obvious candidate for such apotheosis.

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of this program he enunciated several years later in his book on Christology, translated as Jesus — God and Man (Westminster, 1968): The resurrection of Jesus not only provides a preview of mankind's apotheosis and, as such, a mini-model of world history; it is also verifiable according to the usual canons of historical research.

Today was quite possibly the apotheosis of all things blah, with a downpour of such epic proportions that the tree outside our house finally had enough and keeled over.

This explains why the CBS interview was such quintessential Betsy DeVos, her apotheosis as it were.

The title of the show derives from a 1976 article, «The Apotheosis of the Crummy Space,» by Nancy Foote in Artforum, in which Foote celebrated the artistic use of spaces in abandoned buildings; her notion that such rooms in such buildings could be transformed by additions to or changes within them was, at the time, a powerful esthetic for Gordon Matta Clark's excavations of forsaken places in New York City, or by David Wojnarowicz's work a generation later.

In the current «Apotheosis,» Korean artists Jinsu Han, an inventor of mechanical engines that do such things as make paintings untouched by the human hand, and Jong Oh, whose minimal interventions with string, Plexiglas, and weight reconstruct space in subtle but far - reaching ways, renewed the entire abandoned building into a grand art project.

Curiously some of the commercial galleries that represent the apotheosis of the contemporary art industry and market, such as, here in NY, Gagosian and Zwirner, have been able to mount museum quality shows the past few years, including for example excellent Picasso and Frankenthaler exhibitions at Gagosian and the recent exhibition of Ad Reinhardt's work at Zwirner, in spaces that either are as beautiful as any museum or that are just functional in a good way, with few frills, just good walls and space.

While Knoebel was a child growing up in Dessau — home from 1919 > 1933 to the Bauhaus school — the non-representational abstract art that had been developed early in the 20th century via cubism and such artists as Robert Delaunay, Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian had reached its apotheosis in the 1950s New York - led abstract expressionist movement.