Sentences with phrase «symbolic forms for»

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Marriage is a form of acramentum — a symbolic expression of Christ's love for his Church, even a channel of God's grace to sanctify the couple, their children, and the broader community.

Baldovin describes how in medieval Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople, and many other cities where Christianity formed the symbolic basis for social life, worship was not confined to the neighborhood church.

When secularists argue that crucifixes are instruments of symbolic opression they do not realize that maybe their conception of state is a form of oppression for people with different beliefs.

Like Peter Berger, whom he quotes, Habermas perceives a requirement for some form of symbolic universe — a sheltering canopy — to integrate the various systems of action in which an individual engages.

These include structural forms, written prayers, hymns, rules for preaching, the church year, the lectionary, and numerous symbolic ceremonies.

If the search for truth requires that we move from vague totality toward clear definition, then we have no alternative but to fall back on forms of symbolic reference already at hand, or to create alternative forms that may increase our comprehension.

The intersubjective networks of meaning, which consist of intricate relations of symbolic form, give a sufficient ground for us to understand these phenomena.

Online dating is a form of an interesting game for all not married persons with the set of symbolic signs and a lot of pleasant surprises.

Along for the ride is physicist Ian Donnelly (Renner) who with Banks, form the core of the American team attempting to understand the unique, symbolic language of the Heptapods.

A smarter man could unravel the vast network of the sexual symbolic significance of del Toro pining for a sea creature procreating with a human woman but I'm happy to acknowledge del Toro's kinky side and embrace the fact that he's given his fetish cinematic form.

If digital literacies are defined as autonomous tools and isolated symbolic systems, reduced to a set of skills and forms for students to reproduce, then school literacy practices will become further distanced from nonschool literacy practices.

A living testimony to his zest of harmonizing nature and art, his joy for blending traditional motifs with modern material, for balancing European geometries with a Balinese sense of place and symbolic form, can bee seen in this Water Palaces he built: the Ujung Water Palace in 1923, the Tirta Gangga in 1957.

Archetypal or symbolic forms don't seem to hold any attraction for her, as they do for Martin.

By animating these symbolic forms, free of both the floor and the building, he says, «architecture is not organizing the piece» such that he's aiming for the feeling of a «dream sequence.»

In symbolic form it has signified labor for seemingly contradictory forces, the machine - age communist state, and capitalist domestic goods.

Predominantly interested in themes of both religion and spirituality, Clemente's work for the most part depicts both the human form (in its entirety or metamorphosing between human and animal) or symbolic motifs...

Hosted in a building of symbolic historical charge — a former 1928 Trade Fair Palace which in 1939 — 1941 served as an assembly point for Jews before their deportation to the concentration camp in Terezín — it works as a site - specific parable, a form of (public) speech, carrying a transgressive power of cathartic experience, but also a rhetoric of failure, paradox and resignation...

For his series Top Tens (2004), Muller created symbolic portraits in the form of delicately rendered acrylic paintings of album sleeve spines; the artist has since extended this practice to include books, cassettes, and CDs.

Though he produced colorful paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures based on the Ancient Greek myth of Cronus, Hare is most remembered for his welded - steel sculptural abstractions of the 1950s in which abstracted biomorphic forms are suspended or interwoven in complex symbolic arrangements, as in The Dinner Table (1950) and Windows of Moons (1951).

While the artist investigates the complex relationships between form and substance through different artistic practices such as photography, video, sculpture and installation, he is best known for his beguiling marble carving to which he applies his refined craftsmanship in order to create unexpected and light forms, ordinary and yet highly symbolic.

The idea for the project originated from reflecting on Erwin Panofsky's book Perspective as Symbolic Form (1927), which shows how every cultural age develops its own way of representing space.

Working across a broad range of media including sculpture, drawings, photographs, films and installations, veteran American artist Kiki Smith is best known for her symbolic depictions of the human form through which she explores ideas from natural science through to cosmology and mythology.

Coard has said that he uses «bearded black men as a symbolic expression for possible change in the African American community» and that his work is «a form of testimonial where black men can be seen in a more positive and righteous light».

The clusters of boxing gloves from Let Her Rave are not only a symbolic critique of patriarchal structures; but also, reflects her own love of the sport and advocacy for women to become more involved in the sport not only as a means of self defense; but also, as a form of physical, emotional, and mental empowerment.

Birch's visual style, a form of conceptual Southern Vernacular painting, is a syncretic blend of representation and abstraction that utilizes African diasporic retentions — cultural traits that have persisted across history — to create a record of the past's symbolic traces on the present, in order to preserve them for the future.

Working with loose symbolic forms, she has a knack for elegance that is smart enough not to veer toward stylization.

Narrative unfolds through a language of pictorial construction where objects within each painted or drawn interior are chosen for their potential for symbolic form — simultaneously loaded and banal.

Allison - Finucane replaces the materiality of, for example, mud, hair and bodily forms with symbolic mark - making to develop a visual narrative within the boundaries of the paper.

Barnet's stylistic evolution was thus marked by his search for the symbolic potential of forms and ways to devise meaningful relationships between these forms in his images.

«All forms are political, therefore, and all politics become form; this open - ended proposition would be callow sloganeering were it not for its allusion to a symbolic community of speakers and listeners — an imaginary selection of subjects called forth to materialize, in their own languages, the proximities and distances between and within complex geopolitical configurations.»

Mythical and symbolic thinking strive to form spiritual bonds between humanity and the surrounding world, shaping distance into the space required for devotion and reflection: the distance undone -LSB-...]

(Kelly and Wood, 2013, p169) They also draw a parallel with Joseph Beuys: «For Joseph Beuys, honey and wax were symbolic sculptural materials... [He] once stated that what interested him about bees and their hive was «the total heat organisation of such an organism, and the sculpturally finished forms within this organisation».»

For Jamie, this is Georges Bataille's flower, an idealised and therefore misleading form, the medium for a symbolic projection of the idea of beauty, born, however, of compoFor Jamie, this is Georges Bataille's flower, an idealised and therefore misleading form, the medium for a symbolic projection of the idea of beauty, born, however, of compofor a symbolic projection of the idea of beauty, born, however, of compost.

Over the past three decades, private collectors Peter and Rosemarie Ruppert have amassed an enormous range of works focused on the definition of concrete art as an aesthetic form that stands only for itself, and not for an abstracted or symbolic representation of the visually perceptible.

Tran's work does not implicitly comment on the gentrification process that big arts events (such as this one) help to accelerate, but the piece could be read as symbolic for the complicated relationship this 6th Berlin Biennale forms with its venue locations and their neighbors.

The abject as described by Georges Bataille is a material that is withdrawn from its original state and has lost its form and meaning because of it... And this uncertainness completely wipes away the symbolic approach of the work and the material... I believe that all these different aspects and layers in the work are openings for different interpretations but I never give a clue.

Her practice has been described as engaging in her own unique form of myth - making, one in which the interweaving of fact with fiction opens up possibilities for another group of symbolic female characterisations, markedly different from those that appear in either classical history or popular culture.

For example, in a survey of parents who are targets of alienation, Baker and Darnell4 found that targeted parents reported that alienators interfered with parenting time (e.g., scheduled appointments or frequently called during the other parent's parenting time), interfered with contact with the children (e.g., intercepted phone messages or email), interfered with symbolic contact like gift giving (e.g., threw away gifts or sent them back), did not inform them about important information (e.g., school activities, doctor appointments), threatened to take children away from the them, and formed unhealthy alliances with the children such as having had their children spy and report back information to the alienating parent, or sending cell phones with children to call the alienating parent from the target parent's home.