Sentences with phrase «symbolic forms which»

While these imaginative works do adhere to certain basic principles, each artist incorporates culturally specific symbolic forms which depict concepts that the community wishes to convey to the spirits and whose meaning is known only within that culture.

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The analysis of an historical event in terms of its plot forms and related symbolic transformations eventually leads back to the final phase of synoptic resolution, illustrated by a hierarchy of contrasting elements, through which the event was initially defined.

Probably in these narratives we have reminiscences of an experience that would be no less real if the form in which it was told was symbolic.

The mass media are forming a new symbolic environment within which societies organize and express themselves.

Fundamentally manners are symbolic forms, which point to meanings beyond themselves.

Verification concerns whether a particular symbolic form abstracted in the accusative mode is adequately descriptive of the event to which it refers.

At the same time, it is my contention, as it would be Emmet's, that the validity of the first two must be based on the assumption underlying the third, that is, that our symbolic forms must be thought to refer to real «things» or events to which we must respond and to which we are related according to the concept of rapport.

«51 Spare pastoral speech is compared to the pomegranate which has many seeds, all of which are ordered within a firmly formed outer rind — symbolic to Gregory of the unity of ecumenical faith (Exod.

Ricoeur interprets Freudian psychoanalysis as a hermeneutic discipline in its own right, a hermeneutic which suggests that certain symbolic forms conceal from everyday consciousness more than they reveal.

But in daily life, my consciousness is illumined and given symbolic form by systems of discourse which deal objectively with what I experience.

Because it is in the tradition that we find the symbolic forms, the collective sentiments, which bind us together as a distinctive community that offers one a unique identity.

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 are, principally, economic capital (in its different kinds) cultural capital and social capital, as well as symbolic capital, commonly called prestige, reputation, renown, etc, which is the form in which the different forms of capital are perceived and recognized as legitimate».

The universal beauty which is never absent from our primary perception seeks to embody itself in symbolic forms that will evoke a response from the full range of our feelings.

These symbolic forms will function more in the manner of drawing us into the deeper dimension than as objects which we can control intellectually.

But because it is a higher level that is comprehending a lower, the symbolic forms by which it is embodied will always have a quality of incomprehensibility about them that eludes our conscious efforts at mastery.

Thus we can not treat artistic expression as the choice of an external symbolic form to reflect feelings which are simply given.

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

whose aim is not to inform us about what is or ought to be but to offer envisagements of what might be and to fashion symbolic forms to which questions of literal fact are not determining....

The myth we discovered in part gave symbolic form to the dismissal incident, helped the pastor to see his personal plight in a larger contextual scheme, and gave the members some images by which to discuss the deeply embarrassing incident with their pastor.

If we look outside the scientific enterprise of his time to the culture in general, we discover that this same turn - of - the - century period in which Einstein conceived his theory of relativity put him in the national German - speaking Jewish company of such contemporaries as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, the revolutionary atonalist composer Arnold Schoenberg, the critic Walter Benjamin, the great anthropologist Franz Boas, and the philosopher of symbolic forms Ernst Cassirer.

Experts refer to such decorations — along with sculpture, cave paintings and other art forms — as symbolic behaviors, which are a defining characteristic of the modern mind.

One might expect that with a square support the components of the grid would be squares also, forming a Cartesian grid in which the two symbolic structures of Modernist formal rigor would reinforce each other, as they do in Reinhardt's black paintings.

Within Sufism, which the artist has extensively studied, geometric forms contain symbolic references — associations Farmanfarmaian embraces.

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...

Nicole Cherubini's sculptures are themselves gorgeous profusions, which take a functional and symbolic form (a common box) and render a new reading of the crushed cardboard box.

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).

He staged his first solo exhibition at Marlborough New London Gallery in London in 1963, entitled «Pictures with commentary, Pictures without commentary», in which text included in the pictures and the accompanying catalogue referred to a range of literature and history, citing Aby Warburg's analysis of symbolic forms as a major influence.

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.

Much of the art of earlier cultures — signs and marks on pottery, textiles, and inscriptions and paintings on rock — used simple, geometric and linear forms which might have had a symbolic or decorative purpose.

«Symbolic Cities,» which Mater shot over three years, explores the impact of urbanization and economic change on the landscapes of his native Saudi Arabia through long - form photography and video.

A catalogue with texts by Hanru, Ayad Akhtar, Claire Brandon, and Vasif Kortun should shed light on the ways in which Sikander complicates postcolonial narratives by identifying new forms of symbolic exchange.

Commenting on her use of stripes in this regard the artist told Robert Kudielka (op.cit) that she chose them because they are «unassertive forms», unlike the shapes she was using previously (and which, in addition, often had distracting symbolic associations).

The highly polished surfaces of the twist sculptures create fleeting, fluid reflections that dissipate or disrupt any stable imagery, denying viewers the certainty of either the form's pre-twisted state — which may also be symbolic, scientific or spiritual in origin — or their own, familiar and fixed likeness beaming back at them.

Commentators on his work doubt that even Bess could unpack a piece such as «Drawings» (1957) or «Untitled» (1957), despite the glossary of symbolic forms that he evolved, which appears in the catalog.

The first symbolic forms I noticed when examining Marcus's works were the angular features which have been part of our art world universals since the Cubists became interested in the angular shapes of African masks and applied them to their art.

Highlights of the exhibition also include major works, such as Racconti di Guascogna (Tales from Gascony) 1951, and Ragazzo col Tacchino (Boy with Turkey) 1955, which show how Afro's more symbolic representation of objects and figures shifted to become a purely expressive and emotional form of abstraction.

Beginning with a dramatic, portrait - like photograph of two hands forming the shape of a duck — which interestingly does not include the cast shadow silhouette — the artist, over a series of works, gradually empties out any perceived conceptual or symbolic content from the image to create a fluidic but flattened abstract space.

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.