Sentences with phrase «symbolic objects as»

She also utilizes the presence of symbolic objects as a significant aspect in her entire body of work.

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We believe that we have found a set of structures that allows descriptions of prehensions as well as providing a symbolic understanding of Whiteheadian eternal objects and propositions.

The authors believe structures allowing descriptions of prehensions as well as providing symbolic understanding of Whitheadian eternal objects and propositions have been found.

This means that a Prolog program interpreted at its most abstract level as a logical or mathematical structure is a symbolic expression for an eternal object.

This implies the recognition that subject - object knowledge fulfills its true function only in so far as it retains its symbolic quality of pointing back to the dialogical knowing from which it derives.

Universal Algebra, in precisely this sense, is a poor framework for mathematics insofar as it unites spatial manifolds and symbolic logic by introducing the common notion of an algebraic manifold (Whitehead's terminology) or a semi-group (current standard terminology), an object with very little structure or intrinsic interest.9 In this case, generalization comes at the expense of abstract sterility.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

As Hunt himself pointed out, nearly every object in the picture is imbued with a symbolic significance.

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines metaphor as «a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable... a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.»

«6 Symbolic expression takes objects, persons, experiences and events that are familiar and employs them as indicators of the less familiar.

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

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

The Light Between Oceans paints Tom and Isabel's romance in elliptical glances — a seductive strategy, but also one that leaves them feeling less like fully fleshed human beings than objects as symbolic as that lighthouse, the broken piano in their seaside home, or a metal rattle that becomes integral to the plot.

For this study, this fluency was defined as simultaneous awareness of all representations associated with a mathematical concept, as measured by the ability to pass seamlessly among verbal, geometric, symbolic, and numerical representations of the same mathematical object.

Organized as a world of symbolic structures and their associated objects, the exhibition is dedicated to Black luminaries including George Black, Frankie Knuckles and Muddy Waters.

As an artist, she exposed the symbolic potency of everyday images and objects in her drawings and assemblages.

She describes these as «valueless objects which I invest with autobiographical or symbolic meaning».

The sixty plus works of art by nearly forty artists, additionally reflect international artistic responses to an US dominated ideology of car culture — either in its specificity as an object or in its symbolic significance — from Swiss - born Sylvie Fleury to Belgium's Wim Delvoye.

The works in this show, many of which were made expressly for this exhibition, are meant to be read as symbolic objects, conveying through association and interaction a sense of a troubled but not hopeless world.

Wilkes» highly subjective work consists of objects (strollers, soiled dishes, dolls, dried flower petals) that recur as symbolic leitmotifs.

Reut Avisar's multidisciplinary practice deals with culturally loaded, symbolic artifacts, objects and folk craft as they appear in tourism culture and its different manifestations.

In this context, the artist uses the pencil as object and also as symbolic container; both as an immediate extension tool of the brain and as a device for creating a dynamic pattern or language.

With a penchant for non-heroic, «anti-art» materials such as spray foam and aluminum, and a keen eye for cultural objects bemired in symbolic notions of power, Bäckström's deeply tactile works create a rich interplay between association, meaning, and materials.

By deliberately distorting the objects Gober re-creates, he allows them to function as symbolic metaphors, breaking free from the reality of our perceived world and moving into a liminal space — one that exists somewhere between reality and dreams.

The next few years represent a rather conceptual phase, and probably the least known to the general public: sculptural pieces — the «oggetto - quadri» («object - pictures») as he called them — with minimalist echoes, drawings and objects characterized by more symbolic, essential and silent signs.

This is apparent in later conceptual works, such as (Snow Proposal), 1967, and (Map Piece), 1968, in which symbolic documentation replaces the actual object.

Donald Judd always intended his slick geometric shapes to emphasis the purity of the objects themselves, as opposed to any symbolic significance they might possess.

Sometimes later cast in bronze, these sculptures suggest myths, symbolic objects, archaeological finds, as in» Winter's Passage Luxor (Porto Ercole)» (1985).

As symbolic objects, children have often stood in for innocence, free spiritedness and play.

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

Also known as Deadly Nightshade, this amongst other botanical elements, symbols and body parts literally fuses a symbolic role to his botanical imagery and transforms the object into an exotic hybrid.

Form, scale, the body as object, and the symbolic implications of the human form are explored by a number of artists working in ceramics today.»

In addition, as part of the concurrent exhibition a glyph, a tool, an icon, El Museo has invited Santiago Muñoz to explore El Museo's collection of over 8,000 objects and select a group of works that connect to her ideas, her films, her approach to making art and other real or symbolic affinities.

Other artists seminal in using the body as a metaphor for psychological conditions are Bruce Nauman, whose severed heads are forever frustrated in their inability to communicate with the rest of the body, and Louise Bourgeois, whose assemblages of cast body fragments and objects inside cubelike interiors, or «cells,» as she calls them, are the symbolic plasma of an individual.

Bits of text are often incorporated, as well as singular symbolic attributes (the objects the sitters hold, the clothes they wear) that tell the story of who they are — glimpses of their internal lives, their relationship to the world and each other.»

Rather than a symbolic object of desire in the mode of the co-opted muscle car, she recognizes the truck as a worker.

In these experiences, Byars not only reworked his role as an artist but also the mise en scène, giving symbolic value to rigorous objects and stressing the inherent beauty of materials, including fabric, stone and especially gold.

Working in a classical sculptural lexicon, Dexter Dymoke's practice explores the correlations and tensions between objects, materials and their engagement in space — he describes his work as an engagement with a discrete but rigorous conceptual enquiry into the symbolic and metaphoric role of materials.

SCAD presents «Imprint: Past as Prologue,» an exhibition by Masud Olufani (M.F.A., sculpture, 2013) that explores history, memory, community and the symbolic power of objects.

The fourteen works on view will reflect art's longstanding relationship with the car as a cultural icon and fetish object replete with physical and symbolic possibilities.

His sculptures and installations, constructed out of industrial materials such as Plexiglas, concrete, and steel and arranged in precise geometric shapes, were intended to emphasize the purity of the objects themselves rather than any symbolic meaning they might have — «the simple expression of complex thought,» said Judd.

They oscillate between two - and three - dimensional objects; slight, elegant black forms that cut through space, as if demarcating the end of physical and the beginning of the abstract or symbolic.

Genzken disassociates money from its role as currency, and encourages an appreciation of it as a material object, as a social artifact, and for its symbolic connotations.

Saar taps the symbolic richness of found objects, reusing cast iron frying pans as ideally - sized surfaces for portraits — the pans» «seasoning» (the aromatic patina that builds up after frying stuff) becoming part of the object's story, focused around domestic labor.

Whether working with text, an actor, a set, or a song, the artist treats symbolic elements as independent objects.

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.

He examines the symbolic and emotional potential of objects, places and situations to produce works that have historical as well as personal resonance.

The artist develops a hybrid work, of pictorial and sculptural character, where the image blends with the materiality of the object in a apparent contrast that functions as a symbolic complement.

Symbolic objects and archetypal characters, such as a key, a knife, a flower and a dark shadow, recur throughout the film.