Sentences with phrase «symbolic place in history»

But, if he wants to earn more than a racially symbolic place in history, this is his chance to do it.

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In addition to the term's literal meaning, discuss what symbolic meanings or associations the title might have in terms of a connection with our place of birth, our ancestors, our heritage, and our personal and cultural historieIn addition to the term's literal meaning, discuss what symbolic meanings or associations the title might have in terms of a connection with our place of birth, our ancestors, our heritage, and our personal and cultural historiein terms of a connection with our place of birth, our ancestors, our heritage, and our personal and cultural histories.

If my representation of places partakes of the symbolic order of language and history, it's also grounded in the back and forth of direct observation, a preverbal set of responses set in the context of physical contact and bodily connections.

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.