Sentences with phrase «than an abstraction»

We hope to show that the church is much more than an abstraction for Christian theological and ethical reflection: it is the source and purpose of that reflection.

For instance, is representational or figurative art better than abstraction?

He ventures that figurative painting allows for more - diverse cultural content — clothing, skin color, setting — than abstraction ever can.

The paintings have a natural elegance closer to conceptual work than abstraction, so that intellect and intuition are powerfully combined.

Otherwise, it is nothing more than an abstraction.

In order to avail himself of Heidegger «s «existentials» he has taken a short cut, without having made the long detour of the question of being without which these existentials — being in - the - world, fallenness, care, being - toward - death, and so on — are nothing more than abstractions of lived experience, of a formalized existenziell.

Dickerman urges against defning abstraction in terms of forward progress... less interested in the invention of abstraction than abstraction as invention.

Perhaps a better word than abstraction for what Hollowell does would be aniconism — the self - manifestation of archetypal representations of spiritual forms.

In France, Henri Bergson noted that reality is a dynamic flux, like a cinema, from which abstractions, like single frames of the film, are made; for intelligibility the abstractions must be referred back to the élan vital from which they were originally drawn; intuition is more perceptive of reality than abstractions.

KJM My provocative answer would be yes, because figuration is more important than abstraction.

The anger of the 1960s spoke bravely against something real and urgent, perhaps far more so than the abstraction of existentialist anxiety.

I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction.

From far away many of these paintings appear to be large - scale gestural abstractions, but on closer inspection the viewer detects total flatness — the abstract paint marks were actually photographed and silkscreened on top of images of personal spaces, creating an image of abstraction rather than the abstraction itself.

My argument that absolute perfection, taken as fully concrete, is contradictory since there are incompatible possible goods, so that even God can not exhaustively actualize them, Alston rejects, arguing that this is not what absolute perfection, taken as more than an abstraction, means.

When my faith had become little more than an abstraction, a set of propositions to be affirmed or denied, the tangible, tactile nature of the sacraments invited me to touch, smell, taste, hear, and see God in the stuff of everyday life again.

In other words, there is a complete paradox if we attempt to look at the ordinary physicist's view of time as anything more than an abstraction.

The term is apt, since this movement shares many features with the romanticism of literature and philosophy — the stress on feeling rather than rationality, on individuality (e.g., the individual nation) rather than universality, on particularity (e.g., of blood and soil) rather than abstraction.

As we have wrestled with the question over the years, we have slowly begun to realise it is more than an abstraction, the intangible concept embodying anything that can be expressed in strings of 1s and 0s.

In a video interview for the current show, Resika notes how he took landscape, rather than abstraction, as his starting point.

Walker's other work comes closer still to Pop rather than abstraction, but it continues to play with the same multiple sign languages.

Over three dozen artists fill an entire museum, sharing nothing more than abstraction — plus those suitably profound nouns in the exhibition subtitle.

These painters focused on depicting contemporary life through innovative figurative works, rather than the abstraction, minimalism, and conceptualism that dominated contemporary art at the time.

[3] While he believed that all art was abstract to some degree, he preferred to call his paintings «presences» and «implosions of color» rather than abstractions.

The title makes us see the painting as something more than an abstraction, or a mess, and something less than a personal confession.

I certainly think drawing is a more useful context for talking / thinking about «real spatial content» than abstraction is.