Sentences with phrase «tradition of revolution»

The tradition of modern art is a tradition of revolution: there's one revolution after another — for better or for worse.

Butler quotes an interview Gottlieb gave to the Washington Post in 1966: «The tradition of modern art is a tradition of revolution: there's one revolution after another — for better or for worse.

Where do we go to trace this tradition of revolutions?

A tradition of revolutions exists and can be identified very precisely, in any place, in any historical period, from where it constantly emerges in its popular form — for what is universal about this collective treasure is that it is owned by no particular region in the world, nor did any single intellectual tradition create it.

Hannah Arendt, for one, doesn't think there can be such a tradition of revolutions, because it is a treasure, a public good, which she claims is irrevocably lost between generations.

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The student riots, although politically sterile, broke the creative French tension between tradition and revolution in favor of revolution.

In his stunning new book Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1983), Harold J. Berman argues that the roots of modern universalistic principles of law, morality, science and scholarship derive from essentially theological insights which are now in peril of being lost by neglect.

While Lincoln, like Madison, understand the political significance of reverence for our founders he also understood the hostility to tradition inherent in modernity's iconoclastic premises, not to mention the ambiguous status of tradition in a nation forged from revolution and an extraordinary measure of political philosophy.

(ENTIRE BOOK) An examination of the two primary traditions — denominational biblical tradition and enlightenment utilitarianism — that worked together to contribute to the American Revolution and to create the civil religion which marks American culture to this day.

The locus of the controversy is the contrast between those who adhere to the western Christian moral tradition and those committed to the «sexual revolution» wishing to further the revolution using school children as a captive audience.

He plotted guerilla violence and revolution in the tradition of Che Guevara.

His strategy, which he refers to as a «recurrence» to this phase of philosophic thought, is to back up to the point where he is sitting there cheek to jowl with Descartes, and then to start all over again, this time avoiding the hopeless dualism which has kept Descartes, and the whole tradition which constitutes the phase of thought in question, from completing the Copernican Revolution.

But since the State tends of become the Beast that makes war on the saints (Rev. 13), i.e. to become totalitarian, it needs the checks of tradition, law and judiciary as well as opposition and revolution, to keep it a servant of justice.

A well - placed Jew, certainly he knows the teachings of the Pharisees (keep the Law), of the Essenes (be an ascetic and wait for the Coming), of the Saduccees (follow the tradition), and of the Zealots (join the revolution against Rome).

, a question deriving not so much from the Catholic tradition as from the dilemma of cradle Catholics caught up in the maelstrom of collapsing social norms and carnal yearnings unleashed by the sexual revolution of the «sixties, of which we can say, in Lady Bracknell's words»... I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?»

Swimme, a Catholic physicist and follower of Thomas Berry, emphasizes how the narrative revolution in science is now capable of placing all our religious and other traditions against the more fundamental backdrop of a cosmic story.

Now, they say, we have had another media revolution — television has taken over as the primary communication locus in society — and once again the church must come aboard and reinterpret the tradition of the Christian religion, this time in television, the medium of the age.

We have in India the traditions of Gandhi - Vinoba - led Sarvodaya, Lohite Socialism, Jai Prakash's Total Revolution and Ambedkar's pattern of dalit struggle which can become resources for the new alternative.

In the very last pages of An American Dilemma I referred to the great tradition of Enlightenment and the American Revolution and continued with what I called «a personal note»:

Not so many years after the American Revolution, at the hearth of a colonial house in Westminster, Massachusetts, our first Master Baker pulled a batch of warm crackers from the oven, and a New England tradition was born.

Republicanism can be explored as a tradition of practices and virtues, tied to the creation of revolutions.

Accordingly, this collective work to create revolutions, and the revolutions themselves, provide a furnace of ideas that shaped the republican tradition more than anything else: these mechanisms, these virtues, these practices, all define the collective endeavour to build republics.

A republican tradition without either The Federalist Papers or The Social Contract, texts which are clearly central to the two great republican revolutions of the late eighteenth century in France and North America, would be rather poor though.

Moderate revolutionaries, or eurosceptics, as we once called them, suddenly found themselves pushed into the ranks of europhiles; traditional pillars of the British society, whether judges or MPs, found themselves castigated as traitors to the true revolution, which - ironically - was carried out in the name of returning to British traditions.

If France owns a tradition of being socially liberal — and hails its leading role as the country of the 1789 Revolution and the Declaration on Human Rights — the workings of the state and its policies are not liberal.

In addition to myself and Sally Fallon, our petition was signed by three worldclass scientists: Kilmer S. McCully, MD, father of the homocysteine theory of heart disease, winner of the 1998 Linus Pauling Award and author of The Homocysteine Revolution and The Heart Revolution; Mary G. Enig, PhD, the world renowned biochemist and nutritionist who exposed the dangers of trans fats in the food supply back in the 1970s, vice president of WAPF, author of Know Your Fats and co-author of Eat Fat Lose Fat and Nourishing Traditions; and Galen D. Knight, PhD, a biochemist who has carried out pioneering research on the role of vitalethine in humoral immunity and cancer development.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, night waking was considered normal, explains Rubin Naiman, PhD, a clinical psychologist and sleep therapist who draws on spiritual teachings from yoga and other traditions in his sleep retreats and audio programs including The Yoga of Sleep.

Indiebride is part of a style revolution taking place in bridal fashion right now — one being led by a number of forward thinking designers who are turning their backs on tulle and tradition and crafting their own vision of an elegant, free spirited, modern day bride.

Honestly, in my country, there are many stories about Slavic women from South Balkan that are, due to their rich history, many revolutions and the time when Ottoman Empire spread on the territory of today's Bulgaria, managed to stay strong and saved their old traditions.

The heir to a long tradition of formidable four - cylinder Volvo engines, the electronically fuel - injected power plant produces 114 horsepower at 5,400 revolutions per minute and 136 pound - feet of torque at 2,750 rpm.

Our predominantly white, Anglo culture of tradition reflects the outlook of people who conquered and displaced the native peoples, and prevailed in a war of revolution.

The early leaders of the indie revolution had to have a certain flintiness to them, to buck so hard against tradition.

The estimates are surrounded by images and data that put Christmas celebrations in the historical context of Charles Dickens» Victorian England, the dawn of the industrial revolution when religious, social and consumer traditions became the foundations of the holiday most Americans know today.

«We're excited to continue in the Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution tradition, and bring a new game with such a rich and renewed content to fulfil all of our fans» expectations!»

Many modern boss battles have reacted to the tradition of patterns with something unexpected — an enemy that's surprisingly easy to take down, like Deus Ex: Human Revolution's final boss, or Titan Souls» one - hit kill mechanic that goes against the usual «boss with many many hit points» trope.

In the aftermath of the Mexican revolution, the country's artists forged a new painterly vocabulary, which fused European modernism with local folkloric traditions, and became a global phenomenon.

Repeating a 1970s - era tradition of feminist exhibition - making — one that is as entangled in debate as the long modernist tradition and its claims, critiques, and counterclaims about the studio — «Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 — 2016» assembles thirty - four artists who were in each case selected for their work, but were also selected for being artists who are women.

While the Museum has a tradition of showcasing the intersection of art and activism with long - term installations like Judy Chicago's Dinner Party and Revolution!

His work has also been included in exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States, such as Making Worlds, the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia (2009); Jean - Luc Blanc, Opera Rock, CAPC, Bordeaux (2009); Italics: Italian Art between Tradition & Revolution 1968 --- 2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2008); RAW - Among the Ruins, Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht (2007); After Cezanne, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2005); and International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2003).

Born in Guangdong at the beginning of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1966, Xiaoze Xie's work has remained deeply affected by the loss of tradition, culture and learning since moving to the U.S. in 1992.

Introduced by Constantin Brancusi in 1906, the process of direct carving sparked a revolution in the tradition of carved sculpture.

«Kingdoms of This World,» the Queens Museum show examining popular traditions and religious practices, is named after Cuban author Alejo Carpentier's novella The Kingdom of This World, set in Haiti around the time of the revolution.

Her art has been featured in numerous museum group exhibitions, including «Italian Art in the 20th Century» at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1989); «The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943 - 68» at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1994 - 95); «Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968 - 2008» at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2008 - 2009).

Perhaps this kind of gentle revolution is the only way forward in the UK, a country still steeped in tradition and the past.

In particular it illuminates how each of these six artists has participated in international art discourses, merging global awareness with local traditions over a 55 - year span that was punctuated by the 1979 Iranian Revolution and subsequent eight - year war with Iraq.

The title of the exhibition comes from the tradition of living history where historical events like the American Revolution and Civil War are reenacted by amateur performers using storytelling and props, always in an attempt to portray history as unchangeable as accurately as if it was fixed.

Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968 - 2008, curated by Francesco Bonami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; co - presented by the Palazzo Grassi, Venice

DF Your exhibition «Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968 — 2008» just opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, having toured from the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, where it caused some controversy.

Born in Beijing, she became interested in painting in the Western tradition as a child, but because of the Cultural Revolution she spent her teens doing agricultural labor in the countryside.

At the same time, her reexamination of the human body paralleled the cultural upheaval of the sexual revolution and women's movement: her work challenged the Western artistic tradition that regarded a woman's proper place in the arts as sitter or muse.