Sentences with phrase «utopian dreaming as»

I believe there is a particular need at the present to focus attention on utopian dreaming as a way of shaking us loose from obsolete ways of thinking and opening us up to those ideas, attitudes, and values that are appropriate for the future.

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If one considers, however briefly, what conditions will make possible the flowering in the human heart of this new universal love, so often vainly dreamed of but now at last leaving the realm of the utopian and declaring itself as both possible and necessary, one notices this: that if men on earth, all over the earth, are ever to love one another it is not enough for them to recognize in one another the elements of a single something; they must also, by developing a «planetary» consciousness, become aware of the fact that without loss of their individual identities they are becoming a single somebody.

The city is the place of hopes and dreams, as the utopian thought of Plato, Augustine, and Thomas More attest.

As our report finds, this is not a utopian dream.

Perhaps, when utopian dreams fail — as they do, over and over, in Moon Brow — the only appropriate response, to borrow one of Nabokov's timeless phrases, is laughter in the dark.

Perhaps, when utopian dreams fail — as they do, over and over, in Moon Brow — the only appropriate laughter, to borrow one of Nabokov's timeless phrases, is laughter in the dark.

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As their hometown metastasized and Brasília started to rise, São Paulo artists such as Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto painted totally abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues in the former's case, cascading black - and - white stripes in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new BraziAs their hometown metastasized and Brasília started to rise, São Paulo artists such as Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto painted totally abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues in the former's case, cascading black - and - white stripes in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new Brazias Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto painted totally abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues in the former's case, cascading black - and - white stripes in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new Brazil.

Questioning the utopian nature of suburbia, Brian Tolle's colorful sculptures from his Levittown series reveal that the once idyllic perception of these middleclass communities is fading as fast as the American dream.

Shapiro takes the installation into the realm of a metaphysical playground that bounces from dream states, hence the infinite possibilities of the unconscious, toward utopian spirituality as a reference to precedents observable in numerous examples within the 20th century avant - garde.

Presented as an interrelated set of experiences, the exhibition (until 25 September 2016) weaves together concerns about land, architecture, progress, utopian dreams, inequality, trauma and resistance that refer as much to imagined futures as to the historical past.

The Dreams section presents future - oriented and activist art through political posters and graphics, the publication as conceptual art project, cinematic protest, and the legacies of utopian architecture.

His work confronts the failed utopian dreams of modernist aesthetics and investigates contemporary social reality as well as the techniques of mass media.

This screening of HD transfers of Stan VanDerBeek's short animated films, as well as unpublished documentation from his Cine Dreams projects, examines the utopian film experiments that he undertook after his studies at Black Mountain College.

But, she sees herself as a mediator who strikes a balance between the economic necessities of the market and the utopian dreams of artists.

The title Pure Pretty Fever lends itself to the sweet pastel colors and his optimistic visions of utopian oasis and wild desert homesteads as well as the ecstatic nature of a vision's production, like hallucinations in a fever dream.

Similarly, the fair worked with Thai - born Rirkrit Tiravanija to present an herbal garden, kitchen, and communal dining area on the Messeplatz as Do We Dream Under the Same Sky, a conceptual project that riffs on the artist's ongoing investigations of sustainability and utopian ideals as the impetus for art practice.

Arranged in a rectangular grid in the shape of page, the holes suggest a strong ending, as if the book has closed with utopian dreams of a perfect society.

Maybe nowhere else is the gap between the utopian 1960s and 70s dream of the future and the reality of life in the 21st century as acutely felt as right here.

And secondly, that these lower - tech solutions deserve at least as much investment and attention as the wackier Utopian pipe dreams.

That's right, if Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts are correct, the utopian dream of a foldable iPhone could become a commercial reality as early as 2020.