Sentences with phrase «utopian dreams of»

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.

At the Walker, utopian dreams of peaceful and diverse living are illustrated by Superstudio in a suite of proposals for environments to create better life and death experiences, but they are difficult to realize in practice.

«I use landscape painting to explore the utopian dreams of Chinese history, from past collectivization to new consumerism,» explains Ji, who was trained in Song Dynasty (960 — 1279) landscape painting.

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

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

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 Brazil.

On Sunday, «Tomorrowland,» the $ 150 million sci - fi saga inspired by the utopian dreams of Disneyland founder Walt Disney and one of its park rides, was pulling away from «Pitch Perfect 2» after the two movies went into Saturday neck - and - neck.

In this respect the Utopian dreams of social justice in which many contemporary socialists and anarchists indulge are, in spite of their impracticability and non-adaptation to present environmental conditions, analogous to the saint's belief in an existent kingdom of heaven.

One reads November 1916 in the eerie awareness of what is to come, which makes all the more pitiful and ludicrous the liberal posturing of the politicians and the utopian dreams of the revolutionary terrorists, each of whom has a plan for using the bloody war with Germany to realize his ambitions.

68 Thus Niebuhr once again argued against both the utopian dreams of those who sought to flee from the historical process into a timeless realm and those who were too optimistic in their interpretation of history.

Notwithstanding the utopian dreams of today's globalists, there is no reason to assume that present migrations will yield different results today.

Breaking a ten - year silence about his own experience, Stoen stated last July that «what made Jim Jones a historical figure was his genius in giving the utopian dreams of idealistic people a tangible structure for expression.»

The utopian dream of the free thinkers from Santa Monica to Riga and Tel Aviv of an anonymous community Digital Autonomous Organization, DAO currencies, managed by the membership will not happen on any significant scale while central banks exist.

Thus the danger: What was once a noble venture has become a temptation to a false transcendence, one that involves a utopian dream of public life governed by moral universals rather than political wisdom.

However, the building was never constructed, and existed only temporarily in model form — a Utopian dream of a reality that was only ever destined to become a fantasy.

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.

Not exact matches

Each idealist in Peoples Temple was being carried by the driving force of his own personal utopian dream, which developed the momentum of a locomotive, and all Jim Jones had to do was switch the track toward the abyss [quoted in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, July 24].

No stranger to Christianity, Stoen was seeking the fulfillment of a kind of utopian dream.

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.

Hope for our society lies in the possibility of the rebirth of visionary thought, utopian dreaming, the resurrection of the split between present and future that provides the dynamic of change in the direction of projected ideals.

Magic, play, and utopian dreams are the foundation for his future community of faith.64

Much remains to be said in detailing and defending the value of utopian dreaming, but this chapter must come to a close on a note of realism.

These are the goals of a Christian civilization, imperfectly realized, to be sure, in any society but sufficiently manifest in Europe and America to make it evident that a Christian democracy is not merely a utopian dream.

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

William Appleman Williams, on whom Bacevich so heavily relies, was a radical leftist who dreamed of an America that would transcend self «interest and transform itself into a utopian «Christian commonwealth.»

And yet, ironically, the authors of the book — along with François Furet, Arthur Koestler, and George Orwell among others — were at one time themselves men of the left who were tempted by the utopian dream.

Then there is the tacked - on conclusion: that all of American politics, ever since the Progressives, has been a dispiriting and disappointing enterprise, precisely because, for better and worse, it has not lived up to the Progressives» utopian dreams.

Yet if the United States can not divorce itself from the world, neither can it indulge in utopian dreams that fuel expectations of sustaining American dominance on the cheap.

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.

Utopian fantasies and exaggerated dreams of national greatness agitated millions in the twentieth century, providing legitimacy to communist and fascist regimes.

So he denies that the utopian integration he suggests can be «more than dreamed of» (CE 33).

The group said the recent statement by the Central Bank of Nigeria's governor, Godwin Emefiele that the current economic recession will end before December was a utopian dream.

These articulations, together with allusions to contemporary sun - saturated paintings, the illustrated «girls» stories» of Louise Mack, fairytales and dreams, summon an internalised, Utopian realm that occludes the outside world, and is movingly evoked in the credit sequence, its pictorial timelessness framed by two textual statements of time and place.

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.

Subsequently their dream came true and the Utopian World of Sandwiches was born... although it didn't know it was the Utopian World of Sandwiches yet.

One day they met someone who helped them to realise their dream of making games and the Utopian World of Sandwiches was born.

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.

1983 Memorial Exhibition: Ilya Bolotowsky, Gilmore D. Clarke, Jose De Creeft, Theodore Roszak, Jack Tworkov, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Beyond the Plane: American Constructions 1930 - 1965, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Dreams and Nightmares: Utopian Visions in Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1927 - 1944, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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.

Far from unveiling a tempting menu of utopian futures, it chews over the leftovers of a broken dream.

The spaces in the «Candy Lands» of her work relate to immigrant utopian visions of the American Dream.

I used to visit some places regularly in my dreams for example an urban Utopian environment with lots of space.

It is about how culture — objects, languages, ideas, utopian dreams — endure across centuries, although sometimes only in the form of fragments or ruins or memories.

Speaking of The Wish Machine, Autoban explained: «The gesture of casting a wish into the dark reflects the profound hope of those among the biggest movement of people in recorded history, who search for utopian lands with dreams of a better future.»

Nachman's work is a meditation on utopian dreams and the erosion of human experimentation.

CHINESE ART SURVEY MUSEUM to 5 October 2008 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Half - Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art This selection of contemporary Chinese art from the Logan Collection reveals a spectrum of individual responses to the utopian... Continue reading →