Sentences with phrase «utopian ideals»

His imagery presents a playful odyssey that references the meta - narratives of art history and is contingent on the juxtaposition of utopian ideals of modernism with the aesthetics of surrealism and conceptual art.

Studying over three decades of similar policies (i.e., educational policies based on utopian ideals that continuously promote new and improved standards along with new and improved tests to ensure that the higher standards are met) does a realistic skeptic make!

Instead, Henry chose Fairhope, Alabama, a town with utopian ideals and a haven for strong - minded individualists.

For Perez, Caribbean - style architecture reflected the political and social circumstances of the Caribbean nations in the 1950s and 1960s, and suggested utopian ideals for a better tomorrow.

Here, remnants of modernist utopian ideals seem to shake hands with the art history — conscious Pop - Conceptualism of today.

The point of this theological excursus is to say that the persons to whom utopian ideals of the future are addressed are in varying degrees idol worshipers who do not find it easy to free themselves from them to seek more inclusive values.

The church has set up programs of social justice, preached utopian ideals, adopted resolutions, urged charity, proclaimed good will among men; but neither the progressive impoverishment of the life of the many nor the growth of the privileges of the few has been stayed by its efforts.

As complex it may be to realize, world peace must stand as a tangible goal and not something to be thought of as a mere utopian ideal or intellectual exercise.

During the revolutionary period, radical experiments with abstraction fed into utopian ideals and communicated political goals, most famously in El Lissitzky's abstract poster Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919 - 20).

In Quinn's work, sublime backgrounds meet broken - down foregrounds, and at all turns utopian ideals are acknowledged and critiqued.

By repainting and re-contextualizing the car hoods he appropriates, Prince subverts utopian ideals about the character of both geometric abstraction and the male psyche.

These are set alongside her two - dimensional work: the abstract works on paper of the early 1940s and her figurative «hospital drawings» of 1947 - 8, both expressing in different ways utopian ideals.

Reyle critically reflects not only upon the prevailing codes of taste but also the sometimes utopian ideals of modern abstraction.

«Abstraction in the visual arts has often been misunderstood through the lens of the historical avant - garde and high modernism, whose utopian ideals of universality and humanism were intertwined with the totalizing ambitions of the social and political projects of Western modernity,» said curator Acevedo - Yates.

Even collage works such as Untitled (Second Stage Injector), 1963, and Algae, Algae, c. 1961 - 63, like the aforementioned sculptures, employ humor and psychedelic imagery to reference utopian ideals and the drug - induced haze of 1960s counterculture.

Though it sounds like science - fiction (the connections Chu draws with quantum mechanics and the multiverse verge toward the poetic), his vision can trace some of its roots to the tenets of the organic architecture that Frank Lloyd Wright helped popularize, and to the 1960s, when architects around the world blended utopian ideals with the promise of new technologies.

A new climate strategy should take a page from one of America's greatest homegrown traditions — pragmatism1 — which values pluralism over universalism, flexibility over rigidity, and practical results over utopian ideals.

Founded on Utopian ideals, by the nihilist Kasimir Malevich (1878 - 1935), Suprematism expressed limitless confidence in the ability of engineers to create a new Soviet world.

Echoing the Barbican's own history as a site of post-war destruction rebuilt with utopian ideals, Agadir's reconstruction followed Morocco's newly gained independence from colonial rule.

The stupidity of European decisions is precisely because Europe has engaged on these utopian ideals while offloading the costs to the US.

For organizations on this list, it isn't a utopian ideal but an everyday reality.»

A widespread impression is that the Mosaic debt jubilee was a utopian ideal.

Surprisingly enough, in his own paradoxical way Reinhold Niebuhr provides support for the idea that utopian ideals have a transforming power.

Surely one can not insist upon a utopian ideal of an absolute moral purity as a prerequisite for keeping the law in human society, where there can be only approximate justice, and moral ambiguities are as much a part of life as idealism and spirit.

And we substitute devotion to our utopian ideals for the posture of trust in an open future.

This would render its decisions not only more accurate but also in accordance with the ethics of international law, bringing ever closer the utopian ideal of an efficient, clean and ethical conduct of war.

«I'm always aiming for a serenity as a Utopian ideal,» Owens explains, in the seductive, measured drawl with which he typically expresses his darkest, most convoluted thoughts.

Although the film wears its utopian ideals on its sleeve, helmer Nitin Kakkar leavens the political content with an absurdist sense of humor and a heartwarming turn of events

Penn and Teller go on a logic spree with their argument that the utopian ideal of world peace is dangerously naive and out of sync with human nature.

The short shows a police convention in Hawaii where the officers» reactionary attitudes stand in sharp contrast to the utopian ideals of the main film.

These include the varying comforts and malaise of the «urban haute bourgeoisie» in Metropolitan (1990); how certain class cultures clash with political realities abroad in Barcelona (1994); and the collapse of the utopian ideals of disco in The Last Days of Disco (1996).

Instead of trying to specify the amount of progress students should make based on some utopian ideal, it rewards or sanctions schools for making more (or less) progress than one might expect under the circumstances.

However, the relevant comparison is not a utopian ideal but the far - from - utopian status quo and other feasible alternatives.

To achieve their version of the Utopian ideal, the Soviets executed a planned economy in the extreme; everything, from the amount of food that would be made to the quantity of clothes that would be sold in stores, was regulated and calculated according to an elaborate system of quotas.

This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising, but soon the gentle equilibrium among the families disintegrates: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester; the project's funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy's growing feelings for Dr. Grind make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place.

Based on the utopian ideal built by the euphoria of professional promoters which has been articulated effortlessly well in the previous paragraph, the traditional route can also offer lucrative deal in paying lump advances and connecting with influential networks e.g. bloggers, designers, illustrators, multi-national online stores.

When a game is willfully repetitive, it's a little rebellion against the fantastical, utopian ideals of the form.

His works are reminiscent of Op Art in their illusory quality and Russian Constructivism in their utopian ideals.

These aspects add a humanizing and down - to - earth sensibility to the original works» utopian ideals and notions of artistic genius.

These aspects add a humanizing and down - to - earth sensibility to the original works» utopian ideals...

Coventry creates direct references to the utopian ideals of Modernism, which originally strived to refashion the world.

Novoa's imagery falls somewhere along this binary, between the black and white moralities of the dystopian / anti-utopian impulse; neither decidedly malicious nor benevolent, but altogether counter to a utopian ideal.