Sentences with phrase «utopian ideals of»

«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.

Influenced by the utopian ideals of the progressive education movement, it placed the arts at the center of liberal arts education and believed that in doing so it could better educate citizens for participation in a democratic society.

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

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.

Many of the forms and compositions recall mid-century Minimalism, Hard - edge painting, and modernist architecture with its utopian ideals of living.

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

It is like the Catholic Church persecuting Galileo for saying the earth revolved around the sun, except the new behavioral «church» is the Church of Extremists and The Politically Correct, ruled by the operant conditioning / «all positive» / clicker training «priests», persecuting those who preach reality because it conflicts with this new church's utopian ideals of how the world should work.

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).

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.

The conception of peace as an ordered tranquillity which must continually be worked for through history contrasts markedly with the utopian ideal of peace found in some religious and nonreligious thinking about the possibilities of international order, not to mention with the empirical reality of conflict within states and conflicts between states and nonstate actors in the contemporary world.

Not exact matches

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

The religious aspects of the Jesuit missions were inimical to Enlightenment philosophes, but the story of the reducciones nevertheless helped thinkers such as Montesquieu to articulate new ideals as, in Imbruglia's words, «the creation of a utopian society became the mission of European civilisation.»

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.

The last thing the philosopher should be is an aloof onlooker or a rhetorical cheerleader, for «without the knowledge of actual conditions and of relations of cause and effect, any values that we set up as ends are bare ideals in the sense in which ideal» means utopian, without means for its realization» (JDE 18).

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.

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

If a theological sketch of the idea of a theological school is a utopian exercise, the community it describes is less an ideal city than a crossroads hamlet with an overwhelmingly white male population.

Here are some examples of this ideal «utopian» society (as far as movement is concerned).

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

That's when Udo Kier's character suggests that what looks like a utopian ideal may in fact be a cult of similarly loony people.

Where everyone is expected to snitch on neighbors, relatives, and colleagues for the good of utopian, if by now worn - out, socialist ideals, it becomes harder to despise individual informants.

This is the utopian version, the uncompromising pursuit of a difficult agrarian ideal.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

Thirty years after graduating from the School of Art + Design, Julie presents a new series of works that reflect on how the modernist architecture of the campus and its utopian ideals influenced her artistic practice.

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.

A sort - of a folly, the piece performs as an homage to utopian ideals.

This year's shortlist consists of Knut Henriksen, whose dominating sculptures reference modernist architecture, utopian ideals and pragmatic solutions with dazzling visceral results; Vibeke Tandberg who has filled a room with among other things, 119 plaster casts of freezer doors as a comment on recycling; Lars Lauman who has crammed a room with ephemera from an era that seemed chemically obsessed, including E.T dolls and archival science material on acid attacks; while Mattias Härenstam has set up a pulley that drags a birch tree branch around the exterior of a room, blocking people from entering or exiting the doorway.

The «white cube» was considered to be out of time and space, an ideal, a sterile, utopian place for no less sterile autonomous art.

Sometimes, with no more than a dusting, architecture can remind us of utopian ideals that were trampled long ago.

From his earliest work, dated to the late 1990s and inspired by the writings of Charles Fourier, an 18th - century utopian thinker, and the drawings of Henry Darger, an outsider artist and writer who produced a voluminous illustrated manuscript about pre-pubescent Amazons leading a rebellion against child abusers, Chan has been fascinated by the contrast between ideal visions and the violent, sexually charged feelings and sensations that inspire them.

Geyer's eye seems drawn to the utopian energy of this milieu, and the way in which it freely crossed divisions of race and class in its melting pot of radical ideals.

Using modernist aesthetics and ideals elucidated by the Russian constructivists and the Bauhaus school — both of which are movements known for their utopian aspirations — Cerrillo makes steel frames that outline empty gallery space, exploring the failure of Modernist abstraction to connote real meaning.

Throughout the summer, the chair — designed to seat two — will facilitate a series of off - site public discussions and workshops (see schedule below), engaging its history within the broader concept of «the commons» as a utopian ideal and shared intellectual space, as well as a critical site of communication and exchange.

Lehmann Maupin looks to highlight these ideas with their new show, which features two recent installations — Civitas Solis IV (2016) and Souterrain (2012/2016)-- that, through carefully choreographed interplays of mirrors, lightbulbs, and metal, seek to instill in their viewers a sense of both the freedom and claustrophobia that are so often linked in utopian ideals.

The Gardener Digs in Another Time, which is on show till 9 October 2016, reflects upon the use of the garden in visual culture as a vehicle for utopian thought and an emblem for an ideal society.

Ryan Lauderdale mines the past for abandoned styles and utopian ideals to sublimate into sculpture — constructions that play on the notion of the archive and reify discarded histories.

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.

Offering an extraordinary look at one of the world's most basic social concepts, this exhibition explores the differences and affinities within artworks relative to immigration and political repression, dislocation and diaspora, and personal memory and utopian ideals.

explores the theme of revolution, drawing a stark contrast between the utopian ideals inherent in anarchic action and the darker realities of its consequences.

Bringing together a body of entirely new work across two floors of the gallery, Making Eden explores the theme of revolution, drawing a stark contrast between the utopian ideals inherent in anarchic action and the darker realities of its consequences.

Anton Vidokle engages modernist traditions in works that explore the persistence and failures of utopian ideals.

Artists explore themes of social isolationism, paranoia, the passage of time, and also address the impact of technology on humanity and the environment, while exploring the dichotomy of utopian ideals and the realities of modern daily existence.

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.

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.

In one body of work, Sworn offered drawings of late - 1960s children's playgrounds, suggesting how ideas of childhood, play, sculptural aesthetics and utopian ideals might shift and connect through different eras.