Sentences with phrase «utopian impulses»

Her work engages the history of nonobjective art — from Constructivism to Futurism — posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.

While these artists do not adhere to utopian impulses of previous eras, they nevertheless envision novel collective relationships and emergent models of engaged citizenship, where power is not dispensed with but instead re-routed to other ends.

Indeed, it would be a subtle historical task to determine whether the language of community arose as a protest against modernity or whether the language of modernity arose as a protest against what were taken to be the Utopian impulses behind the language of community.

Perhaps Mexico City interests me, because there is such a utopian impulse in the architecture, but it is city where things are constantly failing.

There's also a utopian impulse — to make failure into virtue, to redeem failure, awkwardness and inarticulacy by making them articulate.»

Not exact matches

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.

This latest work explores the intrinsic tension that exists within utopian idealism, which represents aspirational and optimistic impulses, yet is also suggestive of ruin, fragmentation, and destruction.