Sentences with phrase «utopian visions»

There's no shortage of utopian visions in the IT industry, but the journey to cloud computing that some folks espouse makes...

Utopian visions of avoiding climate «tipping points» in the next decade are completely unrealistic.

April 2015 «Sculptural Screens and Utopian Visions: Harry Bertoia's Architectural Commissions of the 1950s,» Materialising Modern Identities: Architectural sculpture after 1750, AAH 2015 Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich

A prolific visionary, Frederick's drawings and paintings possess an abundance of idealism, realized as utopian visions of the future - proclamations from «Glory News», superhero first responders defeating armies of demons, or a «love and justice» rocket ship flying overhead.

The site the artist chose is significant with regard to his field research; different themes and areas of interest in Zink Yi's work intersect in the portrait of Havana: the utopian visions of social revolutionaries, the stark reality of socialism, the cults and rites of the Afro - Cuban population.

Located in a former Bell Labs building on the lower West side, it was converted by Richard Meier with utopian visions of an artists community bettering the world.

Although biomorphic forms had appeared in both painting and sculpture by 1913, it was only after the destruction of the utopian visions of Futurism, Cubism and Constructivism, by Stalinism, the Great Depression and Nazism, that Science was superceded by Nature as the prime inspiration for painters and sculptors alike.

These sculptures are inspired by Taut's utopian visions of an «Alpine Architecture», devised just before the end of the First World War and the collapse of the German empire.

The Writings of Thomas Hirchhorn, Edited by Lisa Lee and Hal Foster, MIT Press Dia Art Foundation presents Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci Monument in neighborhood of the Bronx, Art Daily, 1 July Smith, William S, Under Construction: Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci Monument in Bronx, Art in America, 25 June Italian Philosophy in the Bronx, Art Info, July Power 100, Art Review, November Merjian, Ara H., Review: Thomas Hirschhorn, Frieze, November - December Burns, Charlotte, Utopian visions in the Bronx, The Art Newspaper, 1 July Kennedy, Randy, Housing Project Meets Art Project in the South Bronx, The New York Times, 2 May Johnson, Ken, A Visit to Thomas Hirschhorn's «Gramsci Monument», The New York Times, 25 July

The objects are loosely organized into three thematic sections that look at cities and urban spaces; household objects and domestic spaces; and utopian visions.

Boasting dazzling colours, utopian visions and — of course — a dollop of elephant dung, the artist Chris Ofili's latest exhibition Night and Day is open at the New Museum in New York.

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

Keith Coventry is best known for his paintings of council estates, paintings that are an indictment of the utopian visions of the early twentieth century artist, Malevich.

Probably nothing could detach MoMA from Modernism or Modernism from utopian visions.

Beyond apocalyptic scenarios or utopian visions, the artists included propose a reassessment of our current condition and look towards the future - present from an empowering stance that challenges boundaries.

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

Immediately impressive, the site - specific work occupies the vast 1640 square metre industrial space of the Turbine Hall and references the utopian visions of early 20th century modernity from a post-modern perspective.

The 2018 biennial asks: «Where have our utopian visions gone?

Paglen presents new sculptures, photographs and works on paper, offering «multiple takes on the history of spaceflight, from the utopian visions of late 19th Century Russian «Cosmists,» to present - day military and surveillance apparatuses.»

The second cycle of the museum's millennial trilogy focuses on the years between 1920 and 1960, reconsidering utopian visions, the art of social protest, and the backlash against Modernism.

The ideas that made these intellectuals quite radical and, not coincidentally, exciting, also minimized the likelihood that their utopian visions would become reality.

But he pointedly referred to himself as a «sceptic» and backed those who question the «grand plans and utopian visions» of those in the EU.

It seeks to transcend utopian visions of the future that had been built up out of our previous wishings.

It could be said to be represented by utopian visions that began to be taken seriously from the seventeenth century onwards.

Conservative preaching included such mundane topics as work, family life, and church programs; but they were treated in terms of utopian visions — getting rich, always being happy, finding the perfect church.7

As I have indicated, change and transformation will be offered from new voices and new perspective — new voices representing the pluralism within culture as a whole and within theological education, and new perspectives that allow us to speak about practices and utopian visions within these practices.

At one level, separatism is represented by literary utopian visions (like those of Sally Gearhart and Charlotte Perkins Gilman) in which women form woman - identified, male - excluding communities.

Many doubt that utopian vision.

The utopian vision of an entrepreneur who wanted to do his part for income inequality looks shortsighted in the cold light of reality.

Today, Price's utopian vision of doing his part for income inequality by making sure all his employees had incomes that would make them happy — or so said the psychology research he read — is looking more than a little shortsighted in the cold light of reality.

As Imbruglia notes, the utopian vision of the Paraguayan missions was created by the Jesuits themselves: In widely circulated accounts, Jesuit authors described how once - «savage» Indios «became different men» through their conversion and joined a «perfect society» resembling the early Church.

Channelling the spirit of John Lennon's «Imagine», he describes a utopian vision of the future in which the «depth and warmth» of his own secular - humanist philosophy is universally embraced at the expense of God.

Our task is to forge an intelligent middle ground between the «dread menace» and the «Utopian vision.»

Either the Net is «a dread menace or it's a Utopian vision.»

I too share Hitchens's dislike for the utopian vision of a globalized state, where national differences disappear and some sort of coerced political fealty to a collective Oceania erases regional, cultural, linguistic, and tribal idiosyncrasy.

Finally, I return again to the claim that the most significant contribution the church can make to the biopolitical task is to nourish a new consciousness, a utopian vision of a desirable human future arising from the inspiration of the Christian past.

I can only give expression to my own intuition that this possible emergence of a new consciousness should be given shape by a utopian vision of a planetary brotherhood at peace with nature and with God, united with all of life in the enjoyment of its potentialities.

In 1975 there appeared in Germany a book entitled: The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto, on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, edited by Walter Kunneth and Peter Beyerhaus.34 The book attacked not only the World Council of Churches but also the Lutheran World Federation, World Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncretism.

, The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, Liebnzeller Mission Press, 1975.

His claim is that, without a utopian vision, liberalism perishes.

Radicals are the permanently unsatisfied among us — nihilists of the Utopian vision, restless with the imperfections of humanity as we know it — who clamor for a future in which human beings will be different from what they are and the world transformed, for a world in which racism and evils like it will be purged from the species forever, and of course for the time when radicals like themselves will inherit the earth.

Like the Society of Jesus as a whole, he threw himself into the Great Reform, which didn't seek any particular goals so much as pursue a general, utopian vision, a hoped - for fusion of the Spirit of Christ with Liberation, with New Being, with the Eternal Now.

It may be, however, that only the implementation of a utopian vision, a holistic reason that unites subjectivity and objectivity, will make human life in the 21st century worth living

Utopian vision is necessary but can not be imposed without taking the contemporary social reality into account.

Progressives promote multiculturalism as a utopian vision of global cooperation.

The utopian vision leads to a paradox.

Between the cuts to New York City's universal meal program and last year's Congressional failure to adequately fund the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, it's clear that we're a very long way away from school food expert Janet Poppendieck's utopian vision of school meals «free for all.»

In this case, idealism is not only evident in the belief that «good» values must guide politics, but also in the utopian vision of the level at which they are to be deployed.

The Leave campaign responded in kind, first cleverly castigating Cameron for what they dubbed «Project Fear» [12] and then offering a Utopian vision in which every conceivable problem could be solved by Britain «regaining» «sovereignty».

In the utopian vision, sensors embedded in all kinds of everyday objects will continuously communicate with the cloud.