Sentences with phrase «whose modern ideas»
Hugh Dancy plays Dr. Mortimer Grenville, an idealist whose modern ideas about medicine render him unemployable in conventional practices.
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The idea of a job guarantee originally comes from a movement in economics known as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), one of whose tenets is that monetary policy more or less does not work.
He was a ferocious fanatic, whose object was to destroy all the improvements of modern times, and force society back to the government, customs, and ideas of mediaeval days.
So... me thinks we are «quite» modern and contemporary, as opposed to... the 2,000 - 3,000 year old bible whose ideas have «not» changed nor would be considered «contemporary» nor «modern»... at all.
The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).
The use of photographs - within - film to freeze characters in a milieu while defining it in modern terms was already a worn idea when George Roy Hill claimed it for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and here it's handled with even less integrity, by way of a photographer whose 19th - century camera and anachronistic darkroom give him in a few short hours prints of a quality no photographer achieved before about 1920.
Illustrated with performance, private videos, and recollections from those who knew him, this detailed and innovative documentary looks at the life of the always provocative artist Chris Burden, whose work consistently challenged ideas about the limits and nature of modern art, from his notorious performances in the 1970s to his later assemblages, installations, kinetic and static sculptures, and scientific models.
The Invention of Nature By Andrea Wulf Vintage • $ 17 • ISBN 9780345806291 Wulf's biography of visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, whose ideas paved the way for modern environmentalism, was named one of the 10 best books of 2015 by the New York Times.
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world - and in the process created modern environmentalism.
It's a modern establishment whose ethos harks back to the bygone idea of a room at the inn where travellers would stop to eat, drink, make merry and later, lay their weary head.
It brings together painting, sculpture, and photography by iconic modern and contemporary artists whose work and ideas have changed the course of art history.
For Berger, «the modern civil rights movement was grounded on the unrepresented body of a black child,» namely Till, whose absence from the covers of mainstream newspapers indicated that «the idea of suffering black children was of greater interest to whites than visual evidence of their plight.»
Great Collectors and Their Ideas: Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, whose Colección Patricia Phelps (under the auspices of the the Fundación Cisneros, established with her husband, Gustavo, in the 1970s), is lending the works for the Royal Academy, London's upcoming exhibition Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America, talks to Joshua Mack.
I freely admit that I gently borrowed the title from French professor Serge Guilbaut, whose book How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War, written back in 1983, is still by far one of the most fascinating books about abstract expressionism and its controversial use as propaganda in the Cold War years.
Kara Walker, whose work is featured in the Modern's current exhibition My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, presents the ideas and issues behind her compelling installations, drawings, paintings, and text - based works, which are as disturbing as they are beautiful.