Sentences with phrase «whose symbolic forms»

To claim identity as a «Christian» is to align oneself with a community whose symbolic forms have enabled it to deal creatively with the social, psychological and ethical dilemmas of many generations.

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This can not be done wilfully, of course, but emerges spontaneously from a particular way of appreciating the world: as an objective and beautiful thing, a symbolic reality whose fabric reveals, in a great variety of ways, the forms or archetypes of the world's order (pp. 13,125).

But there is also a new middle class, based on the production and distribution of symbolic knowledge, whose members are the increasingly large number of people occupied with education, the media of mass communication; therapy in all its forms, the advocacy and administration of well - being, social justice and personal lifestyles.

whose aim is not to inform us about what is or ought to be but to offer envisagements of what might be and to fashion symbolic forms to which questions of literal fact are not determining....

Unlike his contemporaries, such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman whose art expressed an urge to transcendence, Kline was focused on pure abstract forms and gesture itself, deprived of any symbolic character or «painting experience».

While these imaginative works do adhere to certain basic principles, each artist incorporates culturally specific symbolic forms which depict concepts that the community wishes to convey to the spirits and whose meaning is known only within that culture.

During the 1970s, Lucy Lippard, Miriam Schapiro, Judy Chicago, and other feminists put forth a theory about women's art, finding that an enclosure or rounded form was at the center of much work by women, including O'Keeffe, whose flower paintings, begun in the 1920s, had often been described as symbolic of female sexuality.