Sentences with phrase «wildness as»

In complete antithesis to any mechanistic aura, Larry Poons's fourteen new abstract canvases at Danese and Loretta Howard Gallery, New York (closed 2nd March) maintained a studied wildness as volatile and hedonistically excessive as his early compositions of gridded dots in the 1960s were systematic and stringent.

Not exact matches

It seems that even if our ultimate goal is a world in which we will not have dominion, we must for the foreseeable future so exercise dominion as to preserve other species and some areas of wildness in which they can survive.

Understanding form itself as a means of grace challenges us to take another look at the sometimes forbidding wildness of the arts, to open the doors of our churches not only to obviously useful and «religious» art, but to unpredictable forms, forms that exist apart from any question of usefulness.

Dufner and his playing partner, Jim Furyk, are known as two of the best ball strikers in the game — they keep it in between the trees from tee - to - green, avoiding the wildness and adventures that so often plague Phil and Tiger.

As you flip through the pages, you and your child can feel more grounded, peaceful, and uplifted by the beauty and wildness of true art and quality children's literature delivered to your door six times a year.

«It is as if we are breeding the wildness back into them,» Grandin says.

As he described the icy summit of Mount Toubkal in southwestern Morocco, where he spent 2 days of therapeutic hiking following a conference in Marrakech, he reminded me of the writing of naturalist John Muir: «Thousands of tired, nerve - shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.»

Historically intact ecosystems, like parts of the Amazon, could be managed to simultaneously maximize biodiversity, a balanced food web and ecosystem services such as storing carbon or cleansing water, all the while preserving a feeling of wildness.

As the film progresses things do get more outlandish but it is always grounded by the characters and the exploration of the dynamic between a gruff wildness man and the kid from the city.

Throughout Sundance, I tried to imagine the conversation I would have had about Beasts with Bingham Ray, who loved the wildness in the films of Lars von Trier as much as the realism of Mike Leigh.

He is also the author of Making It Up As We Go Along, the Story of the Albany Free School (Heinemann 1998), Teaching the Restless, One School's Remarkable No - Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed (Beacon Press 2004), How to Grow a School: Starting and Sustaining Schools That Work (Oxford Village Press 2006), and In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids» Inner Wildness (Beacon Press 2007).

He and his wife live on a small farm raising goats and chickens with two young boys, getting their educations, as it should be, from the open space and wildness of the mountains.

She discovers that Narnia is big enough to contain not just the adventures she loved as a child, and not just the Christian themes that now appear obvious, but a whole world full of stories and wildness, bravery and treachery, ancient myths and Santa Claus; that loving Narnia allowed her to love all the stories it contained, referenced or built upon, and thus opened up untold worlds.

Wildness versus civilization is another dichotomy that loses its strict edges as the novel progresses.

The grounds of Black Rabbit Hall (In Eve Chase's eponymously named novel) are depicted as lush and untamed, a state of wildness that could be the site of enchantment or of danger.

Secondly, according to environmental historians, the first campaigns to conserve natural resources and save wilderness occurred in the late nineteenth century (such as John Muir's Sierra Club to protect Yosemite in 1892), and a few people were writing on the subject before that, such as Henry Thoreau («in Wildness is the preservation of the world,» - from Walden).

As this pieces points out, if you can handle the abundant wildlife and embrace the rustic wildness of the place, you'll be in heaven.

Yakuza Kiwami gets close to bringing the original game up to speed with what the series has become when it injects some of that retroactive wildness, as with Majima Everywhere.

McGrath's combination of neon and naturalist colors as well as the underlying irrationality of applied paint behind his grids suggests a wildness in opposition to imperialist thought in American sentiment and sustainability.

In a review in The Brooklyn Rail, Thomas Micchelli writes: «The wildness of Birth of Romanticism comes as a shock.

Euan Uglow, whose pinched, dry, geometrically restrained figures in interiors restored the rigors of drawing to colorist wildness, was born in 1932, as was Howard Hodgkin, whose work of the past decade is raucously on view in Balboa Park.

WILDNESS first premiered at MoMA's Documentary Fortnight and has been screened as an official selection at the SXSW Film Festival and as part of the 2012 Whitney Biennial.

This wildness that they depicted has long since been tamed and repackaged in the form of natural signifiers such as charm necklaces with antler and leaf pendants, faux wood wallpaper, Fiji water bottles with a vignette of a tropical beach, and fake rocks for hiding house keys.

2013 WILDNESS, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK Tied and True as part of Future Perfect: States of Time, Tate Modern, London, UK WILDNESS and State of a Right Statement, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Kinoapparatom presents: Cinéma Oblique, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria WILDNESS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France WILDNESS, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium WILDNESS, Vdrome online WILDNESS, The Tanks at Tate Modern, London, UK

If it can be said that such artists as Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler tempered the wildness of their contemporaries Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, it should be noted that Cunningham has added gossamer wings to abstract expressionism.

Can we capture the experience of wildness in any setting as Kathleen Dean Moore suggests, whether it is urban, suburban or rural?

We are the minority in this majority of wildness and we spend as much time as we can out under the sky working, exploring, feeding ourselves and occasionally slowing down long enough to lose our sense of separation in this wild place.

Scientists combined maps of established conservation qualities, such as wildness, connectivity and habitat representation, to create a composite wildland conservation value to each region of the 48 contiguous states.

(Obviously a man who related strongly to the writings of Thoreau, who is quoted as commenting, «In wildness is the preservation of the world.»)

As David Brower once put it: «We urge that all people now determine that an untrammeled wildness remain here to testify that this generation had love for the next.»