Sentences with phrase «with bourgeois culture»

There were good functional reasons why the rising bourgeoisie emphasized the virtues of frugality and literacy; it would be hard to detect a comparable functionality in the particular manners and canons of aesthetic taste that came to be associated with bourgeois culture.

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His thesis, fiercely argued, and indeed with an extreme of rhetoric faintly reminiscent of Nietzsche, was that the culture of his day, both bourgeois and modernist, was in fact so thoroughly feminized as to make the redemption of masculinity impossible outside of an apocalyptic scenario; and that this, and not some alleged patriarchal bias, was the root of all modern decadence (and violence).

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise, Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah and half - hearted about the demand for single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise — Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah, and half - hearted about the demand for a single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

As a college professor, I've been blessed by living in abundance with very little real work, but I haven't used my leisure to be a voracious consumer of French culture, as our libertarians or bourgeois bohemians might have predicted.

With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their longing for human - engineered salvation.

With a combination of royal decor, elegance, and refinement, guests are treated to the same upscale experience of bourgeois traditions and culture from the Russian Empire.

It starts off as a heist comedy but then becomes a class satire, with Allen playing a working - class criminal who longs for wealth but distrusts the bourgeois culture that comes with it.

Mamma Andersson's paintings seem to embody a duality that is central to Swedish culture: the interplay of rural and urban aesthetics and the clash of the bourgeois with the everyday.

Coupled with a sly sense of humor, he shrewdly claws at the grand pillars of bourgeois culture: art history, literature and philosophy.

2015 Off the shelf Group Show, / i» klectik / Art Lab, London, UK Offprint London, Tate Modern, with AKINA Factory, London, UK DIY Cultures, Rich Mix, London, UK Alternative Takeover 2015, 47/49 Tanner Street, London, UK Chat / 1, Group Show, I'm Not Done Projects, The Rose Lipman Building, London, UK 2014 State of Origin, Group Show, Unit24 Gallery, London, UK More Than One Point in Space, Group Show, TriSpace Gallery, London, UK Night Contact Open Submission finalist, Brighton Photobiennial, selection by judge Thurston Moore, selection by judge Anne Bourgeois - Vignon Empty Stretch Perfect Wasn't Bad 2 Print Sale, 867 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY, USA Find Rangers Issue 3 Release and Photo Show, 838 Gallery, San Francisco, USA WLAC - West London Arts Collective exhibition at W3 Gallery, London, UK Eccentric Exhibition, The Regent - Islington, London, UK

But, in thinking back, I remember reading Robert Goldwater, Louise Bourgeois's late husband, who did pioneering research in primitive art and its impact on modern art, especially his Gauguin scholarship; it was he who thought of tribal art as equally ranked with the finest achievements of the so - called highest cultures, both aesthetically and culturally.