Sentences with phrase «wrought by modernity»

Utopian environmentalism has, to some extent, always promised to heal the alienation wrought by modernity.

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There is no chance for mastery in living, by working out what is properly credible on the basis of notions like demonstration, experiential tests, sufficient evidence, and so on» the fool's errands that modernity has sent us on, seeking a kind of legitimation that neither exists nor is needed.

4 See the outstanding work by Gauri Viswanathan, Conversion, Modernity and Belief (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998).

Two influential, non-Catholic figures immediately come to mind: sociologist Max Weber described a «Protestant work ethic» that explained the rise of capitalism and modernity on the basis of a disembodied understanding of salvation inherited from the Reformers; and systematic philosopher Georg Hegel hailed the Reformation, «the all - enlightening Sun,» as ushering in modern times by freeing «the specific and definite embodiment of Deity» from any «outward form» so that one may be reconciled to God «in faith and spiritual enjoyment.»

A great theoretician, his work is inseparable from his brilliant reading of art history and modernity: according to him, we haven't yet dealt with the fundamental questions raised by modernity.

Concerned with questions of craftsmanship, modernity, design and the vernacular, Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes is joined by art historian Briony Fer to discuss her work, on the occasion of her new commission the frisson of the togetherness.

In 1980 she joined the History of Art Department at the Open University as a Lecturer working on groundbreaking courses there and publishing essays in the Modernity and Modernism textbooks, published jointly by the Open University and Yale University Press in 1993.

«The luminosity and depth of his work stands up to any Old Master or 19th Century Master that we have ever seen, but with an added modernity — employing the use of innovative materials and collage to tie it all together,» said gallerist Laura Grenning, who arranged the show by selecting works from private collections as well as those on loan from Marlborough Gallery.

This exhibition will draw a line through work that reflects the principles Loos used to define modernity — simplicity, freedom, purity, and the rejection of superfluous decoration — by exploring the development of the reductive process as seen through the eyes of a small group of leading European and American artists from the latter half of the 20th century.

Tradition and Modernity, an exhibition curated by Akiko Katsuta that explores the works of this renowned painter and great master of shin hanga, one of the most important movements in twentieth - century Japanese printmaking.

In Room 2 — «The Idea of Modern Life» — Lowry's paintings are displayed alongside works by Van Gogh, Seurat and Pissaro, to illuminate how modernity affected society and artists» visual representations of it.

In his work, Kent Monkman, a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry, explores the displacement and disenfranchisement of indigenous populations and the loss of local and traditional cultures caused by the onset of modernity.

Among the sights are Old Masterworks from all times and places — there are allusive ties to works as different as Flemish proverb pictures (most notably, Bruegel's ironical The Parable of the Blind, 1568), Gericault's unromantic portraits of mental patients, and Sargeant's peculiarly lurid romantic paintings — none the worse for wear, and as unconsciously striking as ever, but more adult, that is, dignified by consciousness, than the Abstract Expressionism with which Desiderio began his career, and thus less beholden to the tyranny of modernism, if still symptomatic of modernity.

Works by artists such as John Akomfrah, Kader Attia, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, The Otolith Group or Jihan El - Tahri engage with the era of decolonization and its attempts to challenge and transform the framework of Western - dominated modernity.

His works allude to iconic works from the history of modernity, while addressing questions ranging from the jolts of contemporary society and the fall of utopias to the impact of new technologies on our visual culture, by way of the fetishization of cartoons and the relationship of civil society to different forms of power.

Stimulated by the centenary of what was originally called «The Great War», this work considers the conflict as a crisis of modernity, and suggests that its echoes reverberate into the present.

The exhibition assembles works by over 25 artists, installed in an architectural grid, invoked here as a paradigmatic «system» and template for knowledge, for order and the re-organization of life in Modernity.

If Hussain succeeds in making it to the Lumen Prize shortlist on Friday, she will have done so by combining modernity with spirituality to create an artwork that takes its audience to a numinous place, a transcendent journey that's normally associated with the work of artists such as Mark Rothko and Bridget Riley in gallery spaces and with the detachment of Sufism in Islam.

In Reviews, we present insights into Tarek El - Ariss's Trials of Arab Modernity, the 55th Venice Biennale, and an overview of three exhibitions at Tate Modern in London of work by Saloua Raouda Choucair, Ibrahim El - Salahi and Meschac Gaba.