The phrase "act of vision" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process or experience of seeing or perceiving something visually.
Example: "The artist's work is a profound act of vision, capturing the essence of the landscape in a way that resonates with viewers."
Alternatives: "process of seeing" or "experience of sight".
When we try to describe an act of vision, we consider a constellation of available meanings.
Dadd, says Paz, has painted "the vision of the act of vision, the look that looks at a space in which the object looked at has been annihilated".
"Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with being loved," says Evie. Love is an act of vision in this novel: the symbol that the cult draws, in paint and eventually in blood, is a heart fringed with lashes like an eye.
This single act of vision and international leadership would provide a significant stimulus to a new generation of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs, with measurable, direct, and indirect economic benefits to the US economy.
A truly embodied approach moves the clinician beyond an understanding of seeing as a physical act of vision, towards S eeing (with a capital S) that entails an effort to understand patients' unique qualities.
Malick here turns the very act of cinematic vision, of filming, philosophical.
His immediate and instant fusion of philosophical thought, intimate detail, and the very act of cinematic vision makes this film one of his very greatest, certainly among the singular and crucial movies of recent years.
In their films, as in Hess's, the act of cinematic vision — of looking plainly and clearly and fixedly at the human realm of divine creation — is an implicit sacrament.
Congressional indifference threatens the existence of the TVPA, a seminal act of national vision that is fundamental to the cause of human rights and the eventual eradication of modern-day slavery.
Acting director of vision Roger Mosey, then in his role as the BBC's Olympics supremo, claimed £120 for a minicab on 25 July after his train broke down, while Radio 4 controller Gwyneth Williams claimed £220 for a taxi because of floods in Scotland.
