In one sense, July has been enjoying the Platonic ideal of creative success in the age of the hyphenate artist.
While other bands might have chased a fuzzy ideal of creative freedom, the Strokes sounded obsessed with discipline.
The medium's ongoing metamorphosis has necessitated new terms – "active-object", "relational object", "trans-object", "poem object" – to better explain its ideal of creative playfulness and evocative ambiguity.
Leading the agency's successful pitch was 55-year-old Lee Clow, the chief creative officer, who possesses a reputation as the beau ideal of the creative advertising genius -- a long-haired, bearded maverick who favors shorts and sandals.
Its real value, however, comes in its superior photo quality and versatility, which makes it ideal for creative professionals -- and, of course, their kids.
He had seemed, at the time, Hattie's ideal of an elderly creative artist: tall, very thin, with a shock of upstanding white hair, a face whose hollows seemed to have been carved out by suffering, tanned skin as soft as leather, a charcoal-gray linen shirt.
Yet even the bride's mother eventually comes round to the idea of having a senior citizen for a son-in-law: "He seemed to represent the ideal of an elderly creative artist: tall, very thin, with a shock of upstanding white hair, a face whose hollows seemed to have been carved out by suffering, tanned skin as soft as leather, a charcoal grey linen shirt".
But we should remember that he also embodied in his medical practice a kind of ideal approach — creative, sensitive, and large-hearted — to his many patients.
It was a tool for frontier-style living and a medium of creative exchange an ideal that Turner thinks harks back to the collaborative culture of Cold War research.
It was a tool for frontier-style living and a medium of creative exchange — an ideal that Turner thinks harks back to the collaborative culture of Cold War research.
As was common in the Renaissance, Il cortegiano freely imitates the work of ancient writers such as Plato (on the ideal republic) and Cicero (on the ideal orator) as well as discussing the problem of creative imitation.
