He wrote influential books, such as "The Gothic Revival" and "The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form".
McDowell is second to Germany's Martin Kaymer in the Race to Dubai but he is confident he is in ideal form as he bids to finish the season as Europe's No1.
The artistic nude constitutes, as the subtitle of Clark's book indicates, a "Study in Ideal Form": the body is beautifully shaped and framed by the conventions of art.
The soul is invisible and doesn't change, and it wants to connect to other such invisible, unchanging things" — including Truth and Beauty in their ideal forms — "but it's trapped in a body that's always taking it to visible things that are never the same".
The Catalan duo are pursuing idealism: a steadfast "belief in or pursuance of ideals, the tendency to represent things in their ideal forms, rather than as they are".
He might see a culture that had a restless, unsettled sense of self, that valued continuity, embodied in certain ideal forms, but that was hooked on the singularity of things, evident in an emphasis on realism in art, including portraiture.
Most mathematicians spend much of their time in either an explicit or an implicit search for these ideal forms, in geometry, in numbers, in the symbol dance of algebra.
She saw in the operating theatre a metaphor for her own practice in searching for ideal forms out of the postwar rubble.
When you look at Centurión's hardworking rear end, draped in satin, gilded in light, the pelvis, in its ideal form, is what you see, and it's a thrill.
Though nominally Communist, the present system in China is heir -- in its ideal form -- to China's 2,000 year-old "institutional civilization," where selection of leaders based on meritocratic competition has played the same central role historically as competitive elections in the West.
