Sentence examples for relation of art from inspiring English sources

And if this is true, it signals a grand and maybe melancholy shift in the nature of art, and in the relation of art to society.

This extraordinary event took place in a disused department store in Oxford Street among thousands of shoppers, stressing the ever closer relation of art and commerce.

Three views on the relation of art to morality can be distinguished: According to this view, the primary or exclusive function of art is as a handmaiden to morality which means, usually, whatever system of morality is adhered to by the theorist in question.

In the century that separates us from the futurists, a subtle change has come over the relation of art and technology:  if the "avant-garde" (a military term first used with reference to culture and society around 1820 by the French socialist writer Saint-Simon) was once prophetic, it now occupies a subaltern position.

(274) 'Every utterance', Collingwood says, 'and every gesture that each one of us makes is a work of art.' (285) Collingwood next turns to 'practical' questions, of which we will consider two: the relation of art to artists, and relation between the artist and the community.

Because the artworks are not fixed on a wall where they tell a single story, the relation of art to history to power presents the possibility of multiple "readings".

Warhol, Judd, and Nauman modelled new relations of art to the world which continue to determine philosophies, methods, and forms of contemporary practice.

And a more recent comment hints that she sees not just a difference but a spark of opposition in the relations of art and science.

Chernyshevsky's dissertation Esteticheskiye otnosheniya iskusstva k deystvitelnosti (1855; "The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality"), the main thesis of which was that art must not only reflect reality but also explain and judge it, provided a starting point for contemporary artists.

They form the grand relation of animated nature; universal, organic, mechanical; subsisting like the clearest relations of art, in different individuals; unequivocal, inexplicable without design.

To overeducated eyes, a perceived relation of an art object to conventions of domestic function is corny unless pointedly ironic.