Biological universals displace cultural particulars, and Riegl's argument that our sense of beauty is historical is trampled underfoot.
It expresses a minimalist sense of beauty by stripping away all unnecessary elements with a newly designed gradation metal pedestal.
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By listening, you really get the sense of the beauty and wonder and texture of how Jack wrote.
And for those who know the tale, this gravity-defying, wondrous landscape retains a sense of bittersweet beauty, a faultless paradise somehow infused with lost love.
"In normal speeds it's gone in seconds, but in slow motion, when you see it lasting 40 seconds to a minute, you get a real sense of the beauty, the scale and the size and power of that shot which is exactly what we wanted, " Fothergill said.
In the competitive jostling of the women, we sense the eternal face-off of beauty against the beast of time.
We do nothing more than give ourselves a temporary and false salve which can never repair the damage that has been done to our sense of ourselves, our beauty and our appetites.
His dedication to the art that was central to his existence, his proselytizing zeal for new work that pushes concept and practice beyond existing limits, his driving belief in architecture as the defining art of the present and the past, did much to re-establish a sense of the importance of the way we build in an age that worships the beauty of the bottom line.
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Yet within his distinctly rural characterization one can sense his disquiet at the gradual encroachment of mercantile Yonkers on the beauty of the Hudson Valley.
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Despair, accomplishment, heart-snatching beauty--all that, plus a sense of privilege.
My advice to the Frenchman who wants any of these things is to do without for a few weeks, because such a situation can last only under the rule of the Germans, who drain a country dry of everything except grace, beauty, and good sense.
This is where art comes in: art, even through something apparently simple as the appreciation of beauty, has the power to give people a sense of self worth, a dignity, an understanding of how their lives are worthwhile.
Beauty in its traditional sense is profoundly important to him some of his favorite artworks include the Annunciation altarpiece by the early Renaissance master Simone Martini (created for the Siena Cathedral, but now in Florence's Uffizi Gallery), the paintings of the English Pre-Raphaelites, and the sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
She also highlights the social pressure that the cult of beauty exerted on women, and even on Dinah Washington, who always harboured a sense of physical inferiority.
As for the samurai themselves, beauty of armor and fierceness of countenance reinforced their own quasimythical status and helped them keep alive their sense of purpose.
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