"Let us remember the polemics around the Centre Pompidou, the Louvre Pyramid, or Daniel Buren's 'columns,' which followed in the historical lineage of polemics around 'The Burghers of Calais' and Rodin's 'Balzac.'"
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The polemics of that tumultuous period – which Guston resisted and did a lot to undermine – has been replaced by a new polemics, which are not rooted in the formal but in the political and social.
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"Writing jokes is hard," she said, commenting on talk show polemics.
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The event was going for TED Talks positivity, not grim polemics.
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"It serves no purpose looking for polemics, considering the circumstances," Jambon said.
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You mention engaging in "polemics" with him and his sense of things.
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Mr Erdogan and his friends in the media have toned down their polemics.
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"Grassroot sentiments, polemics, communication skills are at the top," Sinha told VICE News.
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A Christian polemics site called Pulpit & Pen denounced Mr. Cahn in several posts.
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Critics as well as scientists must base their claims on evidence, not polemics.
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Juppé took a more moderate approach, criticizing the law and the polemics surrounding it.
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Elected Republicans can't ignore these polemics without courting potential electoral disaster during primary season.
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But if you like thoughtful polemics, it's worth logging off Facebook to read it.
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Today that feels intuitive; a few decades ago, it was the stuff of polemics.
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Selecting fewer representatives would have generated endless polemics among the fiercely competitive districts, many feared.
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But in their polemics, these men are aligning themselves with the gerontocracy against the young.
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We know how to mobilize images to make money, careers, polemics, and wage media war.
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But while polemics about the issue have flourished across the political spectrum, clarity has not.
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"I am not willing to engage in any kind of polemics with Mrs Foster," he said.
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Ultimately, greater understanding of Arab youth will promote progress and peace, rather than polemics and pessimism.
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The guiding principle of its style — simplify, then exaggerate — suits writers of polemics, operas and much else.
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Ross Douthat Normal human beings read thrillers or romances on vacation; newspaper columnists assign themselves political polemics.
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He then broke away, declaring his intellectual independence first with coded critiques and then with unabashed polemics.
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It is tempting to think that the influence of those dusty polemics ebbed as the dust accumulated.
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Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro delivers brutally honest polemics about white America from James Baldwin.
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It was first used after the failed revolutions of 1848, mainly in Catholic polemics against the liberal press.
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As a result, hearings now tend to be settings for members to impress with polemics and sound bites.
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A distinguished Berkeley sociologist, Hochschild is a woman of the left, but her mission is empathy, not polemics.
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Polemics just didn't come naturally to most pop-punks, at least not when it came to making music.
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His pink androgyne seems bred for balance in the current topsy-turvy limbo of race and gender polemics.
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In the 1970s, feminist artists such as Margaret Harrison and Judy Chicago sewed polemics onto canvas and tablecloths.
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The generation of conservatives tutored by Mr. Buckley's polemics against collectivism developed a healthy skepticism of big government.
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Appropriately angry polemics would have been written denouncing the public menace of this Big Brother in the sky.
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You win attention in the mass media through perpetual hysteria and simple-minded polemics and by exploiting social resentment.
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His and Mr. Page's only stipulations were that the images should be accompanied by short, objective captions; no polemics.
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Mr. Barnaba said the benefits of the new lighting — the lower environmental impact and cost savings — outweighed the polemics.
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The multidisciplinary project "is quite complicated," said the director, whose taboo-challenging productions have never shied away from polemics.
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The Mother of All Questions unites some of Solnit's sharpest feminist polemics with her decades-long preoccupation with crafting narrative.
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"There were two polemics about the series," said Aldo Grasso, the television critic for Corriere della Sera, Italy's leading daily.
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Rather than polemics—rather than make games about big ideas, like existentialism, nature, grief—Heffernan concentrates on moments and people.
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Classic preadolescent dresses, in Mr. Perry's mind and also in his polemics, came to symbolize the antithesis of the macho.
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This empire of multifarious signs drew on Maekawa's own complex trajectory, riven with polemics over the "Japaneseness" of his architecture.
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Social discussions have degenerated into coarse polemics online because of the lack of space for more nuanced and incisive conversations.
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To the Editor: There is a time and a place for history and a time and a place for polemics.
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And so, I just hope we can just dial it back a little on the -- on the polemics if you will.
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Its formula—outraging and fascinating readers with "click bait", occasional fake news, polemics and attacks on mainstream media—has taken off.
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Many critics have been quick to dismiss BLM for trafficking in the angry polemics exemplified by groups like the Black Panthers.
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Newspapers and magazines are full of reassessments of the Wiedervereinigung (reunification); westerners are lapping up memoirs and polemics by eastern authors.
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This puts enormous pressure on the production to keep the personal material in focus, lest the whole thing tip into polemics.
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The success of his polemics, on the other hand, can probably be best judged by their effect on guests Thursday night.
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The ads, which sometimes ran for several minutes apiece, were a potpourri of right-wing polemics wrapped in "subscribe now" appeals.
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At its worst, it's an ugly minimization, your partner undermining you and turning acts of kindness into polemics about your desperation.
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These polemics all too often overshadow the very human experience they purport to understand, reducing to caricature full and entangled lives.
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Mr Oz, who died on December 28th, was for half a century Israel's most celebrated writer, producing fiction, political essays and polemics.
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Indeed, the resistance that abortion greys have shown to the polemics of both sides, over three decades of abortion warring, is impressive.
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There's a power to tackle very difficult issues through storytelling, through entertainment, that is much more impactful even than polemics or news.
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The author's new book on Cuban modernism, Revolutionary Horizons: Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba, is out now from Yale University Press.
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But "South Side" does something rare for TV, portraying a poor neighborhood with dry-eyed wit, favoring specificity over polemics or cliché.
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" The Times reviewer writes, "A distinguished Berkeley sociologist, Hochschild is a woman of the left, but her mission is empathy, not polemics.
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As it happened, for all the polemics about women's voting in newspapers of the period, hard evidence of their participation was scant.
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Through the lab CounterPulse posits art as a means of decentralizing dominant polemics in our conversations around difference in search of cultural pluralism.
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In the run-up to the election on April 8th, Mr Orban has drowned out allegations of government corruption with polemics against immigration.
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But the most dominant themes in the polemics against the bill are arguments that it will fail because it betrays free market ideals.
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Any sense of narrative is soon lost to a flood of Taylor Swift GIFs, emoticon chains and passive-aggressive polemics about Beyonce's Lemonade.
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They addressed subjects like the military draft, censorship and the generation gap, but some critics called them polemics in the mouths of characters.
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Solomon's playful show, which the artist himself describes as "something naughty," taps into a few of the most pressing polemics of art market economics.
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"I accept his resignation only to protect him and the activity of the government from senseless attacks and polemics," Salvini said in a statement.
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Considering the polemics associated with this current political environment, the time has arrived for McConnell and his fellow Senate Republicans to grow a backbone.
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Critics had to be careful about turning their position into a platform for polemics, or about dispensing provocative generalizations, as he once gleefully had.
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They circulated love poems, drama and political polemics (John Wilmot, "libertine" and second Earl of Rochester, was one of the better-known coterie writers).
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For the polemics against Europe and particularly against Emmanuel Macron and for the lack of clear message about the relation between Russia and Salvini.
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But Harron and Turner aren't engaging in polemics; they're telling a complex, nuanced story about power and how it is both taken and surrendered.
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He's not softening his views, or renouncing the right-wing polemics he's edited over the decades, some of which continue to kick up controversy.
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He spent 20 years writing semi-racist polemics for right-wing publications and two terms as mayor of London taking credit for others' achievements.
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For my part, I've always taken a somewhat informal tone, balancing facts and analysis with jokes, polemics, and the occasional picture of a cute animal.
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I realized that I prefer work that leaves room for reflection — rather than pulling me into polemics or, in Moon's case, a surfeit of celebration.
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When the sculpture finally made its way into the collection 10 years later, it proved to be problematic—but for structural reasons rather than polemics.
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Yet this way of thinking becomes its own kind of trap, in which authenticity is inextricably (and confusingly) linked to disenfranchisement, and meals become polemics.
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But while he isn't shy about articulating his politics — "I'm very anti-Israel, I'm occupied and I don't like it" — polemics don't interest him artistically.
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Ms. Dunye's loose, confident approach to characterizations makes the political issues play in a narratively organic way rather than as a series of contrived polemics.
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But the vehemence and humor of her polemics in defense of pluralism and minority rights had made her a beloved figure to an increasingly embattled opposition.
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There will be ugly polemics over the coming weeks, once the first shock passes, over who was responsible, how this disaster happened, what negligence was involved.
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His book, though drier than the more passionate polemics, nimbly suggests that the postmodern present is powered by the same engines as the early-modern past.
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A handful of tone-deaf reviews and polemics are mentioned, including a notice in this newspaper that found her emphasis on black lives "narrow" in its focus.
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Like all polemics, this one is strong on passion, but even with ample examples, the assertion that Moneyland is a fatal rot does not make it so.
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He highlights the "emotional color that hid behind Sontag's best polemics," like her book-length essay On Photography, often interpreted as an argument against the art form.
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Even if we don't agree with their divisive speech, listening to polemics push back against the endless rules that govern political correctness can be a real relief.
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While previous works like "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women" and "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man" were essentially polemics, her memoir is deeply personal.
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As Kumarasinghe lay in a coma, calls for retribution and anti-Islam polemics flooded social media and the government ordered the deployment of 1,000 members of the STF.
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Given a choice between stereotypes and polemics, it's no wonder why many principals and teachers choose to duck a subject which could get them on the talk shows.
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If we are to continue improving the human world, while retaining the nature we love, it will be necessary to get beyond polemics and expertise, scientific or otherwise.
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Books of The Times The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci (1929-20013) wrote all sorts of things during her long career: novels, polemics, war dispatches, truth-dealing celebrity profiles.
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Turn on TV or browse your newsfeeds on social media, and you will be bombarded with polemics about the sky falling and credible threats of violence against conservative figures.
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As a first draft of history, "To Change the Church" is a high-wire act, an effort to maintain a balance between theology and polemics for a wide public.
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Spelacchio's official account — created last year — appears to have been co-opted by this year's entry, and despite the polemics last year, the old name seems to have stuck.
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The writing is most successful when Gunesekera reins in the polemics and refracts through the young Kairo's eyes the subtle ways in which divisions of class can manifest themselves.
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Values get recalibrated as new ideas gain currency, old ideologies and their proponents die off, and polemics come to be seen as merely misguided business strategies for staying solvent.
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Jackson, who declined to be interviewed for this article, writing in an email that "public polemics tend to harden positions and do not advance the desired end," disputes this characterization.
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At a time when polemics and literalism dominate much of what is celebrated in the art world, Powell's views are taut, nuanced, and restrained, while, paradoxically, also being richly evocative.
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" He also aimed polemics at President Barack Obama, saying during the interview, "To this day, in seven or eight years, we haven't seen any significant difference in the black community.
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Our students deserve more credit than they get in these types of polemics; as I've argued elsewhere, they are far from the coddled, entitled softies that they're often painted as.
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We are not moved to write polemics against paganism when Homer has Odysseus slaughter Penelope's suitors, such massacres being as much a part of Homeric time as banquets and bards.
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So I'd read all those, but actually I would say that Evgeny Morozov and Jaron Lanier, and their kind of polemics were more influential in how I approached the book.
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As the polemics raged on, a large number of composers — including Fine, Walter Piston, Vincent Persichetti, Roy Harris, Harold Shapero and others — occupied a kind of neo-Classical middle ground.
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It is full of sports (Australian rules football), photos of cute kids, shocking crime stories, celebrity gossip, and, if an election is in the offing, relentless right-wing political polemics.
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Lots of fans find him on YouTube, where he is an unusual sort of celebrity, a stern but mercurial lecturer who often holds forth for hours, mixing polemics with pep talks.
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Now you'll bring somebody on, they'll say all kinds of stuff related to politics, and the polemics of politics, and the union people will want to hit me with a stone.
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"What's more important than polemics are facts, and the facts are that we currently have 700,000 people who want to procreate and for various reasons cannot," she said at the conference.
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A reader can't help noting that anti-liberal polemics, today as in the lurid polemical pasts that Mishra revisits, always have more force and gusto than liberalism's defenses have ever had.
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But to truly grasp the laws of literature, Mr. Moretti has argued in a series of polemics, requires "distant reading": the computer-assisted crunching of thousands of texts at a time.
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Given that this charged exchange of polemics unfolds on East Broadway, it's interesting that one of the exhibit's most powerful moments comes from an instance of narrative refusal, or insistence on interiority.
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You might have heard that the French Revolution was planned in coffee houses, where members of the so-called "intelligentsia," the class of political thinkers and polemics, gathered to plot their rebellions.
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The headmistress of Isolde's school, Big Mother (played to pithy perfection by Susanne Sachsse), aims to indoctrinate her students with second-wave feminist polemics that trumpet the superiority of women to men.
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A gifted storyteller who works accessibly in text and image, she's created new narratives around women, people of color and working-class communities, conjuring lush art from the arid polemics of identity.
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Others like Rain show their devotion in deeper ways, painstakingly constructing videos and epic polemics that weave together court papers and obscure interviews, then sharing and resharing their work across multiple platforms.
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Goldstein, a longtime staff writer for The Washington Post who was part of a reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002, opts for complexity over facile explanations and easy polemics.
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Mr. Bannon, who is often critical of those he sees as Washington careerists hostile to Mr. Trump, has become famous for his polemics that critics see as reflections of the president's impulses.
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After Mr. Reagan was elected president, Mr. Aronson became the policy director for the Democratic National Committee, and while there he became involved in the angry polemics around American intervention in Central America.
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When not writing anti-Hillary polemics, he is chief political columnist of the National Enquirer, a tabloid which describes the 24-year-old candidate as a predatory lesbian on the edge of death.
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The other stuff—random daily updates, polemics about the state of the world, self-important pats on the back, walls of text expressing generally uninteresting feelings—is all stuff I can do without.
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Maybe I am confined by my craft, pumping out polemics that, it is my great hope, help to stiffen the spines and lift the spirits of those determined to stare down the threat.
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Now I am in my 40s and watching a newly reinvigorated James Baldwin via director Raoul Peck, who, with his documentary film I Am Not Your Negro (2017), delivers polemics even more brutal.
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Only in the mid-nineteen-fifties did she begin writing about urban issues and architecture, first for Architectural Forum and then for Fortune , which offered a surprisingly welcoming home to polemics against edifice-building.
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Eschewing polemics, "How to See" channels the type of discussion you might overhear between artists — the shoptalk — in the service of helping the reader make sense of the sometimes perplexing world of contemporary art.
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These characters escape the identity trap of our current politics that ends in Blackness being a set of commodifiable types as easily used to sell outraged Fox News polemics, as to sell Bossip videos.
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The master of anti-Western sentiment is Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has built much of his third presidential term on anti-American polemics and who increases their volume and frequency as his economy sinks.
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Still, recent visits with eight of the first-time participants in the Biennial — six studio visits, in three cities, and two by video — found them completing work that made its social points subtly, without polemics.
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They think their debates and discussions are the way to fight encroaching secularism — as if arguing and polemics are what matters, when the people they're arguing about don't even realize these fights are taking place.
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Books written in a time of crisis can make bad blueprints for a time of plenty, as polemics made in times of war are not always the best blueprint for policies in times of peace.
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While attention often focuses on the headline-grabbing polemics between opposition and government, analysts believe any potential near-term change may come instead from ruptures within the administration or a nudge from the powerful military.
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The novel never hit shelves because its authors refused drug executives' zanier demands: lengthy polemics against the evils of government regulation and "dumbed down" prose, which they deemed critical in order to appeal to women readers.
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Here's a translation of what Charlotte Rampling said on Europe 1 Radio: Q. This year the Oscars are beset by polemics: No black actor or actress in the selection for the second year in a row.
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A direct response to "violent polemics" Catherine Coutelle, a socialist deputy of the National Assembly, proposed legislation last year that would have excluded games that portray a "degrading image of women" from receiving government tax credits.
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Today's polemics about what unfettered capitalism is doing to ordinary Americans — from Bernie Sanders on the left and Donald J. Trump on the right — is terrain Brandeis covered, more deeply, with more cogent suggestions for reform.
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The state introduces legislation effectively targeting Muslims, which in turn encourages and emboldens the counter-jihad movement — whose policy papers, polemics and protests propel the state to extend legislation, all but criminalizing aspects of Muslims' identity.
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In some iteration, I've written love stories, polemics, historical novels, family sagas … The fact that people are murdered and the reader is told why slots me into the thriller category, and I'm absolutely fine with that.
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Writer and director Eliza Hittman (Beach Rats, It Felt Like Love) tells the story sparingly, favoring naturalism rather than polemics and recalling bleak dramas like the 2007 Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
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Regardless of the polemics around black creative production, the notion that art produced by white artists (regardless of medium or conceptual intent) is somehow not inherently political or concerned with whiteness is more than a bit absurd.
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It doesn't matter how much you say that you're an egalitarian, how much you say that you are race blind, how much you say that you are only interested in people's policies and not their racist polemics.
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Any book by Jane Hirshfield — a splendid poet and an ordained Buddhist — would probably do more good in this country, in the White House and in every home, than all the political op-eds and polemics combined.
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As I tuck into a gooey, fragrant mouthful, I realise that for Juma, the dinner table is not just a place to eat, but somewhere to discuss his heritage, away from the polemics of a fractured Iraq.
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The curators position the works, all made in the last 10 years, as descendants of "conceptual and post-conceptual" practices, which often used text to turn otherwise obscure objects into commentaries or polemics on a variety of issues.
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Instead, we're more likely to see a future in which the "news media" are deeply involved in journalism-by-polemics, with the left represented by the MSM and the right by such as Fox News, Breitbart, Drudge, and Infowars.
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But in my opinion, "Darkness at Noon" is essentially polemics in the form of a novel: Koestler uses his protagonist's torment to dramatize a central tension in the Communist revolution, the one between its noble end and its brutal means.
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For Stone, who directed such enjoyably cuckoo '90s polemics as JFK and Nixon, as well as more (relatively) straightforward current-events films as W. and World Trade Center, Snowden is the latest in a long line of politically minded films.
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Various updates | Josh Fox's first and second films, "Gasland" and "Gasland Part 2," were high-octane polemics aimed at ending fracking, shorthand for the revolutionary method of fracturing deep layers of shale to liberate natural gas and oil previously deemed unreachable.
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Li Ao, a Taiwanese writer and politician whose fiery anti-establishment polemics, provocative antics and unwavering support for reunification with mainland China made him one of Taiwan's most recognizable, if divisive, public figures, died on March 21980 in Taipei, the capital.
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This version was well served by the addition of a second curator, Larry Ossei-Mensah, who helped to find artists who would extend and deepen the critiques of the first show, to move beyond simple illustration to posing probing queries and haunting polemics.
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For a North Indian like me, accustomed to the blood feud between the Congress and the B.J.P., and the polemics of secularism versus Hindu supremacy, the Arunachali politician's ability to change allegiance so lightly and so frequently seems both disconcerting and comforting.
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The satirical comedy, first a movie and now a Netflix show, revolves around five black students — Sam, Coco, Troy, Lionel and Reggie — at a fictional elite university who revel in the sorts of intemperate and intoxicating polemics that can sour a Thanksgiving dinner.
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Spike Lee's magnificent, sprawling interpretation of the life of one of the civil rights era's most pivotal and controversial leaders — featuring a phenomenal performance by Denzel Washington in the title role — transcended polemics and easy platitudes to encompass an often contradictory evolution.
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In the weeks leading up to the election, the best-seller lists were dominated by partisan polemics by Dinesh D'Souza, Michael Savage, Edward Klein and Gary J. Byrne, whose anti-Clinton book "Crisis of Character" sold some 247,000 hardcover copies, according to Nielsen.
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But in an article in The New York Review of Books in 20003, Michael Casper wrote that the paper, founded by an ultranationalist underground group, the Lithuanian Activist Front, was more favorably inclined toward the Germans and rife with anti-Semitic polemics.
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In an era when artful polemics, Antonoffed pop, and self-medicated party rap hold sway, this week's Painted Ruins is a gorgeous requiem reminding us that art for the sake of aesthetic beauty and veiled self-confessional remains as meaningful as ever.
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The film works on the level of a dreamlike fable, which sets Mambéty apart in the history of African cinema from the post-colonial polemics of Ousmane Sembene and his more-recent admirer, Abderrahmane Sissako, to name only two who have achieved international acclaim.
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The sheer amount of homemade T-shirts on display at Coagula is impressive, serving as an extensive catalogue of hot takes and polemics from the time of the trial, before blogs or social media could broadcast people's opinions, especially in the form of memes.
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In the response published Tuesday, Lemaire said the push for greater gender equality in video games and the industry itself is a reaction to "violent polemics" on social media — an implicit reference to the "Gamergate" online campaign that targeted women and activists with threats and harassment.
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There are manifestos, prose poems, flash fictions, detective stories, interviews, reviews, polemics and all kinds of hard-to-classify texts (even film scripts!) in here, and it's the kind of book that is rewarding to read both straight through and in small leaps in and out.
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Ms. Himmelfarb was long married to Irving Kristol, who was often called the godfather of neoconservatism, and her histories coalesced with his journalistic polemics to make them, as a couple, a double-barreled force as the United States became more conservative in the 1970s and '21959s.
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Even in "La Cage aux Folles," Broadway's first musical to portray the intimacies of a gay relationship (although Broadway, Hollywood and television had previously dealt with homosexuality in more general terms), his score sidestepped polemics and delivered a story of pathos, comedy, dignity and ultimately acceptance of gay life.
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However political the polemics may be, they're being shown in the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, a venue known for its black-tie galas and red-carpet photoshoots, with a street of high-end jewellery boutiques on one side and a sparkling bay jammed with super-yachts on the other.
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I steeled myself internally to do what has become second nature to me since taking my job as head of the nation's oldest political organization fighting for abortion rights, NARAL – to find the patience to try to steer the conversation away from platitudes and towards data, away from polemics and towards reality.
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In just 121 pages, Ms McCann cavorts through more than two millennia of fluid exchanges using humour, deft selection of fascinating anecdotes and an admirable resistance to polemics to accomplish what most of her predecessors have failed to do: provide a guide through "the ever-shifting constellation of meanings orbiting around sex in the West".
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Rather than shying away from this debate or engaging in polemics about Iraq, the candidates should explain and articulate when, as commander in chief, and under what circumstances they would be willing to employ force and how they would handled dangers and threats in North Korea, Iran, the Baltic States, Syria, Iraq and in other trouble spots.
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And if you're going to pick something to structure your presidency on, maybe a movie — which can have narrative coherence — is a better model than reality TV. What keeps The Reagan Show from turning into polemics is one brilliant move: Save for a few explanatory captions, there's not one present-day talking head or commentator in the film.
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But today, rules imposed by House GOP leaders requiring offsets for any suggested increases limit such bills to short-term outlooks at best, as with the Senate's American Innovation and Competitiveness Act, or polemics scolding scientists and the institutions that fund science at worst, as with legislation crafted by the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.
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The takeaway moments—until that batshit ending, anyway—were traditional Oscar moments rather than political polemics, from Viola Davis's energetic, inspirational speech, to Tarell Alvin McCraney and Barry Jenkins's "we will be there for you for the next four years" acceptance of the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, to Emma Stone's ascension to the top of Mt. Ingenue.
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If the party's blue-collar and middle-class base—demographics whom candidates routinely address during their debate-stage polemics—are truly the engine of the Democratic machine, it's hard to see how their interests are represented by the 70-odd delegates, who derive their own socioeconomic standing from their careers at America's top financial firms and K Street influence shops.
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The Case Against Free Speech is a sometimes flawed but necessary book, one that I hope people will read and argue with, and one that I hope spawns both some more rigorous histories of political conceptions of speech as well as some more pointed polemics aiming at the sacrosanctity of the First Amendment, which could stand to be a site of contestation rather than blindly awed reverence.
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The printing press fractured the monopoly on worldly and spiritual knowledge long held by the Roman Catholic Church, bringing the discoveries of Erasmus and the polemics of Martin Luther to a broad audience and fueling the Protestant Reformation, which held that ordinary believers—individuals, who could read their own Bibles and see their own faces in their own mirrors—might have unmediated contact with God.
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Here her speech ironically reminded me of the kinds of polemics spouted at rallies by supporters of the current President: a shallow grasp of US history, insistence on conformity to a certain linguistic orthodoxy, the rejection of any information that is not relayed through personally known sources, a suspicion of institutions (like the press) and all knowledge they circulate, a valorizing of overblown rhetoric, and contempt for views that don't comport with their own.
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