“The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.” ArtShowsRealityArtistCultureMirrorsConstantHistoricalObjectivesPurifyingTrue RealityOverseeing Book:The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian Source: The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian
“The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history... Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.” ChildrenTwoHomeSchoolCultureInfluenceTraditionObjectivesPrimariesIndianTreatmentRemoveChaptersDominantSchool SystemFamily TraditionDominant Culture Author:Stephen Harper
“One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.” IfsMayTwoCultureReadingLiteraturePeriodsAgreeWineMythObjectivesSubjectiveYou Like ItAssessmentGreat WritersInsidiousReading Shakespeare Author:Karen MacNeil
“The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!” ArtHardFactsValuesDiesCultureBeliefStudyFeministObjectivesScholarshipIdeologicalExcludedBiasedNeutrality Author:Adrienne Rich
“Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.” StillsEndsAgeChristianSpiritCultureUnderstandingViewsFailingTruth IsNewsUniversalAbsolutesResponseObjectivesCompromiseWitnessRootedMinistryBiblicalEngagingGood NewsExclusiveSystematicThoroughBackboneUnifiedPostmodernismPostmodern Author:Douglas Groothuis