Sentences with phrase «american essayist»

Clement Greenberg (/ ˈɡriːnbɜːrɡ /), [1] occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh (January 16, 1909 — May 7, 1994), was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century.

Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet and philosopher, once said, «Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.»

John McPhee, the great American essayist and writer, started writing a magazine article about oranges.

The great American essayist Wendell Berry writes in his excellent essay, «God and Country» (in What Are People For?)

Influential American essayist and journalist H. L. Mencken once called faith «an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.»

It is well to remember the statement of the American essayist H. L. Mencken: «To every human problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong!»

The great American essayist, Wendell Berry, in his important collection of essays, The Unsettling of America, writes: It is possible, I think, to say that this is a Christian agriculture, formed upon the understanding...

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In fact, from the tone of the rest of his writings, such as when he expresses his appreciation for the American farmer and essayist Wendell Berry, one can only conclude that he advocates a far more pastoral ecclessiology than most would prefer today.

Lining up fairly evenly pro and con, sixteen essayists evaluate «the Murray project» and its effort to provide a Catholic legitimation for the American constitutional order.

As the American poet and essayist Mark Signorelli has written: «Once it became common to doubt or to deny that man had any essential inclination toward beauty or truth, the purpose of making objects intended to unite beauty and truth in various ways was no longer evident.»

Gore Vidal, born and raised as a member of the East Coast American political aristocracy, was a respected novelist, essayist, and outspoken liberal commentator who used his wit to provoke and satirize.

Frances Mayes is an American university professor, poet, memoirist, essayist, and novelist.

Rankine, winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, is playwright and essayist as well as poet, and all three forms are present in her second, galvanizing «American Lyric,» following Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004).

On the occasion of Afro Kismet, Pace will publish a catalogue that will include an introduction by artist duo and Istanbul Biennial curators Elmgreen & Dragset, an essay by the Biennial's Director Bige Örer, and an interview with the artist conducted by American novelist, playwright and essayist Darryl Pinckney.

This exhibition showcased the works of Lebanese - American visual artist, poet, playwright and essayist, Etel Adnan, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Currently on view are exhibitions by the American painter Alex Katz and the Lebanese - born essayist, poet, and painter Etel Adnan.

An illustrated bilingual (English / Chinese) brochure accompanies this exhibition with a text by the noted American writer, poet and essayist Peter Lamborn Wilson.

Art critic, painter, novelist and poet John Berger, as well as American critic Lesley Fiedler and renowned essayist Clement Greenberg, were lovers of Nuala during this time.

Sculptor, essayist, poet, performer, and American Indian Movement activist, Jimmie Durham has been exhibiting work internationally as a means of political activism since the 1960s, but the Cherokee artist has been enjoying a widening influence in recent decades.

Jimmie Durham is an American sculptor, essayist, and poet based in Europe, where he has lived since 1994.

In addition to his publications about technical research of old master paintings, he was a catalogue essayist on artist materials and techniques for the monographic exhibitions Marsden Hartley (2003), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and Oscar Bluemner: A Passion For Color (2006), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Artist Statement «Walt Whitman, the American poet, essayist and journalist, published his first edition of \ «Leaves of Grass \» in 1855, but spent the rest of his life revising and adding to...

Artist, poet, performer, essayist, and American Indian Movement activist Jimmie Durham has lead an itinerant life, never settling in one medium or project, moving from his native Arkansas to New York, Mexico, Europe, and elsewhere.

Etel Adnan (Arabic: إيتيل عدنان; born 24 February 1925 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese - American poet, essayist, and visual artist.

The Autry Museum of the American West will mount the first comprehensive exhibition of photographer, essayist, and performance artist Harry Gamboa Jr.'s ongoing series, Chicano Male Unbonded.

In response to the indictment last week of NFL player Adrian Peterson for child abuse, essayist Michael Eric Dyson wrote a thoughtful piece about the roots of corporal punishment within the American Black community.