Sentences with phrase «classicists of»

Comparisons to the renown Abstract Classicists of the midcentury are inevitable.

Each group in the exhibition achieves this through their own distinct technique: the Abstract Classicists of Los Angeles worked in oil; the Washington Color School stained acrylic into their unprimed canvases; and the New York Op artists built up their acrylic on primed canvases.

Along with Colville he is one of the greatest classicists of contemporary Canadian PAINTING.

At one point, the word «chic» makes society dress designer Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day - Lewis) simply recoil; for we are in mid -»50s London, and the foreign word represents all the things that threaten to make this classicist of sartorial beauty eventually démodé.

A DAY IN THE COUNTRY By Donald Chase Claude Chabrol at 60: the reigning classicist of the French New Wave ventures into Tradition of Quality territory to film Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

Probably the best known classicist of our era, Beard offers a new perspective on how Rome grew into the most powerful empire in the world and why it still matters to us.

Nominating MacIver to the American Academy and Institute of Arts in 1956, Marianne Moore characterized her as «a classicist of the imagination, an interpreter of what can not be painted.»

«A Classicist of the Ordinary» MacIver worked small, usually about easel - sized, depicting objects from her immediate surroundings and views of the city.

«If David Park was the classicist of the founding triad of the group, and Richard Diebenkorn the modernist, Bischoff was the romantic.

Not exact matches

Often called neo-reactionaries but better understood as classicists, a third group of French thinkers refuses both nihilism and Islamism.

If the monster has escaped the control of multicultural 68ers and now presents a threat to their project, the classicist can not help feeling some schadenfreude.

It is because de Gaulle's presidency stands as a golden age in the classicist mind that the most visible classicist, Éric Zemmour, begins his narrative of decline, The French Suicide, with a long and sonorous description of the general's funeral in 1970.

Meanwhile, in his criticism Eliot judges literature (and indeed the world) «from the creed of the classicist, the royalist, and the Anglo - Catholic.»

Such a question faces not merely classicists, but all who think of Western culture as a continuous history, all who think the Greeks can, somehow, help us.

Then the psychedelic path will lead over the bridge of cybernation; and with Herbert Marcuse as guru emeritus, Norman O. Brown as classicist in residence, and William F. Buckley, Jr., as anti-utopian court jester, we will establish the new - consciousness Camelot, telling the little ones tales of old Greenwich Village, the Haight, Millbrook, the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, of all the lotus - eating cadres of the leisure class....

Even the classicist Jefferson proposed a picture of Moses leading Israel across the Red Sea for the Great Seal of the United States.

Burckhardt was a defector from the classicist exaltation of the Greeks — and further, from the neo-humanist tradition that exalted moderns who appropriated the Greeks» legacy.

On the other hand, renderings of traditional church designs by contemporary classicists including Matthew Enquist, Dino Marcantonio, and Duncan Stroik make for an encouraging conclusion to this informative and eminently readable book.

Assassins of Memory by Pierre Vidal - Naquet, a French classicist, contains shrewd and learned dissections of the denial literature, with special attention to its rhetorical devices and deceptions.

Otherwise, my present classicist trajectory might, on superficial glance, seem to be an unexplained reversal of the previous direction.

Peter Levi, the classicist and poet (and former Jesuit), echoes this view when he observes that Shakespeare's «personal religion, so far as his plays reveal it» which is not very far» seems to have been something like Montaigne's with a touch of neo «Platonism....

The greater force bringing an end to the old classicist colleges was the demand that led to the establishment of universities and graduate education in the decades following the Civil War.

Classicists will at once recognize this derivation from the simple fact that the last principal part of the verb educare is educatum, while that of the verb educare is educatum; hence, we have «education,» not «eduction.»

^ a b Michael Grant (a classicist) states that «In recent years, «no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus» or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.»

But, regardless of its actual author, classicists all acknowledge that the Hippocratic Oath dates back at least to the fourth century b.c. and marks the moment when» thanks to Hippocrates» influence on his many students and apprentices» medicine separated itself from magic and pledged itself to preserving life.

Modern classicists have long argued back and forth about the authorship of his Oath and the other writings in the Hippocratic corpus.

On the other hand, the series of Italian renaissances was furthered by the French and German classicist movement, and by the nostalgic passion for Greece among the German and English romantic poets, not to speak of the more recent attempts by Nietzsche, and into our time, Heidegger, Leo Strauss, and others.

For the net result of the revisionist / classicist battle over the origins of the Cold War was a strengthening of Harry Truman's posthumous claim to historical greatness — precisely the «myth» that the revisionists were most eager to debunk.

However, the classicists regarded the American Catholic immigrant saga as essentially a story of success.

Thus historical classicists like Shea, Guilday, McAvoy, and Ellis tended to highlight those great accomplishments of the Church in the United States — the assimilation of some ten million immigrants between the early nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the massive institution - building which paralleled the assimilation — that graphically and empirically refuted the spirit (and the letter) of Know - Nothingism.

Early classicists made much of the Greeks» supposed cultural and racial purity.

Darius Meehan is a Classicist at Christ's College, University of Cambridge, and a member of the Christ's Politics Society.

And of course, there was the inevitable verbal slip when he promised that Brexit would be a «titantic success», a classicist's reference to the mythological giants rather than the ill - fated ship.

This phrase was also used by British politician (and classicist) Enoch Powell in his 1968 speech on immigration commonly known as the «Rivers of Blood» speech [2]

«It would be impossible to do most of Roman history without them,» says Michael Crawford, a classicist at University College London.

The British classicist Keith Hopkins has estimated, based on comparative demographic data, that 28 percent of all Roman children died before reaching 12 months of age.

«I'd call my clothes classic — I'm really a classicist at heart — with a bit of madness!»

You are more of a classicist — I suggest breaking out a bit on your jewelry to change things up.

Moralioglu, a self - confessed classicist known for the rich narratives behind his collections, bought the portrait at an auction last month, and it couldn't be more indicative of the space he has carved out as a go - to for old - world elegance in a market that is increasingly crowded with an athletic, hyper - branded aesthetic.

The eminent University of Cambridge classicist, who has almost 200,000 Twitter followers, was distraught after receiving...

For that first chunk of the film, this traditional, classicist director is flirting with a very experimental notion — the kind of «action as characterization» storytelling that The Hurt Locker went almost all the way with last summer.

But where Hong relentlessly deconstructs his narratives, laying bare their artifices and exposing the lonely needs that drive us to invent them, Bogdanovich the classicist is content to faithfully recreate the form of the old (his zooms are subtle and patient, not Hong's wild, drunken lurches), with nothing but a sly wink to the audience to remind us of the precariousness of our ideals.

Photographed as if through a filter of golden light and infused with the mad ambition of old - school epics, it's a classicist's dream come true — with plenty of eye candy for the RPattz fans, assuming they like burly beards.

Less commonly remarked upon, however, is Japan's truly avant - garde work in the domain of sound, particularly as the»50s classicists gave way to»60s trailblazers like Hiroshi Teshigahara, Nagisa Oshima, and Masahiro Shinoda.

Best known in the U.S. for his otherworldly, elliptical horror films, Kurosawa is fundamentally a long - take classicist, crafting drama and tension through arrangements of characters within the frame.

Now 60, and always more of a wry classicist than a maverick, the writer - director Olivier Assayas is one of the steadiest and most reliable filmmakers in contemporary cinema.

«Classicist says quote of Virgil's inscribed on 9/11 Memorial is» shockingly inappropriate.

Of the inscription at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Helen Morales, a classicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told the Times,» If we take into account its original context, the quotation is more applicable to the aggressors in the 9/11 tragedy than those honored by the memorial... So my first reaction is that the quotation is shockingly inappropriate for the U.S. victims of the 9/11 attacOf the inscription at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Helen Morales, a classicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told the Times,» If we take into account its original context, the quotation is more applicable to the aggressors in the 9/11 tragedy than those honored by the memorial... So my first reaction is that the quotation is shockingly inappropriate for the U.S. victims of the 9/11 attacof California, Santa Barbara, told the Times,» If we take into account its original context, the quotation is more applicable to the aggressors in the 9/11 tragedy than those honored by the memorial... So my first reaction is that the quotation is shockingly inappropriate for the U.S. victims of the 9/11 attacof the 9/11 attack.

But in the late»60s, Chabrol emerged as a magisterially accomplished classicist, with an unbroken string of masterpieces that established him as one of the world's finest directors.

A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor, 2014) Chandor is fast becoming a fascinating blend of classicist with a cynical postmodern eye.