Sentences with phrase «history writ»

In an article titled «Specters of History,» Copeland, a professor of art history at Northwestern University, describes the 2012 work as a «meditation» on her relationship with the U.S. president, her sometime artistic collaborator Lonnie Graham and history writ large.

Vivid, dramatic, with surprises at every turn, The Pope and Mussolini is history writ large and with the lightning hand of truth.

It even kicks off with a quick recap on Saudi - American relations over the last century or so, a bullet - pointed primer that recalls President Wilson's admiring remark on «The Birth of a Nation»: «History writ with lightning.»

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Writ in those nucleotides is a record of your most intimate kin and medical history.

The Mexican population writ - large may not view NAFTA particularly favorably — many see it as a bad deal in a history of bad deals with its bullying northern neighbor.

And yet, in book after book, Glancy also offends many of her fellow Native writers — whose books she reads, as they read hers — by insisting that this absurdity, this intrusion of the Gospel, writ large in the history of Native Americans, is the experience of every tribe and every nation, everything and everyone human.

The Holocaust and many other horrendous calamities in history are the cosmic extension of that, writ large.

The constitutional history of the past six decades, writ short, is essentially the tale of how the Founders» Constitution was transmogrified by the Supreme Court into a document of almost infinite plasticity.

«Patronage, Waste and Favoritism / A dark history of Constitutional Conventions,» available free online, makes a compelling argument that a con - con is nothing more than an extraordinarily expensive extra session of the Legislature writ large, with the same controlling politicians, the same special interests, and, most importantly, delivering the same outcomes.

The ruling marks the first time in U.S. history that an animal has been covered by a writ of habeas corpus, which typically allows human prisoners to challenge their detention.

Killmonger's view of Wakanda and Africa writ large, for instance, is filtered through partial history, myths, visions of royal heritage, and a yearning for a legacy that has been stripped away.

But even before he made film history with those unforgettable classics, he was writ...

«You could write a really good history of education writ large about our tendency in this country to go from one extreme to the other, and this has all the hallmarks of that,» Mr. Pondiscio said.

These features include the ability to cancel an in - development research project, a guild invite history, a currency system update that lets players bank Alliance Points and Writ Vouchers, and customizable attack telegraphs.

Through video, sculpture, photography and text, Sable Elyse Smith probes the trauma of incarceration as it has related to her own family and history, and the ways these same traumas have been writ - large in America as a result of mass incarceration.

These small - scale background elements — which pay homage to the history of painting as well as to Wood's personal history (both of his maternal grandparents were hobbyist painters and collected works by Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, and Robert Rauschenberg, among other artists)-- are writ large in New Plants.

Though small in scale, the works command the same presence that any sculpture in the round — or indeed monument does — forcing you to circle back and forth and round back again to read the harrowing histories, told in Spanglish, of marginalized people on them: forced sterilization of Latinas, deportations at the hands of I.C.E. and FRONTEX, and the effects of colonization writ - large.

But that faint brush with art history suggests that Elahi is thinking about his visual output not only in the context of the surveillance state but the history of image making writ large, and his multiple - channel video piece «Fenester» reveals an awareness that, in hindsight, feels like it might've present in his work from the very beginning: the long shadow of Gerhard Richter.

In «After Darkness,» each artist's complex relationship with art, ideology and the assertion of activism to portray history was writ large.

I have no doubt that his name will be writ large in the future record of what is proving to be the biggest fraud in the history of science.