Sentences with phrase «when social historians»

When social historians look for the time when this originally «antiestablishment» world was finally awarded the robes of cultural dominance, they might do well to look to the premieres of these works at the Met.

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When social psychologists, political theorists, or historians examine them, they do not stand up.

Ancient historians tell us that severe hardships occurred when that crucial harvest was disrupted by war or social unrest.

We do not really know what to do with religiousness when it expresses itself outside those enclosures which historians and social scientists have carefully labeled religions.

Such civic - minded uses for the buildings hearken back to the first field houses, built in the early 1900s under the direction of parks Supt. Frank J. Foster.Foster was inspired by Chicago's first settlement house — large buildings where immigrants could go for shelter and social services — when he ordered the construction of the first 10 field houses, which opened in 1905, said Park District historian Julia Bachrach.

This meant that Arte Povera artists mined their particular social and historical moment to express something distinctly precise about the Italian condition through the use of installation, assemblage, and performance art, explaining why art historians have usually positioned them alongside artists working in the style known as Post Minimalism; American artists such as Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, and Eva Hesse, and with artists in Europe included in the famous show When Attitudes Become Form (1969), such as Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, and Hans Haacke.

A historian says that while «other social movements... were frequently ridiculed or dismissed... the mass media accorded considerable respect to the environmental cause» when Earth Day was founded 40 years ago.