Sentences with phrase «about pioneer history»

Mt. Hood inn keepers will tell you tales about pioneer history and past presidential visitors as you await a warm home - cooked breakfast.

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About Odfjell Vineyards A history of enormous passion that started over 25 years ago, the pioneering Norwegian Armador, (ship owner) Dan Odfjell discovered and fell in love with a small corner of the famous Maipo Valley in Chile.

Ken Perlin, a New York University computer science professor and virtual reality pioneer, talks with Scientific American tech editor Larry Greenemeier about the state of virtual reality, its history and where it's heading

A handful of pioneers began to change this in 1968 and four of them tell their humiliating and often emotional stories to Armen Keteyian about an unpopular chapter in the history of America's most popular sport.

Thomson is a lover of stories, and in this fascinating history, he delivers stories about Nevada pioneers and schemers, writers and entertainers, killers and cultists and druggies.

The Orange Prize — winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales.

Leah Witherow, Curator at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, opens up about the «Story of Us,» the museum's newest exhibit which marries the area's rich local heritage and modern technology to give visitors a personal connection with history.

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Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature of the aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings of photographs of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique of the use of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the aesthetic history of photography.

My favourite works are all by female artists, who are so often absent from Italian art history: Carla Accardi's fluorescent and candy - coloured Rotolo Arancio and Rotolo Verde (Orange Roll and Green Roll, both 1967), painted on sheets of rolled - up transparent plastic sheeting; Irma Blank's Twelve Chapters (1977), 12 laboriously hand - written books filled with the artist's elegant abstract signs, and Lisetta Carmi's I Travestiti (Transvestites, 1965 — 71), a pioneering and much censored photographic project about the trans community in Genoa.

For me, this book went a long way to undoing years of schooling where we were taught to be in awe of «pioneering» white explorers, learning nothing about Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander history.

In their seminal work, Collaborative Divorce, Pauline Tessler and Peggy Thompson, noted pioneers in Collaborative Divorce and co-founders of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, assert that Collaborative Divorce «applies what we know about marriage and divorce from the realms of psychology, sociology, history, law, communication theory, conflict resolution theory, finance, and other realms in a very practical, useful, and concrete way.»