Sentences with phrase «art than history»

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Women are most likely to move away from education (by more than 1 percent share of women's enrollment if counting all education fields together), literature and language, sociology, psychology, and liberal arts and history.

The monastery's publishing program has had more success, with more than a hundred new titles each year, covering all areas of church life: Christian spirituality, church history, Scripture, church music and arts, Orthodox ascetic practices, monasticism, liturgy and church prayer, and the lives of the saints.

Thus, language, law, science, art, manners, customs, history, and tradition are elaborations of the human spirit no less than is religion.

Sometimes these imperfect human beings find things like arts and literature that explain the truth of what is to be human better than science and history.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

But a student of the history of that school of anti «art known as iconoclasm knows he must seek other game than the easy prey of nihilist art.

He is well aware that secular interpretations of art history were not without basis, and he does not hesitate to admit that Poussin may have been «more an ancient Roman than a Counter-Reformation Catholic.»

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

Its embrace of art and image link it more strongly to an iconic history than to traditional Protestant worship.

In essentials like religion, ethics, philosophy; in history, literature, art; in the concepts of all science, except perhaps mathematics, the American boy of 1854 stood nearer the year 1 than to the year 1900.2

With a master's degree in art history from the University of Missouri - Columbia, Michelle Powell - Smith has been writing professionally for more than a decade.

More than 10,000 titles include books on architecture, astronomy, chess, clip art and fine art, crafts, history, literature, and mathematics, as well as music scores, the world's premier paper doll line, value - priced Dover Little Activity Books, and titles by over two dozen Nobel Laureates.

Less than a year after the Albright - Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo received the largest single financial donation in its history, officials announced that it has now received its largest single donation of art: The vast and lucrative estate of pop artist and local favorite Marisol, who died last AprArt Gallery in Buffalo received the largest single financial donation in its history, officials announced that it has now received its largest single donation of art: The vast and lucrative estate of pop artist and local favorite Marisol, who died last Aprart: The vast and lucrative estate of pop artist and local favorite Marisol, who died last April.

If the new dates for the Spanish cave art are confirmed, they could indicate that Neandertals and H. sapiens exchanged artistic traditions earlier than previously thought, says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who was not involved in the studies.

The pair hypothesized that academic fields that tend to hammer home the point of «genius,» such as physics and math would have fewer women than fields that emphasize dedication and effort, such as art history or education.

Culture means more than just a set of learned behaviors that vary from place to place, some argued; culture means history and tradition, art, philosophy, and religion — the last barrier, together with language, that separates humans from other species.

Robarts has a long history of fostering an interdisciplinary approach to research enabled by state - of - the - art facilities, technologically advanced core laboratories, and more than 600 committed scientists, staff and research trainees.

Sandy Hill has visited more than 100 countries, mostly to pursue her passion for mountain sports (climbing, skiing and trekking) and cultural interests (indigenous people, history, art and architecture).

Sandy Hill has visited more than 100 countries, mostly to pursue her passion for mountain sports (climbing, skiing and trekking) and cultural interests (indigenous people, history, art...

The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world — approximately 266,000 catalog records (825,000 items) representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas.

After all, what better place to fall in love, or at least go on some incredible dates, than a country that has a rich history, incredible art, and a unique culture?

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To meet men, there's one place that's more effective in making introductions than 100 visits to Whole Foods and Art History class Read More...

New York City Ballet, under the artistic direction of Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins, boasts a roster of more than 90 elite dancers and a repertory of works by many of the greatest choreographers in the history of the art form.

Less effective as a portrait of Allende than it is as a commentary on the documentary medium itself - art as a means of resuscitating history.

Haynes, with a film light on dialogue and entirely too reliant on Carter Burwell's impressive, ever - expanding and changing but nonetheless incessant score, draws on the hollow sentimentality of his premise rather than the emotional specificity of his characters» engagement with the art and history that saves them.

One of the most prolific film artists in Hollywood history, the German - born art director Hans Dreier worked on more than five hundred films from 1919 to 1951, amassing twenty - three Academy Award nominations and three Oscars.

Indiewire: «More than a powerful elegy, ’12 Years a Slave» is a mesmerizing triumph of art and polemics: McQueen turns a topic rendered distant by history into an experience that, short of living through the terrible era it depicts, makes you feel as if you've been there.»

MAD ABOUT MOVIES: Nowhere is the collision of art and commerce more pronounced than at the Cannes Film Festival, and HBO's tantalizing quasi-mock-documentary Seduced and Abandoned (9 / 8c) gives us a ringside seat, courtesy of Alec Baldwin — a Cannes newbie, incredibly — and director pal James Toback, who celebrate the history and glamorous hysteria of this venerated event while purporting to pitch a passion project to investors: an unlikely political sex drama they call «Last Tango in Tikrit.»

American Animals is Layton's narrative debut, but it similarly tracks a stranger - than - fiction tale of four young men who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in US history.

Garland's screenplay is equally impressive, weaving references to mythology, history, physics, and visual art into casual conversations, in ways that demonstrate that Garland understands what he's talking about while simultaneously going to the trouble to explain more abstract concepts in plain language, to entice rather than alienate casual filmgoers.

Ultimately Chan's accomplishments, however breathtaking, seem to have more to do with the Guinness Book of World Records than they do with the history of art — though it's worth adding that, according to the New York Times, Rumble in the Bronx was the number - one box - office hit in mainland China last year.

Calling Lincoln an heir to these films perhaps does it a disservice however, for, in the film's often misunderstood prologue and following dream sequence, Kushner and Spielberg openly acknowledge their movie's genial relation to the actuality of the 13th Amendment's passage, theater, and cinematic history itself — and by announcing upfront that they're employing the tools afforded by the arts to re-create past events, they let us know that their aims are somewhat closer to folklore than strict reportage.

In addition, students gain global and cultural competency when they are exposed to people who are different than they are, and to the art, music, history and culture of other nations, races and peoples.

NCLB only holds schools accountable for basic skills like math and reading rather than important skills like citizenship, responsibility, developing character, science, history, and appreciation for the arts to name a few.

Schools will be freer than today to specialize in, say, art / music, STEM, technical - vocational education or history and literature.

A history teacher might respond, «You think the arts are more «motivational» than history?»

There is one focused course of study (history, language - English and Spanish - and the arts; mathematics, science, and technology; and health); everyone is enrolled in it; an appropriate path for each student is developed (every child has a «personal learning plan»); most teachers have responsibility for no more than 50 students (this on a per - pupil budget that is the same or less than in nearby public secondary schools).

Rather than sending students through each subject in isolation, these schools focus the entire curriculum around a single topic or subject - like caterpillars or a local bird species -, then examine it through the different lenses of science, math, art, history, etc..

The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History / Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects are states» efforts to ensure that all students are college and career ready in literacy no later than the end of high school.

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Serving more than 5 million in its history, KCYA is the largest provider of arts programs in the Kansas City area and one of the largest members of the national Young Audiences Arts for Learning netwarts programs in the Kansas City area and one of the largest members of the national Young Audiences Arts for Learning netwArts for Learning network.

c. Students who are either (i) enrolled in a nonpublic school or (ii) receiving home instruction pursuant to § 22.1 - 254.1 and who are enrolled in a public school on less than a full - time basis in any mathematics, science, English, history, social science, vocational education, health education or physical education, fine arts or foreign language course, or receiving special education services required by a student's individualized education plan, shall be counted in the funded fall membership and March 31 ADM of the responsible school division.

And, with a searchable archive of more than 10,000 engaging articles about science, history, culture, geography, arts, humanities, and current events, students will never run out of summer reading materials!

Especially in high - poverty elementary schools, we waste precious years by giving kids a steady diet of reading and math rather than building their knowledge of the world by immersing them in history, science, and the arts.

Over its 20 - year history, Need for Speed has become one of the most popular racing games of all time, and Electronic Arts is showing no signs of letting off the throttle with the coming release of Need for Speed Rivals, the newest generation of the game, with more features and gameplay options than ever.

Over its 20 - year history, Need for Speed has become one of the most popular racing games of all time, and Electronic Arts is showing no signs of letting off the throttle with the coming release of Need for Speed Rivals, the newest generation of the game, with more features and gameplay options than

DOUG WEAVER is a journalist and book publisher who has produced more than 350 book titles in his career on topics ranging from regional history to entertainment, art, architecture, travel, crime, and the craft of quilting.

«It's one of the few times in history that technology has reinvigorated an art form rather than crushing it,» said Max Brooks, author of the zombie novel «World War Z,» which was released in May ahead of the Brad Pitt movie in an elaborate new audio edition with 40 cast members, including Alan Alda, John Turturro, and Martin Scorsese.

The Getty Research Portal Grows with a New Design and More Than 100,000 Digitized Volumes (The Iris, Ghetty) The online library of art history texts has expanded!