Sentences with phrase «as classicists»

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

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....

In 1964 he was offered a job for one year as a classicist, filling in for a professor on sabbatical leave at Fordham University, and has been in America ever since - first at Fordham and then at Columbia University from 1967 - 1984 (he was dean of the...

Likewise Joseph, regarding himself as a classicist, considers the association with minimalism unconvincing, citing early Venetian and Florentine painting as a more appropriate touchstone.

After being released from military service in 1919, he established himself as a Classicist, designing a number of ballet sets for Sergei Diaghilev and Les Ballets Russes.

Other sculptors of the period worth studying, include: the romantics Francois Rude (1784 - 1855) and Auguste Preault (1809 - 79); the highly talented, light - hearted Jean - Baptiste Carpeaux (1827 - 75), and his follower Jules Dalou (1838 - 1902); as well as the classicist Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75), and the versatile George Frederick Watts (1817 - 1904).

As a Classicist (my Latin teacher was an influencer!)

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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....

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

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]

As Canadian classicist A. Trevor Hodge has noted, this overlooked Roman technology «tempts one into speculating how close the ancient world was to making the full - scale breakthrough into printing.»

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.

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.

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.

Albert Serra is a Spanish filmmaker whose four feature films have earned him such classifications as «Romanesque» and even «Radical Classicist».

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.

According to our Tribeca review from Rodrigo Perez, the film «is vignette - driven, but also classicist in structure,» with an effectiveness at «mining the comedy in dreariness» that's as reminiscent of «Office Space» as it is of Altman.

Danielle Allen Rises Through Harvard's Ranks (The Harvard Crimson) Following Professor Danielle Allen's career as a political theorist and classicist at Harvard.

Hats off to Lexus chief designer Tadao Mori, who concocted this collection of shocking - to - classicists, nontraditional forms and features in such a way as to make the composition agreeable to many.

In a 1984 Artforum review, Thomas McEvilley, a classicist new to the world of contemporary art, made the case that the Museum of Modern Art in New York served as an exclusionary temple to certain high - minded Modernists — namely, Picasso, Matisse, and Pollock — who, in fact, took many of their innovations from native cultures.

The term «abstract classicists» was coined in 1959 by curator and critic Jules Langsner to define these four southern California painters whose work he grouped in a seminal exhibition that year at the Los Angeles County Museum in Exposition Park (prior to LACMA's existence as an independent art museum).

The stunning, transcendental vistas which set this dichotomic milieu are inspired by the Baroque, Romantic and Classicist traditions, as encapsulated by artists such as Claude Lorrain and the Hudson River School group.

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.»

There are hard - edge geometric paintings by Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley and John McLaughlin called the Abstract Classicists after their 1959 show, as well as influential figurative artists like Rico Lebrun, who was, among other things, a teacher of Baldessari.

Alongside these works will be bronze pieces from Louise Bourgeois, Paul McCarthy and Henry Moore, as well as bronze items brought on eBay by classicist and Frieze co-collaborator Mary Beard.

The exhibition also presents works in the Ateneum collection by artists who represent the realist and classicist modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Ragnar Ekelund, Greta Hällfors - Sipilä, Olli Miettinen, Yrjö Ollila, Martti Ranttila, Juho Salminen and Ilmari Vuori.

The object is a tribute to the early XX century Russian Avant - garde movement as well as an attempt to intervene into a classicist style of St. Petersburg's city centre.

Hammersley is known as one of the Los Angeles - based «Abstract Classicists» whose work gained international attention through the exhibition Four Abstract Classicists at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1959.

Some define themselves as realists and / or classicists; many acknowledge the formal lessons of a century of modernist experimentation.

So, why pick a classicist to run the world's most famous museum in the 21st century, a time when the institution is planning such futuristic endeavors as launching a satellite into Abu Dhabi?

BOSTON — Founded in 1933 by the classicist John Andrew Rice, Black Mountain College was a shoestring operation deep in the heart of the rural American South that opened as the Great Depression began and another World War loomed just over the horizon.

It was, however, as one of the four Los Angeles «abstract classicists» in 1959 that he achieved renown.

Grouped as «Four Abstract Classicists» in a 1959 LACMA exhibition, the artists were described at the time as «Easygoing, Bauhaus and Zen.»

Taking and reinventing classicist and old masters paintings as principal elements and focal points for his work in this show, he uses angular forms inspired by and abstracted from his historical outdoor use of the alphabet to compliment the figurative work that he pays homage to and slices - up in equal measure.

An American painting movement which depicted urban / industrial landscapes often in a Cubist / Futurist manner, its members were known by a variety of labels such as «Cubist - Realists», «Immaculates», «Sterilists» or «modern classicists».

The New York counterpart to these California Classicists was generally larger in scale and more pronounced, as seen in the works of Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella.