Sentences with phrase «background as an historian»

In two separate interviews, Amitav Ghosh talks about how his background as an historian, journalist, and anthropologist informs his work; and about the challenges of writing Sea of Poppies, the first volume in a trilogy set aboard a ship in the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight in the vicious 19th century Opium Wars between Britain and China.

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As a historian by background who has written quite a bit on the Great War, it's always nice to see the media cover things that otherwise have been long forgotten outside the ranks of historians and buffs.

And yet you are guided by the ramblings of five authors from the 1st century CE who basically are regurgitating local myths and embellishments and have no supporting backgrounds as trained historians.

A third group, becoming ever more visible, thanks to historians like Timothy Smith and Donald Dayton, reminds us that much of the social, experiential and even theological background of today's evangelicalism never was Reformed scholastic, as in the Princeton school, but derives from Arminian, Wesleyan, holiness and Keswickian sources.

Sarah Levitt, a costume historian by background, uses this picture as the starting point through an exploration... Read More

Despite contemporary and localizing references in The Little Patriots, such as the dome of the Pantheon in the background or the paving - stone barricade to the left, the pall of the academic poncif hangs heavier over the painting than the smoke of revolutionary fervor; one is made all too aware, in the pose of the little patriot in the center — reminiscent of that of Donatello's David, and so appropriate in its iconographic implications — that Jeanron was an art historian as well as an artist.

Those members came from various different artworld backgrounds (critic, curator, historian, artist, etc), and the programme, as stated on its still - live website, «eschewed solo exhibitions in favor of thematically, conceptually and politically driven group exhibitions and projects», such as its inaugural outing, modestly named Part One, which featured Andrea Fraser's May I Help You?

I have always loved art and because of my academic background decided I would retrain as an art historian, with a view to eventually setting up my own gallery.

Students from diverse backgrounds are provided the opportunity to participate in a dynamic and progressive education, participating in powerful programs in fine arts, culinary arts, garden science, theatre, music and sports, which supplement their daily experience as writers, scientists, mathematicians, poets and historians.

From this point on, directors came from an academic background as art - historians.

Building on his background as an architectural historian, with a decade of experience in art advisory and collection management, a passion for collecting architectural drawings and ephemera, and contemporary art and erotica, Edward Cella founded Edward Cella Art & Architecture in 2006.