Sentences with phrase «came of age in»

Born in 1926, Mauri came of age in the context of Fascist Italy and Europe at war and was so profoundly affected by the events he witnessed first - hand and through the media that he suffered severe psychiatric problems.

Last year, when the novelist Martin Amis was asked to comment on the recent exodus from London to New York of British writers of the generation that came of age in the 1970s — Salman Rushdie, the late Christopher Hitchens, the poet James Fenton and now Amis himself — he replied, «There's an odd sense in which the novel follows the power.»

Nothing I make doesn't remind me of something I've absorbed from the echo of the last century, the one I came of age in, and from even before.

In their introduction to the publication, Burton and Sussman write, «As is the case with many artists of Levine's generation who came of age in the late 1970s and early 1980s, her work is often discussed primarily in terms of... the questioning of traditional ideas of originality and authorship.

This exhibition examines how Latino photographers, many of whom came of age in urban neighborhoods, frame their environment.

McArthur Binion, a Chicago artist born in Mississippi, who came of age in Detroit as the eleventh child of a family that went from tenant farmers to factory workers in the automotive plants, is having his first solo museum show at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH) opening Jan. 6th (through April 1).

Prince understands that his artistic practice must reflect the death of this sanctity — a mutually embraced tenant of his fellow artists that came of age in the early 1970s, known as the Pictures Generation.

It was in this representational chasm that Gyasi and Ojih Odutola came of age in Alabama.

Born in Detroit in 1932, Mr. Byars came of age in the 1950's, a decade in which the cosmopolitan alternative thinking of the 1960's was in development.

The emphatic geometries of his paintings, which indicate his attachment to Piet Mondrian, are another signature touch, conveying a genially brash New York energy (Martin's practice came of age in 1980s New York, which saw the explosion of the East Village art scene, led by Keith Haring).

All born in the 1960s or 1970s, the artists in the 2004 California Biennial came of age in an era defined by postmodernism.

Born in Euclid, Ohio, in 1970, Ms. Owens came of age in the early 1990s, when an anything - but - painting attitude prevailed at many art schools.

The Arab artists in this display are as diverse as the countries they hail from but came of age in the dawn of a post-colonial era.

Fergus McCaffrey's elegant booth mingles the practices of two American artists who came of age in the 1960s and happen to be great friends.

Leigh was among a generation of Southern photographers who came of age in the 1970s, including William Christenberry and William Eggleston, whose work focused on the subtle beauty found in ordinary and out - of - the - way areas of the American South.

Mauri came of age in the context of Fascist Italy, and his relentless effort to bridge that experience to the philosophical and artistic movements of his time is unparalleled.

Curated by Peter Drake, Dean of the Academy, and gallerist George Adams, Piss and Vinegar unites two generations of provocateurs: five men who came of age in the 1960s and five contemporary female artists.

One of the greatest artists to use photography in the 21st century, Ruff came of age in the 1980s alongside Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, in what was to become known as the Düsseldorf School.

She came of age in Britain in the 1970s, a time when «you rarely saw black people on the television, or in newspapers».

And then beyond that I really like the reference to the VCR, which of course came of age in the 1980s as well.

Returning shows include Sascha Braunig's haunting, op - art inspired paintings at Foxy Production, and Derek Eller's retrospective of Thomas Barrow, a photographer who came of age in the 1960s, but whose distempered photo collages look distinctly contemporary.

Sturtevant was born in Ohio and came of age in New York, but the United States has been slow to embrace her.

Kippenberger came of age in the 1970s and embodies the kind of punk rock libertinism of German youth in that era — cosmopolitan, intellectual, disillusioned by radical leftist politics, but disdainful of the burgeoning consumer culture of West Germany.

Tamara Gonzales is a painter who came of age in the 1990s Williamsburg milieu.

We need to remember that these artists came of age in a very different time than we are in today.

Simpson came of age in the 1980s, a generation after Civil Rights and Black Power movements marked by the emergence of identity politics and multiculturalism.

Ms. Minter came of age in the East Village of the 1980s, when misbehavior was the norm, and she wanted to be part of it.

For another thing, he came of age in a decade of limits.

The Lalannes came of age in the 1960s, and for more than five decades, their special blend of luxurious sensuality and earthly irreverence held court amongst the most avant - garde of collectors.

The exhibition considers works by famed Nouveau Réalisme artists such as Arman and Raymond Hains alongside the likes of American counterparts Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Artschwager, as well as a younger generation of contemporary artists who came of age in the wake of Pop Art.

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Phyllida Barlow is a British artist who came of age in the wake of the «New Generation» of British sculptors of the early 1960s.

Born in Tehran, Iran in 1975, Ahmadi came of age in the tumultuous years following the Iranian Revolution and subsequent Iran - Iraq War of the 1980s.

I came of age in the art world during the hey day of the exclusive NY galleries, Uptown then SoHo.

For those of us that came of age in the 80's and early 90's though, those booklets were essential reading.

This is the world they came of age in.

The International Society of Feline Medicine (ISFM) came of age in 2017.

Mike Burry came of age in a different money culture.

Yes, we came of age in the information era.

Self publishing came of age in 2011 and continues to place untold pressures on publishers, not only about price, but the ever present (and almost too difficult to answer question) of what can you, the publisher, really do for me, the author.

Born into an upper - class black family in Chicago, Jefferson came of age in the 1960s at a time when just beneath the surface of the civil rights movement, blacks were struggling with class frictions that complicated the ideals of racial unity.

A humorous and poignant memoir of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia.

Multivalve engines were another of the big technological advances that came of age in the»80s.

The GTI made me a car geek, just as it did so many others who came of age in the 1980s and»90s.

Motoring Memories — We look at Talbots in the 1930's through the lens of CK Bowers & Sons / Into The Lyons Den — SS finally came of age in 1935 with the Jaguar model.

Americans who came of age in the late 1980s and early»90s share certain common threads.

The college campus is increasingly a focal point for shaping social norms, largely a result of rising college attendance; only five percent of the generation that came of age in the 1930s were college graduates, as opposed to roughly a third of millennials.

While 62 percent of those born in America in 1950 attended at least one year of college, the comparable figure for those born in 1975 (and who came of age in 1995) was just 59 percent (see Figure 1).

The students who came of age in the 1970s set a benchmark for attainment of education that subsequent generations have surpassed only recently, and then barely.

Obama is a child of the sixties (born in Hawaii, August 4, 1961, another decade yet to produce a president) and like McCain in the 1940s, though too young to call it his war, came of age in the middle of a hellish conflict.