Sentences with phrase «career as a historian»

Bennett's flirtation with a career as a historian shows in the accurate depiction of the politics of the day.

He says that in his entire career as a historian / journalist he's yet to read one in which the supposed aims are democracy promotion and to support self - interests on the country involved.

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Watson, the porn historian, sees a continuum between Daniels» early (and continuing) work as a stripper, her porn career and her current role in the American body politic.

Art historians have long been intrigued by Rembrandt's appropriation of certain Rubensian themes and pictorial types, but Schama makes this the centerpiece of his argument, as if the primary motivating force of Rembrandt's career was to imitate, emulate and eventually get the better of Rubens.

The book made Lively's career as an anti-LGBT activist, and though actual historians have dismissed it and refuted it, the anti-LGBT right continues to peddle it and its ideas.

When the historian reconstructs the history of an event reported in the Bible, like the reign of David or the career of Paul, he brings together as many sources of information as possible: biblical accounts, archeological data, nonbiblical reports.

At the age of twenty Erik served as a special correspondent in Russia for a Hungarian daily paper; from that time forward he pursued a unique career as a journalist, historian, lecturer, traveler, novelist, and painter.

The irony is that — especially with all the domestic skills I've been practicing basically daily over the past decade — I'd accept being the SAHD in a marriage with a career woman (I trained as a historian; we're paid in pittances anyway) in a heartbeat!

Over the course of his career, he has spent time as a theater critic, a science writer, an oral historian, a writing teacher, a bookstore clerk, a PR flack, a seriously terrible marine biologist and a slightly better - than - average competitive swimmer.

The disc also comes with a 51 - minute TV spot from 1987 featuring Vincent Price discussing his career with historian David Del Valle, an interview with writer Richard Matheson and a video essay about the career of director Jacques Tourneur so there's plenty of material for fans to trawl through, but overall The Comedy of Terrors may not be a classic when compared to its main cast members» more celebrated works but it is a fun ride through the cemetery with four bona fide horror legends as your guides.

Improbably, at the end of a four - decade - long career as the nation's most prominent education historian and a vocal advocate for education reform, Ravitch has emerged as reform's fiercest critic.

Stewart will join sports car legend and award - winning winemaker Scott Pruett, named in June as the Picnic in the Park's honored guest, and noted motorsports historian Murray Smith to recount stories and tales from their unmatched and distinguished motorsports careers.

But my career as a professional historian and college professor meant that I like to look at cause and effect out and I have spent a life time trying to figure out how to communicate effectively with others.

The English art historian Edward Lucie - Smith, who began his career as a poet and an acolyte of Concrete Poetry, recently said of Montgomery's work simply, «Yes to this, and yes again.»

«This exhibition takes a much - needed look at the artist's estimable career and reveals him as a modern artist of ambition and spirit,» explains independent curator and art historian Avis Berman.

As Leonard Manasseh becomes our first centenarian Royal Academician, his cousin, the architectural historian Timothy Brittain - Catlin, takes a look at a career of over 80 years.

As part of Chinati Weekend 2014, curator and art historian Robin Clark surveyed Larry Bell «s career and practice in a talk entitled «Glass Labyrinth: Larry Bell's Standing Wall Sculpture for Chinati.»

Bedford: One major consequence of that survey show, which I think we're only beginning to see bear fruit, is roughly as follows: yes, your career has become more extraordinary; yes, the paintings have become even better, as the pavilion will demonstrate; and yes, you've been able to spread your wings in terms of social practice, but you've also forced a wedge into the history of art that has revealed afresh your genuine predecessors: Norman Lewis, Sam Gilliam, Jack Whitten, Melvin Edwards, Alma Thomas — these people have become differently visible as a consequence of the need among museums and art historians to account for where you came from.

On the Art World Old and New — The esteemed British art historian Sir John Richardson discusses his lengthy career in the arts with the Financial Times's Jackie Wullschlager, including his early years as an aspiring artist in France when he befriended Pablo Picasso's wife, and later, the painter himself.

As the art historian Éric de Chassey notes, these new compositions «not only enter into a dialogue with the 1960s works, but take stock of every painting experience Riley has created during a long career.

Women artists were rarely represented by dealers, galleries, or solo shows as their careers were developing, and even when they were, those contributions were overlooked by early historians of Abstract Expressionism.

Bill has had a remarkable career as a writer, gallery director, art historian, and painter.

Another influence on intellectual and creative thought has been the highly regarded Evening Lecture Series program, a forum for major artists, thinkers, critics, art historians and poets, as well as emerging and middle career individuals.

The particular shape will be familiar to those who know Mr. Kelly's work — as art historian Pepe Karmel points out in his essay for the Mnuchin show, it is related to a photograph the artist took early in his career, of the pendulous shape made by a swing - set rope.

Gates, who began his career as a potter, was selected by a jury museum directors, curators, artists, and art historians.

Co-curated by artist Jeremy Deller and art historian Professor David Alan Mellor, the exhibition charts Lacey's artistic development in a career encompassing painting, sculpture, robotised assemblages, theatrical performances and installations, as well as community arts and ritual action performances.

Alejandro Anreus (b. 1960, Havana): Though he began his career as an artist, Anreus is now an art historian and poet, and is professor of art history at William Paterson University.

The copiously illustrated, full - color catalogue includes essays by noted Columbia University art historian and Conrad scholar Branden Joseph; Whitney Museum Performance Curator and 2012 Whitney Biennial Curator Jay Sanders; filmmaker and Anthology Film Archives Curator Andrew Lampert; Swiss digital archivist Tabea Lurke; as well as an in - depth interview between Conrad and exhibition curator Michael Cohen examining Conrad's life and career.

It will include an essay written by Suzy Menkes, journalist at The New York Times and fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune, and two interviews with the designer himself, in addition to an interview with Valerie Steele, fashion historian and director of New York's The Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), as well as a timeline of Gaultier's career and a complete bibliography.

Phong Bui: So far we know about your career as an art historian / critic, as you began in your memoir, Sweeper - Up after Artists, from the time you were a graduate student in American History at Columbia University in the early 1950s, which proceeded right after having gone to school in the same field of study at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Trained as a cultural historian and, with her second career as an artist, Lutfi emerged as one of Egypt's most notable contemporary image - makers.

After serving as a British Army nurse in World War II, Claire Randall is enjoying a second honeymoon in Scotland with husband Frank, an MI6 officer looking forward to a new career as an Oxford historian.