Sentences with phrase «century work described»

For Ronald Lauder, one that slipped his grip very recently: a 17th - century work described for a Treasures sale at Sotheby's as a «German parcel - gilt silver drinking cup in the form of the sixty - six point stag.»

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Historical changes that each find disturbing, whether the reduction of marriage to a private relationship in the past century or the increased number of working mothers in recent decades, are described as unprecedented, ominous or cataclysmic.

Shilappadikaram, a Tamil work of the second century, describes the homes of wealthy Greeks in the capital city of the Chera kingdom.

The paradigmatic fictional works of the twentieth century either present accounts that make dramatic sense in themselves, but tell of events or sequences that could not occur in the world outside the storytelling; or they meticulously describe events that could occur or perhaps actually have occurred in «the real world,» but in such fashion as to display precisely their lack of dramatic coherence.

This, too, is a fine work, describing centuries of «powerful negative cultural conditioning» which interfere with childbirth and the period immediately after.

This description is not far from what E.P. Thompson, over a century later, described in his essay, «Time, Work - Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism» [7].

Steve Turner, assistant general secretary of Unite, said workers had likened the conditions to a «gulag», or «labour camp» and described the conditions as «19th century working practices».

In two centuries of work, scientists have named and described about 1.5 million species of plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms — only a small fraction of the estimated 10 to 100 million species that exist today.

Nevertheless, the work remains an outstanding model of scientific bravery in the 20th century, with its insistence that sexual acts be described as healthy functions of the human body and that cultural taboos not stand in the way of science.

Familiar with 19th century — mathematician Bernhard Riemann's work on the math for describing curved surfaces, Grossmann helped Einstein produce the outline (Entwurf in German) of a new gravity theory.

In describing the work in this field Briffa several times notes the unusual warmth of the 20th century inferred from the tree ring data.

Lead investigator Juliean de Wit used an 18th - century mathematical constant called the Euler - Mascheroni constant that's used in analysis and number theory and demonstrated that the constant allows one to work out the individual effects of each parameter in the spectrum — described as sort of an «encryption key» to the atmosphere.

The doctor in Chicago, who's name was James B. Herrick was the first to describe it in a paper and over the next century many doctors have attempted to uncover how this debilitating disorder works, and why it mainly affects those of African descent.

American ornithologist, John Cassin, published several major works in the 19th century describing and illustrating North American birds.

Outsider art — also known as visionary art, or art brut — «describes the work of untrained, self - taught people who make art,» says Charles Russell, author of the book Groundwaters: A Century of Art by Self - Taught and Outsider Artists.

The text describes the life and work of one of the most influential bussinessmen of the 21st century, Elon Musk.

The text describes the life and work of the most influential physicist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein.

In describing how this model works in practice, two leading proponents, Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation and James Ryan, the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, cite an amalgam of institutional and interpersonal forces.

The elements described in this section as «21st century student outcomes» (represented by the rainbow) are the skills, knowledge and expertise students should master to succeed in work and life in the 21st century.

She is a two - time finalist for the National Book Award, and Praying for Sheetrock, which the Boston Globe described it as «a monumental social history with implications that go far beyond the borders of a tiny coastal Georgia county», was named one of the top 100 works of journalism in the 20th century.

She describes her work as being set in the Moorish Spain of the 13th to 15th centuries.

Described as patient, friendly and outgoing, this wonderful family dog also shares some genes with the Standard Poodle, which joined the AKC in 1887 but has been around since the 17th century where he was used as a working dog in the military.

Literary works also described this breed (or very similar breeds) in the 13th through 15th centuries, and beyond.

It is not until the late 14th century that Gaston De Foix, a rich and powerful lord of Southern France who was a warrior famous for his hunting feats, wrote his immortal hunting classic «Livre de Chasse» (Book of the Chase) in 1387, in which he describes hunting dogs in their work as quartering in front of the master, flushing game and retrieving from land and water - all very like the behaviour and work of the English Springer Spaniel we know and admire today.

Audubon to Warhol gathers the works of nearly one hundred still - life painters, spanning two centuries, and separates them both chronologically and thematically into four groups: Describing (1795 - 1845), Indulging (1845 - 1890), Discerning (1875 - 1905) and Animating (1905 - 1950).

Louise Bourgeois One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Louise Bourgeois described her artistic practice as an attempt to work through whatever tumult plagued her — psychologically, personally, or artistically.

When he returned home, he began work on this painting, trying to paint from memory the colors of the 11th century glazes, once described as «the color of the sky after rain».

The Wolfsonian — Florida International University Describing Labor Describing Labor draws on artist Esther Shalev - Gerz's research into depictions of work and working figures from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century.

A passage in the 19th - century poetic novel, which was a favourite work of the Surrealists, describes «the chance meeting on a dissecting - table of a sewing - machine and an umbrella».

«De Kooning's last paintings are hard to describe,» the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl has succinctly written, and indeed, the late works defy easy categorization, and yet they are the lasting contribution of one of the 20th century's most beloved and brilliant artists.

Also I've been properly educated at the New York Studio School — and by Sam Cornish who introduced me to Stockwell Depot and who on Twitter suggested that some of Peter Hide's work might be described as «mournful» — and by Alan Gouk who in «Proper to Sculpture» suggests that people were making sculpture — even «abstract» sculpture — before the 20th century came along — and by all the unedited openness at Robin's websites.

In the Russian word faktura, which the Constructivists coined to describe the way in which an art work displays the process of its own making, we can glimpse how an idea animating all of John Chamberlain's work was first explored by Russian artists in the early part of the century.

Highly contemporary, the exhibition's title is drawn from a text by the eleventh - century art critic Guo Ruoxu, who uses the phrase «full of peril and weirdness» to describe a painting — among the first recorded instances of such words being used in praise, rather than as condemnation, when describing a work of art.

Described as «one of the great masterpieces of Moore's œuvre» by Cyanna Chutkow, Christie's Deputy Chairman of Impressionist & Modern Art, the work, which wasprivately held in an American collection for almost a half century, was one of eight to establish a world auction record in a sale that celebrated four centuries of British art.

In addition, in 2004, he made what was described by then premier Steve Bracks as the» largest and most generous gift of 19th and 20th century Australian art to any Australian gallery» — 154 works worth $ 30 million to the National Gallery of Victoria.

Taking inspiration from the 19th - century genre of spirit photography, these hauntingly beautiful works on paper use a variety of printmaking techniques as the medium through which to capture manifestations of the self — what master printer and SCAD Atlanta printmaking chair Robert Brown describes as «loose interpretations of the meta - real.»

She describes her work, on one hand, as akin to late 19th century Tonalism, with which she shares the effect of mist and mood, albeit in a brighter, lighter palette.

It will also include works featuring the blue man, a recurring character in Bickerton's paintings who is loosely based on Gauguin and whom Bickerton describes as a «parody of the archetypal 19th - century anti-hero».

European Painting and Sculpture after 1800: MFA Highlights features these well - known and much - loved works, organized into thematic chapters discussing the major art movements represented in the collection, with an introduction that describes the major phenomena that helped chart the course of art in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The work invites visitors inside to experience what the artist describes as a «sonic simulacrum» of architectural spaces and landscapes; interwoven is a layered narrative of modernity and historical memory emerging from the complex relationship between Korea and Japan in the 20th century.

Sonnenborn described the refurbishment of the institution's historic campus over the past five years as «not terribly sexy,» since it focused mainly on maintenance work, but she stressed that it was essential in order to allow the school to make sure its facilities fit the needs of artists working in the twenty - first century.

The work is based on a Chinese third - century story describing a group who during the change from the Wei to Jin dynasties, fled to the countryside to escape political upheaval.

A general category describing works of art which focus on relatively low - brow subjects to do with eveyday life, as opposed to the «ideal» or romantic settings employed by artists up until the 19th century.

In this preview from the ART21 Art in the Twenty - First Century Season 7 episode, artist Katharina Grosse describes a «thought based» approach to creating work.

While she's still relatively unknown outside the fashion - and art - world bubbles, Cortright has been described as a 21st - century Monet thanks to the pretty, painterly works she creates by layering digitally manipulated images lifted from the Internet and printing them on large panels.

They have alleged that Morris's body of abstract work entitled «Origami», which consists of a series of 38 works are «coloured - in copies of their intricate origami representations of hummingbirds, grasshoppers and other animals, birds and insects, produced using the centuries - old Japanese craft of paper - folding» says, their Their lawyer, Andrew Jacobson, who describes them as «some of the most renowned origami artists in the world today».

Often described as the «history painting,» Ghenie creates powerfully arresting works that demonstrate his fascination with the twentieth century.

The term identifies a pictorial strategy of the 16th century Mannerist period; «discordia concors ~ describes a particular phenomenon of this period which places disparate images within the unifying frame of a work.

The term originally rose to prominence in the mid-20th century to describe a group of artists working in New York following World War II.

Despite the resurgence of «traditional» image - based work in the 1980s, conceptual art has been described as one of the most influential movements of the late 20th century, a logical extension of the work begun by the French artist Marcel Duchamp in 1914 to break the primacy of the perceptual in art.