Sentences with phrase «depicts eighteenth»

The section of the book set in the sea islands of South Carolina depicts eighteenth - century indigo plantations where African American slaves and overseers are left largely to their own devices during the «sick season» — a good half of the year.

Not exact matches

And, again, what is reflected here of life in the eighteenth century agrees remarkably with what is depicted in the Genesis narratives about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Visually, The Garden of Delights alludes to abstraction, and conceptually it engages with the late seventeenth and eighteenth century casta paintings commissioned by Spanish officials in Spain's New World colonies in the Americas that depicted the intermingling of three major races.

In conjunction with A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, join Kelsey Brosnan, Curatorial Fellow for European Art, for a discussion about women's fashion as depicted in NOMA's eighteenth - century French art collection.

The patterned motif, which originated in eighteenth century France, often depicts farm life and pastoral vignettes of the French countryside.

Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room - sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth - century art of cut - paper silhouettes.

The interior resembles a confounding series of hallways, but with a twist: the walls are adorned with hand block - printed wallpaper depicting the delicate cream contrasts of an eighteenth - century floral Georgian Knot pattern.3 The interstitial, liminal presence of walls and passageways has a long trajectory in the artist's work.4 Here, dynamic and surreal corridors become Sosnowska's phenomenological response to an environment frozen in time.

«Necrology» (2017) is a series of giant posters depicting fictional obituaries written in the style of eighteenth - century title pages printed in muted cream, blood red, and black with elaborate typesetting.

Offering a unique opportunity to compare likenesses in two and three dimensions, this study exhibition focuses on five works which depict two of eighteenth - century London's leading lights.

14 August - 14 November 2009 Gallery 4 Offering a unique opportunity to compare likenesses in two and three dimensions, this study exhibition focuses on five works which depict two of eighteenth - century London's leading lights.

Mat Collishaw will be showing photographic works including his series «Idle Young» depicting Indian street children with eighteenth - century backdrops.