Sentences with phrase «early modern western»

The birth of abstraction in art can not be pinpointed to a single instance and really it is something that was born of the complexity and realities of the early modern western world.

The short answer is that changes in society and religion in early modern Western Europe secularized the breast.

The secularization of the breast in early modern Western Europe began a long process in which Christianity came to be seen increasingly as focused on beliefs and doctrines, while bodies and physical practices were marginalized.

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

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In fact, by confusing Tradition with traditionalism and radically opposing the Scriptures to Tradition, much of the Christian wisdom Tradition, beginning with the writings of the early Church Fathers (& Mothers) and continuing even into modern time, the Protestant Reformers have cut much of the Western Church off from the ongoing Revelation of the Christian wisdom Tradition.

By the early - to - mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25, [17] a date later adopted in the East, [18][19] although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which corresponds to January in the modern - day Gregorian calendar.

The culture of Islamic countries has grown through the interaction of groups of Islamic peoples of widely varied ethnic and geographic backgrounds and through strong cultural influences from the non-Islamic civilizations of Greece, Persia, and India in the early days, and of western Europe in modern times.

Among his earlier works are The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions and Can Modern War Be Just?

And most of the buildings — largely constructed since the early 1990s — follow modern Western architectural styles.

But recent studies of early modern Chinese writings witness a great deal of understanding of leading Western liberal thinkers (Svensson, 1996).

A third line of reasoning would have us believe that East Asian intellectuals did not understand Western liberalism and democracy when first confronted with it in the early modern period.

When we think of all the horror stories we've been told about what will happen if we don't follow a laundry list of rules about how to raise our children in today's modern, Western society, you can bet that pretty much none of it applied to our early ancestors (or even other cultures today).

But, to back up our modern - day, Western culture definition, it is thought that the work TYKE is an acronym for Training Young Kids for Early Success.

Although some researchers suspect that earlier hominids, not modern humans, made the stone tools, Marks is hopeful that future digs in Arabia, Iran, and western India will unearth still more evidence of humanity's bold, early route out of Africa.

Modern postural yoga, the practice of actually holding poses, originated with early 20th century guru Krishnamacharya, who taught a mix of gymnastic and wrestling moves, Western calisthenics and hatha yoga, a medieval practice all but lost in India for centuries.

If, as many researchers believe, early modern humans replaced the Neanderthals in Western Asia and Europe between 45 000 and 30 000 years ago, rather than evolved from them, the Levantine early moderns should show signs of «human» social and cultural behaviour distinct from that of the Neanderthals.

The fossils included characteristics from late archaic / early modern humans, Middle Pleistocene Eurasians, and western Eurasian Neanderthals, hinting at possible intermixing.

Revisionist westerns in the modern age take a much darker view of the «white man's» participation in the migration out west than the earlier westerns did.

Historically this is accurate, as it's before they discovered oil under the Earth, but in modern times where we rightly frown on any animal cruelty in Western culture and so animal lovers might find early hunt scenes hard to watch.

Parramatta, the major hub of the area and largest central business district after the Sydney CBD and North Sydney, was originally considered by the early Governors to be the most favoured site of the States Capital Western Sydney also comprises the majestic beauty of the World Heritage Listed Blue Mountains National Park; state - of - the - art Olympic venues; historical sites of Indigenous and Colonial importance; and traditional rural environments with the high - tech business districts, retail and service centres typical of a modern regional economic powerhouse.

Scheduled to open in early 2018 as part of a mixed - use development, W Brisbane will bring a new interpretation of modern luxury to George Street at the western end of the central business district, overlooking the Brisbane River.

French artist Caroline Achaintre's visually striking, witty ceramic sculptures and hand - tufted wall hangings bring together a whole host of references such as catwalk fashion, carnival, and death - metal iconography, as well as Primitivism and Expressionism — early twentieth - century Western art movements that borrowed heavily from non-Western and prehistoric imagery to find new ways of representing the modern world.

Tracing the evolution of Green's work from monochromatic canvases of the early 1970s to recent explorations of black and white, the exhibition includes 18 paintings and 52 works on paper, including works borrowed from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Resonating emphasizes Green's complex understanding of painting that is based on a combination of Aboriginal and Modern Western approaches.

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Curated by Dan Nadel, Matthew Marks, New York, NY 1995 Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in Early California Art 1934 - 1957, Oakland Museum, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, UT 1993 Selections from the Permanent Collection - California: Art from the 1930s to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage San Jose Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum and Joslyn Art Museum 1986 California Sculpture: 1959 - 1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1985 Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945 - 1980, Oakland Museum 1984 Contemporary American Wood Sculpture, Crocker Art Museum, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art and Chrysler Museum The Dilexi Years 1958 - 1970, Oakland Museum 1982 100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum Northern California Art of the Sixties, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara 1976 California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Collection of fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution 1975 Masterworks in Wood: The Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum First Artists» Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1971 Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Art 1969 An American Report on the Sixties, Denver Art Museum American Sculpture of the Sixties, Grand Rapids Art Museum 1968 On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945 - 62, San Francisco Museum of Art The West Coast Now: Current Work from the Western Seaboard, Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and De Young Museum 1967 FUNK, University Art Museum, Berkeley, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art 1966 Twenty Drawings: New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York Two - Dimensional Sculpture, Three - Dimensional Painting, Richmond Art Center, CA 1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art 1962 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Albright Knox Art Gallery and Des Moines Art Center Public Collections

In some ways, this was the result of a process that had been building up for decades: The modern art movements of the early 20th century can be defined by their struggle with the legacy of Western Art; artists were clamoring to break out of these boundaries either by leaving and working elsewhere (for example German expressionists August Macke and Emil Nolde followed in the footsteps of French post-impressionist Paul Gauguin) or by seeking inspiration and incorporating what they could from the «exotic» art of other cultures — from African sculpture to Japanese prints.

* catalogue 1980 * Philip Guston, (retrospective exhibition 1930 - 1979) originating at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Denver Art Museum, CO; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Philip Guston, Akron Art Museum, OH 1981 * A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, London Philip Guston, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL 1981 - 1982 * Philip Guston: The Last Works, organized by the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.: traveled to Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; David McKee Gallery, New York * XVI Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Brazil: traveled as Philip Guston: Sus Ultimos Anos to Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Centro de Arte Moderno, Guadalajara, Mexico; Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia 1982 * Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London: traveled to Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle, Basel 1983 * The First Show — Paintings and Sculpture from Eight Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1984 * Philip Guston: The Late Works, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney * La Grande Parade: Highlights of Painting after 1940, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Philip Guston: Last Works, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1986 * Philip Guston, Greenville County Museum of Art, SC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; The Atlanta College of Art, GA 1987 * l'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France * Philip Guston: Early & Late Works, Skidmore College Museum of Art, Saratoga, NY 1988 * The Drawings of Philip Guston, The Museum of Modern Art, New York: traveled to Museum Overholland, Amsterdam; La Fundacion La Caixa, Barcelona; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Galeria Nazionale D'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome.

Kalamazoo About Blog A Shakespeare scholar and editor, a professor of English at Western Michigan University, and the author of two nonfiction works on Renaissance literature and culture, Grace Tiffany uses fiction as an additional medium for exploring the early modern world.