Sentences with phrase «early twentieth century american»

(We are no better off and perhaps even worse off than the early twentieth century American lawyer in terms of the organization of the cases.)

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Such flowery verbiage is not unusual at National Cathedral, conceived early in the twentieth century as an American version of Westminster Abbey to enshrine the spiritual achievements of American Christianity, statecraft and civil religion.

Almost forgotten in the last two decades of his life and completely forgotten today except by students of American religious history, Ward was a nationally prominent radical in the early twentieth - century tradition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel movement.

Social - Gospel advocates in the early twentieth century and their mainline children continued to view Christianity's role in the project of American civil religion in terms of the social impact of its moral vision.

Meanwhile, Oscar Handlin had written in his 1954 textbook, The American People in the Twentieth Century, «religious activities fell into a fundamental tripartite division that had begun to take form earlier in the cCentury, «religious activities fell into a fundamental tripartite division that had begun to take form earlier in the centurycentury.

Consider some aspects of the American history of racial and ethnic relations: Systematic racial segregation emerged in the South after the failure of Reconstruction, while in the 1880s a growing California banned Chinese immigration and in the early twentieth century ethnic politics, often bitter and sometimes violent, dominated major American cities.

In the early twentieth century, American Protestants became split over how to interact with the persistent «historical explanations» that had been exploding into nearly all the human sciences: Freud in psychology, Charles Beard in history, John Dewey in philosophy, Oliver Wendell Holmes in law, Max Weber in sociology, Franz Boas in anthropology.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American churches agitated for aid to persecuted Christian minorities in Ottoman Turkey.

In a more recent work, American Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A History From the Early Republic to Vatican II, Fogarty offers, among other things, a useful antidote to the claims of some Catholic «restorationists» that the anti-Modernist excesses of the early twentieth century were the invention of fevered post-Vatican II liberal imaginatEarly Republic to Vatican II, Fogarty offers, among other things, a useful antidote to the claims of some Catholic «restorationists» that the anti-Modernist excesses of the early twentieth century were the invention of fevered post-Vatican II liberal imaginatearly twentieth century were the invention of fevered post-Vatican II liberal imaginations.

Americans in the early twentieth century were still becoming acquainted with mass advertising, which was designed to create new needs where none had existed before, such as for mouthwash or deodorant, or to promote products, such as baby food, that responded to and enabled a more fast - paced life brought on by technological innovation.67 With the mass production and advertising of goods, memorable packaging and branding became an essential part of the product, «an integral part of the commodity itself,» as one business executive noted in 1913.68

However, early in the twentieth century the fungal pathogen that creates chestnut blight was accidentally imported into the U.S. from Asia, and by 1950 the American Chestnut had disappeared from our landscape.

REVIEW This exhibition explores the African - American quest for equality through nine chronological periods from the early national period through the twentieth century.

The great expansion of the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth century brought pride to Americans, but also fear.

If The Great Gatsby was the Great American Novel of the twentieth century, Delicious Foods could be that of the early twenty - first.

Charts the little - known history of eugenics in America — a movement that began in the early twentieth century and resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 65,000 Americans.

In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius charts the little - known history of eugenics in America — a movement that began in the early twentieth century and resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 65,000 Americans.

Comic books are an original American art form, created in the early days of the twentieth century.

Delta Air lines, an internationally recognized American - based company, has provided excellent aviation transportation services to the public for several generations by offering affordable prices to everyday travelers since the early twentieth century with this travel credit card.

In the early part of the twentieth century the breed gained social stature and was accepted by the American Kennel Club in 1936.

The breed soon spread to other parts of Europe and Asia and were appearing in English cat shows almost immediately and in American shows by the early twentieth century.

This spring, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present an exhibition exploring the creative responses of American artists following the rapid pace of change that occurred in the US during the early decades of the twentieth century.

It is the one «American» Piero that gives a clear taste of an aspect of his art that made him a particularly exciting figure for painters and writers in the early twentieth century — when he crowds together a number of figures in a tight space, making them feel full - bodied yet flat, like overlapping cards you hold in your hand in a game.

The Museum's holdings now consist of more than 3,000 works ranging from early nineteenth - century landscape paintings through American Impressionism and into the twentieth - and twenty - first centuries.

Haverty bequeathed a group of significant late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century American paintings by William Merritt Chase, Henry Ossawa Tanner, John Twachtman, and Childe Hassam as well as a select group of sculptures.

«The Whitney Museum's revelatory survey of the work that earned O'Keeffe such derision, the evocative, more - or-less abstract art she made starting in 1915 — phenomenally early for an American artist — should reopen eyes to an undeniable fact: O'Keeffe produced some of the most original and ambitious art in the twentieth century.»

Our extensive inventory of nineteenth - and early twentieth - century American art regularly features landscapes in the Hudson River School and luminist styles, as well as still - life, genre, and marine subjects.

American Art Students learn to look at visual imagery through an exploration of American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts representing the colonial period, the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars, westward expansion, the early twentieth century, and the contemporary moment.

«Varied and Untried»: Early Twentieth - Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection

Many of the greatest avant - garde photographs of the early twentieth century were produced by young Japanese Americans on the West coast of the United States between the two World Wars.

Keith Haring: 1978 — 1982 is the first large - scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best - known American artists of the twentieth century.

Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

Known as the mother of American modernism, Georgia O'Keeffe played a pivotal role in the development of American contemporary art and its relationship with European movements of the early twentieth century.

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

Strongly influenced by twentieth - century icons Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and Henri Matisse, Quaytman's work reveals a fascinating interplay between earlier strands of European Modernism and American postwar abstraction.

The sources of the Oakland - based painter Oliver Lee Jackson's particular style are various: African art, early twentieth century German expressionism, American jazz.

Her research examines the collision between American art and science at the locus of the human body, particularly during the late - nineteenth and early - twentieth centuries.

Georgia O'Keeffe, also known as the mother of American modernism, played an extremely important role in the development of American contemporary art and its relationship with European movements of the early twentieth century.

Greenough notes the insights provided by the correspondence on their art, their friendships with many key figures of early twentieth - century American art and culture, and, most especially, their relationship with each other.

The collection has particular strengths in Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese painting, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings, early American painting, nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century photography, Conceptual art, international contemporary art, West Coast avant - garde film, international animation, Soviet cinema, early video art, and the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan.

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden - Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle; and Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Twentieth - Century American Drawing: Three Avant - Garde Generations, January - August 1976; Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Paris, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Cologne, Museum Ludwig; and Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings, 1944 - 1969, April 1979 - July 1981, pp. 70 - 71, no. 19, illustrated in color and black and white (in different orientations)(Baltimore); n.p., no. 19, illustrated in color (Amsterdam); p. 13, no. 19, illustrated (Paris); p. 13, no. 19, illustrated in color (Cologne); p. 13, no. 19, illustrated in color (Basel) Providence, Rhode Island, Bell Gallery, Brown University; Worcester, Massachusetts, Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross; and Southampton, New York, Parrish Art Museum, Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York 1939 - 1946, April - July 1985, p. 78, no. 37, illustrated; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Saint Louis, The Saint Louis Art Museum; and New York, The Pace Gallery, The Sublime is Now: The Early Work of Barnett Newman, Paintings and Drawings 1944 - 1949, March - November 1994, p. 49, no. 17, illustrated in color and p. 20 (text)

Each of these painters interpreted the Matunuck landscape in a personal way, yet among them they encompass most of the major trends defining American painting of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — the Barbizon School, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Tonalism and plein - air painting — as well as the creation of the era's predominant artistic institution: a summer school.

In 1974, Harold Rosenberg, one of Saul Steinberg's earliest and most eloquent supporters, wrote that «Cubism... which in the canon of the American art historian is the nucleus of twentieth - century formal development in painting, sculpture and drawing, is to Steinberg merely another detail in the pattern of modern mannerisms; in a landscape, he finds no difficulty in combining Cubist and Constructivist elements with an imitation van Gogh «self - portrait.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Borne out of early twentieth - century anxieties and uncertainties created by an industrial boom, the Precisionism movement merged European formal styles, like Cubism and Futurism, with distinctly American subject matter.

The so - called Ashcan School consisted of a progressive group of early twentieth - century American painters and illustrators (sometimes called the New York Realists) who portrayed the urban reality of New York City life, in a gritty spontaneous unpolished style.

Ashcan artists frequently depicted the prosaic sites of the early twentieth - century American city.

The Tantric Way highlights the parallels between Tantric art and the early twentieth - century modernist abstractions of Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi and Robert Delaunay, as well as the affinities between the post-war American painters Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman and the work of Indian artist Biren De.22 The latter was one of the leading members of a group of «neo-Tantric» artists newly promoted by New Delhi gallerist Virendra Kumar Jain, the older brother of Tantra Art's publisher, Ravi Kumar.23

The first director of the Museum, Walser Sly Greathouse, purchased nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century American artworks that complemented the Founding Collection.

Sullivan Goss â $ «An American Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition of early twentieth century paintings on paper and canvas from the Estate of the Artist.

On display are over 300 American mugshots from the early twentieth century, as well as a selection of hand - painted family portraits from Brazil known as Retratos Pintados.