Sentences with phrase «early twentieth century british»

Being born into a firm web of early twentieth century British traditions meant that there were certain strict beliefs in relation to child rearing, child discipline and child parent relationships:

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They found initial expression in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries among Brahmin intellectuals who were disillusioned with British rule and sought a more traditionalist basis for political and cultural identity.

The British socialist and labour movements of the late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century chose to view Magna Carta as an important symbol to invoke in their own struggles against the current system and its abuses.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century impoverished British peers sought wealthy US brides to save their estates.

Back in February, the revered British filmmaker premiered his new Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion, at the Berlin Film Festival, and in May, his 2015 film Sunset Song — a portrait of an early twentieth - century Scottish woman named Chris — came to the U.S. (While in New York for Sunset Song, Davies graciously stopped by to regale us with tales of his past.)

Synopsis: This Best Picture Academy Award Winner based on Noel Coward's classic play arrives on Blu - Ray for the first time... A British family's triumphs and tragedies unfold across the decades of the early twentieth century.

British citizen R. H. Naylor, a prominent early twentieth - century astrologer, is widely credited as having birthed the tabloid versions of horoscopes.

From the earliest contact with British settlers through the reeducation campaigns of the late twentieth century, the Aboriginal peoples have been effectively marginalized from democratic society.

On view are more than eighty sheets by French, British, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and German draftsmen from the sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries.

More recently, of course, we saw this with the YBAs [Young British Artists], or earlier in the twentieth century with those artists who seized the apparently dichotomous challenge of being both modern and British, in Paul Nash's words.

Plummer's show is a multimedia retelling of the early twentieth - century British Suffragettes.

The twentieth - century British printmaking is much defined by diversity, originality and technical expertise, marking a notable shift in style and technique from earlier modes of representation.

The early part of the collection features French and Russian art from the beginning of the twentieth century, cubist paintings and superb holdings of expressionist and modern British art.

In the now - derelict, early twentieth - century poured - concrete church of Dilston Grove, artists Ben Burgis, Stuart Middleton and Richard Sides have created their own version of the Mechanical Garden, curated by Naomi Pearce, an installation sketched out but not realised by late British avant - garde artist Stephen Cripps (1952 — 82).

Her books include The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907 - 1914 (1988), Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century (2000), and Hornsey 1968: The Art School Revolution (2008).

But for British artists of the late twentieth and early twenty - first centuries, the hangout of choice was, and remains, the Groucho Club in Soho.

The early part of the collection features European art from the beginning of the twentieth century, including work by André Derain and Pierre Bonnard, cubist paintings and holdings of expressionist and modern British art.