Sentences with phrase «economic vagaries»

If there is a key that unlocks Picasso's achievement, it is to be found neither in the Marxists from Max Raphael to John Berger who measured his achievements against the social and economic vagaries of his times, nor in the formalism of Clement Greenberg, who viewed Cubism and the onset of abstraction as a revolution that Picasso precipitated but that eventually left him behind.

The Sir John Soane Museum has survived economic vagaries, changing tastes and the Luftwaffe, which destroyed other buildings in the same London square.

Not exact matches

Commodities» investing is highly volatile and subject to changing economic conditions and the vagaries of speculators among other risks.

And unlike a public sector pension plan, which is protected by the state constitution and whose benefits can't be diminished even in an economic crisis, the retirement savings plan the city is proposing would be very much subject to the vagaries of the market.

Whether they do depends as much on geopolitics as geology — the vagaries of market speculation on future oil prices and how much economic pain private oil companies can take compared with their national oil company counterparts, like Saudi Arabia's Aramco.

What have you done to protect your personal economy from the vagaries of the world economic meltdown?

Now the vagaries of the market have unleashed a second dose of Seizure, bringing us an economic cloud with a blue crystal lining.

One of the fascinations of the exhibition will be the chance to reassess Hirst — who, perhaps more than any other living artist, is associated with the vagaries of the art market — in the light of what appears to be a new economic era.

MFIP's initial results were tantalizing in large part because MFIP was not specifically targeted to affect marriage, divorce, or separations, and yet it appeared to produce large effects on the likelihood that some two - parent families would stay together, suggesting that strategies that tackle the vagaries of poverty could promote marital stability by reducing some of the economic stress on poor families.