Sentences with phrase «eighteenth century american»

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The Jews, in the phraseology of Doctor Ruppin of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, having changed in the eighteenth century from an Oriental people to an Eastern European, have in the last few generations changed from an Eastern European people to a Western European and an American.

As it was, Whitefield became the best - known person in eighteenth - century Britain and America before the American Revolution.

Even if all parties were to agree that American republicanism is not classically liberal, or that classical liberalism really is ontologically indifferent, or that the laws of nature and of nature's God are the foundation of constitutional order and that these are the same thing as natural law — even if, in other words, all parties were to agree to some version of a pristine American founding harmonious in principle with the truth of God and the human being — returning to the first principles of the eighteenth century isn't much more realistic than a return to the first principles of the thirteenth.

But in taking the term «civil religion» from Rousseau's Social Contract I was also bringing in a much more general concept, common in America in the eighteenth century but by no means specifically American.

Although scholars of the Revolution have disagreed on many things, the past fifty years have witnessed strong agreement that one significant aspect of the ideas motivating the American Revolution was the Whig or Country party beliefs which supported the Glorious Revolution and then resisted the growth of monarchical power in the eighteenth century.

Thus one is forced to look mainly at the internal logic of Christianity, the legacy of Reformation Protestantism, and theological debates of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to understand what has shaped the character of American religion.

By the end of the eighteenth century the majority of the bishops were American - born.

Protestant, liberal, and Anglo - American historians repeated without challenge the heroic defense of freedom by Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican reformers, by Dutch freedom fighters against Spanish cruelty and tyranny, and by intellectual opponents of religious obscurantism in the eighteenth century.

The Ministry of Absolution has always been provided for in the English Prayer Book, but though not infrequently practiced in the seventeenth century it became almost obsolete in the eighteenth, as shown by the disappearance of definite references to it in the American Prayer Book of 1789.

The other threat to republican virtue in the late eighteenth century, which formed a point of contention especially in the American context between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists, was the sheer size of the territorial state.

The varied ways in which Americans have reconfigured Locke's importance — from a model for educational excellence and virtuous living in the eighteenth century to an avatar of American exceptionalism in the twentieth — provide new insights into key transformations in American educational and intellectual life from the Age of Revolutions to the Cold War and beyond.

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.

How do you think high - society Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries rationalized the sexual exploitation of enslaved African American women?

«This edition will enable the curious to get a taste of eighteenth - century American religion and its most celebrated theologian.»

In addition to the founding stories of the RA and PAFA, this exhibition recognizes the other artist - founders of PAFA, West's role as the teacher of eighteenth - and early - nineteenth - century American artists, and the development of monumental history paintings such as Christ Rejected and Death on the Pale Horse.

Fensterstock transforms the Atrium Gallery into a cabinet of curiosity that expands her interest in natural history and personal collections, principally Holophusicon, an eighteenth - century natural history and ethnographical museum in London, and American artist Robert Smithson's Mirror with Crushed Shells, created during an exploration on the beaches of Sanibel, Florida.

Francesca specializes in medieval and Renaissance Italian art with a secondary interest in eighteenth - and nineteenth - century American painting.

The museum's second - floor galleries feature American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the eighteenth century to the present.

Current projects include In the Shadow of the Negress: A Brief History of Modern Artistic Practice, which explores the constitutive role played by fictions of black womanhood in Western art from the late - eighteenth century to the present, and a companion volume — tentatively entitled Touched by the Mother: Contemporary Artists, Black Masculinities, and the Ends of the American Century — that brings together many of his new and previously published critical century to the present, and a companion volume — tentatively entitled Touched by the Mother: Contemporary Artists, Black Masculinities, and the Ends of the American Century — that brings together many of his new and previously published critical Century — that brings together many of his new and previously published critical essays.

Most eighteenth - and early nineteenth - century American painters, however, supported themselves as portraitists.

Lessing completed her Ph.D. in Art History at Indiana University under the guidance of Sarah Burns, and she has authored numerous books, articles, catalogue essays, and papers on eighteenth and nineteenth - century American art.

Katherine Stubbs is associate professor of English at Colby College, where she teaches eighteenth and nineteenth - century US American literature; she recently developed a course on US Orientalisms and Arab American literature.

Fictional or imaginary studios, a popular subject beginning at the end of the nineteenth century, include canvases by James Ensor, Jacek Malczewski, and Diego Rivera; while emphasis on artist's materials can be traced from eighteenth century works by Jean - Baptiste Siméon Chardin; to nineteenth century works by Carl Gustav Carus and Adolph von Menzel; through postwar American artists Jim Dine, Philip Guston, and Jasper Johns.

Through paintings, sculptures, photography and decorative arts, Visions of US explores evolving ideas about American cultural identity from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries to tell a rich and inclusive story about how we imagine and represent the United States.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style.

ANNANDALE - ON - HUDSON, NY, May 11, 2016 — Imponderable is an extensive research project, exhibition, film, and publication that investigates the personal collection of American artist Tony Oursler, a remarkable trove of more than 2,500 photographs, documents, publications, and unique objects, tracking a social, spiritual, and intellectual history of the paranormal dating back to the early eighteenth century.

He specializes in American art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Holdings of eighteenth and nineteenth century and early modern European and American art were enriched by the donation in 1982 of thirty - eight Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and contemporary American paintings and sculptures from the collection of Algur H. Meadows and his wife, Elizabeth.

The decorative arts collection was substantially augmented by the donation in 1986 of the Faith P. and Charles L. Bybee Collection of American Furniture, comprising American furniture from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the Hoblitzelle Foundation's donation in 1987 of a 550 - piece collection of British silver that features outstanding works by such eighteenth - century silversmiths as Paul Lamerie.

An eighteenth - century villa that opens the windows on a magnificent Italian garden and houses a collection of contemporary American art among the best known in the world, as well as international exhibitions.

His canvases are populated with dramatic images lifted from sources as various as Salle's own black - and - white photographs, eighteenth - through twentieth - century French and American painting, 1950s print advertising and how - to - draw manuals.

Crafted scholarly articles on little - known American coastal fortifications built in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century.