Sentences with phrase «essential context»

Our family histories can provide essential context to our experiences, relationships and overall health.

One result is that the public square is filled by impassioned advocates (including academics with little in the way of scholarly accomplishment), while we hear far less than I'd like from those who may be best equipped to recognize complexities, offer essential context, and explain hard truths.

We are thus armed with essential context for an artist who, though considered a giant of recent art, has not had a major exhibition in this country since Tate's previous retrospective in 1980 — 81, and may therefore be unfamiliar to many.

She built an essential context for the visionary statements being made internationally in video and media art by multi-cultural voices, emerging talents, and more established artists such as Laurie Anderson, Gary Hill, Mako Idemitsu, Joan Jonas, Shigeko Kubota, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola and Zhang Peili.

Albers's experiences in Latin America offer an essential context for understanding his paintings and prints, particularly from his Homage to the Square and Variant / Adobe series, examples of which are featured in this show.

The climate history of Earth during the glacial - interglacial cycles of the last 1 million years provides an essential context for an understanding of current climate changes, including the relations between solar irradiance, greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing, albedo changes and global temperatures.

It forms an essential context for understanding how prolonged, indefinite solitary confinement violates the Charter rights of prisoners.