Sentences with phrase «few modern figures»

The exhibition features 35 pieces by the influential Canadian artist Jeff Wall, one of the few modern figures capable to bring photography right into the core of contemporary art.

Not exact matches

Few other figures in modern science have straddled — and for that matter blurred — the boundaries between science, policy, and advocacy quite like the homespun but outspoken climatologist.

Commenting on the figures, Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, chief executive of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, said: «While it is fantastic to see increasing numbers of students opting to take the full course GCSE in Religious Studies, a reflection of the attraction of an academically rigorous subject that helps prepare students to understand an increasingly diverse modern world, we should not ignore the troubling news that declining entries for the short course mean that more than 100,000 fewer young people have studied the subject at GCSE level this year than in 2010.

I've mentioned this topic a few times before in places, so I figured it would be time to be clear on it again and update this into this modern world of indie publishing.

Now it could just be me getting older and suffering from wild memory lapses but how many of us have played modern games, learnt the enormous number of moves, figured out the eight0button combos, put the game down for a few days and then completely forgotten what each button does?

You'd control Sadao as he figured out how modern Japan works, and would use what little magic you had left to manage a few troublemaking characters along the way.

With a few notable exceptions among California artists — especially in the Bay Area, where figures such as Peter Voulkos in the 1950s and Robert Arneson in the 1960s were early to embrace ceramics» potential — ceramics have remained on the sidelines of modern art, categorized primarily as the stuff of tableware and souvenir trinkets.

As de Zegher traces the course of modern drawing, the number of influential women artists grows — slowly at first with figures such as Sophie Tauber - Arp and a few others — eventually reaching a critical mass with Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin, Lygia Clark, and many others.