Sentences with phrase «for space historians»
This past year was also a prime time for space historians.
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Here's a simple question for future historians: How is it that the same Catholic Church in Germany, in the space of a single lifetime, could produce the courage of an Alfred Delp, the fidelity and genius of a Joseph Ratzinger, and the inadequacy of her current leadership?
Whatever the reason, NASA's later grants to O'Neill, which continued till around 1980, according to Patrick McCray, a historian whose recent book includes chapters on O'Neill, tended to focus on his work on a mass propulsion system — potentially suitable for getting things up into orbit, but not explicitly space - colony - related.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this argument, and more considered research is needed before the jury can bring in a verdict, this volume is essential reading for all space enthusiasts and historians.
Historian David Block argues for a Lemaître Space Telescope to finally give the Belgian astronomer his due.
Since the above postcard was made, we've added another Darkwater title, a sequel for Mr. Baines, another volume of Aquasynthesis, a Celtic alternative - history science adventure, a psychological space thriller, another epic fantasy, and the adventures of a time - travelling historian.
In an essay in the catalogue, Caitlin Julia Rubin (an assistant curator at the Rose who co-curated the show with art historian Katy Siegel, curator - at - large for the museum) writes that Home Sweet Home «suggests the duality of Drexler's home — the spaces where she lived never all that separate from the ones in which she worked — and her own, twinned role as homemaker and artist.»
The work was celebrated at the time for the sheer velocity of movement with which the eye roves the canvas, pointing to de Kooning's interest in creating simultaneous foci, what art historian John Elderfield describes as «multiple centers of interest, and therefore a continual distraction, of vision being shuttled about the surface, so that it may rest anywhere but can settle nowhere» (J. Elderfield, «Space to Paint,» de Kooning: a Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011, p. 25).
Both of these acclaimed retrospectives have been appropriated by institutions and art historians for curatorial concepts, such as for the eponymous show From Surface to Space on Malevich at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden - Baden in 2008.
1971 clears space for art historians, curators, and cultural producers to complicate black artists» participation in modernism as a multicultural process, not as a separate or oppositional endeavor.
«The City of Dreams» has a long and rich history of feminist art practice and exhibition making, including LACMA's watershed attempt at inserting feminist art history into the museum with Women Artists: 1550 — 1950, curated by art historian Linda Nochlin and Ann Sutherland Harris in 1976, or, for example, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro's inspiring installation and performance space Womanhouse (1972).
The starting point of this publication is the conceptual encounter between English Pop artist Richard Hamilton (1922 — 2011) and Swiss historian and architecture critic Sigfried Giedion (1888 — 1968), famous for his landmark 1941 book, Space, Time & Architecture.
Brand New Gallery is a new space in Milan dedicated to contemporary art, a cross between a gallery and a center for cultural promotion created by two art historians, Chiara Badinella and Fabrizio Affronti.
Feminist art historian Jenni Sorkin is the co-curator of this revisionist exhibition and she emphasizes that it is «territorializing space» for women, because sculpture is «one of the last bastions for the exclusion of women.»
[vi] As noted by art historian Robert Hobbs, Hofmann's «painting sessions were particularly rewarding for Thomas who was alerted to the emotive potentialities of color, the need to work contrapuntally in terms of positive as well as negative spaces, and the significance of taking the overall dimensions of a given canvas into consideration as key compositional elements.»
Italian Renaissance art historian for the University of Amsterdam Machtelt Israels observes the influence that the della Francesca household had on the realistic sense of space and architecture seen in Piero della Francesca's polyptychs and frescoes.
Homeowners Jim and Lauren Wolf (he's a city planner, historian and author; she's the executive director of a not - for - profit organization) purchased the 700 - square - foot space on a whim in 2005, and for the next 10 years, the New Westminster, B.C., couple spent vacations lovingly updating and expanding the cabin to suit their family, which includes 16 - year - old son Griffin, Felix the Jack Russell terrier and Loonie, «a fat and fussy ginger tomcat.»
I grew up going to antique malls and flea markets with a mom, who was constantly changing and redecorating her space and a historian for a father, so my love for all things old comes naturally.