Sentences with phrase «fragments of living history»

The second thing is that it shores up fragments of living history - by reproducing them in meticulous facsimile - that would otherwise be lost for good.

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For most of European history from the emperor Constantine's embrace of Christianity onwards there has been a strong tendency to identify worship of God with loyalty to and reverence for the tradition and authorities that constitute the Holy Roman Empire, or its competing fragments in the Middle Ages, or their successor nation states, or one's home town and its familiar «way of life.»

By studying avian bone fragments, James and husband Storrs Olson, both of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, have pieced together a picture of bird life before the first Polynesian settlers arrived sometime between a.d. 400 and 600.

Rachel Foss, lead curator of Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty at the British Library, says: «These objects and documents are the tangible evidence of a living history that is fragmented, punctuated by gaps and still evolving.

This entire exhibition is a mysterious collage of art, life and history, a vast sprawling array of fragments, a mental cabinet of curiosities that is both self - portrait and self - effacement.

Brooklyn - born artist Jean - Michel Basquiat filled numerous notebooks with poetry fragments, wordplay, sketches, and personal observations ranging from street life and popular culture to themes of race, class, and world history.

No longer setting a stage for a dystopian lifestyle borne by the delusions and failures of the Soviet system, the paintings on view are referencing Soviet visual representation and its history by juxtaposing, in fragments, hypothetical subjects from Soviet life and classical or baroque mythology.

Claire Jenson (a PhD student in Art History at the University of Chicago) discusses what architectural fragments reveal about monastic life at the Benedictine monastery of Cluny in the Middle Ages, a project she co-curated with Aden Kumler (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago)

Organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment, examines the achievement of Betye Saar by focusing on her work with photography, specifically, her incorporation of photographic fragments as a metaphor for her view of the African American experience and of lives too often obscured in American visual history.

Fallah left the sale with diaries, home movies, clothing and other objects chronicling the family's personal history; he then spent the course of the next year sifting through these fragments of the family's life, filling in the gaps where necessary, to create a narrative and build portraits of the family members through painting, sculpture and collage.

The book coincides with my exhibition «Lost in the Light» on view at the Vanderbilt Mansion, and it features my works alongside a lyrical and fragmented story — an imagined history — of the women who lived and worked at the Vanderbilt Mansion in the Gilded Age.

[1] Read against the traumatic history — and current iterations — of racial terror, state violence, and surveillance leveled systematically at Black Americans throughout our nation's history, God Bless America's synthesis of flickering and fragmented sound, song, and image gives form to the restless, beautiful, subversive vibrations and tensions that underpin Black dissent in the era of Black Lives Matter.