Sentences with phrase «from mid century»

His works often recall the language of advertising and posters — particularly from mid century America — and explore the potential of words and images to communicate but also to confound.

Beautiful large square oil painting depicting a branch of cherry blossoms from mid century abstract artist McCaine.

Not exact matches

it was written over decades from the mid to late first century.

John calls Paul prejudice and not scientific but lets look into this real man of God born in Tarsus, Paul was raised in Jerusalem at the feet of Gamaliel a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the mid 1st century AD Gamaliel once gave some advice to the Sanhedrin in Acts to refrain from slaying the disciples of Jesus.

The political alignments of Hungary from the mid «nineteenth century to the present are more familiar to the West than the period when Hungary was struggling with Turks or even Austrians.

Silence ---- a mid — twentieth century novel by a Japanese Catholic about Portuguese Jesuits halfway around the world from their home in the seventeenth century ---- remains a powerful reminder in our still - young century of the importance of faith despite the silence of God.

And English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo - Frisian dialects brought to Britainin the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo - Saxon settlers from what is now northwest Germany, west Denmark and the Netherlands, displacing the Celtic languages that previously predominated.

Up until the mid twentieth century, India, Brazil and South Africa were major sources, followed by the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Francis Bicknell Carpenter, one of Homer's native sons from the mid 19th century, has several paintings

Methyl bromide, used in agriculture, and halons, which are used to fight fires, are the principal humanmade sources of the chemical, and their use helped double the amount of bromine in the atmosphere from the mid to the late 20th century.

This scenario may simply be a taste of a world undergoing climate change in the mid — 21st century, according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington, D.C. — based organization seeking an end to hunger and poverty through appropriate local, national and international agricultural policies.

From the perspective of how much temperatures have risen since preindustrial times, 2015 was more than 1 °C (1.8 °F) above temperatures from the mid - to late - 19th centFrom the perspective of how much temperatures have risen since preindustrial times, 2015 was more than 1 °C (1.8 °F) above temperatures from the mid - to late - 19th centfrom the mid - to late - 19th century.

In the 20th century, U.S. life expectancy climbed from 47 to its present height of mid to late 70's, a rise unprecedented in human history.

Second, the 0.8 degC rise in temperature anomaly is from around the mid to late 19th century, whereas pre-industrial times were somewhat earlier.

The increase in the early 20th century is well known from the instrumental record of global and hemispheric mean temperatures (which extends back into the mid 19th century).

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

In his Figure 5 under a section entitled «A New Northern Hemisphere Summer Temperature Record» he shows that the mid to late 20th century temperature as determined from tree ring analysis is far warmer than any period in the past that his analysis includes (this only goes back to 1400 AD).

The dress was paired with blue patent shoes from Chromatic Gallerie and mid - century vintage earrings and hair brooch by The Something Collection.

We love the touches of collected art from our clients and vintage finds like the mid century modern lamp!

From the end of the 19th century, the waistcoat became a required part of men's business clothing, and remained there until the mid 20th century.

This 1960's vintage coat came from an estate I handled years ago that was like a who's who of American mid century designers.

It's maybe a little more mid century than I would want, as I think if I could start from scratch I would only have one leather chair (we have 3 - eek!)

Wonderfully Unusual Victorian Memorial Earrings from the mid 19th Century.

Love the Scandi and mid century styles especially like this textured planter from Cox and Cox.

From my Palm Springs collection influence by late 60s California mid century style, culture and colors.

Peruvian Priest's Huipil dating from the late mid 20th century.

Shelagh Delaney's voice stood out from the angry young men who dominated British cinema in the mid 20th century.

Most accounts of the history of schooling take us from fee - based schools in ancien Athens, to the first tax - funded public schools in our land in Boston in 1635, to the compulsory education of Horace Mann's «common school» in the mid - 19th century.

Our journey starts from the beginning of the 20th century, and includes, inter alia, the famous Pavlovian Conditioning and Skinner's Operant Conditional Theory, continues through the mid 50s and the first time computers were used in learning environments, the influential Problem - Based Learning inspired by Howard Barrows in the 60s, David Merrill's Component Display Theory, the Cognitive Flexibility Theory in the late 1980s that aims to develop the learner's ability to comprehend multidimensional situations, the introduction of multimedia and CD - ROMs in educational environments in the 90s, to the development of WebQuest in 1995, and the launch of the Authentic Learning Model in the late 2000s by Marilyn Lombardi.

Tsovkra - 1's (there is another village named Tsovkra) heyday occurred in the mid 20th century when Russian circuses recruited performers from the village tightrope walking school.

The pictures are free of charge for educational and private use and record major domestic and international events from the turn of the century to the mid 1990's.

Comment: Metropolis is set in the notorious «Five Points» area of Lower Manhattan in the mid 19th century, a time when the area teemed with alcoholism, violence and prostitution, and was also home to a rotating population of destitute European immigrants and freed slaves from the South.

a genre I graduated from years ago.I credit her with being one of the better writers in this category and Mrs. Hockaday proves that her skills as a story teller have not diminished.Having said that I also feel that the discriminatory practices of the mid to late 19th century in America dictate the motivations of each character in a relatively predictable way... so while the entertainment value is indisputable the «mystery» is no more than the reality of life at the time... nothing memorable or instructive here for me... simply a reminder that the mores of the past rarely survive the scrutiny of the present without some readjustment.

Titles published directly by epubBooks are mostly classic fiction, dating from the mid 20th century all the way back to Ancient Greece.

In mid Sinai a rock carving, from the first to third century CE, has been found that depicts a dog that in size and shape appears to be a Canaan type dog.

The Jewish inhabitants of the town grew to a number of around 300 people, and the communities documented from mid 13th century.

It was built by the Spanish over the course of two centuries — from the mid 1500s to the mid 1700s.

The historical district (Phuket Old Town) has been built from mid 19th century onward during the tin mining's boom, an era which saw the construction of the first ever hotel in Phuket (On On Hotel opened in 1929) to accommodate merchants from abroad.

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The gorgeous view from a bathroom at the mid century modern Radisson Blu Royal hotel in Copenhagen (Photo: Chris McGinnis)

The gorgeous view from my bathroom at the fab mid century modern Radisson Blu Royal hotel in Copenhagen (Photo: Chris McGinnis)

The exhibition features a range of drawings and mixed media works on paper from the mid to late 20th century.

Taking its example from other European modernists like Joan Miró, the Color Field movement encompasses several decades from the mid 20th century through the early 21st century.

The exhibition explores the contributions that one branch of the Corwith Family made to Bridgehampton from colonial days to the mid 20th century.

And they have been «shopping in our closet», unearthing from their stores a bust by Pietro Torrigiani of Archbishop Fisher, and a number of Staffordshire teapots given by private collectors in the mid 20th century but never shown because of the Met's traditional distaste, in its quest for high art, for pottery.

In its specific sense realism refers to a mid nineteenth century artistic movement characterised by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner; however the term is also generally used to describe artworks painted in a realistic almost photographic way

This superlative show is huge in every sense: big themes, giant icons of mid century art, enormous canvases, and no small amount of ambition on the Royal Academy's part, tackling an often shied from movement — or «ism» — which was last explored in such a survey in the UK back in 1959.

A Constellation traces connections among twenty - six artists of African descent: eight who emerged in the mid - to late twentieth century, and who are represented in the exhibition by works from the Studio Museum's permanent collection, and eighteen younger artists whose works are being shown at the Studio Museum for the first time.

Be sure to check out booths by Galerie Ernst Hilger from Vienna, representing the works of artists such as Erró and Mel Ramos, along with exponents of Austrian modernism from the 1960s onward and the main exponents of the most important international art movements of the 20th century; Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer from Vienna, representing emerging and mid career artists; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac from London, Paris and Salzburg, specialised in international, contemporary art representing around 60 artists and a number of renowned estates; SUPPAN FINE ARTS from Vienna, focusing on international and modern as well as representatives of art after 1945; and PIFO Gallery from Beijing, representing a selection of Chinese and international artists with a core focus on minimalism and abstraction; among others.

Sue Williams work will be exhibited alongside historical work by Chinese painters from early and mid 20th century and contemporary Chinese ink artists who are taking on this traditional context.