Sentences with phrase «grand history»

He took subjects resembling grand history painting, with a proper Victorian composition.

Presenting what he claims is the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, he attempts to challenge many of our Western assumptions about the origins and nature of democracy and political institutions.

Now one of the world's most successful photographers, Gursky's curiously detached worldview, often presented on a scale associated with grand history paintings, is well known.

Lamborghini has great grand history of lying.

Through her text, photographs and video not only can one experience the personal history of an man, but one can also sense how grand a history may be constructed even by narratives that are perhaps distorted.

Apple is working to eliminate its reliance on external suppliers and technology providers as much as it possibly can, but the iPhone's grand history simply couldn't have happened without those relationships.

Upon arrival in Chattanooga, transfer to the Tennessee Valley Railway Museum for an insight into the long and grand history of the great American railroad aboard a «rolling museum».

Through these accounts, Schmidt intends to give us a popular, social history of American atheism, one that tells stories of local, concrete fights over religion and the public sphere, rather than a grand history of ideas about belief and disbelief.

As the culmination of that grand history, the SETI Institute deserves an equally grand location, but the reality is quite a bit more modest.

With its rapid delivery of junk - food action, series director Justin Lin's final ride with the Fast crew owes more to Domino's «30 Minutes or Less» campaign than the grand history of grunge cinema.

Earlier this week we brought you a poster for Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time [check it out here], and now a trailer has arrived online for the upcoming documentary which is narrated by Brad Pitt; watch it below Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience is a one - of - a-kind celebration of life and the grand history of the cosmos, transporting -LSB-...]

The American road movie has a long and grand history.

The Italian maker with a grand history, which includes giving Enzo Ferrari his start, calls the Stelvio Quadrifoglio an SUV.

The 136 spacious rooms combine modern artwork and soft colours to give a feeling of modern sophistication while period furniture and chandeliers are there remind you of the hotel's grand history.

Once a powerful Incan city, Cusco is filled to the brim with relics of its grand history.

Also available this week is World of Final Fantasy, a new «chibi» RPG from Square Enix that celebrates the grand history of the Final Fantasy franchise.

Steir continues to self - reflexively explore the grand history of painting in her work.

«We wanted to think about the longer, grander history.»

That comparison says much about his own range as a curator, simultaneously engaging with the grand history of the KHM and working closely with living artists.

Yvoré's oeuvre has a sense of melancholy and loneliness that pervades each painting, while simultaneously linking itself to a grander history of art and philosophy.

Acknowledging the grand history of painting and the importance it still plays to this day in the ways we see ourselves, Williams has long considered the human figure to be the obvious vehicle to represent the human condition.

Filtered instead through his own brushwork (or photography, or both), it takes on a distinctive air of simultaneous detachment and personal involvement, as well as a unique relationship to the grand history of painting.

Acknowledging painting's grand history and the importance it plays to this day in how we see ourselves, Williams has long considered the human figure to be the vehicle to represent the human condition.

Meticulously staged and theatrical in scale, Wall's images have more in common with the grandest history painting of the 18th century than with the fleeting documentary style of much of modern photography.

Sooner or later, Guernica will claim its place within the grand history of art that the Prado Museum tells.

Rather, it is because, hidden behind virtually all narrative figure paintings — all domestic scenes, all famous moments from classic plays, all grand histories — is the simple truth of the painter and the model getting together in the studio and playing pretend.