Sentences with phrase «historic context»

Many people like to look up their family tree, but it is rare for someone to place their lineage into historic context.

Our leaders do seem to get upset about things probably because they are presented with information that is not put a broader historic context.

All insights will be put into the larger historic context of European and North American abstract painting in order to identify commonalities as well as practices and preferences specific to the Latin American context.

The historical introduction and summary by John Stott is especially illuminating, setting the Lausanne Movement in historic context with other world missionary conferences of the twentieth century.

As the centerpiece marque, Maserati provided historic context with displays of motorsport history that ranged from a Maserati 250F Formula 1 car to the Fiat transporter, which carried the marque's grand prix cars from 1953 to 1957.

Currently, the gallery has a second location in an old - world townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, dedicated to mounting a series of curated exhibitions that provide historic context for the gallery's artists.

Books play an invaluable role in understanding art through in - depth examinations of artists and their work, giving historic context and critical analysis, and often first - person perspective from artists through interviews and writings.

In The Brooklyn Rail Tom Micchelli puts Resnick's paintings, on view at Cheim & Read, in their proper historic context.

«All the information we find will help us enrich the entire historic context of this young girl mummy and the Roman period in Egypt.»

The team realized they could take the same approach to put the record - low snowpack in a lengthier historic context, Trouet said.

Rather than merely pastiching previous styles, he situates them in an age - old historic context, with deliquescence quasi-parodistically emphasized through grungy tactility and blatantly obsolete motifs such as chariots.

In early 2010, the Gallery opened a second location in an old - world townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan dedicated to mounting a series of curated exhibitions that provide deeper historic context for the Gallery's artists.

The last Jewel Box features an image composed of overlapping silhouettes of local Savannah monuments, a gesture that points towards the rich historic context of the city and ties the exhibition to concepts of place and site - specificity.

He excavates objects that represent personal longing marred by historic context — objects found, deconstructed, and collaged.

Ilona Sagar is a London based artist whose work spans performance, film and assemblage; forming a body of work, which responds to the social and historic context found in the public and private spaces we inhabit.

Schimmel concludes, «With Hauser Wirth and Schimmel, we aspire to give all of these artists a unique second home: a place to create and show their art in historic context, a place that encourages their most rigorous and best expressions, and a place that brings them and their art into a dynamic, exciting and transformative dialogue with the public.»

Exploring the political, cultural and historic context of Lee Bul's practice, the exhibition also showcases new works and site - specific installations that respond to the architecture of the newly reopened Hayward Gallery, including one that partially envelopes the gallery's exterior.

A presentations of 29 quilts from West Alabama created during the last half of the 20th century, «From Heart to Hand: African - American Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts» gives historic context to quilting, an American tradition that melds art, culture and practical utility.CT

It begins by describing the conceptual underpinnings and historic context for the project, provided through an introduction by Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon and the transcript of a conversation between Alyson Baker, former executive director of Socrates Sculpture Park, and Claire Weisz, who served as the project's urban strategist.

In the book, Ellen Landau demonstrates the many connections between the family who owns the paintings and Jackson Pollock during his lifetime to place the paintings in what she believes to be their proper historic context.

First we go to the historic context of this commandment itself.

- once again socio - historic context is needed.

Still waiting for some tangible bit of argument with the majors, many of which were postulated by Sagan and Hawkings, such as Mankind's short time here on this planet in the historic context of the worlds evolution.

While the media has been adamant in imposing the categories of competition and challenge between the Tsar and his arch enemy in political terms, the adversity between the two appears less poignant if examined in a broader socio - historic context.

Ultimately, it's impossible to predict when or if a similar nexus of personal brilliance, public reaction, and historic context will produce his like again.

One way to connect course material with things students naturally care about, says Shirley Malcom, head of education and human resources programs for AAAS, which publishes Science Careers, is to highlight the historic context in which discoveries were made.

«It's a very sound study showing what genetics can do in a historic context and in aspects of species conservation,» says Alexander Kopatz, a bear researcher at Bioforsk, the Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research in Svanhovd, who was not involved in the research.

When given this historic context, Blood and Sand, (I really never thought I'd say this) gets quite interesting.

The historic context of «Django» and «Hateful» explains its use, and the fact that those who utter it end up killed I suppose is intended to excuse it.

This is explained in a comic sequence of slides that also helps to put this theorem in a historic context.

Acrylic - and - pencil collages mimic artwork from Ezra Jack Keats» books, skillfully illuminating the text, which consists of a lyrical tribute poem that blends in biographical facts, historic context, nods to magic realism, and imagined future possibilities.

To provide some historic context, various events are time - lined — some good, but more bad.

This is astonishingly high in a historic context and almost certainly not sustainable.

The works, drawn from collections in America and Europe, are framed within the political and historic context of the time.

Engaging White House Art July 5: White House Historical Association, Artsy and Robert Rauschenberg announce five winners of «This is Your Art Competition,» an opportunity for university students to engage with White House art and create a short video exploring its artistic and historic context.

Its manageable scale and the quality of its collection immediately inspired me to produce work that dialogued with the space, while making reference to Venice in a wider, conceptual and historic context.»

In this focus installation, both the sign and the photo montage are presented with related works to portray the historic context more broadly and cast a sharper focus on the nature of the changes in society and art that have played out in Africa during the second half of the 20th century.

When I line up my London itinerary, I make sure to frame the contemporary art with an historic context.

In addition to mounting focused monographic presentations of the pillars of 20th - century art such as Peter Halley, Donald Baechler, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, and Julian Schnabel, the gallery explores current themes in contemporary art through thematic exhibitions that place living artists in the historic context of their predecessors.

The accompanying 128 page publication includes an introductory essay by the curators Maria Balshaw, Bryony Bond, Mary Griffiths and Natasha Howes which sets the historic context of the relationship between Manchester and West Africa and discusses the main themes which run throughout the exhibition.

Extending possible interpretations of the veil and investigating the ambiguities and paradoxes expressed in contemporary arts practice, it provides both a social and an historic context to the veil's multilayered symbolism.

More than 30 lavishly decorated rooms are open to the public, displaying in their historic context the accumulated Howard Neville and Cornwallis collections.

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts is known for museum - quality exhibitions which place contemporary artworks in an historic context to raise further questions about our usual ways of viewing art.

Rather than adopting an academic approach, Clarke's selection of work will seek to capture the spirit and energy of his friend while also providing a historic context for Fraser's flamboyance, dynamism and avant - garde gallery programme.