Sentences with phrase «historical narrative focused»

Placed in conversation, the paintings by these three artists weave a coherent historical narrative focused on social progress.

Not exact matches

The focus of the second chapter is not just Anis Sayegh's autobiographical narrative, but also the description of relevant historical information about Tiberias and al - Bassa (the birthplace of his mother).

At first, the focus on the aged Thatcher's modern life feels like it's getting in the way of the historical narrative.

Her research focuses mainly on historical and modern theories of innovation, narrative theories, general philosophy of science and epistemology with special consideration of philosophy of synthetic chemistry and the pharmaceutical sciences.

Though carefully rendered from a historical perspective, this powerful account of female friendship and bonding under the most cruel conditions lacks the narrative focus and dramatic shapeliness to generate emotional excitement.

My narrative unit now focuses on reading and writing historical fiction and / or science fiction writing.

Despite the book's almost 500 pages, Hill has crafted a superbly focused narrative and has successfully blended the unforgettable story of an indomitable woman with little known, but important, historical events from Africa, America, Canada and England.

For one thing, several qualities that characterize a terrific work of YA lit also define an excellent work of historical fiction: namely, immediacy and the focus on an individual narrative.

Her understanding of art - historical narratives, tied to recognizable shapes and patterns, comes in and out of focus — canonical motifs distorted by more contemporary painterly gestures.

The text moves away from rote historical narratives, instead opting to focus on the role of the photographer in shaping action and emergent discourses, of the influence of Ghana and Cuba on politics and aesthetics, and of the tensions of politics in Pop art.

Blue Firth's work focuses on encountering historical narratives, and how perception can be questioned through built environments and participatory events.

Her lexicon focused on the gesturing female figure as the protagonist, moving across space and defying the strictures of linear time by mixing historical narratives, drawing equally from ancient working processes and formats with her activist orientation and an ongoing questioning of the formation and construction of memory and representation, particularly the representation of women.

For nearly three decades, the Gallery has sought to exhibit the work of celebrated artists alongside those whose works were eclipsed by the familiar historical narrative that focused almost exclusively on American art's European (patri) lineage.

Over the near - decade on view, the artist has apparently focused quite intently on finding innovative means of changing the narrative of painting within a personal and historical context.

Focused around two contemporary artists, Ken Gonzales - Day and Titus Kaphar, the exhibition brings to the forefront African Americans, Native Americans and Latino Americans to amend America's historical narrative.

In the June 2014 ARTnews article «Black Abstraction: Not a Contradiction,» Hilarie M. Sheets aptly notes, «The contributions of African American artists to the inventions of abstract [art] have historically been overlooked...» Magnetic Fields focuses on non-representational art making by women artists of color, reframing the art historical narrative to convey a more complete presentation of American abstraction than has ever previously been examined.

Her research interests and curatorial practice are focused on minor historical narratives that question hegemonic forms of knowledge, especially non-postmodern critiques of modernity.

Her research and curatorial practices interests are focused in small historical narratives that question the hegemonic shapes of knowledge.

He studied historical figures that he deemed «immortal» — including John Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bessie Smith, Matthew Henson, and Ludwig van Beethoven, often focusing on moments and biographical facts that have escaped our collective memories and the dominant narratives of his subjects» lives.

It focuses on the power and the role of the exhibitions in the 20th century, highlighting ignored historical narratives.

Beyond this light frame, another narrative of historical imbalance, artistic legacy, and the imperious Rivera achieves focus.

A number of well - written articles chronicle at least some of the history of legal writing in the law school curriculum.1 However, those articles were written with a different purpose in mind: the authors sought to employ history to show the pedigree of legal writing and argue for an equal place in the curriculum with doctrinal courses and an equal position for its teachers with other «case - book» faculty.2 Because of this purpose, they understandably focused a large part of their historical narrative on legal writing in the «modern law - school,» an entity that has existed only since the late 1800s.3 The articles paid considerably less attention to the era that preceded it, beyond brief mentions of the Inns of Court in England, apprenticeship in America, and the private law schools and early attempts at law teaching that preceded Langdell's introduction of the case method.4