Sentences with phrase «important twentieth»

The Solomon Gallery constantly deals in important twentieth - century modern and contemporary Irish art and maintains a fine collection of paintings by artists such as Louis le Brocquy, Patrick Scott, Tony O'Malley and John Shinnors which is available for viewing by appointment.

It delved into the creative process of one of Italy's most important twentieth century artists, one particularly attentive to artistic currents in the United States.

Important twentieth - century artists such as Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Wayne Thiebaud, Alfred Jensen, and Philip Guston explored questions about subject, composition, color, and technique.

He remains one of the most important twentieth century sculptors.

Became one of the most important twentieth - century exponents of kinetic or moving sculpture.

Frequently taking on closed in shots of hand painted signage, politically - fueled graffiti, and weathered urban surfaces as his subject matter, Siskind is most known for his mythic compositions that at times bear a striking resemblance to the work of important twentieth century Abstract Expressionist painters.

The Unexpected New is a rare opportunity to view little - known works by an important twentieth century artist.

While Emily Carr remains a national icon, she has now begun to be appreciated as an important twentieth - century artist, as witnessed by her inclusion in several recent major exhibitions.

Many important twentieth century artists made strides in watercolor media, such as Egon Schiele, Paul Klee, and Georgia O'Keefe.

This exhibition is dedicated to the recent acquisition by the Italian State of two important twentieth century works: Carol Rama's large painting Pittura n. 718 (1954), and Drago da passeggio, a work on paper that architect Carlo Mollino gave Rama.

As seen in this exhibition Monet becomes a powerful grandfather figure to a lot of very important twentieth - century artists.

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This is an incredibly important work for anyone interested in the history of American capitalism and the rise of conservative politics in the second half of the twentieth century.»

Religion has been enormously important in some periods, but not, outside the Middle East, in the twentieth century.»

From the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, crime fiction also served to sublimate and redirect violent energies into harmless channels, and from the nineteenth century onward, sports served as another increasingly important outlet.

The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

Paul Dirac, one of the giants of twentieth - century physics, went so far as to say that it was more important to have «beauty in one's equations» than to have them fit the experimental data.

After studying a series of Western societies from ancient Greece and Iran through the history of Israel, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and on into the twentieth centuries, Polak concludes that the most important single factor involved in the generation of change is the image of the future held by a given group.

(At the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Richard's own signature book, I imagined us, thirty years hence, settled in homes for the aged, and celebrating that important journal, The Naked Public Square.

If great missionary expansion took place in the nineteenth century, the twentieth century saw important developments in mission theology.

Another important aspect of Eliade's contribution is found in his critical response to Existentialism of the twentieth century.

The answer, I think, is to be found in another important volume about communism: The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century, by François Furet (see the discussion by Brian C. Anderson elsewhere in this issue).

List of forty most important books of the twentieth century, World, July 3/10, 1999.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

The ever - humble inventor of the drug, Etienne - Emile Baulieu, has called it the «most important invention of the twentieth century» and commented on the drug's «mythic status.»

God as a problem - solver must be rejected, as well as the idea that man has a «God - shaped blank» within him.28 Hamilton's brief sketch of Bonhoeffer on the twentieth anniversary of his death builds primarily on the Letters, showing that Bonhoeffer is important for the concepts of the «world coming of age» and «religionless Christianity.

On an escarpment high above the Euphrates River in eastern Syria sit the ruins of Dura - Europos, one of the most important archeological finds of the twentieth century.

He sang about the remarkable things he'd seen in a career that made him one of the most important songwriters of the twentieth century but concluded, «I've seen many a great tomorrow turn to yesterday; I've seen it, boys, and I've seen it go away.»

The story of Phyllis Schlafly, as Critchlow, a professor of history at St. Louis University, tells it, is a story of conservatism operating far from centers of political and cultural power but crucial to the most important domestic political event of the second half of the twentieth century: the ascendancy and triumph of the once - moribund American right.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

Whitehead's view of reality expressed in his concept of the self is the most important philosophical defense of freedom and creativity in the twentieth century.

He has been especially important for those who lost their faith in Marxism, which for a few decades in the early — to mid — twentieth century served as a surrogate for theology and metaphysics.

Its past is his past, and therefore an examination of the relation of the twentieth century process philosopher to three important predecessors will be instructive both for an illustration of the way ideas develop through history and for an understanding of Hartshorne himself.

Few modern Protestants dealt as carefully, fully, or sympathetically with twentieth - century Catholicism as did Berkouwer,» writes Peter Leithart of the man Timothy George has called «the most important Reformed theologian of the twentieth century next to Karl Barth.»

He was the most important Protestant theologian in the twentieth century.

As the libertarian blogger Megan McArdle once pointed out, that possibility is more likely than it sounds: With the advent of no - fault divorce and the extension of welfare benefits to unmarried mothers, the late twentieth century demonstrated that marriage is both more important and more fragile than reformers had thought.

We should begin with one of the most important works of Catholic theology written in the twentieth century, Henri de Lubac's Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man.

This chapter gives a review of a series of proposals specifically about theological education in the first half of the twentieth century in the United States that accord with the «Berlin» type but make important and equally problematic modifications in it.

Still, his insistence that politics is not therapy, his resolute refusal to deny the reality of conflicts among social goods, and his insistence that utopian politics inevitably become coercive politics (and, in the modern world, extraordinarily brutal coercive politics) were all important ideas to defend, in Europe and America, against the coercive utopians of the twentieth century.

Indeed, one can argue that Berlin's «Two Concepts of Liberty» was one of the most important political essays of the twentieth century, for it clarified an important element in the prolonged contest between the imperfect democracies of the West and the pluperfect tyranny of the Soviet Union.

It follows that America's most important allies of the second half of the twentieth century, the Western European nations, will lose importance in foreign policy as they wither away.

In Royal's landmark book, a crucially important part of the history of the twentieth century is finally being told.

I share it, nonetheless, because I think the sight of a giant advertisement for a Smartphone on an iconic church in Rome captures something important about the state of Western culture at the start of the twenty - first century, and because it reminds me of a famous essay a more talented American traveler in Europe wrote at the start of the twentieth.

If you're unfamiliar with the different forms of birth control, Twentieth Century Birth Control can provide you with some important information.

The early twentieth century was also an important time for the struggle for workers» rights.

The British socialist and labour movements of the late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century chose to view Magna Carta as an important symbol to invoke in their own struggles against the current system and its abuses.

Individually they are an important part of family histories but, taken together, they form a detailed picture of everyday life in the twentieth and twenty - first centuries.»

Animal fats are an important source of fat - soluble vitamins and were an important part of traditional diets associated with good health, and were replaced by refined foods during the nutritional transition to modern foods documented by Weston Price and during the latter half of the twentieth century in the United States and other industrialized countries after the advent of the diet - heart hypothesis.

Christian Dior's reputation as one of the most important couturiers of the twentieth century was launched in 1947 with his very first collection, in which he introduced the «New Look.»

An ingenious parody of Chandler-esque P.I. thrillers, and one of the most important comedies of the twentieth century.

Marking an expanded commitment to some of its most important franchises, Twentieth Century Fox has brought on comics superstar Mark Millar to serve as a creative consultant on the studio's upcoming projects based on Marvel Comics properties.