Sentences with phrase «key twentieth»

Indifferent Matter: From Object to Sculpture pairs four key twentieth - century sculptures by Felix Gonzalez - Torres (1957 - 96), Hans Haacke (b. 1936), Andy Warhol (1928 - 87) and Robert Smithson (1938 - 73) with a series of ancient objects including Neolithic jades, a yet to be named mineral, fragments of Roman sculpture and a collection of eoliths.

First opened in 1971 by gallerist Bruna Aickelin, Galleria Il Capricorno is renowned for showing key twentieth - century artists such as Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg and, later, international contemporary artists, while attracting legendary figures such as Peggy Guggenheim to its quintessentially Venetian canalside location.

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When we talk about the key shifts of the twentieth century — those involving politics, trade, consumption, art — we leave out what is surely the most astonishing physical change in all of human history, one that has happened mostly during the last century: the doubling of the human life span in much....

Then there was the «Americanist» crisis at the beginning of the twentieth century when, in the view of many, Rome's hostility to key ideas and institutions of the American experiment forced Catholicism into a countercultural ghetto.

This helps explain the cautious approach to natural law by key figures in the early days of the Protestant Reformation and the more severe reaction of Karl Barth and his followers in the twentieth century.

Versions of the argument, with key twists and turns, have been introduced in Western philosophy through the centuries by thinkers from Descartes and Leibniz down to the twentieth - century American philosopher Charles Hartshorne.

A key task, then, which twentieth - century Catholic theology largely ignored, is to show the fundamental compatibility of the modern natural sciences with a deeper philosophy of nature and a metaphysics of the human person, one religious in orientation.

Traditionalism is not the key to understanding the twentieth century.

The varied ways in which Americans have reconfigured Locke's importance — from a model for educational excellence and virtuous living in the eighteenth century to an avatar of American exceptionalism in the twentieth — provide new insights into key transformations in American educational and intellectual life from the Age of Revolutions to the Cold War and beyond.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region's economy depended heavily on fishing; smuggling was also a key activity, and became more so during the period of Prohibition in the United States, during which nearly two million gallons of Canadian whiskey traveled through the islands on their way to the US.

On her twentieth birthday, still in the Hospital, Joy watches a Discovery Channel show, Mysteries of the Sea, featuring a «ship detective,» or underwater archaeologist based in Key West.

Kate Gale, the cofounder and managing editor of the Pasadena, California — based Red Hen Press, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary next year, discusses the press's history, growth, and the keys to its success.

The Morgan is delighted to present this first - ever retrospective look at the key role that drawing played in the creative process of one of the twentieth - century's most innovative artists.»

Fever Within was accompanied by Forging Connections: Ronald Lockett's Alabama Contemporaries, a companion exhibition of large - scale sculptures that linked Lockett to key artists who emerged from the African American steel communities of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, in the late twentieth century.

Greenough notes the insights provided by the correspondence on their art, their friendships with many key figures of early twentieth - century American art and culture, and, most especially, their relationship with each other.

This fully illustrated book examines this cultural phenomenon as a key moment in twentieth - century art history which transcended regional and racial boundaries.

It played a key role in the careers of pioneering twentieth - century art world figures such as Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, and Richard Serra.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Under the Guggenheim Foundation's advisement, Bilbao has acquired key works by some of the most significant artists of the second half of the twentieth century, including Anselm Kiefer, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Clyfford Still, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol.

* The retrospective CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN — KINETIC PAINTINGS brings together six decades of work by this key figure of New York's avant - garde in the second half of the twentieth century.

David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century, and was a key member of the Pop art movement of the 1960s.

The Space of the Page, a key exhibition of artists» books held at the Institute in 1997, had a major influence on direction and planning of the fair so we are delighted to be involved in the twentieth anniversary programme.

to the site dedicated to the life and work of Louis VAN LINT (Brussels 1909 - Kraainem 1986), a key Belgian painter whose plastic creation stretches for fifty years through the heart of the twentieth century.

Exhibition that examined the Harlem Renaissance cultural phenomenon as a key moment in twentieth - century history, one which transcended regional and...

Bonhams is all set for Monday's sale of important works by key artists of the twentieth century — including the only portrait Auerbach ever made of Freud — , estimated to make # 1,853,000 - 2,725,000 According to Benedetta Ghione - Webb, Head of Sale, each lot has been «carefully selected because it shows the very best of the artist».

A specialist in European sculpture, decorative arts, and twentieth - century design and decorative arts, Ian Wardropper held key positions first at the Art Institute of Chicago and then at The Metropolitan Museum of Art before being named Director of The Frick Collection in 2011.

His groundbreaking internationalist aesthetic marks him as a key figure of twentieth - century transculturalism.

The exhibition is organized in four chronological sub-sections that represent key periods in the history of mashup culture: the early - twentieth century, the post-war, the late twentieth century, and the twenty - first century.

Key works of Modern Art, from Giorgio Morandi to Frank Stella, and twentieth century art movements like minimal art, pop art and CoBrA have been brought together in a so - called «White Cube».

A group of pre-eminent works of British art, donated to Tate by Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker, significantly enhanced key areas in Tate's representation of twentieth - century British art.

For two decades, Robert Mnuchin has organized critically - acclaimed shows that examine key moments within an artist's oeuvre, often shedding light on under - investigated bodies of work by the leading figures in twentieth - century art.

Curator Edith Devaney introduces the «Abstract Expressionism» exhibition and examines the key concepts behind this artistic phenomenon, highlighting the full breadth and complexity of one of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century.

For the last four decades Perlstein has been building a collection addressing key moments in twentieth century art where the understanding contemporary art has been stretched and reworked by artists.

Making the modern individual's perception a key theme of his work, Caillebotte showed himself to be far ahead of his time: it was only in the early twentieth century that comparable photographic strategies began to emerge in the medium itself.

«The authors write that North Pacific Decadal Variability (NPDV) «is a key component in predictability studies of both regional and global climate change,»... they emphasize that given the links between both the PDO and the NPGO with global climate, the accurate characterization and the degree of predictability of these two modes in coupled climate models is an important «open question in climate dynamics» that needs to be addressed... report that model - derived «temporal and spatial statistics of the North Pacific Ocean modes exhibit significant discrepancies from observations in their twentieth - century climate... conclude that «for implications on future climate change, the coupled climate models show no consensus on projected future changes in frequency of either the first or second leading pattern of North Pacific SST anomalies,» and they say that «the lack of a consensus in changes in either mode also affects confidence in projected changes in the overlying atmospheric circulation.»»

One of the key myths it demolishes is the one established by Al Gore in his pimped - up power point lecture, An Inconvenient Truth, where he climbs onto a scissor lift to show how dramatically — and apparently unprecedentedly — CO2 levels have risen in the late Twentieth Century with inevitably disastrous consequences for the planet.