Sentences with phrase «late nineteenth and twentieth»

The articles showed a temperature profile that gently declined from 1000 to 1850, fluctuating a little along the way, with a sudden increase in the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.

The exhibition comprises 24 small mixed media constructions that examine influential artists from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Gerhard Richter, Leonora Carrington, Edward Hopper, Natalia Goncharova, Edouard Vuillard, Erich Heckel, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, John Marin, Richard Prince, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Dorothea Tanning, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Paul Cezanne, Eugène Atget, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, Willem de Kooning, Pablo Picasso, Odilon Redon, and Yves Tanguy.

«One way of understanding the relation of the terms «modern,» «modernity,» and «modernism» is that aesthetic modernism is a form of art characteristic of high or actualized late modernity, that is, of that period in which social, economic, and cultural life in the widest sense [was] revolutionized by modernity... [this means] that modernist art is scarcely thinkable outside the context of the modernized society of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Much of this Collingham blames on the changing eating habits of the North American and European societies in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Not exact matches

After all, nineteenth - century Lutheran theologians like Ritschl and Harnack were leading lights of what Troeltsch later called «Neo-Protestantism»; they were followed in the twentieth century by the likes of Bultmann, Ebeling, and lesser imitators fighting at all costs to save Lutheranism against Karl Barth's new orthodoxy or Dietrich Bonhoeffer's call to discipleship.

... In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the European Westernization of Egypt produced intellectual titans of liberal secularism: Taha Hussein, Muhammad Hussein Haykal, Abbas Mahmud al - Aqqad, and more....

There has undoubtedly been a break in the twentieth century with the tradition of romantic love which arose in the later phase of medieval culture, flourished in the «courts of love» in the fifteenth century, gave birth to the literature of the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability and domestication in the nineteenth century, and now seems out of date.

Yet his ideas later flourished in the writing of Hegel, Schelling, Schleiermacher and Feuerbach in the nineteenth century and in Buber, Teilhard de Chardin and Tillich in the twentieth.

Mark De Wolf Howe and William McLoughlin have argued that there was a de facto Protestant establishment in the early years of the Republic, that this establishment was broadened to include Catholics late in the nineteenth century and that only in the twentieth has America transcended the notion that it is a Christian nation.

This sort of view played a considerable role in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

They found initial expression in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries among Brahmin intellectuals who were disillusioned with British rule and sought a more traditionalist basis for political and cultural identity.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, several waves of Orthodox immigration arrived nearly simultaneously in America, and they brought with them their own traditions, customs and clergy.

On all sides the Church, creeds, and beliefs were under serious attack during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

«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.

As the bills for the sexual revolution pile up, it looks as if the late nineteenth and early twentieth century feminists were closer to the mark.

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.

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century was the age of colonialism and imperialism.

The Pan-Slav and Pan-German movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were additional roots for Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianism, breaking open, as they did, the traditional notions of nationhood and territory.

Sadly, most of the debate is anchored in an analysis that freights these bronze statues with the racial politics of our own time — rather than considering the motives of those who raised Confederate monuments in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the great period of Civil War memorialization.

In the second part, «Unanticipated Consequences of Emancipation,» Wisse sketches» through the lens of the Jewish experience» the crisis of modern liberalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

It was especially so in the late - nineteenth and early - twentieth centuries, when under the seemingly endless reign of Emperor Franz Joseph, the Habsburgs seemed to be managing the various nationalist impulses surging underneath the peace of Vienna.

There was nothing which resembled the closely integrated monastic orders which were so prominent in the later propagation of the faith, or the countless missionary societies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was taken up with idolatrous aesthetics as beauty became divorced from the good.

There have been a number of variations on this picture of what it is to understand God, largely in late nineteenth - and twentieth - century Protestantism.

Reformed Christians, both pastors and laypeople, were very much in the forefront of the early ecumenical organizations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Although they are largely unknown outside the American Catholic community (and scarcely better known inside it, for that matter), John Gilmary Shea, Peter Guilday, Thomas T. McAvoy, and, preeminently, John Tracy Ellis were old - fashioned historians of genuine accomplishment who, in the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, created the classic story line of American Catholicism.

Most rural births continued to be attended by midwives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...» Considering history can be a comforting force when faced with the present.

Moreover, this debate is not new, with the nascent labour and socialist movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries contesting both the legacy and the contemporary relevance of this historic charter.

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.

He has published widely on topics such as late - nineteenth and twentieth century political thought, theories of the state and of political representation, various aspects of contemporary political philosophy and contemporary politics.

In part the act was intended as a remedy for the House of Commons» tendency in the late - nineteenth and early - twentieth centuries to amend church legislation with provisions that would have disestablished it.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century impoverished British peers sought wealthy US brides to save their estates.

The SNP's great weakness is that, just like Parnell and the Irish Nationalists in the late - nineteenth and early - twentieth century, it has tied its horse to the cart of one party (it was the Liberals for Parnell, Labour for Sturgeon).

It is set at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the chief locations are Florence, the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, and a large late nineteenth - century country house in South East England.

Featuring clips from the film Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, along with lesson plans and historical background readings, this collection invites students to connect Aleichem's life to the larger transformation of traditional Jewish identity in late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century Eastern Europe.

Once it was up and running in Europe, the need to continually expand the economy and find new markets led to the formation of Eastern colonies in India, the Middle East and Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

More classical in style than gothic architecture, Jacobean homes built in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, are characterized by steep roofs and decorative terracotta brick work, often with a lighter brick or stone trim around windows and doorways.

It is at once a vivid portrait of an alluring, late - nineteenth / early - twentieth - century world; a front - row seat to a world - class magic show; and an unexpected love story.

Diving deep into the field of astronomy, Sobel shares the stories of the educated, talented, and determined women who sought careers studying the stars in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.

A misty bewilderment exists about their origin but it is presumed that this breed accompanied the livestock that was shipped to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Weirdly enough, my favorite aspect in this game was the soundtrack, which is comprised of excellent songs from all genres you'd expect from a game set in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Haverty bequeathed a group of significant late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century American paintings by William Merritt Chase, Henry Ossawa Tanner, John Twachtman, and Childe Hassam as well as a select group of sculptures.

Twice a guest researcher at the Getty Research Institute, he has dedicated a significant part of his scholarly research to the late nineteenth and early twentieth — century literary and artistic moment.

It includes lithographs, engravings, aquatints, photogravures, and woodcuts created by artists of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.

Exceptional examples include a late eighteenth - century portrait by the New England artist John Brewster, Jr.; a lush, highly detailed nineteenth - century still life by Severin Roesen, a German - born artist based in Williamsport in the 1860s; exquisite nineteenth - century landscapes by William Sonntag, John Kensett, and William Trost Richards; and an impressive range of twentieth - century paintings and sculptures by artists, including Marsden Hartley, Richard Diebenkorn, Red Grooms, and Marisol.

Today the collection (which includes approximately 6,000 objects) is primarily composed of late - nineteenth and twentieth - century works, ranging from Pablo Picasso's monumental public sculpture Bust of Sylvette to a Joseph Cornell box, Chocolat Menier, from 1952.

Today the collection (which includes approximately 6,000 objects) is primarily composed of late - nineteenth - and twentieth - century works, ranging from Pablo Picasso's monumental public sculpture Bust of Sylvette to a Joseph Cornell box, Chocolat Menier, from 1952.

Her research examines the collision between American art and science at the locus of the human body, particularly during the late - nineteenth and early - twentieth centuries.

After a large foundation collection was established in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the acquisition of additional works over time has continued to broaden and deepen the story told by objects acquired earlier in the institution's history.

Highlights of the European art collection include English genre painting of the nineteenth - century as well as examples of French post-Impressionistic painting from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.