Sentences with phrase «liberal intellectual circles»

The six installations included in the show were created at a time when earnest discussions around identity politics in liberal intellectual circles were causing a backlash from conservatives, straight white men, shock - jocks, gross - out cartoonists and moviemakers, as well as bad - boy contemporary artists such as Rhoades.

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Paradoxically, the most sympathetic response to Spinoza among Jewish intellectuals was not in the liberal circles of Germany but in the traditional areas of Eastern Europe.

In 1956 these abstract painters joined the circle around the extraordinary Monsignor Otto Mauer, a liberal Catholic intellectual who set up a gallery, next to St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, at which Mikl frequently exhibited in the late 1950s and 60s.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, which also represents Thompson, is showing African - American artist Beauford Delaney; his portraits, city scenes, and abstractions are marked by spirited, liberal brushstrokes, and tell the stories of the intellectual circles he traversed in New York, and Paris, where he moved 1953 and was inspired to abandon figuration.