Sentences with phrase «magisterial work»

It is a truly magisterial work by a highly talented team of editors and specialist contributors.

A pity because unless it can be Bob's brilliant and magisterial work can not easily be used to involve ocean oscillations in the climate cycling from MWP to LIA to date.

Whatever one thinks of Kissinger or whether one agrees with Ferguson's assessments of people and events, this magisterial work should be required reading for anyone interested in one of the major figures of 20th - century history.

The author of Ragtime, City of God, and The Book of Daniel has given us a magisterial work with an enormous cast of unforgettable characters — white and black, men, women, and children, unionists and rebels, generals and privates, freed slaves and slave owners.

In Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer (Bloomsbury, # 20), Peter Clarke chronicles the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter of a century, his four - volume A History of the English - Speaking Peoples.

Charles Moore has written the first of the two volumes of what will be, without doubt, a magisterial work.

In his magisterial work on European views of the New World, Antonello Gerbi speaks of «Hegel's disdainful and arbitrary dismissal of the American continent»» perhaps important in the future but of interest in the present neither to historian nor philosopher.

The state of neo-scholastic sacramental theology in the mid twentieth century may be typified by Bernard Leeming's magisterial work, Principles of Sacramental Theology (1955).

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In reality, there is a growing number of clergy who accept this teaching and are seeking to show it in its positive and life - giving fullness in their pastoral work: many of them have had the opportunity to be involved in movements which embrace the Church's teaching and / or have come into contact with Humanae Vitae for themselves and subsequent Magisterial teaching.

So far as any published «systematic theology» is concerned, a self - conscious effort to frame religious truth for the Pentecostal tradition within its own time and space something even remotely comparable to Donald Gelpi's work for Roman Catholic charismatics, not to mention Karl Barth's magisterial Church Dogmatics for the Reformed tradition - there simply is no such Pentecostal theology.

So deeply implicated had Irenaeus become in the doctrinal or magisterial aspect of the episcopate that the cultual and disciplinary functions of the ministry remain obscure in his surviving works.

But overall the magisterial marshalling of the story works extremely well.

The paintings and stuccoed ceiling work are stunning, particularly in the magisterial (albeit slightly rundown) main room on the first floor.

«From Thornton Dial's magisterial constructions to the emblematic compositions by the Gee's Bend quilters from the 1930s onwards, this extraordinary group of works contributes immeasurably to the Museum's representation of works by contemporary American artists and augments on a historic scale its holdings of contemporary art,» said Sheena Wagstaff, Leonard A. Lauder Chairman of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum, in a museum press release.

The Gagosian Gallery Brittania Street London, presents an exhibition of Richard Serra's latest works; filling the gallery with all of the artist's usual magisterial weight.

The canvas (Mycenae - axe - blue) was a highlight of the Tate's celebrated 1964 exhibition Painting & Sculpture of a Decade, 54 - 64, this magisterial abstract work is on the scale of his Festival of Britain -LSB-...]

Removed from the internal politics and rivalries within the British art world and exposed to a landscape he had known in his youth, his works adopted a new expansiveness and magisterial style.

The canvas (Mycenae - axe - blue) was a highlight of the Tate's celebrated 1964 exhibition Painting & Sculpture of a Decade, 54 - 64, this magisterial abstract work is on the scale of his Festival of Britain commission and akin to his celebrated work that forms part of Tate Britain's recent rehang.

With it comes a magisterial catalog - bio book by Kristine McKenna, offering a sympathetic and intelligent analysis and sampling of 56 years of his work.

«From Thornton Dial's magisterial constructions to the emblematic compositions by the Gee's Bend quilters from the 1930s onwards, this extraordinary group of works contributes immeasurably to the Museum's representation of works by contemporary American artists and augments on a historic scale its holdings of contemporary art,» said Sheena Wagstaff, Leonard A. Lauder Chairman of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum, in a press release announcing the donation.

I have been a Bontecou fan since writing about her magisterial wall sculpture in the Koch Theater lobby at Lincoln Center more than two decades ago, and the intimate scale of this untitled work from 1960 is a phenomenal entry point for understanding this reclusive and serious artist.

Review:» [Curator Scott Rothkopf] gives the artist's work the magisterial treatment it deserves.»

His peak was reached by 1980, and by then he had created a magisterial body of work, sensuous, always questing and probing, always saying something however obliquely about the human condition, the business of being alive, all set out in an exemplary exhibition two years ago at the Tate Gallery, memorably hung by Nicholas Serota and David Sylvester, one of de Kooning's earliest and best champions in Europe.

5 «DANCING AROUND THE BRIDE: CAGE, CUNNINGHAM, JOHNS, RAUSCHENBERG, AND DUCHAMP» (PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART; CURATED BY CARLOS BASUALDO WITH ERICA F. BATTLE) This magisterial and thrilling show stood out among the growing genre of performance - based exhibitions, bringing the works of Duchamp, Cage, Cunningham, Johns, and Rauschenberg into a theatrical setting masterminded by artist Philippe Parreno, who carefully choreographed the interaction of radical paintings, sculptural installation, dance, music, and set design, complete with entrance marquee.

In New York: The Avalance of Gallery Openings This Thursday Andrew Russeth NEW YORK — While the art season's biggest blockbusters have closed (you have three days left to see Gagosian's magisterial Monet exhibition), many galleries are preparing major summer shows filled with large groups of artists — meaning that more work will be on display than at any other time of the year.

Organised in close cooperation with the artist, the exhibition Frauen presents a magisterial, central body of works by Schütte.

Dexter Dalwood is the artist whose work titled The Death of David Kelly might draw comparisons with hefty history paintings such as David's magisterial The Death of Marat, which depicted the revolutionary journalist's corpse in his bath after he was killed by Charlotte Corday.

In some ways, Louis's immersive works seem to have more of an affinity with paintings by other Color Field artists like Newman and Rothko than they do with Frankenthaler's stains; they evoke sublime, magisterial experiences of caves and grottos (as in the somber «Curtain,» with its stalactitelike points) or waterfalls (in the luscious «Tet,» on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art).

Despite the resurgent international interest in heterodox strains of photography, including abstraction, it is notable that this is reflected solely in one work by the increasingly magisterial Wolfgang Tillmans (Freischwimmer 155, 2010).