Sentences with phrase «modern historians see»

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The modern historian, as Friedrich Gogarten has pointed out, sees history as a linear process of evolution, comparable to the flow of experience reflected in the consciousness of the unrelated I.

Virtually all art historians who have critiqued this painting see it as a rejection of religion (particularly the Bible) for the modern, joyous lifestyle of 19th - century France.

Actually it does, see many of the ancient historians, that our modern historians except as factual, don't have nearly as many copies of their manuscripts as the Bible.

Kurt Cyr, the Midcentury Modern architecture expert and food historian, offers a Palm Springs Mod Squad tour (which you can book year - round, not just during Modernism Week), a 90 - minute zip through historic neighborhoods to see groundbreaking architectural works by the six local architects who shaped the look of the city.

In a catalog essay describing the broader social, cultural and political context of early - 20th - century New York, the historian Max Page sees the Armory Show as emblematic of a distinctively modern process of «creative destruction» in which the new must always obliterate the old.

The first of their witnesses was the art historian John Elderfield, a former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, who testified to seeing, back in 1994, the first two Rosales works Knoedler had sold, paintings supposedly by Diebenkorn.

Although «magic realism» is a term today more commonly associated with the 20th - century literature of Latin America, it was first coined in 1925 by the German art historian and critic Franz Roh to describe an emerging style of modern realist paintings with fantasy or dreamlike subjects, and is often seen as parallel to or overlapping with the New Objectivity movement.

House historian Melanie Backe - Hansen, who was involved in compiling the report, said: «It is fascinating to see modern life taking its toll on how we use our homes.