Sentences with phrase «of nineteenth and twentieth»

Some of South Africa's most severe and prolonged droughts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have without doubt coincided with troughs of minimum sun - spot activity.

Author of numerous books, catalogues, and articles on various aspects of nineteenth and twentieth - century art.

Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth and Twentieth - Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums.

A Selection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Works from the Hunt Foods and Industries Museum of Art Collection.

From Edvard Munch to Chris Ofili, French painter Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) has exerted a profound influence on artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The strength of this small collection is in the works of the nineteenth and twentieth century British artists, particularly significant is the small cluster of paintings by LS Lowry (see image below).

The museum displays about 1100 paintings and sculptures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, of which it has the largest collection in Italy.

He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art and Art History at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is the author of numerous books, catalogues, and articles on various aspects of nineteenth and twentieth - century European and American art, and on African art.

Light was also shed on sociohistorical and historico - cultural subjects such as «Shopping — A Century of Art and Consumer Culture,» «Privacy,» the visual art of the Stalin period, or New Romanticism in contemporary art; other presentations revealed the influence of Charles Darwin's theories on art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, or the intriguing causalities between artists of the modern era and self - proclaimed «prophets» of this period.

A historian of nineteenth and twentieth century art and a militant art critic, Crispolti is the author of countless monographs and, in addition to the general catalog of Fontana, he has edited the general catalog of the work of Baj and Guttuso.

Destinations are leading museums that provide opportunity for direct exposure to important collections and special art exhibitions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Spanning movements from Impressionism to Cubism and Surrealism, Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale (Nov 14) will offer remarkable paintings, works on paper and sculptures by the leading artists of the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Her research focuses on American art and visual culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a special emphasis on the intersections between fine art and the histories of consumer culture, theatrical entertainment, and technologies of image reproduction.

Dr. Flam is the author of numerous books, catalogues, and articles on various aspects of nineteenth and twentieth - century art, and on African art, and is most recently co-author of the catalogue raisonné of Robert Motherwell's paintings and collages and of Robert Motherwell: 100 Years.

Gallery owner Louis M. Salerno finds that Yost's most recent creations complement Questroyal's extensive inventory of nineteenth and twentieth century American paintings.

He has written a number of essays on Venezuelan art and has curated exhibitions in Venezuela and abroad of art of the nineteenth and twentieth century in Venezuela.

The collection, which began with the collecting efforts of its predecessor, the Oklahoma Art League, includes paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures, with strengths in European and American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Its goal was to give them an opportunity to take advantage of a stronger public education system than the one that had served many other children over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, whether or not they had English - speaking parents.

The understanding of the human condition in the world requires a break with the positivism thinking of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which reduces and separates the subject from the object, and that confuses social development with economic growth.

For the better part of the nineteenth and twentieth century, amputee was shorthand (no pun intended) for villainy, the best efforts of William Wyler aside.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831), who left the stamp of his philosophy on much of Western thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, declared Christianity to be the perfect religion, employed Christian terminology in such fashion that he appeared to endorse it, but was in fact a pantheist.

The cultured scorn of a Celsus and the coarse ribaldry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are at one in this.

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.

His response has been of enormous importance in the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

He says that «even the scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... were still caught in the mental fetters of thousand - year - old errors, because the way back would inevitably have called in question parts of the biblical story» (p. 50).

Russian religious thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was also very sensitive about the crisis of classical philosophy; quite strong in the criticism of its errors, but aspiring to work out its own organic vision of the world, it was not inclined to unite science with philosophy and theology.

It is significant that interpreters, both of the Old and the New Testaments, have been able to determine much more clearly and precisely the «Eigenart» of these documents and their views of God, world, and men on the basis of studies in the religions of the ancient Near East than could be done before the discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

His texts encompass nearly all of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

McCoy suggests that Whitehead, too, may have been shaped by biblical ways of thinking: «Indeed, it is highly probable that the process philosophies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries emerged from contexts influenced by the covenantal or federal tradition and thus are in part intellectual progeny of covenantal theology and ethics» (CCE 360).

Much of the nineteenth and twentieth century exploitation of the animal and natural world derives more from the Enlightenment and especially the teaching of the philosopher René Descartes (1596 - 1650) than from Christian teaching.

It would not be too farfetched or inaccurate to say that Darwinism in its deeper and persistent effects, as these became manifest in science and industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, through them, in other cultural disciplines and activities, contributed to, if in fact it did not create, a new ethos in Western society, dedicated to the task of dealing with the immediacies of existence in their practical aspect.

Furthermore, I have argued that on some of these points the changing situation and growing knowledge of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries would have led Wesley to come down at a different place.

«The atheism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is — in its origins and aims — a type of moralism: a protest against the injustices of the world and of world history.

Not exact matches

If one follows the history of the emergence of the national Orthodox Churches in the nineteenth and twentieth century, one realizes that the eventual autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is only a matter of time.

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....

The hospitals, the orphanages, the charities, the schools — all the nineteenth - and twentieth - century bricks and mortar with which Catholics asserted themselves in America — seem uncertain, nowadays, of their exact location in the space between the Church and the world.

This work helped Protestant and Catholic scholars break out of tired, polemical post-Reformation patterns of interpretation (which were greatly reinforced by earlier, supposedly «scientific» Protestant historical critics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries).

Russia at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century was developing quite dynamically, and had they gone on that way it would have been much better.

To put it bluntly, the question is whether we, living in the final decade of the twentieth century, have the patience and the readiness to hear the nineteenth - century Dane out; and hear him out in the way he deemed crucial: to think along and make the content of what he has to say not only the content of our thought, but the content of our lives as well.

Thus, to invoke the Russian Church's traditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries requires us to engage in historical reconstruction rather than to nurture beliefs and practices that are ongoing.

Today «liberal Protestnatism» usually refers to Protestant movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that responded to the increasingly secular and atheist character of the dominant forms of European culture.

This process of downplaying continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

What one finds in Greene is perhaps a more subtle insight into marriage than what one finds in nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century novels: the lack of fulfillment in marriage and the need to seek this in the company of someone else.

For me to suggest that much of what followed right into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic is not intended to be dismissive of intellectual giants whose efforts far outstrip my own.

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.

This ideal descends from the liturgical movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.